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Um, what? Any time you are forced to cite a known and proven imbecile like Peter Burns to reinforce your position, it should alarm you that you are in the wrong position. An 8 game conference schedule in a 16 team league is a joke. It's basically indefensible without having to advocate for wanting a soft schedule. The FCS opponent stuffing in the SEC is also an embarrassment. Drop those games and UTEP for Texas and add 8 more conference slates and the sport is overall better off and the SEC will still get 4+ into a 16 game conference every year. Also, a number of these SEC teams have no business being ranked. -SCar has a great player on each side of the ball but lost a ton of talented experience. All of the sudden Shane Beamer's program just reloads? That's laughable. They return one starter from their defensive front 7, which was the team strength. He's great, but he's one guy. They also replace a high draft pick in the secondary and at LB. -ATM hasn't finished a season ranked in 5 years. They've only finished ranked twice in the last 11 seasons, and they've opened ranked in 9 of those years. They define overrated and their roster for this year says that continues. -Oklahoma is in the same boat as ATM. "But they had a lot of roster change! They brought in a hot shot QB!" They had the worst OL statistically in FBS last year "but all those guys return!" Right. -Tennessee has no business being ranked with their losses. They don't have an answer for the loss of Sampson, the conference's leading rusher and a key to their 2024 success in an offense predicated on rushing success. They also will be starting the former QB from ... App State. -Florida will finish the season unranked. Lagway is made of glass and they're living off closing last year with 4 wins including against 2-10 FSU and unranked Tulane who had lost their QB and TB to the portal before the bowl game. -Ole Miss has that one QB who had that one drive against Georgia last year. They lost a ton. See FSU if you think a constant portal rotation of 20+ entries and exits can't kill you. That's what's churned in and out again at Ole Miss, LSU, and OU. That's not tenable and at least one of those teams is going to be punished for missing on evaluations and having a mercenary culture, maybe several. The formidable opponents in this conference this year are Texas, Georgia, and Bama. Everybody else you can drop in a bag, shake it up, and pull out a name and it will look the same or worse than the other 13 teams. Same as the Big 10.

He just said almost the identical quote heading into the playoffs in 2024. It was something dumb trash like “we were the first 15-0 national champions, now we’re going to be the first 3 loss champion.” and then Texas whipped his loudmouthed ass. He’s a giant dum dum.

I was looking at the Longhorns in the NFL list on Ourlads today and noticed that Connor Williams was nowhere to be found. I looked him up and I didn’t hear about him deciding to retire in the middle of last season after playing every offensive snap through 9 games for the Seahawks. Bizarre. He made some decent money. I hope he’s doing well. I was grateful for him on the OL during some dark times for Texas in general.

Very cool

Day did this last year with Howard and Devin Brown. He’s since said that he pretty much knew all along. Bill Kurelic has said on their 247 board that the same vibe is there for Sayin with the team. I assume he’s the guy.

Pretty sure that a HC change opens the portal for a roster for 30 days. To your question about OT, Jacob Seaton is a former 5 star. I think he started as a freshman and he is still on the roster. Might want to fact check that, though.

Does Maryland have some other shore that isn't eastern? That's a tiny state with damned near more colleges than land mass. The schedule looks fun overall, though.

The big problem with him is he has a ton of swing and miss. Even in AAA it was off the charts compared to league average. If he could figure that out, he could be amazing. If he can't, he could still have a Jose Hernandez/Rob Deer kind of output.

FWIW, the Miami mods on 247 told their board that the Miami staff does not expect to land Johnson.

There might not be a bigger buffoon in the history of college QB handing than Steve Spurrier. It looked at times like he was deliberately trying to ruin various QBs' careers on live TV. Him questioning Sarkisian on the subject matter is laughable.

The only thing that should surprise anyone is that Texas continues to waste its time with North Shore. Their mods have remained confident with Calicut for weeks, including after this weekend. They’re not always right, but they do seem to get solid info from the Georgia staff. There’s Redding, Hopkins and Chykie Brown on UT’s side of the ledger and then there’s a ton of Zach Evans, Denver Harris and Shad Banks and 20 others like them on the other side of the ledger. Texas should just move on from NS if that doesn’t tell the tale enough to win recruitments from there. There is an entrenched narrative being told in Galena Park that isn’t worth the time to counter. Maybe Sanchez winds up being more Chaisson and Redding than all of the busts, but the math says probably not. For Calicut, a tweener going to a place where multiple Texas kids have flamed out lately and a culture swirling around the toilet, he has bust written all over him if he chooses Georgia.

That’s more like it. Outstanding.

He was bad down the stretch, but it doesn’t bode well that they’re bringing in Temu Flores to replace him.

He's a slap hitter, but he makes up for that by being slow and playing mediocre defense.

Surgery on what for Spencer? Elbow? Shoulder?

This is what coaches say when they’re in denial about their pitcher needing TJ surgery.

Have any preseason rankings been released? I assume Texas will be a top 5 pick. Is anyone besides maybe Kentucky and Florida supposed to be worth a damn in the SEC?

What does the Edge wish list look like at this point?

Texas is favored in this game. Seems absurd.

Sucks for him. He’s the lone Longhorn on the Commies’ roster, I think.

You think 10-8 is the minimum for Texas to get in? I’ve read that 7-11 might do it given this league, but you follow more closely than I do. Not getting in at 9-9 or even 8-10 seems kind of crazy to me. It was OU. Happy for the win and all but “in the SEC” is a silly trope when it is simply Texas playing OU.

While this just tugs at the heartstrings and all, there are a few problems here: 1) they’re not “kids”. they’re in their 20’s. 2) i have been all for wealth transfer when merited during this NIL transition. when merited. this isn’t that. this is a guy saying “go find more alums to pay my mediocre brother off so he can mooch less off of me. “ Maybe you don’t contribute to NIL so it doesn’t matter to you and you get to cheer for the results of NIL’s largesse anyway. Some of us have been quite involved with NIL and are getting really sick of this end of the nonsense. So yeah, I will be rooting against these two paid professionals in adulthood. You do whatever suits you, and tuck the naive admonishments away for private time.

This update highlights the perversity of the current anarchy in the CFB realm. “Hey, my brother isn’t very good, but you guys need to overpay him as well. Don’t worry about the merit of it, pay up. By the way, don’t look at my performance versus my HS rank, as it’s trash and I’m a one trick pony. Pay me north of $1M to mostly catch a couple of screens each game and maybe score one ST touchdown next season, thanks!” I’m rooting against these guys and I hope Georgia decides to overpay for them. Do not want.

Texas has zero issues with NIL on the basketball end. Multiple benefactors happy to help there. You think Tre Johnson or some of those well-regarded transfers are in Austin solely for their love of UT? Absurd.

You make good points and thanks for your help.