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Posts posted by RollingPresidential
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It kind of seems like the OU class is like the Texas classes from the last decade. Highly ranked but not anyone that the major players were actually sad to miss on.
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1 minute ago, Nope said:
Same path Colt took his 2nd year
When he had 20 INTs?
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37 minutes ago, closetojumping said:
I'm not super close to most details or any of the sausage-making at this point. @RGBIII and @SquishMitten might know more on this question. They also might not be anyone closer to any of it than me, so who knows?
I just know they're around a lot of the guys and that Hills trains them; that Mulugheta is involved with Hills and Kolective; and that Mulugheta is a UT alum. Didn't know if there was a pipeline situation there (yet?).
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3 minutes ago, closetojumping said:
I've asked about Livingstone recently because I don't get it. It's largely what's being assumed on here. We're competing against Arkansas and South Carolina for his services, soooo, yeah. He's a glue guy/OKG and won't be a headache on NIL. He's everyone's only headscratcher for Texas in this cycle.
To the last point, things look good for the coming weeks. There's no naivete around how NIL works or will it work or do we have it. Corporate work is now also being actively pursued. Coaches can make a pretty attractive sell to what recruits would be in store for at Texas by simply highlighting how things are going for the current roster. There aren't many guys who will visit who aren't thinking about NIL front and center.
Everybody thinks they're in on the right guys.
The only major issue in this cycle may not be an issue either - can Sarkisian win 10+ and look like a coach who can build a playoff regular?
How involved is Mulugheta/Athletes First and Kollective, the Jeremy Hills thing?
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One of my favorite moments as a Texas fan who frequents message boards was when Jake Oliver briefly became a thing in 2016. The Football Board may never have been happier.
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Definitely don't let Mitchell see what y'all have been posting here!
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24 minutes ago, Lonestar88 said:
I think that was Dwaine Thomas, who wasn’t even nationally ranked.
And it was Taylor Hamm
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2 minutes ago, shadow_operative said:
did he? sure, we didn't get wallace (never had a chance), but we ultimately ended up with the guy who was probably the best player possible for that team.
Ultimately, sure. But you presented it as an either/or and it wasn't. And there's also no reason we couldn't have had both.
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22 minutes ago, closetohumping said:
Easy to say in hindsight
I mean, sure, but it's his job to make that decision. Like with other things, he chose poorly.
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41 minutes ago, shadow_operative said:
beard stopped recruiting george be wise he wasn't a fit for beard's team. later on he went and got rice, the type of player that last year's team needed.
Didn't Beard stop recruiting George to all in on Cason Wallace? Also Beard "chose" Arterio Morris. I would've rather had Keyontae George last year, just saying.
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Gerry said on the IT livestream that Hunter had a death in the family that's delayed his announcement of his intention.
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The metrics really like him defensively and he's young-ish, no? Would solve the big wing problem.
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2 hours ago, Js1 said:
He shot almost 50% from the field and 40% from three at Tech. He ain’t the clanker, Askew is. We just never saw it because Beard wouldn’t play him as a freshman.
Just a reminder that the fickle freshman thing was not a problem unique to RT!
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48 minutes ago, Schulz2.0 said:
They should, but the vast majority don't have that perspective.
College is not necessarily the best place to 'develop.' College coaches want to win and that is their job. The extent that meshes with developing and producing NBA players can go hand in hand, but sometimes it doesn't. It's not football.
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That Urban thing (that he is doing this to needle Texas after some Herman-related hate) was being pushed by IT last week.
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Some guy on IT says Marshall beat the crap out of a guy at a team event. Good character eval from Jimbo.
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I'm sure Musselman's system is fun to play in, but that sounds like bullshit. The kid committed to Chris Beard, if anything RT's "style of play" should be an improvement.
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1 hour ago, RGBIII said:
money was/is there. Usage and promises is why Holland probably ends up at arky and makes us all vomit
Hm. Hard to argue against "usage" with Arkansas, as they do not appear to run an offense. This is all planted by Terio and Mitchell's people?
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I just generally assume RGB knows more than we do given his involvement in NIL, so if he says something like that, it implies to me that RT fucked up somehow.
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3 hours ago, RGBIII said:
I grade him pretty fucking bad bruh. Losing Holland is inexcusable. Johnson was never going to make it to campus. Portal was fine and the team should be good next year, its the following year that I am worried about
What could he have done differently?
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1 hour ago, Chopper said:
So was the report about Holland making excessive demands about his role and playing time just 995er bs?
Probably not? Basketball $9.95ers are not football $9.95ers, there's fewer of them and they're almost universally mouthpieces for AAU coaches or runners, so someone around Holland told Eric Bossi (who is a national guy afaik) that. Gerry confirmed it also.
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2 hours ago, RichUT said:
I doubt that I’ll be able to convince you otherwise then. Just understand that every other school in this situation has released the player from their NLI. For us to take a hard line stance would separate us from every other program in a negative way. We don’t want the reputation of being the school that keeps kids tied to the program against their wishes."We're the program that forced a kid to sit out rather than play where he wanted" is not a good recruiting pitch
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1 hour ago, UTEE97 said:
We didn't have a problem letting him play at Texas, so perhaps we shouldn't be trash talking about other programs letting him play there. I don't understand this angle.
Many of us did, in fact, have a problem.
Very hesitant to bang too hard on a 19 year old, but fuck that kid for badmouthing UT. He was lucky he got to play at all. Hope Self enjoys the trial in June.
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2 hours ago, BurntOrange&White said:
I'd prefer to have 1-2 5 stars littered in with seasoned transfers with 1-2 developmental freshmen guys
This is the way, and notably, the way that almost every title team winner the last decade or so has gone. UConn was not a bunch of gritty 2-3 stars either, almost all of their rotation guys except the ECU transfer was a borderline 5 star on the 247 composite. Get old by developing your players, stay old by the same + the portal, and inject the one and dones who are not on long dev curves (the actual problem with UT one and dones since KD) as the icing on the cake.
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I like the optimism that Jimbo will still be the coach in 2024.