Posts posted by Brian Fantana
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6 hours ago, TwiceHorn said: Just a simple clarification. For the first time ever, schools can spend their own revenue, up to $21M, on payments to athletes.
The NIL model of compensation is not so limited. But it is ostensibly to be coupled to a NIL consideration and is not ostensibly directed by the university or team.
The NIL collective, which I think Campbell primarily employs, does kind of skirt the intent of NIL. But err'one uses em.
I know you're not necessarily saying this, but this always feels like another extension of "it's only wrong if Tech does it". If UT lines up a bunch of Lambos inside DKR when recruits show up, that's all above board.
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55 minutes ago, bolverk said: Pretty sure Brian Fantana, Slorch, and I have all voiced concerns about Morton this season. Slorch was pretty adamant, going back to late September, that Tech wasn’t going anywhere with him at QB. I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that the O-line was pretty suspect as well. On top of that, the playcalling was pretty bland all season for a Tech team. I did like how they ran the ball much better than before, but that part of the offense certainly fell apart today.
So, yeah, the offense was underwhelming despite the point differentials in all their wins, which we can safely now say was due to the stellar defense keeping everyone else out of the endzone. Oh, and Tech was terrible in the red zone this year. Weird problem for a Tech team to have, and they've got their work cut out for them during the offseason to make some changes on that side.
Pretty much. A competent QB makes this game completely different. It's a fixable problem.
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6 hours ago, Sal said: @Brian Fantana Anything you’d like to say?
Sure! Defense lived up to the bill for the most part, offense was dogshit. Not a big surprise. I've said like 900 times that I am not a fan of Morton and this game was pretty much entirely on him. Most Tech fans will probably tell you that they thought throwing all our eggs into the Morton basket was a mistake and hopefully it's one they learn from.
Didn't get to watch the 2nd half because I was driving. C'est la vie.
Not upset at all, sucks to end the season that way but get a real quarterback and this game is probably very different.
Please don't kys because I'm not blubbering about it that would be tragic.
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1 hour ago, satyanash said:
TCU actually beat Michigan to set up this game though. The lopsided nature of the final reflects more poorly on Michigan if anything.
No one would be castigating JMU and the G5 for getting slaughtered by Georgia in the final, because it means they would have gone through Oregon, Texas Tech and Alabama/Indiana to get there.
I hate defending TCU but this is always the dumbest shit that gets brought up. That Georgia team was all time great and TCU absolutely just shriveled in the moment. It's not like TCU got an easy path to get there, they had to beat the undefeated Big 10 champs to make it to that game.
Everyone was just a tier below Georgia at least that year.
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20 hours ago, South Austin said:
Yeah, I also really want to go, and need to get my act together soon because my daughter is a sophomore, so I have one, maybe two football seasons left (she might graduate a year early) to take in a father-daughter UO game in Eugene.
We had a home and home with Oregon but the game in Eugene got canceled for a number of reasons. I believe they're still intending to round out the home and home by 2029 or 2030, I hope I can make it up there.
18 hours ago, Pancho said:My conspiracy theory is they are trying to show they can compete with the big boys and are trying to get an SEC invite if the SEC and Big break off.
It's not really a conspiracy theory. Obviously, above all they just want to compete and win but we'd be foolish not to try and put ourselves in a strong bargaining position when re-alignment inevitably happens again. Anyone with the means and motivation would be doing the same.
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23 hours ago, South Austin said:
That's dope. I remember my days working in the Tech press box. We had a great time and that was long before they built all the cool stuff.
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It would be more accurate to say we were a QB away from playing a competitive game with Oregon on that side of the ball. He absolutely just fucked the game pretty much all by himself.