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crash5179 · Jan 13, 2015

Buck Turgidson said: ↑

Nobody I have talked to that knows things thinks he is ready, or maybe will ever be. They'd have to re-tool the offense to fit his skills, because he has looked horrid in practice running what they run now. Just saying.
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If your right then you will not have to worry about seeing him, but it's absolutely not what I've heard.

tinman · Jan 13, 2015

Can he not fumble at the one yard line? if so, sign him up

Brando2101 · Jan 14, 2015

Buck Turgidson said: ↑

Nobody I have talked to that knows things thinks he is ready, or maybe will ever be. They'd have to re-tool the offense to fit his skills, because he has looked horrid in practice running what they run now. Just saying.
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Why do people keep throwing down "what I heard" or "people I talk to"

Just say who you heard it from. We had so much garbage from users over the offseason about what was going on with Nick Saban that just came from garbage message boards.

Sports radio hosts, orangebloods, 247 etc. It doesn't take much effort to just say where you were hearing it.

Ziggy · Jan 14, 2015

Brando2101 said: ↑

Why do people keep throwing down "what I heard" or "people I talk to"
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That's just how college football talk works. It's usually bull****, sometimes it isn't. It is what it is.

BigBird · Jan 14, 2015

Brando2101 said: ↑

Why do people keep throwing down "what I heard" or "people I talk to"

Just say who you heard it from. We had so much garbage from users over the offseason about what was going on with Nick Saban that just came from garbage message boards.

Sports radio hosts, orangebloods, 247 etc. It doesn't take much effort to just say where you were hearing it.
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you're still mad about that, huh?

vj23k · Jan 14, 2015

Brando2101 said: ↑

Why do people keep throwing down "what I heard" or "people I talk to"

Just say who you heard it from. We had so much garbage from users over the offseason about what was going on with Nick Saban that just came from garbage message boards.

Sports radio hosts, orangebloods, 247 etc. It doesn't take much effort to just say where you were hearing it.
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If I ever say "I heard," it's because I've read a bunch of different (sometimes conflicting) sources, and I am making an educated guess based on that information what the truth likely is (based on how full of **** the sources are, how believable the information is, etc...).

From reading random posts on 247 and shaggybevo, I've heard that Jerrod Heard is on track to be a future starter at Texas but that it would be unfortunate for both Texas and himself if he were pushed into starting this upcoming season.

I'm still holding out hope that Braxton Miller is coming to Texas.

J Sizzle · Jan 14, 2015

Any word on Tim Irvin from y'all? Sounds like he's an Auburn/Texas battle, and he's supposedly an early enrollee from what I understand. Is he sticking with y'all?

gucci888 · Jan 14, 2015

J Sizzle said: ↑

Any word on Tim Irvin from y'all? Sounds like he's an Auburn/Texas battle, and he's supposedly an early enrollee from what I understand. Is he sticking with y'all?
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Hearing a few different things but sounds like he's going to visit Auburn for sure. Think he's good as gone if he visits.

RocketFan007 · Jan 14, 2015

J Sizzle said: ↑

Any word on Tim Irvin from y'all? Sounds like he's an Auburn/Texas battle, and he's supposedly an early enrollee from what I understand. Is he sticking with y'all?
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The Texas site I read seems to think he'll end up an Auburn. He's an early enrollee, so we'll know soon.

BigBird · Jan 16, 2015

New WR coach: former OU coach Jay Norvell
http://texas.247sports.com/Article/Former-OU-coach-Jay-Norvell-will-join-Texas-Longhorns-staff-34811066

Bob Barker 007 · Jan 16, 2015

BigBird said: ↑

New WR coach: former OU coach Jay Norvell
http://texas.247sports.com/Article/Former-OU-coach-Jay-Norvell-will-join-Texas-Longhorns-staff-34811066
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That has to be a joke.

J Sizzle · Jan 18, 2015

There it is...

Tim Irvin flips to Auburn

crash5179 · Jan 18, 2015

J Sizzle said: ↑

There it is...

Tim Irvin flips to Auburn
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Yep just saw it on Twitter. To bad for UT but I wish the kid good luck.

Brando2101 · Jan 19, 2015

J Sizzle said: ↑

There it is...

Tim Irvin flips to Auburn
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He's hosting Davante Davis for a trip to Auburn as well. Florida 3!

Brando2101 · Jan 20, 2015

Charlie Strong called to testify in suit against Louisville as to if he broke a promise to keep a beaten player on scholarship. In related news, Charlie Strong kicks self out of longhorn program.

http://www.courier-journal.com/stor...niversity-louisville-charlie-strong/21997909/

Beaten so badly, allegedly by two teammates, in 2010 that he almost lost an eye, University of Louisville linebacker Patrick Grant says then-coach Charlie Strong promised to continue his scholarship through graduate school when he was forced to quit the team.

But in a lawsuit scheduled to go to trial Tuesday in Jefferson Circuit Court, Grant says the coach instead eventually yanked the scholarship so he could sign a new player.

In an interview, Grant's lawyer, Scott Zoppoth, said Strong and the university breached their promise — and basic decency — in reneging on the offer. "This is a case of a promise made and a promise broken," Zoppoth said.

But the attorney for Strong, Craig Dilger, says in court pleadings that there was no such pledge and that Grant's case is "meritless."

Records gathered in the suit show that Grant, who has returned to his home in South Florida, has no witnesses or documentation to support his claim.

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And in a deposition, Strong, who is expected to testify in the three-day trial — said that once Grant finished his undergraduate degree in December 2011 — and was no longer playing — the university's obligation to him was over.

"I mean, why would you give a kid five years if he isn't playing?" Strong said. "I have 85 scholarships. What if every kid told me when he graduated, 'I want to continue to go to school, Coach?' How would I fill up my other class?"

U of L sports information director Kenny Klein said the university doesn't comment on pending litigation and Strong, who left U of L for Texas in 2014 after four seasons, had no comment, according to a spokesman for the Longhorns.

Grant is seeking compensatory damages and an injunction restoring his scholarship. He was allegedly assaulted Oct. 4, 2010, by twin brothers Isaac and Jacob Geffrad, who were kicked off the team but not charged by a grand jury.

Grant's suit was reported nationally by ESPN and other news outlets because of his claim that that a trainer urged him to lie about the cause of his injury, so the program could avoid bad publicity.

Grant said in a deposition that either chief football trainer Kyle Johnston or an assistant, Sam Zuege, told him to say: "You didn't get punched. You fell and hit the dresser."

Johnston said in an email last week that neither he nor Zuege would comment, but Strong said in his deposition that the allegation was implausible. Too many players knew what happened, and Strong immediately reported it to police.

Originally signed in 2007 as a defensive lineman, the 6-foot-4, 236-pound Grant was red-shirted as a freshman because of a knee injury. In his fourth year at the school, in 2010, he played in a few games on special teams before he was punched in the eye during the locker room fight, causing injuries that required two rounds of surgery.

He was unable to play the rest of the season but medically cleared to report for camp in the summer of 2011. But he suffered a concussion in practice, and decided to leave the team for reasons that are disputed in the lawsuit.

Grant says it was in part due to his eye injury; he said he was seeing "floaters" — or spots — in his vision and concerned it might get worse if he continued playing. Strong said he never mentioned his vision problems. "He quit the team," Strong said.

They also offered conflicting accounts of what happened next.

Grant says Strong promised to continue his scholarship — not only through the spring semester of 2012 — but through the following academic year, as he pursued a graduate degree in criminal justice.

That would have meant Grant would be on scholarship for six years; he said he and Strong agreed he would earn the additional year by running for the track team.

But Strong said he made no such promise. He said graduate students may continue on scholarship only if they are playing on the football team.

On Jan. 4, 2012, Strong told Grant in a phone call that his scholarship was over.

"In response to Patrick's protests that the cancellation broke the agreements and promises on which Patrick relied," Zoppoth wrote in the suit, "Coach Strong simply ended the phone call and hung up the phone."

The university later offered to extend Grant's grants through the spring 2012 semester after all, in a deal worth $7,510, for room, board and tuition. But Grant turned down the settlement offer, saying it wasn't what he was promised.

"I felt like nobody should send their kid to school to get jumped," he said. "Somebody has to be held accountable for this."

NCAA rules allow a student-athlete a sixth year of eligibility but only if the school seeks a waiver by demonstrating that the player lost two years of competition because of illness or injury, NCAA spokeswoman Michelle Hosick said.

Strong said he had no obligation to help Grant once he graduated.

"It's like any other kid who's got a degree," Strong said. "It's time to go get in the work world. I am going to need your scholarship because you're done."

"Don't you think this is an unusual circumstance with one of your players being brutally beaten by two others?" Zoppoth asked him. "Don't you think an exception should be made for Mr. Grant?"

"No," Strong said. "No exceptions."
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Buck Turgidson · Jan 20, 2015

Brando2101 said: ↑

Why do people keep throwing down "what I heard" or "people I talk to"

Just say who you heard it from. We had so much garbage from users over the offseason about what was going on with Nick Saban that just came from garbage message boards.

Sports radio hosts, orangebloods, 247 etc. It doesn't take much effort to just say where you were hearing it.
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You're right, I'm not interested in sharing names and I shouldn't have said anything. You wouldn't know them anyway, but I will say that the party/bbq was hosted by a gentleman that has his name on a School on campus.

tellitlikeitis · Jan 21, 2015

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J.R. · Jan 21, 2015

Derp.

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p><a href="http://t.co/dyDlJb9TWP">pic.twitter.com/dyDlJb9TWP</a></p>— DaMarkus Lodge (@DaMarkusLodge18) <a href="https://twitter.com/DaMarkusLodge18/status/558011244259442689">January 21, 2015</a></blockquote>
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BigBird · Jan 21, 2015

Probably nothing, but Daylon Mack now following Vance Bedford on twitter

RocketFan007 · Jan 21, 2015

Someone is trolling someone via Twitter, that's for sure.

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