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    k Excited for more tears

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    FYI - just cross-posting a really nice story.     Embedded tweet w/ anecdote.      

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    13,000 posts on surlyhorns.com is the hallmark of a guy who's just too busy to tune into commitment ceremonies. 

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3 minutes ago, Wishbone said:

I don’t know. Maybe after Cooper announces. This current thread title seems to be working fairly well. Changing it now would be like giving your hottest hitter in a baseball lineup an unnecessary day off only to come back cooled off.

Thank God, Joe Espada didn’t start this thread.

Just now, Mittens said:

Holy shit guy.  Both Rivals and On3 have him at 4*.

 

Just now, BurntOrange&White said:

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Rivals is the HS recruiting portion of On3 now, keep up with the times. Rivals literal Twitter account calls him a 5 star. 

1 hour ago, tejas60 said:

maybe you should not eat so many chili dogs?

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10 minutes ago, IDIOTsavant said:

Thank God, Joe Espada didn’t start this thread.

You got it. 

Cat facts, Beckinsales plywood ass, and cheese talk do it again

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I’m a salty little pussy because the ranking services haven’t updated their site? WTF

You’re being a dog with a bone about it 

2 minutes ago, Mittens said:

I’m a salty little pussy because the ranking services haven’t updated their site? WTF

not initially...you were just a confused pussy, now you're being a salty pussy.

lol ok.  Bonus hilarity that Rivals rankings have been summarily dismissed for the past 20 years, but the instant they say they rank a guy 5*, y’all go full aggy.

The kid won’t be any better or worse no matter the ranking. If it helps fans be able to beat their chest over the final standings come Feb, all the better, but dude is a stud no matter how many stars.

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2 hours ago, BachelorTrek said:

No, tell the AI to show the atomic-wedgie aftermath as he's stuffing him in a locker.  Lulz.

AI still has some work to do

 

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7 minutes ago, Mittens said:

I’m a salty little pussy because the ranking services haven’t updated their site? WTF

No you’re being a fucking twat

10 hours ago, Vito Andolini said:

As a single nurse in Pearl Harbor, Kate Beckinsale wasn’t really all that hot, but as a married mom in 2006’s Click, she was hot as fuck (as she is in most everything). We also won a national championship in January 2006, so there’s that fact.

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Smokes like a smokestack. Ashtray.

Never again. Would not bang.  

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1 hour ago, BurntOrange&White said:

You’re all welcome because every time I bitch about something it ends up turning out alright. Defensive tackle recruiting last year, recruiting this year, Jake Majors, Taaffe, etc. my lone regret is not going in on Hayden Conner enough to develop him for the program. 

I never thought I’d see the day where someone basically tried to portray themselves as a white, neck-beard helobious and try to spin it as a positive. Wow.

 

46 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Need a thread title change

June swoons to July blooms

Recruiting 2026 - Love What The Game Has Become 

or

Recruiting 2026 - More Like Kirby Sharts

9 minutes ago, Mittens said:

lol ok.  Bonus hilarity that Rivals rankings have been summarily dismissed for the past 20 years, but the instant they say they rank a guy 5*, y’all go full aggy.

The kid won’t be any better or worse no matter the ranking. If it helps fans be able to beat their chest over the final standings come Feb, all the better, but dude is a stud no matter how many stars.

So why did you make this an issue to begin with?

48 minutes ago, Sgt Hulk said:

If we can get back to the kolaches talk now that recruiting had died down. 

There used to be a small bakery in Houston on Memorial Drive (just west of Dairy Ashford Road in a strip-center, next to La Hacienda and Ninfa's) that had some banging sausage-jalapeno-cheese kolaches back in the 2000s.  Lulz.

56 minutes ago, Sgt Hulk said:

If we can get back to the kolaches talk now that recruiting had died down. 

Personally, I was just warming up to shitting in the woods. 

1 hour ago, Mittens said:

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They were quick to pull the trigger to make sure he wasn't a 5-star anymore, just as soon as he flipped to Texas!  FFS

On 7/5/2025 at 7:49 AM, horn4life said:

Its summertime, so for some the panties ride up a bit too snugly as they pace back and forth wringing their hands.  When discomfort could simply be relieved with a gentle tug of perspective on their bunged up panties.  Now that I have addressed the incessant drone of summertime whine...

One of the things that I think is fantastic about the guys we have on campus is that despite they are bonding in a manner never before seen at Texas, we have record academic performance from record talented group of players!  Herman departed with a 2.33 GPA average, this Spring the GPA average is 3.31!

One of the hardest things a coach does when they take over a team is try to "change the culture."  You hear it time and again.  As at first the new head coach is usually forced to add lead motivator and lead disciplinarian to their coaching duties until they can indoctrinate enough upperclassmen with their culture to take over the motivation and disciplinary roles.  Look at WTF Sark has done!  He now has upperclassmen that can lead both on and off the field.  The upperclassmen now are the disciplinarians, and motivators, they hold the newbies to a hgher standard.  A standard that has been passed to them from Sark and they have bought into.  The bottom line is that you have to not only be an amazing athlete to get a fat NIL check from the University of Texas, you have to have the right sort of mindset, attitude and smarts.  I love that Sark has chosen wisely kids that realize that academic performance is important!!!!  

The main reason I think smarts are important?  Because smart kids tend to be able to see past themselves.  If you cannot see past yourself, then you can never truly create the sort of team every coach dreams of.  One that sees itself as a collective with a common goal, rather than a collective of individuals with personal, then team goals.  That's how you end up with a kid like Arch Manning, willing to let his personal aspirations take a back seat to perhaps obtain a greater team goal.  And smart kids... are a lot more likely to understand success takes a lot more than simply very talented individuals.  It takes individuals dedicated to a goal greater than themselves.  things like personal development on and off the field are what makes pinnacle goals like National Championships possible by building the "right kind" of team.

SO... whenever we miss out on a guy I always wonder what all the dynamics are.  Beyond simply writing a check.  Because at TEXAS, we can write all the fucking checks we want.  But it's the kid beyond the physical talent that will determine the quality of your team in the coming years.  And tight now we have both the most talented, and smartest team we have had on campus in a while.

So relax!  Finish out your July 4th weekend, and pull those wadded up panties out of your ass if you are one of those.  We are in a good place recruiting, and a good place with this team from a talent perspective.  And we will continue to be, as long as we keep handing our shit the way we have been.  And if we miss out on Freshmen, we simply move to the transfer window.  All we need do now is keep on this course... and very, very, very good things are ahead.

Hook'em!

And prayers to all those in the Hill Country whose lives have been turned upside down by this weekends tragic flooding.

Shock... Surprise... We just landed another badass.... Our fate is not lost in the bunged up panties of summertime hysteria.  I fucking hate to self quote, (and you can freely neg me for that) but you complaining hand wrining pussies with your panties up your fucking asses every God Damn Summer!!!!

I see these naysayers and whiners as the sad kids of summer.  Just never quite figured it out.  It's about pools, pussy, and the smell of fresh cut grass with your windows down and the A/C blasting... I sort of have a feeling that our summertime whiners missed that part of life...

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Meanwhile the braintrust has this on their home page - right now:

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2 hours ago, Laxtonto said:

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2 hours ago, Boko Bevo said:

I’m telling you, this was some Mafioso style shit.  

 

2 hours ago, BornOrange said:

Hinds Howard on X: "HESM today...all settled, except the overhang...  https://t.co/eWLRoeVpNJ" / X

 

1 hour ago, lilMAC25 said:

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Fuck you Josh Pate!

I watched the Godfather last night, w/ subtitles. Top 10 movie ever.

I come to Surly, and we get two 5* within 10 minutes of reading...

I immediately think, 

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and I read some more, and you fuckers ruined it.

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5 minutes ago, TheAuditor said:

Meanwhile the braintrust has this on their home page - right now:

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The demands of a coach’s tough demands

4 minutes ago, TheAuditor said:

Meanwhile the braintrust has this on their home page - right now:

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All I glean from that teaser is that the author needs a thesaurus. He should demand one. 

1 hour ago, Mittens said:

and?

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And… you’re not reading these profiles correctly. 42 is the industry composite number. 10 (right below it) is where Rivals has him ranked. He’s a Rivals five star. 

2 minutes ago, Chili dog said:

All I glean from that teaser is that the author needs a thesaurus. He should demand one. 

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8 minutes ago, TheAuditor said:

Meanwhile the braintrust has this on their home page - right now:

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But what if the player meets the demands of the demands of the demands?

10 minutes ago, TheAuditor said:

Meanwhile the braintrust has this on their home page - right now:

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Weird that they spell Poor S M A R T

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1 hour ago, Saint Tacky said:

Thank you for illustrating my point so perfectly — Dallas folks may not talk about Houston much, but when they do, it’s with the exact kind of reflexive superiority and baseless bullshit you just demonstrated. You’ve lived in Dallas and, by your own admission, not recently — and certainly not in Houston — so you’re speaking from a place of willful ignorance. You’ve got no comparative frame of reference, just tired generalizations and secondhand pablum.

Also, nobody outside of DFW gives a damn about the Dallas vs. Fort Worth dynamic. It’s like watching two mouth breathers slap-fight over a parking spot in front of Walmart while everyone else is just wondering why no one’s put a pillow over your faces yet.

If you’re happy in your echo chamber of cultivated indifference, knock yourself out. Just don’t mistake your lack of exposure for a meaningful counterpoint. 

Man, that's a lot of words about Dallas to make the point that Houston people don't talk about Dallas. 

42 minutes ago, Js1 said:

You’re being a dog with a bone about it 


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44 minutes ago, Michael Knight said:

He's a 5 star on Rivals/On3 but a composite 4 star, not that hard dude

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3 hours ago, Teryor said:

k

Excited for more tears


Forgot the celebratory boobage.

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I’ve not been paying much attention to the On3 and rivals thing. Aren’t the Rivals ranking somehow now taking into account On3 stuff? I’m lost on all that. 

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