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  1. OU247 saying Caleb Williams is meeting with the coaches today and then expect him to enter the portal.
    31 points
  2. Nope. Luke sucks at football, but he came to Texas as a walk-on and earned a starting gig. That speaks to how shitty TH and TO recruited and developed actual linebacker athletes, not to what Luke has done with his shitty skillset. Fuck Blake and the twins, but not Luke.
    21 points
  3. No. You fucking idiots are wasting click time for the rest of us with supposed day jobs with all of this bullshit about ATM's "NIL". They didn't have a fucking NIL answer and were flatfooted just like everyone else when UT's alumni base started weaponizing. They're still flatfooted and they don't want the old model to go away. Idiotic fans on their boards typing out fan fiction about how they did everything right and the rest of the world just doesn't get it is simply typical aggie fan fiction. That sooner fans, who are completely lost on what's happening right now both in the bag game (the greatest fucking irony in college football history) and NIL, are taking aggie posters' words for granted changes none of the reality. We have done the research. We have talked to aggies involved. Some of us have actually formed legitimate LLCs. Reported to the IRS. Formed C-corps. Sold them, shut them down, raised money for them, built them, built boards, blah blah fucking blah. Anyone making any of the work that's happened over the last 6 months on this stuff sound easy is either a liar or completely misinformed. ATM was going to cheat their ass off this cycle. I fucking told you this in January. The recruiting world knew it. No one knew by what level of magnitude, but they all knew it. Saban knew it. Swinney knew it. Sarkisian knew it. This isn't some whip-up of legitimacy in real time that everyone is stunned by and has no defense for, Jesus tittyfucking Christ.
    19 points
  4. Just signed up for Burnt Ends. When do the recruits start committing?
    17 points
  5. Yes. We should regulate and make changes to college football based on YOUR feelings. Oh, blake brockermeyer is hearing thigns now, is he? Maybe he'll here this: Get fucked, Blake.
    15 points
  6. Yeah but what if I want to melt down about guys from UTEP and Akron that I hadn't heard of until two weeks ago and don't have Texas offers NOW?
    15 points
  7. •Kicked out of Florida International University after fighting a security guard•⁠"Don't touch me. I'm the franchise"• ⁠His second year in the league he took a personal stretch limo to a charity event, had them open every single expensive bottle of wine, rejected it. Refused to pay for it (charity, remember), then left.• ⁠Threw fits over not getting enough targets• ⁠Drove 100 down McKnight Road in Pittsburgh, which has a 45 MPH speed limit• ⁠Trashed a condo and threw furniture out a window 14th floor window, which almost hit some people, notably a child• ⁠Killed a home aquarium full of piranhas and refused to pay the man who installed the tank• ⁠Refused to play week 17 for the Steelers• ⁠Dyed his mustache blonde• ⁠Refused to pay a chef because he thought he threatened him by placing a fish head in the freezer (the fish head was saved to make a soup)• ⁠Farted on a doctor• ⁠Demanded a trade from the Steelers• ⁠Became "Mr. Big Chest"• ⁠Threw a fit over Juju winning team MVP and trashed him on social media• ⁠(Allegedly) nixed a trade that would've sent him to the Bills• ⁠Showed up to Raiders training camp in a hot air balloon• ⁠Held out and refused to show up to training camp because the NFL would not approve his helmet because it was too old for their safety standards• ⁠Froze his feet• ⁠Tried to paint over his old helmet, hoping no one would notice I guess• ⁠Acquired a newer version of the same model of helmet, which the NFL refused to let him use• ⁠Picked out a new helmet and finally showed up to the Raiders• ⁠Got fined by the Raiders for not attending camp• ⁠Tweeted the fines• ⁠Tried to fight Mike Mayock, called him a cracker, had to be held back by Vontaze Burfict, then punted a football down the practice field and said "fine me for that"• ⁠Got fined for that• ⁠Released a video where he used audio of Jon Gruden, who didn't know he was being recorded, which is illegal in California (full disclosure, Gruden has said he gave permission, but the generally accepted theory is that he said that in the hope that it would help get him to show up to the facility and not alienate him)• ⁠Demanded a release from the Raiders• ⁠Was released• ⁠"GRANDMA I’M FREEEEEE! FLY LIKE A FREEEEE!"• ⁠Made a lot of crazy tweets saying stuff like 'Devil is a lie', a proverb about burning down a village... he made a lot of crazy tweets around this time is the point here• ⁠Liked a tweet about Mayock getting raped in the ass• ⁠Signed with the Patriots• ⁠Moved in with Tom Brady• ⁠The sexual assault allegations came out (the one where he's getting sued)• ⁠The sexual harassment allegations came out (the one where he's not getting sued)• ⁠Threatened the woman not suing him in a group text that included his lawyer and had a picture of her kids in the text• ⁠Got released by the Patriots after one week• ⁠Went off on a tweet storm and said a lot of crazy **** about a lot of people, and was supportive of people sending threats to the writer of the article detailing the sexual harassment allegations• ⁠Said he was done with the NFL• ⁠Went back to college via online classes• ⁠Tried to outsource his homework to Twitter• ⁠Wants to come back to the NFL• ⁠Filed several grievances to try and get more than $40 million from the Raider's and Patriots• ⁠Was ordered to show up for a deposition regarding trashing the condo• ⁠Was accused of "reprehensible behavior" during the deposition Note: I cut the specifics about the deposition so I could fit this as a single comment. You can read more about it here if you're interested, because it, like everything else, is nuts• ⁠Said that the Patriots have to pay him anyway, so they might as well let him play• ⁠Tweeted a couple of bizarre tweets about the Raiders using him for HBO ratings and the Patriots trying to steal his stuff and kept using this weird chicken based metaphor• ⁠Tried out for the Saints and brought an entourage and film crew to shoot a music video with him when specifically told not to do that• ⁠Called out Robert Kraft for his rub and tug massage session in Florida• ⁠Starting training for a boxing match with Logan Paul• ⁠Tweeted "No more white woman 2020"• ⁠The attorney representing him in the suit involving the condo quit• ⁠Used a bunch of slurs and profane language towards cops in an Instagram video he posted• ⁠A police youth football league cut ties with him and returned a donation after the release of the video saying there was a "irreparable rift" between the department and AB• ⁠Threw a bag of gummy candy dicks at the cops in a video he posted• ⁠Got dropped by his agent• ⁠Was involved in a disputed with movers at his home where he allegedly threw rocks at the movers and moving vans. He is currently being investigated for battery by the police.• ⁠His trainer was arrested and he is still a suspect in the battery case.• ⁠Warrant issued for the arrest of AB.• ⁠AB turns himself in to Broward Country Jail wearing this suit• ⁠Rumors spread about AB signing with Tampa or Seattle• ⁠AB announces his retirement (for what I believe is the third time, it's hard to find a good record of the rest of them)• ⁠Two days later AB wants to play again and is asking for the league to wrap up it's investigation• ⁠The NFL announces an eight game suspension for AB• ⁠AB signs with the Buccaneers on a one-year deal• ⁠Before he signed with the Buccaneers AB was accused of destroying a surveillance camera at a Florida gated community, throwing bike at a security-guard shack, and is not charged because HOA president "feared" retaliation, per police report• ⁠AB is under investigation by the NFL for the bike throwing incident• ⁠Allegedly acquired fake covid-19 card• confirmed to have acquired a fake covid-19 card and subsequently suspended for three games• Removed jersey and pads and threw them in the stands before exiting the games verse the Jets.
    15 points
  8. I take comfort in knowing that no matter how bad I fuck up my life, at least I didn’t throw it away trying to help Donald Trump steal an election.
    13 points
  9. I'm just excited that Dillon Gabriel finally put the LA vs. Norman debate to rest.
    11 points
  10. First time with this but results were pretty solid. I brined/cured/smoked a brisket flat to make pastrami. Then I reubenized it.
    11 points
  11. The rhetorical flourish at the end, is ... gold, Jery. Gold. 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
    11 points
  12. I stand by everything in those posts. If it's a draw, great, the point isn't to recruit with NIL. To this day, Burnt Ends is by far the largest crowd funded endeavor for a position group and as far as I know the 2 BMF awards to RoJo and Jonathon Brooks are also 2 of the largest NIL deals for non starting players in the country, the other 5 being other members of burnt ends. Effectively surly has accounted for most of the top 10 deals outside of starting players for NIL. Corp interest is still very small especially outside the super stars. Horns With Heart is a novel concept that could start the new normal for baseline type compensation outside of scholarship and stipend for student athletes.
    11 points
  13. To find some context for WR portal recruiting, I went back to the top 10 transfer options (per 247's WR transfer ratings) from last year and the date they entered the portal: Arik Gilbert - January 2nd Wen'Dale Robinson - January 11th Puka Nacua - March 7th Jameson Williams - April 28th Charleston Rambo - January 5th Jake Smith - June 22nd Daylen Baldwin - June 1st Grant Calcaterra - August 18th Samori Toure - November 24th Mookie Cooper - December 23rd So, at this time last year, only 3 of the top 10 had entered the portal. Let's be a little patient here.
    11 points
  14. We went in early December. I was amazed/uphualed at all the fats in scooters that got to jump in the front of the line. Holy shit there are so many of them. We did the new star wars ride, which is kinda supposed to be role playish/immersive, but it's hard to imagine yourself taking on the dark side when our ship has 11 scooters of 300 pound fatties. The only resistance they are mounting is to insulin.
    10 points
  15. We have made a profound difference in most if not all of these players lives. In exchange we have gotten the adrenaline rush of Burnt Ends touchdowns, really candid interviews with players in a rough season and we still have 6 podcasts, 1 with a guy who decided to transfer out and 7 AMA's to do with them. To say that NIL is used for recruiting and not for making the fan experience, the player experience and the overall draw to Texas being a badass place to be a fan and a player is just plain dumb. Will that have a positive impact on recruiting? Probably, but that's not why we are doing it. Quite frankly its also insulting to the merit of how crazy it is what we pulled off as a community, completely above board and in a way that isn't pay for play.
    10 points
  16. Everything continues to shift in real time when it comes to college football recruiting due to NIL matters. Last January, when ATM was making a push to have Dewberry, Perkins, Scylla, and like 3 other Houston guys all commit on the same day, the dollar figures being thrown around for those guys was a pittance of what several of them will end up getting paid by the time this cycle ends. So that speaks, on some level, to their commitment, in this cycle, to get whatever they wanted no matter the cost. I posted some of this yesterday on one of these threads, but when it is not your money, it's easy to keep spending it. So we'll see people hypothesize about how much money will get tossed around in the next cycle, but I'm skeptical that the new cycle will look like the old cycle. NIL is way bigger than most people gave it credit for up until recently. I have friends that, in February 2021, told me that NIL wouldn't make a dent in recruiting and they're extremely involved with CFB recruiting at a national level or at Texas or at Bama. They're all now speaking of NIL as being a massive variable in how the recruiting landscape unfolds in the future. NIL can't be used to induce a recruit specifically, but recruits and parents aren't stupid. They can look at programs and what players are making and factor that into their thinking. Another big issue is that the same boosters being pushed to support the bag game will have plenty of incentives to repurpose those dollars in the future to NIL. Some of those incentives include but are not exclusive to: -tax benefits, -corporate benefits, -public chest beating, -not risking reputation, -not having a constant dirty feeling by being legit business men who have to hand "trainers" backpacks full of rolled cash like a mobster or drug dealer, -having fail safes against player betrayals because there is an actual contract, etc. If people can stop looking through the single lens of the "trainer" and consider other perspectives, it is very straightforward to reach the understanding that the future state will not resemble what just happened. It will still take a few more cycles before the bag game is largely pushed into corner case value.
    10 points
  17. Probably wants a scholarship since he willingly walked on at OU
    10 points
  18. Interesting wrinkle on the subpoenas and what can happen if they don’t comply - Seize it all.
    10 points
  19. Texas Tech hired the god Zach Kittley so my bet is that's where Williams is headed.
    9 points
  20. If aggy had major NIL programs why wouldn't they be public? What's the benefit of keeping that stuff hidden? You want that stuff public so recruits/players see what they can get. I haven't seen any major NIL deal associated with aggy. It's fairly obvious how aggy is getting recruits if you can connect the dots.
    9 points
  21. So do you…. Pizza Pizza Pizza Ham by the pound Hog molls Pizza Pizza Fat Bastard.
    9 points
  22. So, had the evening news on last night in the background (gotta catch the weather and sports). My wife says "whoa....rewind that." So, in a story on kids going back to school during a COVID surge, the story started with "as the holidays come to a close," and used a couple of seconds of this footage to show a house during the holidays, I guess. The wall decor is particularly festive. My wife and I had a good laugh.
    9 points
  23. It should also be extremely easy to vote. Strange how some conservatives think that voting should be an obstacle. Like having to pass certain tests. Pay a poll tax. Only be allowed to vote if your grandfather voted. Be white.
    9 points
  24. Does their off-season routine involve tying women to train tracks?
    9 points
  25. They are planning on using turquoise stores and smoke shops
    8 points
  26. Well, I sent it to Texas compliance to do with what they will so I guess we will see
    8 points
  27. I don't understand why in the fuck y'all can't talk about Aggie buying recruits in the fucking Aggie recruiting thread. They live rent free in some of y'all heads.
    8 points
  28. This quigley guy has been a delusional okie dipshit from the day he landed like a flaming poo bag on this board months ago, but today he’s come totally unhinged and I fucking love it. I mean there is some amazing shit he’s slinging today for us bystanders. We’ve got: 1) the OU offense will be better without Riley 2) Caleb Williams would have walked on to be at OU 3) defending Ted Roof as some sort of wizardesque mirage of a DC as a front for Venables 4) repeated obsessive posts about how much he loves Caleb Williams while clearly vacillating offline between sobbing hysterically in a corner and beating the absolute shit out of the Caleb Williams doll he’s been making gentle love to for the past two years 5) Jay Valai will fucking crush it at OU This just keeps getting better and better.
    7 points
  29. Probably wouldn’t have had an issue making those if he hadn’t been suspended three games right?
    7 points
  30. As a massive cannabis consumer, I can tell you there is no relationship between cannabis consumption and eating well-done steaks with ketchup. But Heaven help you if you are one of my kid’s lunchbox-sized bag of Fritos at 10:30pm on a weeknight.
    7 points
  31. 7 points
  32. I know of a guy (second hand), a pilot. He took a job to fly a plane he didn't have a rating for, that's okay the new boss was going to pay for it. So he convinces boss to give him the money directly and he would pay the training center, well he decides to skip the training and keep the money ($105K or so). Now he needs a First Officer, not required that the FO has a full type rating, but he does need a Second in Command or SIC training. He decided to skip that part too and get the Helicopter guy that works for the same boss to sit right seat. This all comes to light when... they abort a takeoff and run the airplane off the end of a runway. Now he's facing time in the graybar hotel, as is the FO. Not to mention answering to the boss as to where the cash went and why the insurance company isn't wanting to pony up to fix the jet. Instead of facing the music, both guys double down. They steal the boss's helicopter which was last seen flying south, way south. All that is just to say I STILL don't think that's as stupid or whack as Antonio Brown.
    7 points
  33. He’s mentally unwell. I hope he gets help because he certainly needs it.
    7 points
  34. How you can type those two things in the same post really isn’t surprising given your history around this place And I’ll bet you one year of no posting in the baseball forum that he doesn’t play again in a Tampa Bay uniform.
    7 points
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