What up Texas?

[DevilDog]

 

[Mr. Football]

https://x.com/dmngregriddle/status/1814089168802214328?s=46

[Mr. Football]

Just now, Mr. Football said:

https://x.com/dmngregriddle/status/1814089168802214328?s=46

DeSoto just got Stud edge from SJB!

[HurricaneNick]

9 minutes ago, Mr. Football said:

DeSoto just got Stud edge from SJB!

Was he hand picked? Lmfao

[pied]

18 minutes ago, HurricaneNick said:

Was he hand picked? Lmfao

 

 

It's a very different and weird and good story.  Not sure what to think about this transfer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[HurricaneNick]

15 minutes ago, pied said:

 

 

It's a very different and weird and good story.  Not sure what to think about this transfer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That is quite the story. Rooting for the kid. 

It did make me laugh to see Mr football enthusiastically posting a soon to be 5 star transferring into the highest ranked team in the state of Texas when just a couple days ago he was whining about star transfers into MD/SJB. 

Might have to check out the DV/DS game. Mater Dei plays servite that day. It’ll be a snooze fest 😉

[pied]

The post about transferring seems almost a 180 degree difference than the other story.  

 

I thought the same thing you did at first, but am going to hold out a little on this one.  A lot of the story doesn't make sense to me at the moment.  DeSoto is a fine place, but it's not the first place that comes to mind for medical procedures/etc.  We'll see, but like you I'm rooting for the kid.

[Horsefly]

10 hours ago, pied said:

The post about transferring seems almost a 180 degree difference than the other story.  

 

I thought the same thing you did at first, but am going to hold out a little on this one.  A lot of the story doesn't make sense to me at the moment.  DeSoto is a fine place, but it's not the first place that comes to mind for medical procedures/etc.  We'll see, but like you I'm rooting for the kid.

I wouldn’t be shocked if this move gets a long look from the UIL. The kid talks a lot and there a few things he mentioned that raises eyebrows.  

[pied]

100%, I'm guessing the former staffs will sign it(a hunch), but I'm ne exactly sure where he was.  I think he went to Milton and was transferring to SJB?  Doesn't look like he was in CA though.  Confusing to me for sure.

[pied]

Interested to see if there are broader concerns raised about this. The THSCA convention starts Sunday and can see it being a topic, at the very least among all the coaches if not an official agenda item somewhere.  

Saw former Aledo coach, Tim Buchanan make some pretty  pointed comments on a FB discussion group.

[Frosty4024]

2 hours ago, Horsefly said:

I wouldn’t be shocked if this move gets a long look from the UIL. The kid talks a lot and there a few things he mentioned that raises eyebrows.  

Oh they're lurkin'...trust.

[DevilDog]

All week a lot of talk about whether OU and UT are ready for the SEC.  LIstening to some of the SEC talking heads it is like going to some other level of football each week.  That for one is freaking hilarious.  Two College Blue Bloods.  The last time they took on two Big 12 Teams MIzzou and A&M.  The Year 2012.  A&M with MaNziel goes 12 - 2 finish 3rd and the only SEC team to beat Bama.  The very next year MIssouri wins the SEC East 😁.  As a matter of fact since 2012 A&M is 3rd in the SEC in Conference championships across all sports.  The Longhorns swagger has already rubbed some of them a bit raw during the media days. 

ONE EXAMPLE 🤘

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/07/18/texas-longhorns-sec-media-days/

Overheard at SEC Media Days: Texas, Texas, Texas, Texas
The marriage between two of college sports’ biggest brands has begun

By Jesse Dougherty
July 18, 2024 at 11:00 a.m. EDT
DALLAS — There wasn’t a red (or burnt orange) carpet. There weren’t any balloons. There was nothing really, aside from three compact cars with Texas decals on them, to signal that the Longhorns had arrived at SEC Media Days on Wednesday, when they were seconds, then minutes, then several hours closer to actually playing a football game in the conference, nearly three years after the news first leaked that they would join.

But this four-day event is entirely driven by what the media asks. That’s what happens when there are no actual results or matchups to dissect. So all week, even before representatives from Texas showed up, the program has been front and center. A big group of reporters made sure of it. SEC Media Days being in Texas for the first time made sure of it, too.

For example, on Tuesday, Georgia quarterback Carson Beck, a preseason Heisman Trophy candidate, was asked what he has seen in Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers, another preseason Heisman candidate. The question, though, also included a small bit about “Ewers being considered the best quarterback in the country.” Then someone asked Beck how excited he is to face the Longhorns in 

“Every single person has been asked about Texas,” said Brad Kellner, who hosts a podcast on Texas athletics for Texas Sports Unfiltered. “I was just in the ballroom for Oklahoma’s session, and each player ... I mean, at one point it wasn’t even a Texas beat writer. Just some random person asked the OU player if Horns Down should be considered a penalty.”

We will get back to Horns Down, a thing that matters a whole lot, in just a minute.

But when the SEC poached Texas and Oklahoma from the Big 12, the idea was to get bigger and buzzier — and, by proxy, somehow even richer. That vision, now realized, looked like Ewers walking around the Omni Dallas Hotel in a tan cowboy hat Wednesday. It looked like Texas Coach Steve Sarkisian working the stage in a burnt orange sport coat. On Tuesday, it looked like two dozen cameras waiting to shoot footage of Oklahoma Coach Brent Venables ... walking into a room.

“I was just joking with [SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey] in the back,” Sarkisian said Wednesday. “So we flew in this morning, we landed, we get off the plane, and we get in the Sprinter van, and we got a police escort to Media Days. It just means more? It just means more right there.”

This coming season, Texas plays at Michigan and Texas A&M, faces Oklahoma at the Cotton Bowl and hosts Georgia. That’s maybe a good segue — or as good a segue as any — into the pressing issue of Horns Down. Texas and its fans do not like when opponents taunt the Longhorns by inverting their Horns Up hand signal. But John McDaid, the SEC’s coordinator of football officials, was clear on the issue this week: The league will not automatically penalize a Horns Down gesture.

That’s it. End of story (yeah, right).

“There are some automatic ones. Spitting at an opponent is an automatic. Throat slash is an automatic. But the rest of them? I want it to be evaluated in context,” McDaid said to a small group of reporters. “And I may or may not answer any more hypotheticals you give me, because I want to see the video.

“... Let me say one last thing on this topic. We hear time and time again that fans don’t want us officials inserting ourselves in the game. They want the two teams to settle the game between themselves.”

Then someone asked McDaid whether he could imagine a scenario in which a Horns Up sign would be a penalty. It was a creative way to keep the conversation going.

“You know, going and mock clapping to an opponent, as in congratulating them, that could be taunting,” McDaid allowed. “Correct.”

Kellner — the podcast host known as “BK” — admits to being nervous three summers ago, wondering how Texas would fare against Alabama, Georgia and the rest of the SEC. But the outlook has taken a full turn for the better. Texas finished 12-2 last season, beat Alabama on the road, won the Big 12 title and lost to Washington by six points in a College Football Playoff semifinal. Elsewhere, the Longhorns won the national championship in women’s volleyball, its women’s basketball team made the Elite Eight in the NCAA tournament, and its baseball program recently poached Texas A&M’s beloved coach, Jim Schlossnagle.

Life is good in Austin. What does that mean, if anything, as the school joins the best football conference in the country? Sitting in the hotel hallway Tuesday, Kellner grinned and pointed to the SEC’s slogan, printed on a banner above his head.

“It just means more,” he said. “It’s right 

Overheard at SEC Media Days: Texas, Texas, Texas, Texas
 

[RedZone]

18 minutes ago, DevilDog said:

All week a lot of talk about whether OU and UT are ready for the SEC.  LIstening to some of the SEC talking heads it is like going to some other level of football each week.  That for one is freaking hilarious.  Two College Blue Bloods.  The last time they took on two Big 12 Teams MIzzou and A&M.  The Year 2012.  A&M with MaNziel goes 12 - 2 finish 3rd and the only SEC team to beat Bama.  The very next year MIssouri wins the SEC East 😁.  As a matter of fact since 2012 A&M is 3rd in the SEC in Conference championships across all sports.  The Longhorns swagger has already rubbed some of them a bit raw during the media days. 

ONE EXAMPLE 🤘

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/07/18/texas-longhorns-sec-media-days/

Overheard at SEC Media Days: Texas, Texas, Texas, Texas
The marriage between two of college sports’ biggest brands has begun

By Jesse Dougherty
July 18, 2024 at 11:00 a.m. EDT
DALLAS — There wasn’t a red (or burnt orange) carpet. There weren’t any balloons. There was nothing really, aside from three compact cars with Texas decals on them, to signal that the Longhorns had arrived at SEC Media Days on Wednesday, when they were seconds, then minutes, then several hours closer to actually playing a football game in the conference, nearly three years after the news first leaked that they would join.

But this four-day event is entirely driven by what the media asks. That’s what happens when there are no actual results or matchups to dissect. So all week, even before representatives from Texas showed up, the program has been front and center. A big group of reporters made sure of it. SEC Media Days being in Texas for the first time made sure of it, too.

For example, on Tuesday, Georgia quarterback Carson Beck, a preseason Heisman Trophy candidate, was asked what he has seen in Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers, another preseason Heisman candidate. The question, though, also included a small bit about “Ewers being considered the best quarterback in the country.” Then someone asked Beck how excited he is to face the Longhorns in 

“Every single person has been asked about Texas,” said Brad Kellner, who hosts a podcast on Texas athletics for Texas Sports Unfiltered. “I was just in the ballroom for Oklahoma’s session, and each player ... I mean, at one point it wasn’t even a Texas beat writer. Just some random person asked the OU player if Horns Down should be considered a penalty.”

We will get back to Horns Down, a thing that matters a whole lot, in just a minute.

But when the SEC poached Texas and Oklahoma from the Big 12, the idea was to get bigger and buzzier — and, by proxy, somehow even richer. That vision, now realized, looked like Ewers walking around the Omni Dallas Hotel in a tan cowboy hat Wednesday. It looked like Texas Coach Steve Sarkisian working the stage in a burnt orange sport coat. On Tuesday, it looked like two dozen cameras waiting to shoot footage of Oklahoma Coach Brent Venables ... walking into a room.

“I was just joking with [SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey] in the back,” Sarkisian said Wednesday. “So we flew in this morning, we landed, we get off the plane, and we get in the Sprinter van, and we got a police escort to Media Days. It just means more? It just means more right there.”

This coming season, Texas plays at Michigan and Texas A&M, faces Oklahoma at the Cotton Bowl and hosts Georgia. That’s maybe a good segue — or as good a segue as any — into the pressing issue of Horns Down. Texas and its fans do not like when opponents taunt the Longhorns by inverting their Horns Up hand signal. But John McDaid, the SEC’s coordinator of football officials, was clear on the issue this week: The league will not automatically penalize a Horns Down gesture.

That’s it. End of story (yeah, right).

“There are some automatic ones. Spitting at an opponent is an automatic. Throat slash is an automatic. But the rest of them? I want it to be evaluated in context,” McDaid said to a small group of reporters. “And I may or may not answer any more hypotheticals you give me, because I want to see the video.

“... Let me say one last thing on this topic. We hear time and time again that fans don’t want us officials inserting ourselves in the game. They want the two teams to settle the game between themselves.”

Then someone asked McDaid whether he could imagine a scenario in which a Horns Up sign would be a penalty. It was a creative way to keep the conversation going.

“You know, going and mock clapping to an opponent, as in congratulating them, that could be taunting,” McDaid allowed. “Correct.”

Kellner — the podcast host known as “BK” — admits to being nervous three summers ago, wondering how Texas would fare against Alabama, Georgia and the rest of the SEC. But the outlook has taken a full turn for the better. Texas finished 12-2 last season, beat Alabama on the road, won the Big 12 title and lost to Washington by six points in a College Football Playoff semifinal. Elsewhere, the Longhorns won the national championship in women’s volleyball, its women’s basketball team made the Elite Eight in the NCAA tournament, and its baseball program recently poached Texas A&M’s beloved coach, Jim Schlossnagle.

Life is good in Austin. What does that mean, if anything, as the school joins the best football conference in the country? Sitting in the hotel hallway Tuesday, Kellner grinned and pointed to the SEC’s slogan, printed on a banner above his head.

“It just means more,” he said. “It’s right 

Overheard at SEC Media Days: Texas, Texas, Texas, Texas
 

Ok

[Nolebull813]

Not sure if this was posted here by Santaluces,FL is coming to play Midland TX High 

[Horsefly]

33 minutes ago, Nolebull813 said:

Not sure if this was posted here by Santaluces,FL is coming to play Midland TX High 

Who put this snooze fest together.   This will be a great trip for the food n bbq.  lol 

[Nolebull813]

27 minutes ago, Horsefly said:

Who put this snooze fest together.   This will be a great trip for the food n bbq.  lol 

Haha the coach for Santaluces likes to travel. He used to coach at another school who would go anywhere. Last year they went to play in New Orleans. 

[Nolebull813]

35 minutes ago, Horsefly said:

Who put this snooze fest together.   This will be a great trip for the food n bbq.  lol 

Just checked. The coach himself has been to Tennessee, Georgia, and Louisiana, and was on staff when they went to Kentucky. So it’s his thing. Lol. 
 

 

[pied]

3 hours ago, Horsefly said:

Who put this snooze fest together.   This will be a great trip for the food n bbq.  lol 

 

 

In Midland lol?!?

[DevilDog]

2 hours ago, Nolebull813 said:

Just checked. The coach himself has been to Tennessee, Georgia, and Louisiana, and was on staff when they went to Kentucky. So it’s his thing. Lol. 
 

 

Are they any good?

[DevilDog]

10 minutes ago, pied said:

 

 

In Midland lol?!?

I 👍.  BBQ in East and Central Texas along with DFW and GHA.  I don't even know if they eat BBQ in the Permian basin

[Nolebull813]

18 minutes ago, DevilDog said:

Are they any good?

No not any good. Not even top 150 in Florida. Had a putrid schedule and got beat down by the only good teams they played. Just coming for the West Texas ass whoopin!!!!

[DevilDog]

6 minutes ago, Nolebull813 said:

No not any good. Not even top 150 in Florida. Had a putrid schedule and got beat down by the only good teams they played. Just coming for the West Texas ass whoopin!!!!

LOL

[pied]

29 minutes ago, DevilDog said:

I 👍.  BBQ in East and Central Texas along with DFW and GHA.  I don't even know if they eat BBQ in the Permian basin

Lowake Steakhouse just a couple hour drive. 🙂

[DevilDog]

@pied @Nolebull813

Nolebull will you give us a daily update like that fool in La hyping LSSS of that horrible Fl Team.  That schools greatest win was a 4 round bEast Texas 4AII team Jasper who is very talented as well.  Too Bad 3AI Powerhouse and State Runnner up Franklin beat Jasper by 2 TDs.   LSSS would not win either division in 3A 😁

9/8  LSSS 34 Jasper 29

9/15 Franklin 29 Jasper 14

[pied]

No clue how LSSS would fare but wouldn't challenge your estimate.  I think it is aa very interesting concept for a school and could be attractive to a good number of student athletes.