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  1. He signed the deal before July 1st. No impact on rev share. It’s all Double Eagle, it sounds like. Or maybe that’s just year 1.
  2. Fire the agent? What? I want to hire that guy and see what he can get me in the open market. He must be some sort of wizard or warlock or some shit. Wow. I didn’t realize it was that bad. Texas probably stays aggressive on Utu if they’d have had better clarity. Still, like Mack with Perrilloux, signs of seriously bad character and playing Texas for leverage were there all along.
  3. Ojo was apparently not very straight with the staff. I’m interested to see how interested they are in him down the line when he inevitably enters the portal. They were interested in Hudson or Stewart with similar histories.
  4. This is correct. TOF is not attempting to make a profit. Just no longer working as a 501(c)3 since House excluded that as a legitimate vehicle going forward.
  5. You referenced the “absolute” tone, so not a knock, but sure, Sarkisian and team have signed enough now that ultimately being perfect on hit rate becomes impossible. Regarding Campbell, I might be alone on this one, but given that he was a 5 star as an OG, I am inclined to give both the services credit for still rating him that highly and the staff if he winds up getting drafted in any round, but for sure any round better than 6. He got a low round draft grade last cycle, allegedly, so he’s got a shot to hit the mids if he has a great year. 2:15
  6. You act as if the posters in this thread had previously been hyping Ojo as some sort of next version of Banks. Maybe I missed that. You can go back pretty far in this thread and find references to guys we trust, like Gerry, not being as high on Ojo as the rankings would suggest. It’s not going to be posters on this board who hammer Ojo from the #1 OL ranking to finishing somewhere in the national 150-ish overall range. Are you implying that when those rankings change that it’s a conspiracy among the ratings services? Or are you just too stupid to follow the logic knot you’re tying in some sort of pathetic effort to seem contrarian?
  7. Will be buying it and loving it in all of its imperfect glory.
  8. Dude is 6’8”, 245. I didn’t realize that. He’s huge.
  9. There’s some notion that Lee is a legitimate flip candidate. Guess we’ll see over the next few months. If Texas misses on Ojo, that at least frees up earmarked money for someone else on the OL (not for other positions). Whoever referenced Sheppard with Ojo nailed it for me. I want him for signing day noise and if he really embraces the developmental experience and becomes a player down the line, awesome. Is that worth $1M to open? No, it is not. Good luck with Tech if that is the path they select. The family does recognize there’s a gap in track records for line development between Tech and Texas. Do they realize the gap is Grand Canyon-sequel? Who knows. I’m still rooting to land the guy, but for the thoughts I espoused and not because he’s some sort of can’t miss prospect. Also, the guy lost every rep at the Rivals camp a few weeks ago. He’s expected to plummet in the rankings. He’s going to wind up as a mid-level 4 star. The hype he adds to Texas’ class in the end isn’t going to be massive. For Tech, everyone covering it will oversell it through signing day.
  10. This is a highly skilled and time-honored technique, sir. I once saw an A-back shut down All State DE, and future aggie, Steve McKinney in a high school game. Baller shit. Gerry has always had a low opinion of him as a prospect for a multitude of reasons. His behavior as a recruit and attitude about where he is in his development are part of it. With Tech putting an offer out there of roughly double what Texas has discussed with the Ojos, maybe it’s a bullet dodged. Paying major money for a guy who won’t see the field for several years is always a dangerous gamble. What a stunning development for a North Shore recruit.
  11. 247 apparently has him at 6.05 and 205. That dude must have been wearing lifts and a ruck vest when they measured him.
  12. He’s a small LB that didn’t make it past initial evaluations with the Texas staff.
  13. You can still apparently get a Street & Smith’s, because Steele has them in his forecast tracker/ranker thing that he does. Maybe it has to be ordered? I don’t know, haven’t seen one in a few years.
  14. Yeah, I got mine from B&N on Saturday. You can see, as your error shows, that he had it more hastily put together this year. I get it, he wants to wait until all of the transfer info is processed and I don't mind it, but there is an element of sloppiness that wasn't there before. He has Malik Muhammad going in the first round and then doesn't list him in the draft eligible CB list of 65. For numerous teams, he has zero recruits in for spring (IFS), including Texas. That dude loves ranking OU and ATM. It's comical. I've said all offseason that OU has a better team than folks think, while everyone is severely overrating ATM's roster. Steele has OU at #9, which is idiotic. Their roster isn't a top 10 roster. Their schedule is pretty tough. Their ceiling is 8 wins. I forget where he ranked ATM, but he ranked them. Then when you read through his ATM page, he basically breaks everything down to "trust The Elk". He overrates York hilariously. Overall, it's still a very fun and informative magazine.
  15. Kosi Okpala - Breaker of Dark Streaks, Uplifter of Fucktarded Forums The guy has great size and I assume is from a west African family, which usually translates pretty fucking well to the Texas football program as a culture fit. I'll take it.
  16. To be fair, there's been some inflation since the 1940's for whatever you desire.
  17. There is a market for fucking celebrities? How is the first that I'm hearing of it? What are going rates? I assume someone like Melissa McCarthy is probably pretty inexpensive, but your basic Sabrina Carpenter is a bit pricey. Is there an arbitrage opportunity related to maybe age (like, say, Jane Seymour or Halle Berry) or psychosis (Britney Spears)?
  18. I have 3 boys. They begged to watch this. I took my wife, youngest daughter and 3 boys to see this one this evening. I read both books in the 90’s and convinced a troop of my friends to go watch JP on opening day and it became loved. I hated the 2nd movie but have been easy on all of the other ones. This new one was terrific for what it was. If you don’t want to watch a Jurassic Park movie, don’t go. If you dig those, this one is just fine. Also, ScarJo is a fatty. She needed 6 more months of work before filming. It was unfortunate to see.
  19. “Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: We’re Going To Repeat A Lot Of NIL Discussion” If we have to choose a Green Day motif, can we choose something other than their most terrible song? ”Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Dookie”, for instance.
  20. Sadly, the title of this thread still works very effectively. The direction of the comment doesn't feel the same right now, however. Might be time for a change. "Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Swing-And-A-Miss Steve Rides Again" "Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Still Doing Better Than Oklahoma" "Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Hoisted By Other Fucktards" "Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Getting the Chokehold Buttfuck" I don't know. Something along those lines.
  21. It's as I've been saying, one of three things is happening, probably all at different places: 1) Programs are making up money and hoping to backfill it on success and rev share later. (USC, at least) 2) Programs are foregoing what they have on campus to make big offers to recruits and build from there. (ATM, Florida) 3) Programs are going to wash through more than $20.5M and call it all rev share, whatever the numbers are. (LSU) There are probably some morons who just aren't calculating the current roster much at all for future monetary needs and just assuming "it will work itself out" when, indeed, it very well may not.
  22. List of thread derails, from best types to the most inane, insipid shit imaginable. 1) Arguing over hottest famous women. 2) Arguing over hottest women on campuses. 3) Personal stories about random subject matter triggered by some mention in a recruiting update. 4) Cheese puns. 5) Campus weather discussions. 6) Academic dick-measuring among schools competing for a player. 7) Reliving terrible shit in Texas football history. 8 ) BBQ snobs finding their way from the food board to discuss brisket smoking nuances and other super dumb shit associated to BBQ snobbery.
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