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Rimbo

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  1. I moved to San Diego the same year the Super Bowl was here -- the first one that the Broncos won. Got to see that one live. 9 years later, I got to drive up to Pasadena and watch a defense he helped build win another championship, this time us. (The previous year's Rose Bowl win, where he was more directly involved, I got to see on TV.)

    Terrible way to go and too soon. RIP Greg.

  2. 1 hour ago, Laxtonto said:

    Shit like this is where I laugh the most about the stupidity of parents and their inability to really understand the risk involved. I get taking the $$ (to a point), but to be brazen enough in this day and age to brag about it is opening up yourself as a target for no good reason.

    Back in the day, everyone was willing to keep their mouths shut (mostly) and even if someone did pop off, it was local legend that really didn’t have an outlet to become “news” Now everything reverberates through the internet echo chamber and everything tied to the business of sport is considered newsworthy.
     

    Keep this up and at some point some high and mighty feeling former D2 or D3 athlete that is at a position of power in the IRS is going to start auditing parents over this. Once they hit on one, it becomes a pattern of abuse and then they can go after an entire teams class over 5 years.

    We just got done seeing the FBI wiretap college basketball coaches and place a sting around buying admission for students to high profile schools by the elite. You don’t think that using the IRS to investigate student athletes and their families is now consider out of bounds? 
     

    NIL is really interesting in this regards because it gives those in power a justification of why they are going after it now, when it’s always been there. They can claim that we let these things slide (much like tax evasion and it’s implications to the marijuana dispensaries and growers) because there wasn’t a legal mechanism in place to pay these kids. Now since there is, it’s not like we are taking $$ out of there pockets, just ensuring Uncle Sam gets his cut…

    I mean, this is wishful thinking.

    I LIKE it, but it's wishful thinking.

  3. 2 hours 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. 

    Those motherfuckers like it a lot, though. I don't see them going quietly into that good night, and remaining gatekeepers whenever they can. They got good at this.

    Not arguing against any of the points you're making, just pointing out that there'll be resistance for a while.

  4. 5 minutes ago, BachelorTrek said:

    No, but because *it's us*, there will be national backlash, and the sucking of Texas' gonads will be subsequently outlawed, even though it will be fine for anyone else in the SECSECSEC, because that's how it goes for us.  Lulz

    You seem like a pussy.

  5. Arky did to Pedo State what they'd been doing to everyone all year. That said, that last PSU interception was a boneheaded throw by the PSU QB. If he had instead thrown that ball to the running back, it'd been a touchdown -- that DB was only there to catch the int because he should've been covering the RB.

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    Edited by Rimbo

    27 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    I hate this fat fucking bitch  

    Such a sore fucking loser 

    He's not entirely wrong. I saw one of the funniest basketball plays, if not the funniest, I've ever seen today, where a WVU player was streaking down the court after a defensive rebound (Andrew Jones missing a 3-pt)... right before the 3-point line, he hurled it... to no one. There were 2 Texas players outside of an 8-foot radius of where he threw it, and nobody else but the crowd behind the basket. Cut to a photo of the WVU coach dying inside. Cut back to the WVU player dying inside, too. Laughed for a full 2 minutes at the absurdity.

    I think Huggy was thinkin' about that play when he said that. I know I sure as hell won't forget it any time soon. :D

    This is really my first time to watch Beard's team work, and I don't even recognize what we're doing from the years of Texas basketball I've watched. Between Penders' run and gun, to Barnes' defensive-focused play, to... I don't even know what Shaka was doing, seeing us run something resembling coordinated basketball on offense was new for me.

     

  7. 7 minutes ago, dcar00 said:

    Its still amazing we held on to him past year 4 with never once having a .500 record in conference.  I can't believe Texas had to live through Charlie Strong and Shaka Smart at the same fucking time.  

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