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Brian Fantana

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  1. Busy but I appreciate your perspective.
  2. Idk man, at least in Buttigieg's case, going on a prominent liberal podcast and running an obvious smoke screen for the second Holocaust that we're actively funding and supporting with weapons of war is kind of not ok and saying we should not hold his feet to the fire over it seems like a real shitty opinion.
  3. I'm gonna need to see some analysis or hard numbers to believe this. Progressives fucking hate Jill Stein. The vast majority of people that sat out were previous Biden voters that felt disaffected.
  4. Baron Batch. I don't think he was quite NFL caliber ultimately but he is a good dude. Also Welker wasn't a back idk what slorch meant by that.
  5. Lol he actually did it
  6. I'd have to agree, I got to Tech as a freshman in Leach's first year.
  7. My paternal grandfather was good friends with (and occasional legal advice giver to) DKR and they talked about pay for play stuff occasionally, I know from his direct testimony that DKR was against it, at least that's what was always conveyed to him. However, he would also talk about how there was a lot of "dealing" aka the $100 handshake you refer to that was basically impossible to police. I wish I could find the framed picture I have of the two of them golfing. I haven't seen that damn thing in 15 years and I can't imagine where it is.
  8. I think you should probably just stop being so sensitive about it. The only meaning it even has, if true, is that Texas is deadly serious about having the best roster in college football, and anyone that considers that a negative is a fucking idiot that probably believes that Alabama had a 2-deep full of NFL talent all those years because everyone's parents just really, really loved Nick Saban.
  9. I understand that. The article also infers that a number of people across the college football landscape believe the number is at least close to accurate. You didn't answer my question.
  10. Why is it bullshit? And why do you seem to take it as a slight? If you've got it, flaunt it, and you guys clearly have. Do you really believe that all your football players are there for the love of UT? I don't believe you're actually that delusional. It's not likely an exact figure will ever be known, but it doesn't seem like he's the only person that thinks Texas is spending big. And it's not like there's anything wrong with that, it just is what it is.
  11. Seems like a legitimate sampling and not at all biased in any way.
  12. I would add on the flip side even on Heisman, defending the run is way too easy.
  13. Didn't have stanning for Schumer on my bingo card today, but we all know why 956 is doing it.
  14. I mean that's all fair, but it's perfectly fine for a late teen/early 20s guy. I wouldn't want to live there now, but I had a great time as a college student and so does pretty much everyone else that goes there. Pretending DFW is some kind of massive upgrade for a college student that only cares about playing football and fucking is silly.
  15. See, what you're not understanding here is that our positions are not at odds here. What I mean is, you're not wrong at all that Tech has never known shit about having a winning football program, and I don't personally think the Tech AD was ever serious about having a good football team (and I've held that position in my head for literally decades) until very recently. The proof was in the pudding for a long time. To begin with, our facilities were subpar as hell for a long, long time and nobody seemed to give a shit. Jones Stadium was always pretty loud and rowdy, but in reality it was a total piece of shit with fucking astroturf and crappy seating that would fall apart every game with the students jumping on them and shit and the football facility and practice facilities were total bullshit and high schoolish, straight up. They actually got serious at some point about renovating it and attaching a state-of-the-art football facility to it and now it's actually quite nice. I got to tour the Womble football center and it really is second to none, they spared no expense, it's incredible. It had better be for all the money they spent on it. Even after all that, the program really was just treading water the same as it did before, with maybe some superficial/marginal improvements in recruiting etc. under McGuire. Cody Campbell, of course, had also revamped the Matador Club, put in place the "base salary" or whatever you want to call it for all players, and all that jazz. But, of course, it wasn't nearly enough. The real "turning point", I guess you could call it, was when the BMDs got fed up and sat down with the head coach, James Blanchard (GM) and Cody Campbell and were like "seriously, what the fuck do you guys need to compete, if you can present us with a comprehensive plan for the next X years, you'll have all the money and resources you need". From what I understand, all of this was very recent, as in toward the end of last season recent, and the idea is to follow the same model that Ohio State/Texas/etc are following from a recruiting/NIL standpoint. They know it's going to cost a lot of money, and they don't care. So basically, yeah, you're not wrong. Tech has never been serious about football until now. That's just the plain truth, as you stated. And of course, there's no guarantee it will work out how we want in the long run, I think everyone knows that, Hell, I don't think any Tech fan is sure about McGuire, but the alternative is to just sit back and continue not really trying at all and hoping to eke out upsets here and there like we have done for the past 900 years or whatever, but that seems to have become an untenable position for the money men. Considering how well we have turned around the basketball program from what it was less than 10 years ago, I have at least a little hope that things will improve on the football front to a point where I can actually get excited about football again, which hasn't been the case for quite some time now. We shall see.
  16. Ok but who cares? The answer is: not our donors. Like, of fucking course we're going to have to pay more to get a top recruit, that's obvious. We don't have the history or brand recognition. That shit takes time and wins. Time is free, but how do you get the wins? You need to get players. How do you get players? You pay them. Everyone pays. If we have to pay a bit more then we'll do it because we have the money. It's a really simple calculus that any GM could make in his sleep, and given how many times much bigger brands have tried to poach Blanchard just in the last couple of years, it seems like he's doing something right. Do you think it's an accident that Texas seems to be paying the most football NIL out of anyone? That's how Ohio State won a title, and Texas wants to do the same. It seems like a good idea to me. If you really, actually want to win, you have to do all the things Tech has been doing. Invest in great facilities, pay your players, the only aspect that the jury's still out on is the coach. If he can't produce, we'll pay someone else, and I guarantee you we won't make the same mistakes aggy did. It's like I said earlier, we're very obviously trying to follow the Texas model because it's a good model, and of course there's going to be a lot of catch-up involved. You can't close a gap like that overnight, and hell maybe you can't close it period, but you can definitely get a lot closer. Either way it'll be fun to watch it all play out.
  17. You don't recognize Kevin Hart and Will Ferrell? Fuck you stole my joke.
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