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  1. Let me ask a question for those familiar. What is the punishment for going over the NIL cap? Kicked of the SEC, NCAA? What is the mechanism to punish the people who are over budget? Follow up question, what is the punishment for a team that promises $X NIL and doesn't pay? (Other than kid transfers and public scrutiny the following year). I am confident that Texas will make whatever deviations are needed in the next four months to close with a top 10 class if not top 5 again.
  2. I am just relieved I got caught up to speed the last twenty four hours and another elite recruit has not chosen to go to another school instead of Texas in that time. I mean we may be close with Ojo based on $9.95 bullshit, but it hasn't happened yet.
  3. Lines like this piss me off. Were we not doing Big Boy recruiting the last two years? We were. We just won more of the battles where Texas was the final one or two or three schools left. This year we aren't. It's not a huge thing as we still are sitting solid and we seem (based on the reporting) have a few players lined up that are leaning Texas for now who if we get we would all be ecstatic about. So what else has changed: I think losing Choice has had an impact. I believe in prior years we had our #1 RB locked in by July 1, but it's not like I have gone off and confirmed that. By all reports, Choice was a very good recruiter. The Changing NIL Landscape. - The change in NIL with the settlement and its impact this year has created a unique one-off. Schools feel that to some extent NIL rules will be equalized this time next year so they are attempting to get in ahead of some of these changes and grandfather in things they think won't count against a cap/etc. Also in general, Texas was ahead of the game with NIL and support along with a small handful of schools and now other schools are catching up. I am still not worried in the slightest though because we should hit on a high enough number of elite players to have an elite class overall. Second, I feel that the staff does an exceptional job at evaluation and some of the players we keep recruiting despite a commitment or circled back to after missing on an initial target (late bloomers or players committed to other schools out of the gate) the last two years have been good. I thought TyAnthony Smith, Kobe Black, and Wardell Mack when I was typing this, but truthfully I can't remember. I'm sure someone in here will correct me if I am wrong. Finally, the staff seems to do an exceptional job of evaluating its roster and finding a transfer player or two or three to lock down at positions of need. So even if we have a hole, we seem to do an exceptional job of finding a transfer as the worst case scenario.
  4. Do I panic now or just wait for Griffin to choose Alabama first?
  5. And that's before we start drinking their milkshake.
  6. I absolutely love this controversy. So entertaining. They appear to be 100% chip dumping. What are you going to do WSOP or WPT?
  7. Honestly, this might be one of our "worst" weeks in recruiting this year or last year. And you know what, I give zero fucks. We are in on lots of big names. We get some. Some chose to go elsewhere for various reasons. The NIL rules this year is going to result in even more fuckery right now than there has been in prior years. I have faith that Sark and his support staff and the alumni who are contributing to NIL will do just fine by the end of the year. I have faith they will close just fine come December. This isn't Mack Brown where we "need a win" in recruiting because he is working so hard on the trail and we don't have a big name recruit on board yet. Would I prefer some of the promising football players commit here instead of other schools? Sure. Do I care because Aggie got a player or two ? Or (in my best coke head Luicci) Fat Elko won head to head against Sark for the two bestest high school players in the history of ever these last few weeks sending shockwaves through the entire universe that Aggie football is back to where it never left. Win some lose some. We will be just fine.
  8. AP is not a great poker player. That guy is an idiot for trying to fight him. Not because he's a former professional athlete, but because it probably is cutting into his profits. If hypothetically I was AP and I got into a fight at a poker club, the last thing I would want is that stupid card room to blast the video on the internet. And as always with fight videos, fire the video guy.
  9. We only win recruiting anymore because of money. No one chooses this school because it's a great school in a great city with a great alumni base with a great coaching staff that has huge results recently both on the field and in the draft. (and I am sure does also pay competitively...lol)
  10. Or just a simple political donation directly to Trump.
  11. I didn't realize lefties that do not strike out was allowed. Interesting.
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