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48 minutes ago, closetohumping said:
Rumor that Mitchell looking at KU
Is he in the transfer portal?
EDIT: Guessing this is the source for this?
As far as I have read, Mitchell is not in the portal. Also, if he doesn't want to be in Austin, let him go. He can go be a 12 mpg lob guy for Bill Self if he wants to.
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10 hours ago, shadow_operative said:
turns out that holland wasn't seeking promises regarding playing time. with everyone else jumping ship and the roster looking depleted ron and his family decided that his NIL deal needed to be reworked, and we said, "yeah, i don't think so, you signed the deal, stick to it." that's why he left. that's why mitchell and arterio are applauding him leaving. NIL money. they don't give one single shit about being a Texas Longhorn, they are only interested in what Texas can do for them. in the words of the GOAT, "fuck them kids."
I mean, this is basketball. How is "NIL Money" something new here, this has always been what it's about for kids at Holland's level.
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Every player move, for good or ill, is not a referendum on whether RT is the right coach. Basketball players have options that football players don't, and too many of y'all are applying a football recruiting lens to this.
As for Morris, not weeping that a kid with attitude/entourage issues and a DV trial coming up in June may not vibe with RT. The Mitchell stuff, likewise, sounds like a kid doing kid stuff - maybe he's liking tweets ironically, who knows. Climb off the fucking ledge. Was it a referendum on Beard that he got Morris over Keyonte George or Anthony Black (I believe he 'chose' to focus on Cason Wallace, who he did not get, yes?).
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1 minute ago, MuellerHorn said:
Today just keeps getting more fun.
lol my Dad (a professor at KU) was telling me that Self wouldn't take him with the pending legal issues.
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Just now, Hank_Hill said:
Based on?
Ask @RGBIII or the others on here about NIL and inducements and whatnot. But it's also basketball and Oregon is being mentioned. NIL is not bags.
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Don't think Ron Holland is renegotiating "NIL," this is basketball.
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I, too, think its a reflection on the new coach that a kid does something highly unusual and financially motivated.
If he's starting another bidding war, pay up if we want him then.
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1 hour ago, Js1 said:
Heh, Dingle
Reminds me of going to an NIT game when I was 8 years old and hearing someone yell "Tickle my Dickel!" while this guy was shooting FTs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Dickel
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2 hours ago, Getafix said:
Gerry seems to think we're in on some other guys that haven't entered yet.
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Just for a guide as to why his name is pronounced "Ace-mas"
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On 4/20/2023 at 8:24 PM, Not a Sock said:
Ari is a 247, Rivals tier team beat writer that managed to get hired by a national outlet. He is very vocal in his dumb opinion of stars trump everything and when people point out how dumb this opinion is and use Texas as an example he doubles down and says Texas is a special case and he’s still right. That’s also why he has thrown in with A&M, Jimbo’s elite recruiting was going to turn A&M into an elite program and prove his thesis right, and we now see how that’s going. Most coaching staffs and ADs don’t want to talk about recruiting in general and they certainly aren’t going to sit down with a national write who is a “recruiting/NIL” guy so Ari can only talk to handlers and bagmen or programs that are insecure enough that they desperately seek any sort of media approval. Which is how you end up with the Cook A&M NIL bullshit, the Texas side ignored him so he ran with what ever bullshit damage control A&M fed him. It also doesn’t help that he is also thin skinned as fuck and gets upset when people call him out, and he seeks out the approval of takes. In short Ari Wasserman is basically just a national writer version of Billy Liucci.
This seems exactly right.
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7 hours ago, BurntOrange&White said:
Who is our Mark Stevens?
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8 hours ago, cochamps said:
I think that the facts in that case make it pretty much a non-factor. That is not a felony charge, and I don't think the woman who was cut by the bra is intent on doing him damage. JMO.
When I was interning with the Arlington PD's office, we defended a guy accused of DV for shoving a peanut butter sandwich in his wife's face (not guilty). I'd like to say that the prosecutors bringing this case to trial means they think they have a strong case, but that experience gives me pause.
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3 hours ago, MotownHorn said:
Who said this? Literally no one, right? I'm on this board almost as much as you are and I don't recall one person saying such a thing. You're using a strawman argument
What I saw RT fans saying was that Beard was great, but he fucked up and is gone so it's time to move on. And RT did a great job replacing him and deserved a shot as the head coach. I don't recall one person claiming that RT > Beard.I said on the recruiting board that I was underwhelmed by Beard and got quite a few downvotes. I'll stand by that - we looked like the same grind-it-out mudball team that was mentally weak in 2021-2022 as we did with Shaka or late-period Barnes, we just had a few wins over borderline division II teams to pad the win stats and didn't vomit all over ourselves in the first round for the first time in a decade, so that was something Beard gets credit for I guess. This year? Excellent, no complaints, if Beard had done that, I'd not be underwhelmed, and he gets credit for putting the roster together, but also should not get hardly any credit for what the team actually did after he was gone considering the reason he was gone. RT did a great job this year. Maybe he's not the guy long term, but Beard's one year was not enough for me to think that the good two years at Tech were not outliers compared to the other ones. It also seems rather ridiculous for everyone to be freaking out that we haven't landed anyone yet and using that as a judge on RT long term.
Kansas really wants to take Terio with his trial looming? Surprising to me.
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6 minutes ago, Tex Pete said:
Having been pushed his podcast "Stars Matter" a few times via the Spotify algorithm, he's just an empty vesselr. I heard him say that Johntay Cook chose Texas because Texas A&Ms offense stunk but that A&M was better set up for the long term in recruiting due to their 'commitment to NIL' and haven't really taken anything else he's said seriously.
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28 minutes ago, IDIOTsavant said:
Here’s the thing about Wasserman, he was hired from a gig covering Ohio State to be the national recruiting writer for the Athletic, and literally ALL he does from this position is carry water for Ohio State. Sark has significantly cut into the Buckeyes ability to land difference makers from Texas, so expect for this shit to continue until it works, or it becomes apparent that Texas is relevant on the national stage again. Every single article he writes is what Ohio State wants out there.
He's also married to an Aggie and regularly talks to Billy Liucci.
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38 minutes ago, closetojumping said:Bear Alexander and his ilk will, of course, always be out there and always have been. Normally, Ohio State, Clemson, LSU, Bama, Georgia, FSU, Auburn, and on the west coast, USC and Oregon, have bought those players in a very limited auction setting.
ATM did a good job of disrupting that cabal when Fisher came over. They bought McKinnley Jackson for $400k the night before signing day 2020, as a for instance. His people put that back to Bama (I don't know who else) to match and he'd be theirs. Problem for Bama was that they'd already committed too much elsewhere and couldn't match. This was relayed via someone sitting with Saban and on the speakerphone when he sunk his head down and said "good luck".
Then ATM showed up for the 2022 class and went McKinley Jackson on the whole fucking list. They moved the whole bag game up several levels. They also didn't understand the future. Saban did, but didn't like his outlook. He went on the offensive with his whining about NIL and the portal but it's been mostly a fucking joke given his complete hypocrisy. Dabo Swinney has done the same bullshit.
Day and Smart just went out asking for as much money as possible. Oregon built a death star. We focused on setting and endowing a floor and invented the layer cake + charity model. USC raised for the portal, as did Ole Miss. Arkansas is following Oregon's model but they're Arkansas. Notre Dame, OU, Michigan, Tech and others are following UT's suit. It will all get there at Texas.
The hard part will be finding and maintaining enough benefactors for the guys who expect and merit surplus money above the floor. Corporate isn't there yet to handle that, and there will probably always be something of a gap each cycle that someone needs to bridge.
The biggest thing that has happened, and I view this as a good thing, is that the market has dramatically expanded. The oligopoly of cheaters has been destroyed. Now there are 130+ teams to account for when it comes to a player's options for getting paid. Not everyone will be involved with every player, but the superstars have 50 suitors now and the guys at the next level can command something from even the App States and SMUs of the world if they want to go there. Bama, Georgia, LSU, Clemson and Ohio State are all suddenly realizing that they don't have fat enough stacks to throw their weight around constantly. They're having to make choices. They've all pushed up taking guys sooner than they used to prefer to do so, mostly to prevent summer visits that drive up prices.
Also, shout out to all of those that argued that the bag game wouldn't change and be rendered moot very quickly.
Has anyone contacted UT alumnus Harlan Crow? He seems very generous. no CR
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6 minutes ago, RGBIII said:
Of course, I don’t disagree with your initial surprise whatsoever, I don’t “think” that’s what’s happening without myself or CTJ knowing in some fashion. But my premise was not about this specific commitment only, I mean in general the opportunities here are more abundant even for lesser known players, I think guys like Broughton even have corporate NIL that we can point to which helps offset straight dollar for dollar.
Ohio state: here is 200k and an f150 lease
Texas: we won’t give you 200k but we can do 100k plus a Porsche and how much do you like mustard?
Gotta imagine that his name will give him some endorsement deal in Texas
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5 hours ago, RGBIII said:
Rumors out there that Neto may go find a guaranteed starting spot somewhere
Given your track record with AJ Johnson recently, I think we can assume Neto's gone.
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9 minutes ago, closetojumping said:
I’ll be surprised if Texas is in on Alexander. Texas has its hands full on NIL already this spring.
Go on...
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26 minutes ago, austintiger said:
This program has never been elite under Pierce and it never will. Flame away but deep down you know I'm right.
Getting embarrassed in the CWS is not Elite baseball.
I know absolutely nothing about baseball but weren't we a run or so away from the final series two years ago? And might've beaten Sandy in the same way MSU did, given they wore out their arms?
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This is becoming very aggie. Duke should've won the title last year with a freshman dominated team. Jalen Suggs made a game winner in the final four two years ago. Alabama was the No. 1 overall seed thanks to a freshman. Just because Texas has had a string of tweener, long development curve forwards or defensive big men five stars doesn't mean they're worthless. Get old, stay old remains the maxim in the sport, but you don't see KU or Baylor or Gonzaga simply ignoring recruiting five star freshman.