Jump to content
View in the app

A better way to browse. Learn more.

Surly Horns

A full-screen app on your home screen with push notifications, badges and more.

To install this app on iOS and iPadOS
  1. Tap the Share icon in Safari
  2. Scroll the menu and tap Add to Home Screen.
  3. Tap Add in the top-right corner.
To install this app on Android
  1. Tap the 3-dot menu (â‹®) in the top-right corner of the browser.
  2. Tap Add to Home screen or Install app.
  3. Confirm by tapping Install.

Featured Replies

  • Replies 17.4k
  • Views 2.8m
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

Most Popular Posts

  • derpyhorndog
    derpyhorndog

  • closetojumping
    closetojumping

    I’m not interested in getting political, but your description of circumstances can get immediately fucked. Negged for attempting to absurdly minimize the assassination attempt on a presidential candid

Posted Images

Ethics tangent incoming

The merging of scholarship and roster limits are another change that, imo, disrupts the system that many know and love, but really just makes CFB more normal and less exploitative. 

Putting aside talk on how this impacts Texas and CFB as a whole, it's kind of crazy that teams have been able to have students do all the work of being on the team without any kind of financial support. How much time do walk-ons spend on football every week? 20 hours? 40 hours? And they're expected to do it largely for intrinsic rewards while being completely dismissed as second-class players by the public (not this site). That's not to mention the equity discussion around requiring a student to pay ~20k/year to be on the team.

Walk-ons are just a weird dynamic that shouldn't exist in modern CFB.  

Edited by Bodacious Bevo

2 minutes ago, Bodacious Bevo said:

Ethics tangent incoming

The merging of scholarship and roster limits are another change that, imo, disrupts the system that many know and love, but really just makes CFB more normal and less exploitative. 

Putting aside talk on how this impacts Texas and CFB as a whole, it's kind of crazy that teams have been able to have students do all the work of being on the team without any kind of financial support. How much time do walk-ons spend on football? 20 hours? 40 hours? And they're expected to do it largely for intrinsic rewards while being completely dismissed as second-class teammates by the public (not this site). That's not to mention the equity discussion around requiring a student to pay ~20k/year to be on the team.

Walk-ons are just a weird dynamic that shouldn't exist in modern CFB.  

Yea, fuck people for working hard and chasing their dreams. Fuck those opportunities. 

8 minutes ago, HellesBier said:

Yea, fuck people for working hard and chasing their dreams. Fuck those opportunities. 

As long as we’ve don’t have to have anymore white safeties who gives a fuck

  • Popular Post
16 minutes ago, Bodacious Bevo said:

And they're expected to do it largely for intrinsic rewards while being completely dismissed as second-class players by the public (not this site). That's not to mention the equity discussion around requiring a student to pay ~20k/year to be on the team.

Walk-ons are just a weird dynamic that shouldn't exist in modern CFB.  

To be fair, they are rewarded in a large amount of top-shelf poon as football players at the University of Texas. Can't put a price on that. 

7 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:

Myron Charles was scheduled to come in today per OTF but had to reschedule 

That reeks of bullshit. He doesn’t live in Dallas or Houston. He would have to drive to Sarasota, get on flight and then get to campus. Not exactly a trip that I feel would be rescheduled last minute.

1 hour ago, Mittens said:

How on earth do FCS teams do it?


They put an inferior product on the field. That’s how they do it. 

 

Jordan Scruggs (Horns 247)

 

image.thumb.png.d63bcd03517bbb96c381324b00fe1328.png

 

 

On the two prospects committed elsewhere, who were considering visits to Texas

image.thumb.png.8f38f3f88584ee1d5865f9085c58c669.png

 

From the Gerry note, sounds like one of those was Charles ... 

 

 

1 hour ago, Bodacious Bevo said:

Ethics tangent incoming

The merging of scholarship and roster limits are another change that, imo, disrupts the system that many know and love, but really just makes CFB more normal and less exploitative. 

Putting aside talk on how this impacts Texas and CFB as a whole, it's kind of crazy that teams have been able to have students do all the work of being on the team without any kind of financial support. How much time do walk-ons spend on football every week? 20 hours? 40 hours? And they're expected to do it largely for intrinsic rewards while being completely dismissed as second-class players by the public (not this site). That's not to mention the equity discussion around requiring a student to pay ~20k/year to be on the team.

Walk-ons are just a weird dynamic that shouldn't exist in modern CFB.  

south-park-cartman.gif

8 minutes ago, Getafix said:

 

Jordan Scruggs (Horns 247)

 

image.thumb.png.d63bcd03517bbb96c381324b00fe1328.png

 

 

On the two prospects committed elsewhere, who were considering visits to Texas

image.thumb.png.8f38f3f88584ee1d5865f9085c58c669.png

 

From the Gerry note, sounds like one of those was Charles ... 

 

 

What time does the crew from Perfect 10 show up to the pool party???

1 minute ago, Getafix said:

image.thumb.png.55dd2dc8096e005195427a6284fb7a5e.png

 

 

The visit needed to be kept secret an hour ago and now it's posted publicly. Wonder what changed. 

I think many of the preferred walk ons will be scholarship players elsewhere in the near future. Good for them. 
 

If I understand Title IV correctly, 20 additional football scholarships would create 20 additional women’s sports scholarships. Again good for them. That said only the Big Ten + SEC + SMU will be able to afford 40 additional full athletic scholarships. I think many Big 12, ACC, and P5 schools will stick at 85. 

Edited by billfromlaketravis

11 minutes ago, Park Gothic said:

The visit needed to be kept secret an hour ago and now it's posted publicly. Wonder what changed. 

Price went up with Oregon.

13 minutes ago, Park Gothic said:

The visit needed to be kept secret an hour ago and now it's posted publicly. Wonder what changed. 

Seems like both of them bailed so it doesn’t really matter if it’s public info. 

17 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:

I think many of the preferred walk ons will be scholarship players elsewhere in the near future. Good for them. 
 

If I understand Title IV correctly, 20 additional football scholarships would create 20 additional women’s sports scholarships. Again good for them. That said only the Big Ten + SEC + SMU will be able to afford 40 additional full athletic scholarships. I think many Big 12, ACC, and P5 schools will stick at 85. 

Nothing in the entire history of college football says that teams will be like nah I’ll just stick to 85 over stockpiling 20 extra scholarship players aka collecting talent

Texas will probably need to add two if not three women's sports to satisfy Title IX requirements. Water polo and gymnastics, maybe equestrian, are the most likely. Field hockey and Lacrosse are also possibilities but where would they play?

Edited by Speedway

Definitely not opposed to women’s gymnastics at Texas. 

Not a great day for a pool party in the ATX, but at least it's not at an apartment complex in BCS

I’m not really complaining about it, but was there really that much of a demand for 20 more football scholarships? If there was, I completely missed it. 

28 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

IMG_4540.png

Lingerie football league imo. 

Women's gymnastics and equestrian are current competitive sports in the SEC. I don't think water polo, field hockey, or lacrosse are currently played in the SEC.

Edited by Speedway

12 minutes ago, Speedway said:

Women's gymnastics and equestrian are current competitive sports in the SEC. I don't think water polo, field hockey, or lacrosse are currently played in the SEC.

Rifle team will be one I bet.

TCU just won the national championship and there's a relationship with Del Conte. Seems like a coach we could steal. 

57 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

IMG_4540.png

I would have attended many a woman's beach volleyball match as an undergrad. Scouting.

 

One of the big ... whales ... we are after.

 

 

 

3 hours ago, Bodacious Bevo said:

Ethics tangent incoming

The merging of scholarship and roster limits are another change that, imo, disrupts the system that many know and love, but really just makes CFB more normal and less exploitative. 

Putting aside talk on how this impacts Texas and CFB as a whole, it's kind of crazy that teams have been able to have students do all the work of being on the team without any kind of financial support. How much time do walk-ons spend on football every week? 20 hours? 40 hours? And they're expected to do it largely for intrinsic rewards while being completely dismissed as second-class players by the public (not this site). That's not to mention the equity discussion around requiring a student to pay ~20k/year to be on the team.

Walk-ons are just a weird dynamic that shouldn't exist in modern CFB.  

Says the guy whos never played a minute of an organized sport after junior high/middle school. 

On 7/24/2024 at 12:09 PM, kwood4408 said:

giphy.gif

 

PM Late Kick Josh... looks like he's got a new paper pop move.

 

26 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:

Josiah Sharma is on campus today, per IT.

 

That's a nice surprise.

1 hour ago, Mittens said:

Sigh. Scholarships. smh 

I think part of the settlement is going to be the lack of walk-ons.  If they play football for a major school, they are going to have to be on scholarship.  Obviously Texas and other schools can operate with 85 (or even 70) scholarship players if they are allowed to have a ton of non-scholarship walk-ons, but that is not going to be allowed.  

1 hour ago, Getafix said:

 

One of the big ... whales ... we are after.

 

 

 

Honestly id be happier if he just committed to Schloss than trying to do both 

2 hours ago, TXRed said:

Seems like both of them bailed so it doesn’t really matter if it’s public info. 

Just like that, Sark outs the mole. 10win Sark's on another level.

2 hours ago, Speedway said:

Texas will probably need to add two if not three women's sports to satisfy Title IX requirements. Water polo and gymnastics, maybe equestrian, are the most likely. Field hockey and Lacrosse are also possibilities but where would they play?

Lacrosse should be a priority imo. They can play on the soccer field until Angela wins a title since it seems her recruiting is just too good to part ways with at the moment.

Glad I was wrong.

 

 

Edited by TXRed

Glad sharma is back, but if oregon dropped life changing money on him, I don't really expect anything to come of it. I guess it doesn't hurt to keep showing that we want him though. Maybe phil knight will croak and checks will start bouncing.

37 minutes ago, Goodman said:

Lacrosse should be a priority imo. They can play on the soccer field until Angela wins a title since it seems her recruiting is just too good to part ways with at the moment.

NCAA field hockey field is 100 yards by 60 yards.

NCAA lacrosse field is 110 yards by 60 yards.

Seems like both can be played at the soccer stadium (Myers Stadium). Done deal.

18 minutes ago, BornAndRaised said:

Glad sharma is back, but if oregon dropped life changing money on him, I don't really expect anything to come of it. I guess it doesn't hurt to keep showing that we want him though. Maybe phil knight will croak and checks will start bouncing.

Their stock tanking hurt him plenty…not enough to impact nil but he can’t be happy this week 

49 minutes ago, TXRed said:

Glad I was wrong.

 

 

Texas: "They didn't give you that size of a bag. Show us."
Sharma: "Bet"

46 minutes ago, BornAndRaised said:

Glad sharma is back, but if oregon dropped life changing money on him, I don't really expect anything to come of it. I guess it doesn't hurt to keep showing that we want him though. Maybe phil knight will croak and checks will start bouncing.

Not everyone loves Eugene.  I mean I do, but if it were up to me I'd institute a purge up there in Oregon to fix that state.  California can kick rocks, but I'm down to save Oregon.  It is truly a beautiful state that I love very much.

53 minutes ago, BornAndRaised said:

Glad sharma is back, but if oregon dropped life changing money on him, I don't really expect anything to come of it. I guess it doesn't hurt to keep showing that we want him though. Maybe phil knight will croak and checks will start bouncing.

Gerry made a comment on OTF that made it seem like his mom may not have been completely on board with the Oregon decision.

12 minutes ago, Fondren & Main said:

Not everyone loves Eugene.  I mean I do, but if it were up to me I'd institute a purge up there in Oregon to fix that state.  California can kick rocks, but I'm down to save Oregon.  It is truly a beautiful state that I love very much.

Oregon sucks... 

I love 10 more scholarships.  30 wide receivers on the team. The ones left over that Oregon didn’t want 
Futureman got another sock, damn son.
8 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:

Gerry made a comment on OTF that made it seem like his mom may not have been completely on board with the Oregon decision.

Ketch is parroting the same shit on twitter. Basically saying Texas was and is still confident, and they feel like his decision isn't final and will be made final later. We will see I guess.

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

Configure browser push notifications

Chrome (Android)
  1. Tap the lock icon next to the address bar.
  2. Tap Permissions → Notifications.
  3. Adjust your preference.
Chrome (Desktop)
  1. Click the padlock icon in the address bar.
  2. Select Site settings.
  3. Find Notifications and adjust your preference.