closetojumping

It's unfortunate, but as Texas fans, we're better off this year, and years going forward, if USC is actually competitive in the Big 10. Riley is damned near 0-fer against any well-coached team that USC has played since his 2022 inaugural season. 0-3 against Utah. 0-2 against Oregon, 0-2 against UW, 1-3 against ND. Those games almost all factored into the playoff landscape. This year, Riley bravely sought to eliminate one of those match-ups for his schedule by getting the Notre Dame game removed. I guess since his teams are so soft, it probably doesn't matter, but it would have been helpful to see Notre Dame have at least one other speed bump on their schedule besides Miami. Instead of a non-con that includes the domers, USC gets to play SJSU, Fresno State and Louisiana. Now, Fresno and Louisiana will actually field good teams in their conferences, but I doubt they'll handle USC. It would be funny, nonetheless. In conference, USC finally plays Ohio State while also getting UW, Oregon, at Penn State, and at Indiana plus a few bottomfeeders. I see a path for 8-4 due to the soft non-con, but assuming the team still takes on the personality of its HC, the prospects of USC going more than 1-4 against their top 5 Big 10 opponents seem unlikely. USC returns a lot on offense, but not a lot of it is high level NFL talent. The same is true on defense, where they look good on returning starts, but are those quality starts by difference makers? Overall, writers and analysts who have been by the USC lockerroom still claim a lack of "dudes" ready to start for them. The sentiments I've read and heard remind me a lot of what we had to hear from national guys during the Strong and Herman eras. I know Patterson is an excellent coach, but a DC in an offensively biased program run by a soft as pudding HC can only do so much. As to buying the guy out after another flop of a year? Good luck finding $80M+ between those couch cushions.

While I am glad that they're lending credence to the big women's sports having major value, and treating baseball with the respect it is growing to deserve at the college level, I can't help but honestly say that I would 100% trade Indiana's or Michigan's titles in FB or MBB for UT's finish. Still, I am happy to see Texas excelling, and taking pride in doing so, at almost every sport on campus.

I assumed originally that your handle implied you graduated from Texas in '75. If so, congrats! I've been following Texas since I was a kid, and doing so religiously as an adult. That spans many decades, so pulling the age rank card is a nonfactor. It's clear understanding the enemy isn't important to you, and that's your prerogative. I stand by my original position that admonishing others who actually do care about what longhorn rivals are up to, on a board where all of these sports are actively followed, is a head scratcher. Other adult longhorn fans don't need this kind of attempted gatekeeping on content.

This kind of post has always been a head scratcher for me. The guy posted news about a rival’s coaching change in a Director’s Cup sport that many of us do, in fact, care about and try to follow. The better question is why you felt threatened by the original post to the level of needing post an admonishment of it. You may have noticed that there are mod threads created for all kinds of Texas sports, and Bobby and his team never lack in commentary about non-football sports as well.

Make some noise at UK? If he does, he'll be in the portal the first day it opens. Hell, he'll probably be in the portal the first day it opens irrespective of how he performs at Kentucky, who am I kidding?

This is simply outstanding. I actually laughed out loud reading it.

Anybody dumb enough to want to go play for Demarco Murray and his worthless track record truly deserves OU.

No one is 100% who was in a boot the previous day. They've been lying about Lagway's health since last season. Maybe Florida gets healthy during this bye week, but they lacked 3 DLs against Miami and lost another one during the game who is not practicing now. They lost a starting CB in the second half to a knee blowout and another DB to a shoulder injury who will be unlikely against Texas. I'm interested in seeing their availability report next week because Sun Belt Billy holds physical practices during the season in the same way that Venables does. That makes it hard for some guys to get healthy, even coming off of a bye week.

Or Georgia or Kentucky.

Your antagonism here is just bandwidth drain at this point. The rest of the board doesn't care.. Show the therapist on the doll where you think I may have touched you and things will eventually get better. For me, you're now on ignore and I'm happy living with the idea that "pinkman_90" doesn't like me and really needs me to know that.

I don't know why you quoted me here. -I've never been a big fan of the portal for OL help. There is not a post of mine on the Internet since Sarkisian's arrival where I've stated that Texas should go big in the portal. -I liked the Goosby take at the time due to his athleticism and the fact that that class was going to have trouble landing a 5 star OT with Banks already starting as a freshman. -I don't think I've ever typed the name "Pregnon" on this site until right now. Texas kicked the tires on him but Oregon was willing to pay starter money and it didn't make a lot of sense for Texas to do anything there. Portal talk about the OL is all hindsight nonsense. Flood doesn't want to build via patchwork from random G5s, FCS and P4 backups. There aren't a ton of good starting OL in the portal and those that are there cost an arm and a leg. If folks want to level a criticism at Flood, it's not taking enough OLs in the past few cycles. I'm not one of those people saying that, but I understand the logic coming from folks. I'm not some boogieman here, wishing ill will on the program or running down coaches. You guys think you sense a whiff of criticism at a coach or staff and y'all lose your minds. It's absurd. In any event, I got my question answered, if not from the original guy here with the story. Goosby's injury is something to watch for the OSU game. Can he play through the pain and then heal up before UF? Or is there going to be patchwork without him? Either way, it's not nothing and he could very well miss a lot more time than "the next few practices".

Just to be clear, do you think I was wrong here? Or uninformed?

Like I said, you have no clue, and you just proved it. That remains the only irony here.

Like I said, you have no clue. You've now called me a liar and fraud, however, without anything to support that. I don't get the personal attacks since I don't recall ever encountering your handle, but that kind of crap is more spineless forum behavior, for which you appear to excel. I don't really care if he really wanted me to kill myself or not. The mere act of telling someone to do so, however soft or indirect, is pathetic nonetheless.

The only irony here is you not having a clue about what you think you're mocking. I don't follow posting styles on this site much, but if you're serious, yes, thanks. If not, so be it.