IMO, there's been more nutty sh*t from UT fans on the internet over the last couple of months than ever before.

New portal thread! New lease on life.

What I think happened is that there are conversations happening behind the scenes with Lynch’s agent and they expect him to be their guy. But they don’t want to get burned again like before, so they planned to bring Church in for a visit to keep on the back burner in case Lynch doesn’t enter. But they didn’t expect church to commit to Tech so soon. If Lynch falls through, I think they bring in 1-2 experienced grad transfers to compete.

Yall ever put DragonForce on the radio at work just to watch peoples reaction? I just did. I got fired. But it was worth it.

Call me crazy but I’m hedging my happiness in this national championship game. I absolutely do not want Miami to win, so I’m putting $100 on them to win. If they do end up winning at least I got something out of it, but I’d rather lose $100 and Indiana take it home!

Texas has materially raised the ceiling of its top players, but the offensive line still needs reinforcement. The only true unknown remains left guard, and overall depth is still thin. Kyle Flood still has work to do.

I want Indiana to win. Gonna be hard for them to recreate the magic IMO. But Miami is a program I don’t want to get hot. Might slam the door shut on some of our Florida recruiting.

I hope Sark & Co are trying to "with this out" until after the CFP game tonight and for the 5 days following when players from these last two teams are eligible to enter the portal.

Still feels crazy to me that Coleman is a longhorn!!!

Brown and Smothers are a clear upgrade over the players who left. They force defenses to account for them on every snap and can turn ordinary plays into real damage, something the departing group simply did not provide.

47 minutes ago, Bunk Moreland said:

What I think happened is that there are conversations happening behind the scenes with Lynch’s agent and they expect him to be their guy. But they don’t want to get burned again like before, so they planned to bring Church in for a visit to keep on the back burner in case Lynch doesn’t enter. But they didn’t expect church to commit to Tech so soon. If Lynch falls through, I think they bring in 1-2 experienced grad transfers to compete.

fwiw, Houston Chron has a quote from Lynch saying he's coming back to Indiana next year.

I think it's generous to assume the staff has a plan at iOL...

8 minutes ago, Tex-19 said:

fwiw, Houston Chron has a quote from Lynch saying he's coming back to Indiana next year.

I think it's generous to assume the staff has a plan at iOL...

What is he supposed to say— yeah I’m about to play in the championship but I really want to go back to Texas for my senior season? No athlete has ever in the history of sports asserted their commitment to a team only to leave days later. Not saying he does end up at Texas, but I’m not putting any stock in quotes like that—especially when Bobby’s been hinting there might be interest there.

As for your second statement, I guess we will have to see.

1 hour ago, Bunk Moreland said:

What I think happened is that there are conversations happening behind the scenes with Lynch’s agent and they expect him to be their guy. But they don’t want to get burned again like before, so they planned to bring Church in for a visit to keep on the back burner in case Lynch doesn’t enter. But they didn’t expect church to commit to Tech so soon. If Lynch falls through, I think they bring in 1-2 experienced grad transfers to compete.

we still don't know who is in the portal until wed from the non championship game teams.  lets see what happens. 

Let’s see what happens this week, but it would be very disappointing to have not addressed our biggest need. It was made very clear by Texas and OTF that OG was priority #1 at multiple phases of this process, so anything to the contrary would be blatant backtracking and revisionism. Still have confidence it gets resolved in one way or another but it’ll be interesting to see if/how the narrative shifts if they can’t address it fully. 

2 hours ago, Bunk Moreland said:

What I think happened is that there are conversations happening behind the scenes with Lynch’s agent and they expect him to be their guy. But they don’t want to get burned again like before, so they planned to bring Church in for a visit to keep on the back burner in case Lynch doesn’t enter. But they didn’t expect church to commit to Tech so soon. If Lynch falls through, I think they bring in 1-2 experienced grad transfers to compete.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/sports/college/article/indiana-football-pair-texans-found-way-hoosiers-21300804.php
 

Don’t get me wrong, I hope this happens but the way he talks in this interview doesn’t paint a convincing picture for him leaving

4 minutes ago, carti67 said:

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/sports/college/article/indiana-football-pair-texans-found-way-hoosiers-21300804.php
 

Don’t get me wrong, I hope this happens but the way he talks in this interview doesn’t paint a convincing picture for him leaving

See my previous response. You could be right. We shall see.

1 hour ago, diegozanna20 said:

Still feels crazy to me that Coleman is a longhorn!!!

All that money and homie goes to Buddys!? Wtf…. He knows there is more out there for him right? Lol

 

 

edit: maybe this is one of his NIL deals. 

Edited January 19Jan 19 by SB21

1 hour ago, Rocky P said:

we still don't know who is in the portal until wed from the non championship game teams.  lets see what happens. 

I get the feeling weds entrants will be a major letdown. We would’ve heard about players planning to enter as we have throughout the process. Seems like the 11th hour secret entrants were just trying to renegotiate a return- like the guy who just returned to Texas. If they were really considering leaving, it would’ve been public. 

Edited January 19Jan 19 by TheRoJoShow

Indiana and Mendoza would make helluva story… Hoosiers all day … Cmon

Looks like this will be the last portal thread. The vibes are low 

22 minutes ago, Nikolas24 said:

Looks like this will be the last portal thread. The vibes are low 

it's a holiday.  Things should pick back up between tomorrow and the weekend as we see names pop up in the portal.

22 minutes ago, Nikolas24 said:

Looks like this will be the last portal thread. The vibes are low 

 

1 minute ago, Longhornfrenzy said:

 

work is asking questions about my fluctuation in productivity.  I am having to pivot to just be less productive consistently

2 minutes ago, Rocky P said:

it's a holiday.  Things should pick back up between tomorrow and the weekend as we see names pop up in the portal.

I hope that’s the case 

everything is gonna be all right