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RollingPresidential

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  1. 5 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:

    When you’re done at the Indian Pharmacy, we’d love for you to open up your checkbook and help out with player NIL.  I can point you to a number of places where your money can go, starting with Burnt Ends. Horns With Heart is another option, can I put you down for a 100k commitment?

    No?  Oh, I see you were just spouting internet platitudes. 

    Done. Had been meaning to sign up. Thanks for the prompt.

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  2. 16 hours ago, CooterBrown said:


    You do realize that Apple is tracking what you do in every app on your iPhone and selling it?

    Everyone from Amazon to Zulilly knows about your midget scat addiction and will give you ads accordingly.

    I do know why I get these ads - I bought a christmas present for the wife (and my midget scat porn addiction). Didn't know that Apple Podcasts had targeted advertisements because I thought that those things were added to the recording in advance. Like I said, learn something new every day.

  3. I mean if we can lose to Okie on the road we can lose to literally anyone in conference, and we’re 12-3 without a quality win. I’d be interested in what the splits on those Gonzaga #’s are when the game was competitive vs when it was out of reach. I’m not confident we make the tournament. We’re not a very good team based on yesterday’s performance. Maybe it’s a one off and I hope I’m wrong, but that was the dregs of the conference that beat us pretty soundly yesterday. 

  4. 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. 

  5. 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. 

  6. 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.

  7. 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. 

  8. 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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  9. 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.

  10. 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. 

  11. 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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