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Considering literally two-thirds of the student body is out of state, you’re right. I have mixed feelings about that.

Sark saying (in essence) that Texas Tech plays no one in 2026.

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In this instance, he has a point. Texas Tech plays no one and will most likely go undefeated even if Sorsby isn't eligible to play this year. About the only two teams that might give them a game would be ASU and TCU. The rest are terrible teams.

I'm not a Texas fan but I think Texas should schedule them and then proceed to beat their asses on national TV. Texas Tech is this nouveau riche team that tastes a little success and all of a sudden think they're invincible. They need to be brought down a notch.

Top row, far right and top row, third from the right.

Curious to all the no voters, if the players overwhelmingly wanted it, would you still say no?

Honestly, unless one of these coaches does some crazy shite like being in a hot tub with teenage girls or smoking crack on social media, I don’t see any SEC coaches getting the ax this year.

Then again, there are a lot of coaches in their first or second year.

Looking at their schedule, even their conference schedule is pretty weak. T

9/25 Northwestern at IU (Northwestern is pretty mediocre, probably a 6-6 or 5-7
team)

10/3 At Rutgers (another mediocre team)

10/10 At Nebraska (another mediocre team)

10/17 OSU at home (probably the only team that beats IU this year)

10/24 At Michigan (could be a trap game, coming off an emotional/physical game vs OSU?)

10/31 Minnesota at home (another perrennial 6-6 team)

11/14 USC at home (Is there a more under performing coach in America than Lincoln Riley?)

11/21 Washington at home (another perrennial 6-6 or 7-5 team)

11/28 Purdue at home (Will be absolute carnage, Purdue is terrible)


So, IMO, they really only have one, maybe two games they have a shot at losing.

I wish I had a dollar for every recruit over the years who claimed Bama was their "dream school" and then when it came to actually signing, they sign elsewhere. :rolleyes:

IU had a very good team last year and whooped our asses but I'll be curious to see if they can keep it up this year. Much harder to stay number 1 than getting there the first time. Pretty sure they lost a lot from last year's team.

I know, that's a rare kid but if you don't care about making it to the NFL and can go anywhere you want, where do you go if it's not Bama?

I felt like I got a good education at UA and don't regret attending all those years ago. My grades in HS were decent but not great, so I was never going to Stanford or Vandy or Notre Dame, etc.

Bama was my first choice in the schools I was accepted by (Tennessee, NC State, Clemson) and I never regretted it. However, if I'd had the grades to go ANYWHERE, it'd be difficult to turn down Stanford. Great school and in a beautiful (but very expensive) part of the country.

Thoughts?

I can’t keep up with the portal and who transferred where. Maybe OM poached a player from Texas kind of like how OM did with that kid who originally transferred from Cal to Clemson only to run off to Oxford?

Then again, Texas poached Smothers from Bama, so I don’t think Texas has any kind of moral high ground as far as poaching goes.

It's possible. The last name Simon isn't all that common.

I was on the opposite end of Coach Bryant’s career. I graduated in May, 1983. I always read anything he said to the media and always listened to his weekly radio show. I never once heard him say anything that could be considered whining.

I didn’t personally know him but I did have a professor who would chat with him from time to time. He would pass along harmless bits of information every now and then. Told me CPB was a scotch drinker once and toward the end, really, really didn’t enjoy recruiting toward the end but I think that was fairly common knowledge.

Linnie Patrick was kind of the canary in the coal mine in terms of how the recruiting landscape had changed. Not that Linnie was a bad guy but I think I think CPB kind of saw the handwriting on the wall that times were changing.

Aside from injuries, Offensive line play is hands down the #1 factor. If the O line can consistently be at least "pretty good" (If I was giving a grade of "A" to "F", if they can be at least a B-), this will tell the tale of just how improved this team is.

To me, I always think of something Coach Bryant used to say, "If you can't consistently pick up 1-2 yards, you probably deserve to lose". Seemed like there were way too many times last year where Bama desperately needed 1-2 yards for either a score or first down and we either got stuffed for no gain or a loss OR we got it but had to resort to some gadget play or finesse play.

I'm sorry but there are times where we need to just line up in a 2 or maybe even a 3 TE set and just play smash mouth for the 1 yard. No more cuteness. I'm cautiously optimistic that Grubb has learned this and that Adrian Klemm will get more out of this O line.