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Aaron Franklin, UT/OU Recruiting, & Chris Young

Posted by CloseToJumping on August 7th, 2009 under Football, Recruiting

Aaron Franklin is a Linebacker prospect out of East Texas. If  you don’t know this and you follow Texas football, you are probably dumber than Vasherized and MinnesotaHorn combined, which takes lobotomies, sloth, and the genetics of a HenryJames/Jackie Shipp lovechild.

Franklin committed to OU today in a Texas/OU battle. This one hurts, and the reasons why are myriad, and sadly, simple.

For starters, OU was on this guy during his sophomore year. Texas didn’t know who he was.

Second, Franklin loved Texas as a kid and followed the program growing up. He did not grow up in the suburbs of  Houston or Dallas, so when I type that he loved Texas,  I mean that he followed the program and cared about what we were doing over other schools. For a young ballplayer out of Marshall, TX, that is as close to love as you get. We’re not typing about family affiliations and people he knows pointing him in given directions. If you coordinate “love” with “All I ever considered was Texas and I would have given my neatly shorn scrotum to be offered a chance to play there”, you are off the grid in terms of understanding the decision process most standout inner city/East Texas type ballers go through. Please consider that before posting your absurd whiteboy childish rants. You are also probably 5′9″ and served as a wedgebuster that was involuntarily flung at opponent kickoff formations out of cruelty by bigger players for whom you didn’t get water or towels in time in a timely manner in the lockerroom.

Third, Franklin suffered a career-threatening knee injury last year and missed playing during the season. OU stayed on the guy.

He still pined for Texas. OU stayed on the guy.

Franklin went so far as to camp at Texas this summer. There, he ran an outstanding time in the 40 and showed the kind of instincts that made it clear as to why OU wanted him all along.

Will Muschamp got here after they recruited the guy. Then he got hurt and we got busy elsewhere. Then we saw him and suddenly we wanted him. Then OU got real, and got his momma and grandmomma in for a visit and told them how much they loved him. Then Texas offered and made their play.

It wasn’t enough. We never got the family down. And breaking up is hard to do. You tell someone who has been loyal to you from day 1 that you no longer need them and you’re moving on. If you’re not a female, that kind of cold-bloodedness is hard to effectuate, even in business. It is especially hard for a 17 year old male to pull off. Did that even matter? Some think it did, and they know more than me, and they know more than you.

So, we porked it, but reasonably, I guess. Having Mac Macwhorter recruit the area certainly doesn’t help us. We’re recruiting young, star-struck black kids from East Texas. How do we honestly expect Macwhorter to relate? Only Mack would know. It’s served us alright, when the name is all that matters or we do everything right. Add other variables against us and the result we see here is the result we will get most of the time.

This recruitment can be viewed as a microcosm of the staff’s practices at this point. If they don’t come to camp early? Porked. If they’re not advertising to get an offer from us early? Porked. If they’re in a territory where one of our older, or lazier, recruiters are covering them? Porked.

Frankly, we should have known we wouldn’t get him. The trends are pretty clear at this juncture.

So where to from here? Well, we’ve still got a great class. We need to regain some momentum. No one wants to commit to a school with the stink of old age, Old Spice, or sloth on it. We’re still in on Jeffcoat, Hicks, Darius White, and a few others.  No, that does not include Seastrunk, unless we suddenly get into paying pimps and family members for signatures, and I am still not sure that gets us past the magnetic pull of the corruption that is Gene Chizik’s recruiting engine at Auburn or Lane Kiffin’s doppelganger for that at UTenn. Or Les Miles’ huge melon at LSU. It’s like sputnik.

In all seriousness, we need some Mo back on our end, and I don’t mean the fuckheadery of MoBlack or Moe Green. There is a guy in Dayton named Chris Young with eerily similar lines to Aaron Franklin. The exception is that we’d be his guy if we charged at him. He missed last year (I believe, it has been a while since I have asked someone that would know better about his play-time particulars) and he’s not exactly on all the radars. He’s fast, he likes to play, and we’d be pumped to have him.  It also would have nothing to do with the pursuit of Hicks.

We’ll know a lot shortly about what this staff is thinking. Are they purely system recruiters? Or can they adjust? One indicator would be going after a stud like Young. Another would be extending offers in September on 2011 studs like Hughes, Barnett, Jackson, Green, Brown, and others. You should know that others will. You should also know that as hard as Muschamp and Applewhite work (and they work), we don’t have a closer.

Mack Brown changed the recruiting game with his summer tactics in the south. He changed it again with his February behavior. Other schools with comparable histories, prestige, and stories have changed it again by going after guys earlier and more aggressively than we have. We need to adjust or we’re going to experience more pain, and not all February groupings will look like what we just brought in. Right now should help you understand that.

The tide needs to be stemmed, and we need some positive momentum. The rest of the remaining targets are up in the air, and we’re starting to look like the group with the heaviest anchor. Nothing will change overnight, but we’ll start to get a better feel for where we’re going when we see what the staff does next. Not taking the in-state guy under the radar and dedicating ourselves fully to the guys that remain that show interest would be costly for years to come.

By the way, if you’re hoping for some version of the Mack Brown curse on a guy like Franklin, I don’t like your odds. OU takes fast, angry, athletic kids out of Texas and turns them into brutal, hateful motherfuckers on game day at LB. Just ask Travis Lewis. And please stop with the “Texas beats OU head-up in recruiting whenever they want” diatribes. They are tiring, untrue, and reveal you to be a mouthbreathing moron. This is real now.

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  1. Bo Jackson said:

    August 7th, 2009 at 10:00 pm

    I woulda gone to Auburn if I were him.

  2. CrazyJoeDavola said:

    August 7th, 2009 at 10:51 pm

    The standard reply from the peanut gallery at this point would be “no one player will make or break our class.” Which is true as far as it goes.

    But when you whiff on, like, five straight guys of the kind of quality we’re recruiting, it becomes a worrisome trend. If we miss out on Hicks, our LB recruiting for the year will be pretty disappointing, given the depth and talent of the class, as well as our pretty thin depth chart.

    Which will get us prepared for a similar situation with RBs next year, I guess.

    We’d best get our butts in gear for the emerging recruiting landscape, lest we see a return of our mid-’80s situation. If that means Mack moves on sooner rather than later, so be it.

  3. roland said:

    August 7th, 2009 at 11:04 pm

    How the hell does Mac and his staff let kids that love UT growing up get away (Darius White is slipping too)? Is UT’s recruiting staff that pompous and pretentious that they feel they do not have to make a sincere effort when recruiting these kids. I’m sick of OU and other schools coming into out backyard and sweet talking them and their families into leaving while Mac and his staff sit idly by with an insolent attitude. People say UT recruits well, shit how can you not recruit well when your the #1 school in the state if UT recruited how it really should recruit and keep the best players in the state here we would have way more National Champion Ships so in my opinion Mac doesn’t recruit well enough for the amount of talent he should be bringing in. Just look at the last 5 years Mac and his staff let Craig Loston, Jermie Calhoun, Russell Shepard, Terrance Toliver, Adrian Peterson, Jamarkus McFarland, Dez Bryant and countless other recruits get away. To tell you the truth UT sucks at recruiting people think we are good because we get a percentage of the talent from the state which makes us better than most schools but in reality if the UT staff was really good at recruiting UT would be unstoppable.

  4. bighornfan32 said:

    August 7th, 2009 at 11:10 pm

    I mostly agree, and was thinking after I found out he chose OU that we might live to hate him when he’s a sideline to sideline terror in 2012.

    We really need to get Hicks. I can live with not getting Jeffcoat, especially if he goes to USC, and D. White would be a surprising cherry on top, but Hicks is a difference maker at a need position. But I also think his signing would have farther reaching consequences. Hopefully it would spur more of a push to get guys out of state and possibly clear the way for a more willing and enthusiastic recruiting philosophy. I love what Mack does, but he and his staff are so often unwilling to go the extra mile to get a badass, and I’m hoping that Muschamp and Major will be able to have more sway in the recruiting process. In short, I want to see their on field charisma transferred to the recruiting season.

  5. bighornfan32 said:

    August 7th, 2009 at 11:12 pm

    roland, try using periods. And lets not get guys like Dez Bryant or Toliver, who had no shot of qualifying, confused with real misses.

  6. NateHeupel said:

    August 7th, 2009 at 11:20 pm

    CTJ: Tilting at Windmills, a Barking Carnival subsidiary, actually did a very interesting piece about recruiting trends in terms of OU v. UT. The bottom line was that by about this point in the year, Mack Brown is recruiting the 2011 class. Between Ryan Perriloux and Darrell Scott, I think Mack’s had his fill of these late recruiting battles.

    Put another way, if Darius White and Jackson Jeffcoat are still undecided come January, recent trends indicate they’ll not be in Austin.

  7. CloseToJumping said:

    August 7th, 2009 at 11:29 pm

    NateHeupel–

    I agree, although I hold out hope that recent trends get bucked.

    In regard to the site name, I admire it. I wait for subsidiary sites for other schools titled “Stomping Mudholes” or “Clubbing Baby Seals” or “Casting Aspersions”. Fuck Scipio, HenryJames and Sailor Ripley in advance.

    That typed, link us that post.

  8. Texas A$M Booster said:

    August 8th, 2009 at 4:03 am

    Just wait until we get into the street agent game!

  9. Charley Pell said:

    August 8th, 2009 at 4:20 am

    I’m an ugly duckling. The chick I really dig, won’t give me the time of day. Alas, I blossom into a beautiful bird. Now the chick I really always dug wants me. I still have a choice; the ugly chick that has always loved me with get over it if I drop her; the new chick will love me just as much and lives next door anyhow. Life’s lessons that need to be learned by my 17 year old mind!….

  10. TKO said:

    August 8th, 2009 at 5:25 am

    If there were such a thing as a Mack Brown curse, I wouldn’t wish it on Aaron Franklin. He handled his recruitment quietly and with class, even giving UT a fair chance to make a late pitch after he’d basically been ignored by the staff up until very recently. Put simply, we whiffed on this kid while OU identified him early and stayed on him after his injury last year.

    As for Chris Young, he’s a DE who goes 6’4”, 220. He doesn’t bear anything resembling “eerily similar lines” to Franklin. He may and may not be a stud, but he’s not helping us at LB.

  11. RansomStoddard said:

    August 8th, 2009 at 5:51 am

    It’s a bit hard to argue that the Texas recruiting strategy is broken when we consistently pull in Top 10 classes. Notwithstanding that, there are two aspects that are disturbing. One, our almost slavish committment to avoiding out of state recruits. I hear and believe this is due to some discussions Mack had with Texas HS coaches when he took over as he felt it was important to first recruit Texas as well as possible. Still, it’s frustrating to see that we are unable or unwilling to turn the national pub we get from guys like Rak, Vince and Colt into nationally ranked recruits. Second, this staff gets lazy sometimes. The recruiting after the NC is a prime example. We could have gone anywhere in the country and recruited any kid we wanted and had an 80% chance of getting him. Instead, the staff took a month off and ultimately signed a mediocre [for UT] class that took virtually no effort.

  12. ballrific said:

    August 8th, 2009 at 6:29 am

    “The recruiting after the NC is a prime example. We could have gone anywhere in the country and recruited any kid we wanted and had an 80% chance of getting him. Instead, the staff took a month off and ultimately signed a mediocre [for UT] class that took virtually no effort.”

    I’ve been saying this for years but everyone seems to look the other way and say “bad fan”. We royally fucked up the huge motherfucking momentum we had after millions of kids saw Vince lead us to the promise land. A good ceo, like mack is called so often, can’t and doesn’t let that happen.

  13. The Recruiting Gate said:

    August 8th, 2009 at 6:37 am

    Open me in early February, let the majority of the herd wander in to the lot and close me in March.
    Note: if a prize calf wants to jump the fence into the lot, that’s okay…

  14. Blueshorn said:

    August 8th, 2009 at 7:02 am

    “The recruiting after the NC is a prime example. We could have gone anywhere in the country and recruited any kid we wanted and had an 80% chance of getting him. Instead, the staff took a month off and ultimately signed a mediocre [for UT] class that took virtually no effort.”

    And Mack & Co. did this despite having DKR tell him to hit the recruiting trail immediately and not fall into the trap that Royal and staff did after the ‘63 MNC.

  15. Realist said:

    August 8th, 2009 at 7:35 am

    That about wraps it up for this year. The only additions to the class will be one maybe 2 late bloomers as the season progresses. You can forget about Hicks (buckeye) and we (the fanboys) should have given up on White a while back (OU bound if you ask me). The recent losses in recruiting are disturbing to say the least.

  16. Brock Fitzhenry said:

    August 8th, 2009 at 7:45 am

    Hi!

  17. ballrific said:

    August 8th, 2009 at 8:22 am

    hey, we can still outcoach people, oh wait. well, coach boom can.

  18. UTomlinson said:

    August 8th, 2009 at 8:59 am

    Correct me if I’m wrong, but I could have sworn White has already dropped UT out of consideration.

  19. bighornfan32 said:

    August 8th, 2009 at 10:05 am

    That seemed to be more OB tomfoolery.

  20. Frank said:

    August 8th, 2009 at 10:58 am

    It’s frightening how much of a dud recruiter Muschamp is. Mack made an impulsive move for his short term gain.

  21. Good Kids Who Graduate said:

    August 8th, 2009 at 11:02 am

    What’s wrong with 10 win seasons and golfing all summer?

  22. NateHeupel said:

    August 8th, 2009 at 11:41 am

    CloseToJumping:

    The link, as you requested, sir:

    http://www.windmilltilting.com/atlantasooner/football-recruiting-update-727

  23. kenneth said:

    August 8th, 2009 at 12:26 pm

    Yeah, Mack really whiffed on that Jermit Calhoun kid. I hear he’s all the way up to 4th-string on the OU depth chart.

  24. CrazyJoeDavola said:

    August 8th, 2009 at 12:40 pm

    You think it’s laughable that he’s two spots behind Murray and Brown?

    Would anyone on our current roster be any higher? Doubtful.

    As for Frank’s take … well. That’s quite a conclusion to leap to at this stage.

  25. KilgoreTrout said:

    August 8th, 2009 at 1:12 pm

    Given your recent success there are a lot of guys chomping at the bit to sign up. You clean up on these guys in Feb & March. The guys after are more hit or miss. Given the talent you get in the 1st wave, you are always going to have a good class. You don’t seem to be closing as well on guys who didn’t grow up wanting to play in orange.

  26. ponderos said:

    August 8th, 2009 at 1:14 pm

    kenneth. Which 1,000-yard, upperclassman rusher should be behind Calhoun?

  27. Scipio Tex said:

    August 8th, 2009 at 1:26 pm

    You don’t seem to be closing as well on guys who didn’t grow up wanting to play in orange.

    Or, those who did and that we ignore.

  28. kenneth said:

    August 8th, 2009 at 2:34 pm

    “kenneth. Which 1,000-yard, upperclassman rusher should be behind Calhoun?”

    Mosis Madu had 475 yards rushing last year, and is #3 on OU’s depth chart. Whether he or Calhoun would start for us is debatable, but I doubt either would.

  29. HenryJames said:

    August 8th, 2009 at 2:45 pm

    Madu has been moved to wide receiver.

  30. CloseToJumping said:

    August 8th, 2009 at 4:07 pm

    With Murray already breaking down with a hamstring injury and Stoops throwing his year into the doom loop with the “it’s not a big concern” condemnation, Calhoun now is 2nd string. Not exactly a devastating slot for a redshirt freshman.

  31. uttotop said:

    August 8th, 2009 at 6:30 pm

    ClosetoJumping,
    Better check to see how Calhoun’s grades are this summer…oh that’s right, noone ever flunks out of OU…heard basket weaving was a “tuff” course though…

    Really, does it matter what his position is on their depth chart?? I say, “NO”…we have guys as good or better…just watch…now, Murray, that is another matter, IF he stays healthy for a season…big “IF” question there…

  32. NateHeupel said:

    August 8th, 2009 at 7:05 pm

    uttotop,

    You have guys at RB as good or better than Calhoun? Really? Like who? The talent UT has at every position but RB and DT is downright unfair. Meanwhile, Colt McCoy was your leading rusher last year, was he not?

  33. Ricky said:

    August 8th, 2009 at 7:28 pm

    Come on…if we had offered this guy in February he would have committed on the spot and you would have been complaining about the coaches offering a guy who is out of nowhere and on paper is a real tweener coming off of a major injury. You would have said Mack and Co. are just lazy and took the guy because they knew he would commit and now we have one less spot for Nelson or Hicks.

    We can’t get all these guys. The guys that are really big UT fans are often the hardest ones to make an offer to especially when you know there are other better guys that you know you will have to wait on. You don’t want to fill up your class with three-star guys or guys who might have been four-star talent before suffering a major injury just because you know they will commit on the spot. A lot of fans complain because we grab all these four-star guys quickly rather than going after the Jeff Luc’s of the world.

    I think we got the two best LBs in the state. Nelson might be in the discussion but I think Benson and Jackson are going to be better. If we get Hicks then this would have to be one of the best LB classes in the country.

    I’ll agree that its disappointing that the coaches (or some of them) can’t keep in touch with guys and start building relationships even if they aren’t the likely top 2 or 3 prospects in their region. How much time would it have taken MacWhorter to open a line of communication with Franklin? Like you said, I hope they adjust their tactics soon.

  34. 20/20 Vision said:

    August 8th, 2009 at 7:39 pm

    Jackson is the best LB in the state. Hide and watch.

  35. Petey said:

    August 8th, 2009 at 8:12 pm

    A kid that LOVED Texas and had an offer from Texas, but committed to ou.

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  36. magnus bleuveigner said:

    August 8th, 2009 at 10:17 pm

    We should have three offering periods. Sept 1 offer about 4-6 of the elites. This year it’s two rb’s, nate hughes, two db’s, and barnett. After that offer the rest of the Texas elites. Give them some notice….they usually jump very quickly. After that make a big deal about Texas offering a few national prospects. Positions of need. Offer 10-15 national recruits and see what happens. Mack needs to quit getting butt hurt over losing an in-stater much less an out of stater. Who would you rather have? Trent Rich, or Chris (Henry Melton) Whaley?

  37. Scipio Tex said:

    August 8th, 2009 at 11:41 pm

    magnus:

    Barnett isn’t elite.

    Trent Richardson was owned by a street agent.

    I agree with you that we should recruit 10 national prospects with the goal of landing 1-3.

  38. NorthDallasSooner said:

    August 9th, 2009 at 7:49 am

    I don’t think UT is going to run out of elite football players anytime soon.

    Many of you cite lack of a “closer.” I thought Mack was the ultimate closer (I’m not being facetious). Is he backing away from that role in favor of Muschamp? What does that mean for the timing of the transition and do you think the ambiguity of that timing is negatively affecting you? Discuss.

  39. whoopspat said:

    August 9th, 2009 at 8:11 am

    Mack said in his February signing day press conference that he talked about out of state recruiting with a former UCLA coach and they agreed that you can expect to get less than 30% of your out of state prospects.

    Offer your usual guys and treat any out of state recruit who commits as a bonus.

  40. whoopspat said:

    August 9th, 2009 at 8:16 am

    Also, if you guys watch Barnett’s film I think you will agree with Scipio. There isn’t much he appears to bring to the table besides his size.

  41. pickup18 said:

    August 9th, 2009 at 9:44 am

    Why are you douches surprised by stuff like this? It happens every year and will continue happening – get used to it! When White, Favors and Jeffcoat head north this site will literally melt down – can’t wait!

  42. The Clapper said:

    August 9th, 2009 at 12:01 pm

    Mack doesn’t have enough skins on the wall to justify his recruiting strategy. Once apply all his filters, you better hit on 80% of the ones left.

  43. ousniffsware said:

    August 9th, 2009 at 12:11 pm

    Ou has clearly stated that they are going back to OU roots in East Texas. That means $$ and easy classes and the bootlegger system. The Bog Red auto deal almost got them in trouble big tiem: Too many easily found records in a fairly large city. Get back to the boondocks where all the hush money and lack of media attention gets them what they want: PLAYErs that can be bought!!!.

  44. Mysterious Package said:

    August 9th, 2009 at 12:19 pm

    Here’s an idea…Offer every fucking 5 star and we will land 5 or 6. Its just not that hard.

  45. bigdukesix said:

    August 11th, 2009 at 8:05 pm

    Texas’ two main recruiting flaws under Mack Brown:

    1. Too many self-imposed restrictions artificially limit the talent pool (can only recruit in-state kids with grades who take the initiative to visit Texas on their own without an offer and aren’t looking for a handout), as the Clapper alluded to.

    2. Too many of the assistants on the staff are almost dead weight from a recruiting standpoint, as CTJ noted. When a recruitment extends beyond the first junior day, it’s the assistant coaches who end up doing most of the leg work on the recruitment. In light of this, it’s no wonder we close so poorly.

  46. BevosBoss said:

    August 18th, 2009 at 9:09 am

    We miss Tim Brewster.

  47. SoonerEckert said:

    October 14th, 2009 at 5:44 pm

    This is coming from an OU graduate and native of Dallas. This is a very good article…truthful and entertaining. Many people involved in this rivalry tend to get so tied in, that they lose sight of reality and just make up stuff to make their respective side seem better.

    The truth is: Both OU and Texas will always get great classes and there is so much talent in our area and across the country that is interested in these schools that there is never a shortage. In the case of Franklin, this was a huge fault in the UT recruiting this year, but you still have great recruits coming in. The complete ignoring of Rashod Favors (who is a high quality LB) will end up losing you Darius White to your most bitter rival…and that should never happen. But, again, UT has great WR’s coming in.

    I love having heated debates about OU and Texas because they can go on forever, but when involved in the arguments please use your brain so that the conversation doesn’t turn into a mindless hate fest.

    Both OU and UT will be top programs forever…they will continue to flip flop as to which is going to the NC, and that’s a good thing…there are many more outstanding players in the TX/OK region than UT’s 25 scholarships can cover. And OU will always get some of the top talent (AD, Malcolm Kelly, etc…)…don’t take it as an insult, remember, OU is a national powerhouse just like UT is. If you start losing these guys to Kansas or Oklahoma St, then you have problems.

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    Maybe they are also an unknown phenomena to the stubborn, mad,lusting minds of entrenched coaches that are playing the games

  • uthookem commented on the blog post 2011 Texas Football Recruiting   40 minutes ago

    I consider this thread incomplete until a picture of Barney Frank is added.

  • HenryJames commented on the blog post Scholarship Numbers & Junior Days   40 minutes ago

    I summer in Brookshire.

  • Texastough commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Kansas: Post-Mortem   1 hour ago

    “As long as he is putting teams into the tourney every year, I think he is untouchable. ”

    Thats basically the equivalent of being one of the top six or seven Big 12 teams, which doesn’t cut it. I think he has to average top 2-3 in Big12 and sweet 16 or so to be

  • Bob in Houston commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Kansas: Post-Mortem   1 hour, 6 minutes ago

    Bob, essentially what you are saying is that we are not a well coached basketball team. I agree.

    Jordan Hamilton is a selfish and lazy player. He is a terrible fit to play for Barnes. Not sure if either one will be around next season at this rate.

    I’ve seen too much player development and too much

  • skymonkeyhorn commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Kansas: Post-Mortem   1 hour, 7 minutes ago

    Oh ! Trips your one liners are getting very very good in a nice sort of way. This was a great one.
    Almost a classic. “ponderos, shouldn’t you be supersizing something somewhere?”
    Keep up the good work……
    “Admirable that you continue to attempt an analysis with some type of hope for them”

  • Farmer Ted commented on the blog post ”Bo Made Me Cry.”   1 hour, 8 minutes ago

    Good read, Mike. There’s a lot of truth in there. I do believe that one of the reasons that Florida’s recruiting class was rated so highly is that 100% of their signees were offered scholarships by Florida. If Florida loses interest in a kid, his stock drops a bit. That’s defensible

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  • Ag_in_TX wrote a new blog post: Did Rick Barnes use a plant last night to distract KU players?   1 hour, 17 minutes ago

    If you watched the game, and if you have one drop of testosterone in your bloodstream, you couldn’t have missed her. The redhead with huge tracts of land – right behind the KU bench – who stood for every time out and stared at the KU players.

    She stuck out like a sore thumb. Never

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  • Darius Pourceau commented on the blog post Recruiting the Trenches   1 hour, 20 minutes ago

    Welcome to the site guys! Aaron Rodgers is the man.

    http://bornhogwild.fantake.com/

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  • Art Vandelay commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Kansas: Post-Mortem   1 hour, 21 minutes ago

    Bob, essentially what you are saying is that we are not a well coached basketball team. I agree.

    Jordan Hamilton is a selfish and lazy player. He is a terrible fit to play for Barnes. Not sure if either one will be around next season at this rate.

    We went scoreless for 10:54 during

  • Trips Right commented on the blog post 2011 Texas Football Recruiting   1 hour, 32 minutes ago

    Well done. The Barney Frank line blindsided me like a strain of juarez clap. Funny stuff.

    I’d like for us to go out of state for a QB and at least 1 maybe two CB’s. Is Quandre tall enough to play corner or angry enough to play safety?

    Rumor around the campfire is

  • skymonkeyhorn commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Kansas: Post-Mortem   1 hour, 45 minutes ago

    I feel our pain…
    Was Barnes wearing a helmet last night. I did not notice as I was in awe of the blood being spilled
    on the floor for almost 11 minutes without a point.
    Coach Knight was reading this blogs out loud for TV.
    The most insightful was that Barnes needs to go to the 7-8

  • James commented on the blog post 2011 Texas Football Recruiting   1 hour, 47 minutes ago

    Barney Frank and Mormon quips in the same post. My Tuesday is complete.

    Texas HS football is going through a phase (era?) where the best athlete talent is being put on offense. DBs aren’t being developed in vast quantities. Why wouldn’t you go after a couple OOS DBs?

  • Trips Right commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Kansas: Post-Mortem   1 hour, 49 minutes ago

    ponderos, shouldn’t you be supersizing something somewhere?

  • Trips Right commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Kansas: Post-Mortem   1 hour, 51 minutes ago

    Gillispie’s a mid-major clown because of his off the court indiscretions. Seriously, The University of Texas is much too high profile to risk its brand and image with this moron. And anyone that mentions Augie Garrido should be permabanned the intertubes. The situations aren’t remotely similar.

    If you want to go down the

  • Trips Right commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Kansas: Post-Mortem   1 hour, 58 minutes ago

    Leonidas, none of those points came against Dex. Boxscores aren’t reality, they’re like porn movies. If porn was real everyone would be a plummer.

    As for Pittman on offense, Aldrich wasn’t playing him straight up, he was getting a double virtually everytime down. That’s not Aldrich’s fault but it’s reality.

    Pittman rarely

  • Mister Mike commented on the blog post Nebraska Fits the Profile of the 2010 National Champion   2 hours, 3 minutes ago

    Good line. What is the thinking on his ability vs. the injury?

    It’s funny you should ask. I’m working on putting something together right now that will be discussing this very topic. I know you’re waiting with bated breath for it too. Admit it.

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