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  1. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6414771/2025/06/10/nil-house-settlement-paying-athletes-deals-ncaa/ The new enforcement terms under the House settlement instruct college athletes to declare any third-party NIL deals worth at least $600 into a clearinghouse database. The idea is that the clearinghouse, dubbed “NIL Go” and managed by the accounting firm Deloitte, will serve as a restrictor plate on NIL collectives and pay-for-play, flagging deals that do not reflect a valid business purpose or fall within a reasonable range of compensation. Yahoo Sports reported that at the recent ACC spring meetings, Deloitte officials shared that 70 percent of past deals from NIL collectives would be denied under the new clearinghouse. But in candid conversations, coaches and recruiting staffers have serious doubts that athletes will declare those deals, or do so accurately. Some have suggested that players are being encouraged not to declare deals at all, but to simply take the money and keep quiet rather than risk the clearinghouse flagging it. And if that’s the case, where do we suspect that money might be coming from? “I guess it would just be the same as the way things used to work,” lamented the athletic director, frustrated by those already angling to undermine the settlement. “We’d be right back where we started.” History suggests that power-thirsty boosters paying athletes under the table is a tough thing to police — particularly after collectives spent the past few years streamlining the art of bag dropping. Now, instead of an envelope of cash in a player’s locker, it’s a direct deposit into their bank account. (The IRS might complicate that process under the House settlement, but that’s what payment apps are for.) “If some donor wants to wire a player $25,000 a month, who’s keeping track of that?” one power conference administrator said. Money wires aside, the system of boosters paying players is much more sophisticated and far less frowned upon, and it’s going to be impossible to put that infrastructure back into the tube.
  2. (Justin Wells) Texas Longhorns Recruiting Intel: How the Horns could finish at DT in 2026
  3. 😆😆😆 Stefan Krajisnik: Ohio State football is set to play within the rules of the new NIL era. Will its rivals do the same?
  4. DKR rejected multiple head coaching offers from blOU after Wilkinson retired (makes sense, no one wanted to be the guy who followed Wilkinson). In some twisted way he probably felt bad and figured he would help his alma mater. Bellard and Akers both tried to talk him out of giving Switzer the keys to the offense, all in vain. DKR later said he regretted the decision after Switzer repaid the favour by spying on his practices. Switzer refined the wishbone and turned the ground attack aspect of it up to 11. Bryant went the opposite way and improved the passing attack. He first saw the wishbone in action when his Crimson Tide battled the Sooners to a 24-24 tie in the 1970 Bluebonnet Bowl.
  5. ...at which point the used syringe-to-sand ratio starts becoming unfavourable.
  6. OOTL here, what's the "cannonball" video that's being referenced?
  7. Wow, just learned that the Omega Speedmaster went to space? It's amazing Omega doesn't advertise it that much! /s
  8. Last year there was the whole thing with Baker being a new hire, Banks overriding Baker's initial evals at DT and causing confusion. LB was the position we really mishandled last year. Thank God for Bo Barnes.
  9. Eric Nahlin: What a successful 2026 Texas recruiting class would look like
  10. Eric Nahlin: Texas will have another very highly rated class but headwinds need to be navigated
  11. There's a fundamental asymmetry to losing a NIL recruitment vs. winning one. You have to outspend many schools to win a recruitment, but it takes just one school outspending you to lose a recruitment. For Edwards it was A&M. For Bowman it was USC. For Lott it will be Oregon. For Atkinson it will be Georgia. We can certainly pride ourselves on not overspending, but whether we finish in 2nd place for a recruit or whether we never even pursue the end result is still the same. Yes, you can say A&M/USC/Oregon/Georgia/Ohio State are stupid for overspending and that we'll ultimately benefit. But teams can now pick and choose which recruits to overspend on, knowing that the House settlement has freed up a lot of additional funding and scholarship limits are much looser. For each of them it's one recruitment won, with a decreased chance of winning future recruitments that we or other unaffected schools may or may not be involved in. But for us it's already four big recruitments lost and counting. We're trading concrete, known losses for the hope of nebulous, hypothetical future recruiting wins.
  12. Steve Wiltfong: Moving the prediction to USC for prized edge rusher Luke Wafle
  13. (Nicole Auerbach) Table the expansion talk: The College Football Playoff should stay at 12 teams
  14. "He's not gonna end up here but others will have to pay. It’s a fantastic time to be a Texas fan." This is TexAgs-level moral victory rationalizing. It's up there with "we didn't land the kid, but at least him going to [insert big program here] proves our coaches can evaluate" from the Strong days. And I guess it's going to be repeated ad nauseum once we lose Perry-Wright and Turntine the same way we lost Edwards. And I don't know why we're even talking about Wafle. USC and Ohio State are offering him two-year, $2.5 million NIL deals and he's going to one of those schools. But I guess they had to get in a bidding war so it's actually fantastic for us, or something.
  15. Who uses the Studio Ghibli AI filter for football photographs? And why the fuck does the Texas jersey have an Adidas logo, orange pants and orange helmet?
  16. Those are rankings for all FBS schools. Wisconsin is the only non-SEC team in the top 15, because they play Alabama in Tuscaloosa this year.
  17. SoS rankings for 2025: Florida Vanderbilt Oklahoma Texas Arkansas Mississippi State Kentucky Georgia Texas A&M Alabama Louisiana State Wisconsin South Carolina Auburn Tennessee
  18. "Reminds me of Simms" Does he now B9728kkGonRcGvj5.mp4
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