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Join the platinum email list and you would know that @Joe Zura is really Dan Lanning's burner account. He and Gerry go way back...like all the way to childbirth.

Lowering our expectations already I see. Letting us down easy since we are incapable of hitting 100K anymore.

This is an amazing post. This is also a phase of fandom you will only live in for a VERY short time. There are two words that will change the way you trust the coaches, roll with the punches and respond to future portal windows, expectations and underperforming. All it will take is one year of underperforming with the whole new set of expectations your fan base has and you will have regular meltdown threads too! Glad you are here btw!

Standing anywhere near Brooks would show why he is considered a NFL prospect. Watch his feet and workouts and it becomes even more clear. The fact he was thrown to the wolves at guard and failed really doesn’t take any of that away IMO.

I think you would be surprised how many players on this roster are being, and have been, recruited, especially ones with the upside of Brooks. Other teams have money and room for longer development curves to play immediately.

I don't think we are getting Brunner, but even if we were you still want Brooks developing for the following year. He looks the part and has the tools. My guess is someone recruited him into the portal.

Maybe the Texas offer is good enough to pause and see if Indiana can get close. It appears all signs still point toward Indiana on that one.

They are not ALL IN.

This is actually very similar to Texas. Most higher ranked colleges require you to have a significant part your degree plan taken at that university. Texas loses more transfers than people realize due to this, especially in smaller sports. It is way easier to transfer as a freshman or a grad transfer. We already lost one LB this portal season due to this.

We better get some bad news soon or this thread will never hit 100k!

Sad thing is, I know some really good people in life that act just like this when we have a bad game or even a bad play. The world is always falling and Sark needs to be fired. Sad really. No perspective at all.

You don’t think he has regressed since his first year? Maybe not, and I am a CJ fan, but he seems to be struggling to see the field at times. Both INT’s yesterday was bad but the one right before the half was as bad as it gets. I hope he takes the next step because we are going to pay him no matter what.

We will definitely have to go the Baltimore Super Bowl route with Trent Dilfer to win it. CJ is regressing it seems. We just need him to manage at this point and let the D work.

Why would Alabama go after Lane now if DeBoer leaves when they could have easily hired him two years ago and showed no interest at all?

Interesting.