2024 Recruiting Board/Thread

[North Texas Golfer]

Forgot to mention the craziest part of that whole thing for me was Dykes never intending for Duggan to play, but Morris gets hurt in Week 1 and Duggan goes on to be a Heisman finalist.

Yea, I've got my doubts that TCU would have had the same year they had with Morris at QB. 

 

[Coot]

Forgot to mention the craziest part of that whole thing for me was Dykes never intending for Duggan to play, but Morris gets hurt in Week 1 and Duggan goes on to be a Heisman finalist.

Duggan was playing with house money.

 

[TFloss32]

On Simmons?  What'd they say?

Looking at screenshots, they seem to be a little less confident and one mod says when one team lands a blow then the other team counters.

One of their "insiders" has gone from saying no amount of money will sway Simmons from going to LSU, and now he's saying Texas will win a bidding war.

 

[North Texas Golfer]

TCU is one team I'm anxious to watch this year.

I'm pretty sure (can't find data at the moment) Dykes inherited one of the most experienced rosters in the country from Patterson, so we'll see if he can get anywhere close to what he did in '22.

As a head coach, that season was a major outlier for him as he was terrible at Cal and pretty average at SMU.

Total record of 84-65, and 71-63 when he took over TCU.

Saying last season for Dykes was a major outlier might be a wee bit of an understatement, lol.

Dyke's record after his first 8 full seasons as a head coach was 46-52. Just for comparison's sake, Sark's record after his first 8 full seasons is 56-45. 

 

[Big Daddy Cane]

Forgot to mention the craziest part of that whole thing for me was Dykes never intending for Duggan to play, but Morris gets hurt in Week 1 and Duggan goes on to be a Heisman finalist.

Also, TCU benefited from not playing against 6 or 7 starting QBs due to injury. That won't happen every year. An outlier year for sure.

 

[Sirhornsalot]

Saying last season for Dykes was a major outlier might be a wee bit of an understatement, lol.

Dyke's record after his first 8 full seasons as a head coach was 46-52. Just for comparison's sake, Sark's record after his first 8 full seasons is 56-45. 

Wasn't Dykes at Cal when we were playing them and couldn't seem to beat them?

 

[BruiseLee]

Saying last season for Dykes was a major outlier might be a wee bit of an understatement, lol.

Dyke's record after his first 8 full seasons as a head coach was 46-52. Just for comparison's sake, Sark's record after his first 8 full seasons is 56-45. 

There were some that were saying that Dykes was their pick to be the Texas coach instead of Sark....

 

[Sirhornsalot]

Texas ruby red. Grapefruit are as common in the vally as oaks are here.

I don't know if you've ever had one, but a watermelon grown in the valley is about the best I've ever tasted. They're a special kind of good.

Someone I know who drives a truck stopped for a rest in Lewisville and gave me a call. I went and picked him up to go eat with him. His load was all watermelons from the valley, taking them to DesMoines, Iowa. He gave me about five of them. They were delicious.

 

[North Texas Golfer]

Wasn't Dykes at Cal when we were playing them and couldn't seem to beat them?

Yes, he was. Cal won 45-44 in 2015 despite a record setting performance by Jerrod Heard who threw for 364 yards and ran for 163 yards. That was the game where Jerrod ran 45 yards for a TD with 1:11 to play only to have Texas miss the game tying extra point. Literally left me speechless. Some guy named Jared Goff was the Cal QB. 

Cal won again in 2016 50-43 thanks in large part to the play of QB Davis Webb. Davis went to high school in Prosper, Texas and played 3 years at Texas Tech before transfering to Cal for his final season. 

 

[Austin Horn]

Yes, he was. Cal won 45-44 in 2015 despite a record setting performance by Jerrod Heard who threw for 364 yards and ran for 163 yards. That was the game where Jerrod ran 45 yards for a TD with 1:11 to play only to have Texas miss the game tying extra point. Literally left me speechless. Some guy named Jared Goff was the Cal QB. 

Cal won again in 2016 50-43 thanks in large part to the play of QB Davis Webb. Davis went to high school in Prosper, Texas and played 3 years at Texas Tech before transfering to Cal for his final season. 

Played against Davis Webb in HS

 

[Eastexhorn]

I don't know if you've ever had one, but a watermelon grown in the valley is about the best I've ever tasted. They're a special kind of good.

Someone I know who drives a truck stopped for a rest in Lewisville and gave me a call. I went and picked him up to go eat with him. His load was all watermelons from the valley, taking them to DesMoines, Iowa. He gave me about five of them. They were delicious.

Yes I have ate a few vally grown melons.Cass county is know for good melons. And Naples still has it watermelon festible.

 

[TFloss32]

Wasn't Dykes at Cal when we were playing them and couldn't seem to beat them?

Tells you how bad those Texas teams were.

 

[North Texas Golfer]

Tells you how bad those Texas teams were.

Texas was 10-14 bad those two years we played Cal. You have to go back 60 years to find back to back seasons that were worse.

 

[Big Daddy Cane]

There were some that were saying that Dykes was their pick to be the Texas coach instead of Sark....

I don't know the exact details, but there were some rumors that CDC had a contract ready for Sonny to sign. There was a rapid change and he brought in and signed Sark instead.

 

[NEOkHorn]

I don't know the exact details, but there were some rumors that CDC had a contract ready for Sonny to sign. There was a rapid change and he brought in and signed Sark instead.

The former poster who shall remain nameless was big on asserting that this report was factual. Never said where he got the information or showed any proof but routinely claimed it so. At least as I recall, so many of his posts I had surgically scraped from my memory. 

 

[Big Daddy Cane]

I don't know if you've ever had one, but a watermelon grown in the valley is about the best I've ever tasted. They're a special kind of good.

Someone I know who drives a truck stopped for a rest in Lewisville and gave me a call. I went and picked him up to go eat with him. His load was all watermelons from the valley, taking them to DesMoines, Iowa. He gave me about five of them. They were delicious.

I spent my early teens visiting/working in the valley in the summer. My friend's dad owned a produce company and we would go down to the fields to pick up the watermelons and take them to the markets. Got up at 4 am and my day was over by noon. Great times...

So long stort short, yes! Those watermelons are delicious. Best I've ever had.

 

[Eastexhorn]

Texas was 10-14 bad those two years we played Cal. You have to go back 60 years to find back to back seasons that were worse.

Ed Price.

 

[Steelhammer]

Ed Price.

Price was not right!

 

[java]

Not quite in the Valley, but pretty close.  Daddy and I would be out looking at our grain and cotton, then we would go out and cut roasting ears for dinner.

Afterwards, we would pick out 2 watermelons, one to take home and one to cut right there. We would eat the heart out of it.  No melon ever tasted better than the ones we ate in the middle of the field when we were both hungry and thirsty.

 

[Billybass]

I remember the cantaloupes being pretty good also.

But a good watermelon and a bag of pecans is my favorite still today.