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  1. 3 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

    Imagine not knowing how ads work in general. Doesn’t matter the platform. Targeted ads are generated by your search history

    They can target them in Apple Podcasts? Learn something new every day. 

  2. 7 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

    It’s really funny that you don’t know that those ads are cultivated specifically to you and your tastes and served up by youtube…everyone gets different ads unless you’re hearing Bobby say “brought to you by boner pills.”

     

    good luck with your Indian pharmacy, sir. 

    I get em on the Apple PodCasts app, hence my saying "podcast," as far as I know those aren't targeted. But also I bought something for my wife for Christmas and get those kind of targeted ads on Instagram and other social media platforms too. 

  3. 9 minutes ago, LTtxfan said:

    Fran Fraschilla just called Texas a Work in Progress team (due to all the transfers) that lacks athleticism...

    Horns better become a tougher, blue collar team that rebounds a lot better, and executes more effectively on offense.

    I, uh, don't think we're a very good team, period. Good defense maybe but you win games by scoring more than the other team. We can't do that to teams with a pulse.

  4. 5 hours ago, ousux said:
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    Did Texas A&M’s blatant cheating this cycle eclipse Ole Miss under Hugh Freeze? — Stephen R.

    What was the driving force behind Texas A&Ms historic class? I know Jimbo Fisher built a strong recruiting organization but this haul sort of came out of nowhere. Is this a one off or should we get used to Texas A&M in the top five? — Jeff H.

    When Harold Perkins of Cypress (Texas) Cy Park announced his commitment to A&M over the weekend, it gave the Aggies six five-stars and 16 top-100 prospects in the Class of 2022. And they could tie the record for the most five-star prospects in a single class if they land defensive lineman Shemar Stewart of Opa Locka (Fla.) Monsignor Pace. The Aggies are about to sign the best class in modern recruiting history. That, of course, is the biggest story of this cycle.

    Guess what? Everyone who is jealous of Texas A&M’s success has accused Fisher and his staff of cheating.

    My hope was that baseless cheating accusations would die with the introduction of name, image and likeness. I, unfortunately, was wrong.

    Nobody is saying cheating doesn’t happen in college football recruiting. Of course it does. But what proof do Stephen and the thousands of other people who make similar statements have? Or are these just angry comments because you’re blown away by what the Aggies are doing? In the NIL era, it is perfectly legal for boosters to set up whatever financial circumstances they want for the players on the team. Even if NIL money is the reason everyone is going to Texas A&M, is that against the rules? Are you mad players are making more money? Does it annoy you that your school isn’t paying as much?

    Great recruiters always go above and beyond — hopefully within the rules — to squeeze the very most value they can out of every situation. If Texas A&M figured out a financial system that can benefit its athletes better than those at other schools, then why is that a bad thing? To me, in a world where it is legal, I’d just put that under the umbrella of top-notch recruiting.

    I can bet one thing: If A&M’s class was built based solely off of NIL money, competing programs and coaches are aware of it and they’ll adapt in the next cycle to ensure A&M doesn’t run away with the top class once again. When someone is good at something, what happens? Others take note and try it, too.

    Do I believe that NIL money has something to do with what has made Texas A&M a more attractive landing spot in this cycle? Sure I do. Texas A&M has always been a solid recruiting outfit, but Fisher and his staff are recruiting at a level that is making Alabama’s head turn. That’s a hard thing to do. But guess what? I also don’t think it’s bad. If rich people who support Texas A&M want to toss cash at athletes who haven’t performed yet, let them do it. It’s about time these players earned as much money as humanly possible. The hard part is that NIL deals aren’t public record so getting into specifics of who is getting what isn’t possible.

    So when you ask what is the driving force behind Texas A&M’s class, it’s a lot of things. One, the Aggies have done a tremendous job in the Houston area. Fisher, who won a national championship at Florida State, has proven to be a very good recruiter. And in recruiting — a world where these prospects are friends and communicate daily — momentum is real. Texas A&M has all the momentum in the world. These guys want to play with each other, and this class is truly something special.

    It’ll take a few more classes like this for Texas A&M to reach Alabama’s level in total talent, but it’s a nice start.

    If you’re getting angry by what A&M is doing — which is certainly within the new rules of this sport — I’d challenge you to ask yourself why? I bet the answer is because your favorite school isn’t doing the same.

    The good news for the angry people? Other programs will adapt, and the playing field will be evened out a bit. For now, I think Texas A&M deserves a pat on the back for doing whatever it can to bring this much talent into the program. If you’re bothered by it, that’s your problem.

    For those who still think head national recruiting writer for the Athletic Ari Wasserman isn’t a honk…

    Sounds like aggy threw a little of that "NIL" money at Mr. Wasserman. Bags arent enough, gotta counter BOMC as well you know..

    I mean it does make me mad that my school isn’t doing the same, yes, so he’s right. 

  5. 4 hours ago, texifornia said:

    He's super religious, so the culture fit is there, and he marches to the beat of his own drum, so he might want to stick around for for a while and not take on another culture rebuild so quickly. He's a bit of an odd duck.

    Idk if ‘super religious’ really is the right descriptor there. Art Briles wrote a book about how he was called by God to coach. I guess only God can judge though.

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  6. 17 minutes ago, Ricky's one-hitter said:

    ‘A natty’ should be negged. Drips aggy. 
     

    Fields, a transfer he lucked into, brought them to a national championship. The problems with the defense were on display all year. 

    And who exploited those defenses for a title? Steve Sarkisian. Check and mate.

  7. 33 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    “Texas” doesn’t have shit going on with NIL. The Texas alumni base has numerous things going on that will be significant in varying degrees. 

    You guys still talking up the notion of parity between the bag game and NIL or, worse, acting as if the bag game will continue to matter more are just flat wrong. It’s too tedious at this point to break down, so I guess, keep handwringing with your delusions. 

    There’s a very real probability that Texas will have 6 figure floors per roster spot within the next 2 cycles. Donor resources are finite, especially for other schools. ATM’s now on the hook for paying guys’ handlers PER SEASON. That directly conflicts with donors also then having to pony up for NIL. I know folks here find it rather easy to spend other peoples’ money, but it’s harder for folks to bite both bullets in the future. Also, in many instances, donor contributions to NIL will be tax deductible. Everyone looking at all of this from the handler’s perspective are looking at the future precisely incorrectly. Nobody likes funding those motherfuckers anyway. 

    That's kind of why I was interested in what the mechanics of what A&M did this cycle were - do they think they're fucked in the future and had to get all these guys now? They were 7-4 (again), play a coo-magnon offense, and lost their DC. And they're gonna sign 8 5* players or whatever. Offering per-season dollops to the players' handlers is certainly something I didn't consider, and I know CTJ said what they offer D Harris was eye-popping. 

  8. I would love to, at the end of all this, find out how much money was exchanged here and how A&M pulled all this shit off. Like how much did they have to pay Stewart to go and get 25 catches a year or these out of state DLs? Or Harris, who wasn’t considering them until like November. 

    It’s really impressive and I wish Texas had done it. They have less to sell than we do! And yet!

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  9. Can’t believe anyone pays $9.95 to those sites when @closetojumping actually says what’s going on. Imagine IT or whoever writing something like what he wrote about Bryce Anderson above. 

    I know some people who knew B Harris at LSU. Seems like a ‘nice’ guy but from what CTJ says, seems ill-suited for a ‘director’ role. Don’t think it’s catastrophic that he’s staying on in the role but also not a great data point.

    Weird that the defense was god awful and everyone kept their job. 

  10. I am in agreement with quigley. I think we are disagreeing on the nature of sleeping giant. LSU was a mess with potential to not be a mess, Saban got there, and it was no longer (as much of?) a mess. I do know a fair amount of the history and from basically what, 1971-2001 LSU was, at best, where Texas has been the last ten years? If not considerably worse. My first year living there was the Saban title and my last year living there was the Miles one. 

    I appreciate your perspective, I think we are just disagreeing on semantics. 

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  11. 17 minutes ago, quigley said:

     

    RollingPrez is correct.

    LSU had decades of mismanagement in the last century, and Saban organized it into a machine. The athletic department/bagmen smartly kept the "foundation" intact for a couple of decades, allowing Les Miles to back into a national championship in 2007. Les squandered talent and created scandals so they had to fire him, but he'd proven he was an idiot by 2009 or 2010.

    Anytime someone says "trust the coaches," I think Ed Orgeron. Ed probably has CTE from headbutting players wearing helmets, but he parlayed a Cajun accent and big smile into $17m. The 2019 national championship was won by the people of Louisiana, who reared good kids who stayed home to play for State, and the LSU foundation who paid these kids what they were worth. Ed gets credit for none of this success because his a horny dullard.

    I bring all this up to say that LSU may have made a mistake hiring someone who has as big an ego as Brian Kelly. Kelly's already proving he's going to try to do things his way. So far, he's run off their S&C coach, Tommy Moffitt, who came in 2000 with Saban, and ace RB coach/recruiter, Corey Raymond. Whether the foundation can still grease the high school coaches/handlers of Louisiana enough so that they see Kelly as part of the fam-A-LEE remains to be seen.

    LSU may have been better off hiring a celibate figurehead who would go along and get along. This would allow the foundation of the football program to ensure the stable supply of high level talent that's been sufficient for a national championship despite having negatives at head coach twice already.

    I’ll namedrop and say I went to HS at ULab with Nick Jr. and Kristen Saban (she’s quite crazy). Lived in BR from 2003-2008. Played HS basketball with the son of Dan Radakovich, new Miami AD, when Dan was deputy AD at LSU. TAF has that thing running on autopilot most of the time, that’s how bad O has been the last two years. I *wish* Texas donors were as committed to the team being good as TAF people are. Instead we have Dallas and Houston factions fighting each other for skybox space or dumb controversies about the school song. 

    Washington’s not a sleeping giant because the State of Washington doesn’t produce the most NFL players per capita like Louisiana does (or is at least in the top 2-3). All the other giants are mostly woken up (except our beloved Texas Longhorns). 

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  12. 4 minutes ago, cafe society said:

    Check their football history, pre-Saban they were mediocre most years until you go back to the 60s.  Gerry DiNardo reference makes me wonder if my sarcasm meter needs a tuneup.

    They were absolutely mediocre - hence the “sleeping” part. Saban optimized the AD (and tax-shelter hospital scams or whatever) to wake that up. 2019 was the first time since the 2003 Saban team where they looked like they had a competent coach on both sides of the ball, and they won a title and played for another in the middle there. Kelly is a better coach than they’ve had since Saban. If he hires weak/conservative coordinators and doesn’t have the recruiters though then they’ll keep bleeding the North LA kids to Bama et al and he’ll wear out his welcome there fast. It’s an easy place to coach because the talent there is so rich and the people there (in the southern part of the state) will do anything - including funnel money through a charity hospital - for the team. Debating whether something was a sleeping giant pre-2003 seems odd given that since then, they’ve had two terrible coaches and won what, 9 games a year? Sleeping or not, it woke up.

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  13. 2 minutes ago, cafe society said:

    LSU was considered no such thing from the time that Cholly Mac retired and Saban appeared on the scene at Red Stick.  Heck, they weren't a giant - sleeping or otherwise - most of the time McClendon was there.

    I don’t think this is accurate. I believe the coach before Saban, Gerry DiNardo, was the one who referred to them as a sleeping giant, and there was a story around BR in the early 2000’s that Saban picked the job because he looked at the per capita NFL players per state and agreed with that assessment. 

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  14. 2 hours ago, lemonandaturd said:

    Your greatest aggy team since 1939  beat 0-9 Vanderbilt 17-12.  Y'all are really some dawgs.  

    Did you enjoy that game in 2018? I was there, KU was driving to win. And then the next year they almost beat us at home. Herman made every game like that, no matter the opponent. Obnoxious style. I hope Sark mudholes teams so the backups actually get some run that's not Yancy McKnight injury related.

    A&M was highly overrated last year (shitty, coo-magnon offense) and IMO we'd have beaten them if we played them (healthy Sam obviously). But they're capitalizing on the finish and the hype and the fact that the bagman game just got easier, not that they weren't doing it before. 

    Point taken on the outside people, but that Nick Williams guy that Aggy hired seems like someone we should be hiring. And the AD tweeting out nerdy PowerPoints about how good we are at following the NIL rules continues to give me the impression that despite recent actions to the contrary (the SEC move in particular) we are still content with the "we're texas" shit and making money. If y'all are happy with that, fine. I've lived outside of Texas for a decade now and the football team is the first thing people know about the school. Would like it to not be embarrassing, and getting the for sale recruits helps with that. 

     

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  15. 58 minutes ago, Hefeweizen said:

    Don’t pretend to be a fan, aggy.  Just roll in and be yourself asswipe.

    lol ok. I've been lurking/posting intermittently on Shaggy since 2014. You can neg me if you want but there's no reason, none, that Texas should not be 'in' on the Walter Nolens or Bear Alexanders or whoever else is 'for sale.' That's how you win. Was hoping hiring Sark and a bunch of battle tested Bama guys would mean we'd stop getting in our own way but sounds like we've managed to fuck it up again. Only A&M has a real coach this time. I like what Sark did in the transfer portal and am excited for the on-field product - no more 23-17 late victories over 2-9 Kansas teams, hopefully. Obvious new coach and last ten years of shit aside, this recruiting doesn't seem to be what was promised.

    Hope I'm wrong. But who was the last straight flip we got from A&M, Omeire? If Harold Perkins makes the call for A&M, not thinking us going 10-2 or whatever is gonna matter. Ditto for Denver Harris. We have to play the game if we want to win. 

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