I NEVER did that as a kid. I still have cards in excellent condition from when I was 6 and 7 years old.
Ketch's 10 Thoughts From the Weekend (Boy, that escalated quickly...)
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I used to walk a mile to the nearest gas station when I was 8 to get those cards.
Yeah, well some view Shane as being something much greater than he''s proven. Zaire was on his way to stardom before getting injured in 2015.
Not sure what you mean by "it" but Mackovic most definitely laid some good groundwork after the more lily-white recruiting of McWilliams. Mackovic managed to pull folks out of DISD and HISD not to mention someone like a Casey Hampton from Galveston Ball and before him JB from Westbrook. Recruits that essentially aggy had been beating us like a drum for years.
Oh, I love a number of players playing. I haven't been watching much Sportscenter or MLB tonight.
James was a big step forward for the program. He was told not to go to Texas because Texas would never play a black quarterback over a white quarterback.
James and Ricky were two gifts for Mack, even if James never played for Mack.
I don't live in a world where I ignore all of what happened last year on the field from Buechele.
Not true at all. As I just told another poster, I'm just the guy that won't ignore his play on the field last year, especially on the road and against good teams.
Do me a favor. Rank the top three in each category from a season ago.
I believe he signed one kid from DISD back in the class of 1997. He was not highly rated and did not play much.
Mackovic was not pulling kids from DISD. Man, apparently, I need to write a book because you guys have forgotten true history.
In my day, he bubble gum was hard as nails and you had to bite off a piece and let it "melt" before breaking off the next piece. Still, it was WONDERFUL! Like many here, I threw away thousands of dollars by using my cards on my bike spokes to give it a motorized sound. Would do it all over again -- nothing like the sound of fresh cards on a cool crisp morning! Do they still make clothes pins???
As for the QB recruitment, I sure hope we land both -- but I am also skeptical. What I fear is that we end up with none. Been there, done that )<:
The USC game? Let's see.... @BYU....@Cal... will be there again, but not particularly optimistic. But I'm concentrating on MD; 1 at a time.
Nice job, as always.
Hook 'em!!!
As for the QB recruitment, I sure hope we land both -- but I am also skeptical. What I fear is that we end up with none. Been there, done that )<:
The USC game? Let's see.... @BYU....@Cal... will be there again, but not particularly optimistic. But I'm concentrating on MD; 1 at a time.
Nice job, as always.
Hook 'em!!!
And thats fair but why arent you applying that same reasoning to Zaire...
maybe because there is not much field action to use...
I have had a man-crush on Zaire since 2015. I think that should be evident.
He recruited McCowen from Dallas Carter. He was a top 50 kid in-state. What he did at Texas matters nothing for purposes of this conversation now does it? How many Carter guys had we signed in the years preceeding McCowen? He also pulled out back to back top 15 kids from Houston Jones. I'm not quite sure what you aren't understanding. I wonder if your book would be in the fiction section.
Who was his coach again?
Tell me one QB who performs well when all the D has to do is protect sideline routes.
He was a state top 50 kid for some, but not all. General top 100 level in-state prospect.
Why was Bruce Chambers hired? I'll hang up and listen. You clearly know more about the inside of this topic than I do...
But apparently you live in a world where you ignore all of what happened in Zaire's career.
I cannot believe someone just used Donald McGowan as an example that Texas didn't have inner-city recruiting problems in the late 90s, especially in the Dallas-area.
This place is Bizzaro-world today.
This place is Bizzaro-world today.
It's my opinion. The player that Zaire was becoming before injury in 2015 surpasses anything I've seen from Shane, a player that still doesn't have full confidence from the current staff.
The reason Chambers again, has nothing to do with the point about Mackovic. Mackovic started the process of getting us back into inner-city areas. Whether he had perfect it or not is not the point. Not sure what's so difficult to understand.
Almost 3k yards passing, 60% completion, and 20+ tds as a TRUE freshman thrown into the fire on a horribly coached team. We know you have tried to pin 5-7 on Shane ( which is ridiculous) but given the circumstances he was thrown into he showed more than you think. He should have been able to redshirt last year but that was never possible.
What has Malik shown over just a couple
Of starts? Outside rushing yards where he's better there his stats as a Soph vs Shane as a true freshman certainly aren't better.
"Whether he had it perfect..."
Oh boy.
I never said no other coach took steps towards trying to fix it.
There was still a massive perception problem when Mack arrived and he fixed it in almost no time.
Not sure what's so difficult to understand about that...
Please rank Shane's three best games on the road and against teams with winning records. Please list his stat lines as well. I'll hang up and listen.
It's absurd to suggest that any one player was responsible for last season. Let's just focus on the quarterback play, though. That's what matters in this conversation, not making up things that were never said as a way of spinning your perception.
