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  1. So just to add a bit to the lambo conversation

    A one year lease can come as "low" as 30k depending on the model. The university and collective are not paying for them. The marketing director of the dealership has talked about how this is purely a financial decision and how he's not a CFB or Texas fan. He also said that the program caught the attention Lamborghini HQ in Italy. The dealership is going into year three of this and have expanded the program over time, which would indicate they view it as a success. They also hired JWhitt as an intern for awhile. And their target audience isn't just the Austin market, it's all the NFL players that our players are now going to be around.

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  2. On 5/21/2024 at 2:29 PM, Tex Long said:

    Someone in the stats biz oughta break down passes into Air Yards and Ground Yards. Find out that 75 yard passing TD was 5 Air Yards and 70 Ground Yards, and the next one was 45 Air Yards and 2 Ground Yards...

     

    10 hours ago, Tex Long said:

    It is, but it doesn't get shown much, and Air Yards not at all. I'm fucking lazy, show it to me, don't make me go through the p-b-p to calculate it. 

     

    1 hour ago, Tex Long said:

    Looks like nice stuff. Ima go get a magnifier and see if I can read it. Thanks.

     

    45 minutes ago, Tex Long said:

    II'm using a desktop right now. I'm sitting with my face about 3 feet from a 40" screen. I can read the text okay, pumped up a couple CTRL+ times. But I can't read the text size in the image. I can probably save it and use irfanview to plow it up where I can read it, but I haven't done that yet. Putting eighty-lebben columns of data on one view doesn't help at all.

    I've been getting needles in the eyeballs monthly for oh, 5 or 6 years to fight off AMD, and it's a losing battle. I'll try to not complain so much.

    Thanks for the advice. Yes, I know there's a magnify function bult into the OS, and it sucks.

     

    31 minutes ago, Tex Long said:

    I get it, too. Like about 90% of what we see on Surly, it's a matter of my opinion is right and yours is wrong. Fire the coach and then quit posting for a week. Oh, and buy a new monitor.

    Incredible

  3. 55 minutes ago, LCHorn said:

    Ticket prices are set by demand, not labor costs…

    I’m specifically thinking of an increase to the seat gifts for season tickets. Like a portion of the gifts get set aside for revenue sharing or something. Demand is already much higher than supply so there’d be no issues if you’re limiting it to that basic economic perspective. 

  4. Also, the transfer portal is the elephant in the room. I don't think we can really know how this will affect the sport as a whole until there's a resolution on transfer rules. Compensation and mobility are too interrelated to look at one without the other. 

  5. 51 minutes ago, statsman said:

    The big unknown is how the $20M is to be allotted. Is it a Title IX style even spread across all sports, men’s and women’s? Or do schools get to allocate unevenly, based on revenue from each sport?

    If it’s the former, schools may decide that they’re not going into the roll for $20M each year so they can give 75% to non-revenue sports. If it’s the latter, I expect a bunch of dicey accounting to basically have the university pay it. Which is what schools do now when they do their annual federal filings about revenue and expenses. 
     
    Football drives the AD budgets. Schools don’t have to make money annually on athletics; it’s an economic winner long term. It keeps boosters engaged and giving, even to academic efforts, even at schools much smaller than UT. 
     
    Texas is one of a handful of schools where competitive funding of football at the highest level isn’t a problem. For the vast majority of FBS, they have been seeking a way to use university general funds to pay players, and now they have it. 

    I work in the UT system. The idea of "dicey accounting" is crazy. All budget related procedures (purchases, reimbursements, moving funds, etc.) are set by law and reviewed by disinterested third parties. Earlier this week I had an expense report kicked back because I typed 58 instead of 85 one one line item out of fifty, so my mileage was off by 30. If you want to look at all of UT's accounting procedures you can do so here.

    The sketchiness around college sports money has largely resided in the black market that is now being pushed into these regulated and public channels. Maybe at private schools that's different. And there are occasional scandals like the UT tennis coach, but that's not going to suddenly be the norm. A bunch of university administrators across the country aren't going to risk their careers to shuffle money to the football team. Some schools will move money to the AD, but it will be through normal channels and I don't think it'll happen until the 2026 season at the earliest. There's a lot of competition from different stakeholders for university funds. The AD is only one mouth that needs to be fed.

    In the near future, I think this is just going to shift collective donors to the AD, change AD budgets and capital projects, and, as someone else said, increase season ticket prices. 

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  6. 1 hour ago, statsman said:

    This is the only part I disagree with. Your statement is true for Texas and the handful of schools in a similar financial position. 
     
    For the other 100 FBS schools, that can’t scrape together $10M per year for football through a collective, this is a godsend. Now, they get to tap into university funding, instead of soliciting donors (although that will still happen for NIL). All they have to do is weather political criticism for state and national funding paying for football players (which they have always had to do, to a much lesser extent). 
     
    Spelling it out- let’s take UH as an example. Suppose their annual AD spending exactly matches all their revenue. Do you have any doubt that, now that it is allowed, they will budget $20M for athletes’ pay? I don’t. Where will the money come from, if revenue doesn’t increase? I believe it will come from the school. Does anyone believe that UH’s AD would say, “We’d like to spend the $20M for our athletes, but we don’t have the money, so we won’t. We’ll just let those players go to TCU and Baylor.”? I don’t. 

    This isn't how universities work. They're not going to quickly and casually shift $20M in funding. Most of their funds are already going to be encumbered through August at the very least and budgets will mostly be set for the following fiscal year. The AD is not the decision maker for the entire university budget. Many universities will not choose to shift such a large chunk of their revenue away from academics. Grants are a huge part of academic revenue and doing so will put them at a competitive disadvantage for applying. The schools that choose to shift money from academics to players will need some time to do so. It'll be a couple seasons.

    If it were to happen, I imagine it will mostly be cuts to AD positions and capital projects. Or it will be a result of increased donations from people that didn't like paying NIL to players but are open to doing it through this. 

  7. Spoilered text from the tweet. Poster is a UF booster so probably some bias

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    Often been reported that Rashada's UF NIL contract allowed either side to terminate it at ANY time for ANY reason. This is probably why it's not plead as a simple "breach of contract" case. VERY important distinction. Instead, it looks like a "tortious interference of contract" case, which means the underlying claim is that Rashada was "defrauded" out of his $9 million Miami NIL contract by people at UF who never had any intention of honoring a UF deal. This seems ridiculous to claim and impossible to prove, since clearly UF wanted Rashada to play for UF. Especially, if alleged, Rashada was given $150k to help get out of the Miami deal. What, UF people gave him $150k just to trick him out of his Miami deal but NOT to play for UF? Nonsense, he was not "defrauded" out of the Miami deal -- his family chose that path. Moral of the story is to never walk away from life-changing money for green(d)er pastures. The Rashada family clearly should have had an attorney advising them at the time and reviewing all contracts. No lawyer would have let them voluntarily leave a binding $9 million deal to sign one that could be terminated at will at any time. That's not a contract... it's a worthless piece of paper. UF exercised their option to terminate the deal BEFORE he signed a letter of intent, so he was free to sign elsewhere and get any deal he could... including Miami and the same $9 million deal... although one could understand why Ruiz may have not wanted any part of him by then. It sounds like the UF deal was terminated due to misunderstandings over compensation and exactly where it would come from. "Misunderstanding" is a LONG way from fraud.

     

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  8. My god people, Burt said his evals for lower ranked guys are an open question. And he acknowledged Cam is going to start this year and that will probably answer the question. 

    Huston/Robertson/Agbo played poorly or in niche roles - which is perfectly fine given youth and what was asked of them. Jones isn't a Flood eval. 

    It's fair to say this is a question. It's not a concern, just a question. 

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  9. 4 hours ago, Reynolds Woodcock said:

     

     

    It’s been pretty fun to watch this board do a complete 180 on Bo Davis in the span of a few months. College football fandom at its finest. 

     

    3 hours ago, Reynolds Woodcock said:

    lol. That was absolutely not the consensus on this board 12 months ago. The consensus was that Bo was knocking it out of the park with underrated gems like Sydir Mitchell, Jaray Bledsoe, Aaron Bryant, Kris Ross and others, and that any gnashing of teeth about our future DT depth chart was nothing but histrionics. It's fine, it's what fans of college football recruiting do. 

     

    38 minutes ago, Reynolds Woodcock said:

    Yes, I agree.

    Here are a few gems from the 2023 thread just from using our shitty search function for less than 5 minutes:

     

    "few months" -> "12 months" -> 2 years ago

    If you're going to keep arguing on this, would you mind providing a consistent opinion? Bo came in with a great reputation as a recruiter (deservedly so) and people were happy with the '22 class. In the last 12/few/whatever time frame you want to set, the consensus changed as we signed bad classes. 

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  10. 2 hours ago, Reynolds Woodcock said:

    lol. That was absolutely not the consensus on this board 12 months ago. The consensus was that Bo was knocking it out of the park with underrated gems like Sydir Mitchell, Jaray Bledsoe, Aaron Bryant, Kris Ross and others, and that any gnashing of teeth about our future DT depth chart was nothing but histrionics. It's fine, it's what fans of college football recruiting do. 

    Here's what I remember from the classes

    2022: Bledsoe, Ross, Bryant, Swanson

    - Amidst 5-7, we had bigger issues to worry about than recruiting, but it was a good class overall. DE was the bigger issue because we still had DT talent on campus. Bledsoe and Ross were good developmental takes, Bryant set a good floor, Swanson was questionable. A-

    2023: Mitchell

    - Mitchell was a good get, but we needed more than one. Bo caught a lot of criticism for missing on DJ Hicks and guys like Markis Deal. It wasn't a great DT class but everyone knew the class was too small. C+

    2024: Hills, January, Robinson

    - We knew coming into the year that we needed a big class and it had to have a couple studs. January and Hills are fine, but we had advantages in those recruitments. Robinson was great, but we needed another stud to pair with him. Bo caught a LOT of of flack for missing on McKinley, Jonah-Ajonye, Jackson, Smith, Blocton, Faga, Hibbler, and Lindsey. A bunch of those weren't even his fault, but we all knew the class wasn't good enough after only taking one in '23. C+

    Point is, the consensus was definitely not that Bo was knocking it out of the park with underrated gems. Yes, people said he had good evals, but also that DT was the worst-recruited position on the roster. There's also been discussion about the changing recruiting landscape. A lot of the misses were NIL choices/whiffs. Even this portal cycle there has been talk about how resources were reallocated towards DT. 

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  11. 7 minutes ago, Wayne said:

     

    CJ/OTF: 

    Texas will host San Jose State CB Jayvion Cole for a visit Thursday he confirms with OTF.

    Cole tells me the trip to Austin will be his first visit since entering the portal Monday afternoon.

    Auburn is another team that is expected to receive a visit, though no date has been set at the moment. Cole also mentioned he is unsure if he will visit Michigan State, despite receiving an offer from the Spartans this morning.

    Cole saw 672 snaps last year for SJSU where he allowed 22 receptions on 48 targets for a 45.8% completion percentage. The 5-foot-11 cornerback also hauled in three interceptions and allowed just one touchdown on the season.

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  12. 1 hour ago, closetojumping said:

    Yeah, not to sniff our own farts here, but I feel like this forum has a consensus of posters who understand this premise regarding the trenches. It plays well across the board, but the rankings aren't nearly as bad as the positions expand away from the ball. 

    You mention the aggie 2023 class and we all absolutely lampooned what they were doing with the OL during that cycle. I don't know how we could have been more accurate and how Fisher's crew could have been more wrong. The opposite of "trust the coaches", which Liucci and the aggie poster-base were absolutely parroting to each other. 

    -Chase Bisontis: A top 100 recruit from NJ being ignored by regional powers like PSU, OSU, and Michigan. We felt he was slow-footed and bad bodied. ATM talking heads touted him as an OT. We laughed. Also, one of the aggiest looking aggies to have ever aggied. Results so far? Had one of the worst performances at OT in all of D1 last season. People posted clips of his ineptitude on Twitter to drive follower engagement because of the comedic value they created. Tried to transfer immediately, aggies just overpaid to keep him. Elko immediately moved him to guard, where he may or may not ever see the field again.

    -Colton Thomasson: A 6'8" 350 OG prospect that only ATM ever pushed for and the guy committed almost two years ahead of signing day. The classic aggie diehard bust. Shockingly, a 6'8" guard had some issues, the guy never cracked the depth chart and now he's in the portal, probably landing somewhere like Texas State or UTEP. 

    -TJ Shanahan: This guy finished that class ranked as the #19 player in the nation on Rival's list. We laughed hard then and I laugh hard now. Every major program did what they could to avoid taking this guy without alienating the HS staff, UT more than anyone. Early in his recruitment, when all lists had him in the top 100 for some absurd reason, he was telling recruiting media that he was heading out of state to one of the major programs in the southeast, maybe Miami. Cristobal is a starfucker and an imbecile, but he knows OL and, despite Shanahan being really, really interested in committing, wouldn't take his commitment. Shanahan held his nose and committed to ATM. Someone good at it should find the Liucci takes on this recruitment from that cycle because when they took his commitment, the smugness in which that dipshit touted the take was both hilarious and nauseating. Results: per their gurus, the guy is "a few years away". I'm kind of surprised he isn't portaling this cycle. 

    -Naquil Bertrand: An OT prospect that no program within his regional vicinity cared much for, and the aggies took because, hey, they needed some bodies on the OL. Never did anything and subsequently transferred with the coaching change, somehow winding up at Bama. I guess they needed a body too or something. 

    2 transfers, 1 completely lost former starter, and 1 guy buried on a weakly talented OL depth chart. That is the kind of shit that blows a hole through the middle of a roster. If anyone wants to be entertained, they should go back and look at that entire recruiting class. It's not been very long and you can still tell it is going to be an albatross on that program. That cycle's transfers in are also really piss poor. It's glorious.

    Elko seems to have overcorrected from Jimbo's cube approach by only taking 270lb guys, though I imagine that's actually just a result of A&M not having a competitive pitch in recruiting right now. 

     

  13. Here are Alex Dunlap's deep digs for the spring game

    Offense

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    OL Grades (Spring Game)

    LT Kelvin Banks - 28 snaps

    No disruption allowed
    DEEP DIG GRADE: 81

    LT Trevor Goosby - 31 snaps

    1 sack, 1 TFL allowed
    DEEP DIG GRADE: 77.58

    LT Jayden Chatman - 27 snaps

    No disruption allowed
    DEEP DIG GRADE: 77.85

    LG/C Hayden Conner - 47 snaps

    2 run-stuffs allowed
    1 false start penalty
    1 knockdown
    DEEP DIG GRADE: 76.28

    LG Cole Hutson - 23 snaps

    1 run-stuff, 1 TFL allowed
    DEEP DIG GRADE: 73.83

    LG Malik Agbo - 21 snaps

    1 QB hit, 1 run-stuff allowed
    DEEP DIG GRADE: 74.05

    C Jake Majors - 28 snaps

    No disruption allowed
    DEEP DIG GRADE: 78.5

    C Conner Roberston - 34 snaps

    1 QB hit, 1 pressure, 1 TFL allowed
    DEEP DIG GRADE: 74.41

    C Daniel Cruz - 17 snaps

    No disruption allowed
    DEEP DIG GRADE: N/A

    RG DJ Campbell - 44 snaps

    No disruption allowed
    DEEP DIG GRADE: 79.18

    RG Neto Umeozulu - 23 snaps

    2 TFLs, 1 run-stuff, 1 QB hit, 1 sack allowed
    DEEP DIG GRADE: 70.22

    RG/LG Connor Stroh - 15 snaps

    1 TFL allowed
    DEEP DIG GRADE: N/A

    RT Cam Williams - 46 snaps

    1 sack allowed
    1 knockdown, 1 pin
    DEEP DIG GRADE: 79.57

    RT/RG Andre Cojoe - 44 snaps

    1 sack, 1 TFL, 1 pressure allowed
    DEEP DIG GRADE: 75.68

    RT Brandon Baker - 36 snaps

    No disruption allowed
    DEEP DIG GRADE: 79.89

    Hayden Conner played in this game about like he played in the 2023 season, which isn't exactly encouraging. 2023 was a down year for Conner because of the constant run-stuffs allowed (18 allowed in the 2023 regular season versus only 5 allowed for the entirety of 2022). The hope is that 2023 was a one-year-type of outlier for Conner who could have been playing hurt or simply ended up on the wrong side of variance. That could still be the case, but he'll need to play better this fall than he did in the spring game in order to match the level of play we'll see from the other four guys. It's pretty clear at this point that Conner is the weakest link of the Texas starting OL.

    You can take that however you'd like, but we'd suggest that it should be encouraging that a player of Conner's level (who scored perfectly fine in the Deep Dig grading) is the weak link of the Texas OL. Heck, in recent years, scoring a 76-ish score on the week might have landed a guy at the top of that week's best-graded players. Things were bad and Texas didn't get back to the position it is currently in by playing at that level. Clearly the OL has come a long way.

    And as Texas fans, you wonder how it can be improved even further and you'll ask about Neto Umeozulu who worked in with the first group at LG during some of spring ball. To that we'd say that Neto seems to be working (based on the spring game) exclusively at RG for now. And that shouldn't matter if a player needed to step in and replace Conner for any reason -- guards can easily move from side to side. That's the least of any issues anyone might have with Neto entering into the starting lineup any time soon. The biggest issue is that he doesn't look ready and never has. He had trouble moving laterally in the spring game, gave up leverage in the run game constantly, got his body weight out over the balls of his feet in pass protection and he still needs to really work on his punch placement.

    There are some things to really like about Neto, but he doesn't look that much different in the spring of 2024 than he did in the fall of 2023 where he played 47 snaps in mop-up duty and allowed four run stuffs and committed one penalty. That's disruption allowed at a once-per-every-9.4-snap clip. Over the course of an entire season, that would be the most disruption allowed per snap ever charted in the Deep Dig out of 76 total Texas OL who played at least 100 snaps in a season. It would have been nice to see a spring game out of Neto that led you to believe he had worked his way through a lot of that stuff, but it isn't the case. We're going to have to keep waiting on him to come around, and if anything were to happen to one of the starting guards, Cole Hutson, at this time, would likely be the better option to step in.

    And we've already seen one player who's showing he's the better option at a key position on the two-deep: Brandon Baker. He wasn't the second-team RT behind Cam Williams to start the spring game (he was working at RT3 all spring), but through the game, it felt like Baker simply morphed into the primary backup at right tackle. Andre Cojoe moved inside to right guard early in the scrimmage, and that's likely where he'll stay, taking over the role of Payton Kirkland who has transferred to Colorado. Cojoe's foot speed is better suited to play at guard for now. Once he moved inside, he didn't allow any more disruption -- and coupled with Baker over there (who played a very clean game and really looked the part technique-wise for a player who some thought was a little "raw" to start spring ball), it made for a much more stable unit.

    It's going to be tough losing Kelvin Banks after the 2024 season, but with guys like Trevor Goosby and Brandon Baker looking like they are taking the kinds of steps forward that they are, the offensive line should continue to have bedrock pieces to lean on, even in a time coming soon when guys like Kelvin Banks and DJ Campbell are playing in the NFL.

    Defense

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    Quick Hits and Thoughts

    - When Alfred Collins scores a pick-six on one of his 4 defensive snaps in the ball game, of course he's likely to be the team leader in production and his snaps-per-production caused is going to be absolutely wild, being such a small sample, there's not much we can take from it except that Collins was Johnny on the Spot and capitalized on a monster play during his limited playing time.

    - The opposite side of variance can be applied to Barryn Sorrell, who also didn't play much in the game, but in so doing, had a missed tackle to pair with one assist which left him in the negative-production tier. Sorrell is one of the best players on the Texas defense, of course, so his bad score here in the system should be taken with a grain of salt. Anthony Hill didn't play much, either nor David Gbenda. Through the course of a real game, we know that Hill, and to a lesser degree, Gbenda, will be more productive and efficient than what we saw in the scrimmage.

    - The real story of the spring game was the edge-rush play across both squads, even in the absence of stud transfer Trey Moore, who did not play. Collin Simmons (who was technically on the white team at the BUCK end, but played virtually all his snaps with the ones) and Colton Vasek (who played the JACK DE role for the white team more than any other player) were major standouts both volume and efficiency wise. Simmons was slightly better efficiency-wise and proved to be a guy who looks like he'll simply have to play this year, and possibly a lot. Simmons had a sack on Cam Williams with a speed rush as well as two separate QB "hits" that could have fairly easily been called as sacks as well as an additional QB pressure to tack on to one run-stuff, one solo tackle and two assists. He was everywhere, and it wasn't always against backup OLs. Vasek had his own coming out party with two sacks (he was only credited with one by the staff, but definitely did touch the QB before the ball left his hands on another play), 2 TFLs and one additional solo tackle.

    - On top of this, Tausili Akana is a name we don't mention much, but he showed some real zip off the edge getting one sack on his own and getting in on another played blown dead with Wardell Mack in the backfield. Zina Omeozulu (who played at both the JACK and the BUCK through the scrimmage) had a TFL, a run-stuff, a PBU and an assisted tackle on just 28 snaps and would have been more in the total production tier of Akana had he not committed two penalties (one illegal hands to the face against Trevor Goosby on the Thatcher Milton TD and one facemask deep in the second half).

    - Jelani McDonald had one horrible open-field whiff on Ky Woods that you may remember, but was largely solid and downright impressive at times other than that. He tattooed Amari Niblack on one play and had three solo tackles in total as well as the game-ending INT which, admittedly, did juice his score a good bit.

    - Michael Taaffe, Xavier Filsaime, Wardell Mack, Gavin Holmes and Terrence Brooks all had coverage burns. Anyone who watched the spring game was thrilled with the QB play of Arch Manning and Trey Owens, but it came with some trouble on the back end. But it wasn't all miscommunications and screw-ups like we saw with Brooks early on in the Manning bomb to Deandre Moore or the Wardell Mack botched assignment with Jordon Johnson-Rubell on the red-zone TD to Ryan Wingo out of the slot (BTW-WINGO IN THE SLOT, GUYS?!) Sometimes guys just got run by and burned the old-fashioned way.

    - Kobe Black was a definite bright spot. He was targeted in coverage 4 times and only allowed one completion while also getting a nice pick. We should be on the lookout for Black to get on a Manny Muhammad-like path to heavy run during his freshman season. Terrence Brooks was not horrible in the spring game, but the same issues we saw in 2023 continue: he's good until he's not. In this game, he was bad at first and then pretty good the rest of the way. He, as usual, had one of the more impressive completion percentages allowed when clearly targeted in the spring game (25% - tied for best among outside CBs with Black) just like he did in the 2023 regular season (41% - team-best among outside CBs). But it's the coverage burns that got him last year and he needs to be more consistent in 2024 about giving up these huge chunk plays. He was burned once every 81 snaps in the 2023 season which was second-worst only behind Ryan Watts (74) among outside CBs, whereas Manny Muhammad (362) and Gavin Holmes (281) were much less prone to the big blowups.

    - With the addition of Trey Moore and the emergence of pass-rushers of all stripes and positions on the depth chart (along with a full summer and fall camp to get things cleaned up on the back end - including time to develop for guys like Black), one lesson the spring game may have taught us on defense is that we may actually see pressure on the opposing QB that acts as a crutch in helping out the secondary in its coverage schemes. It's been a while since we could say something like that about the edge-rush at Texas.

    Onward to the offense.

    I like the OL notes and the commentary on Terrance Brooks, which was written before he entered the portal. 

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  14. 1 hour ago, closetojumping said:

    So on the aggie 247 site, they're having a discussion about the staff changes within the AD. Some guys come on and start talking negatively about the changes that actually need to be made in order for their culture to grow out of the dark ages it has been stuck in since forever. In the spoiler, I did not change to plain text so that you can get the payoff of the image.

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    GWALLEY said... (original post) Most players and coaches like JMo but I could give a ***** about that guy. He was a yes man. Kinda worried about the NIL guy because we were finall...
    Does UT have one of these siphoning money off their fund and stopping anyone banned on his site from contributing? Some of you guys spill his money out of your glass on game days. Maybe stop placating the db and run his **** out of AU. Might be surprised how many more will contribute.
     
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    We've discussed this previously, but it is becoming clear to me as I get a feel for the various posters that there is a real undercurrent of disdain for Liucci in some aggie booster corners. @Tex Pete and I, among others but us very loudly, have been complaining and pointing to the Texags/12thMF/Aggie AD connections for years. These fuckers are intertwined and Texags is used in a number of ways by the school. Texags was allegedly involved with the money laundering going on in order to pay players during the bag game run, but I don't know if that is true or not. The problem is that I could see it happening, which speak to the incestual corruption. 

    Here are other guys with some added thoughts. These quoted posters seem like they're at least functioning adults with less myopia than others around them.

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    GWALLEY said... (original post) Most players and coaches like JMo but I could give a ***** about that guy. He was a yes man. Kinda worried about the NIL guy because we were finall...

    "Then make a secondary or preferred way to donate without TA. Duh. They will have to eventually, because otherwise they will never get some or all the money they could except for being stupid, stubborn, and myopic. Good grief."

     

    GWALLEY

    "I get it guys and I don’t like muff chin and he knows it. I truly don’t believe he makes any money off hosting the site other than the sponsorship. @rayray can hopefully clarify. I know we are behind UT by a bit and just don’t see BL being a reason to not to donate."

     

    Aggie Orgy

    GWALLEY said... (original post) I get it guys and I don’t like muff chin and he knows it. I truly don’t believe he makes any money off hosting the site other than the sponsorship. ...

    "TexAgs is a microcosm of the issues that have plagued our AD and our university. Running the NIL through their site just further entrenches that.

    It is ironic given the fact that many on this site are celebrating the changes."

     

    Wait, I never knew that their collective is run by/through TexAgs, but it's true. That's incredible.

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    And the part about all the people Liucci bans not being able to contribute is hilarious. 

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  15. As best I can tell, Davis entered the portal in January with a do-not-contact tag, but has never released a top schools list or anything. I'm not even sure he's taken visits. He practiced with the team during the spring but there hasn't been any news that he withdrew from the portal. 

    PFF has him as the #4 returning corner in the country, two spots above Jabbar Muhammad. 

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  16. 1 hour ago, Getafix said:

     

     

    Shotput, I believe.

    As for being really good, well ... this post from Aggie 247 puts that in perspective.

    Brutal.

     

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    I don't pretend to know anything about shot put or discus but according to Foster's T&F bio, he threw 71'1" (21.7 meters) as a senior in high school. Gatorade player of the year and #1 prospect in the country. His best throw at A&M was 64'9" (19.7m) to make NCAA championship honorable mention in 2022. It makes sense he would stall out by trying to play both sports, but that still seems kinda brutal. At least John Burt was winning conference championships and All-American awards in track. 

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  17. 6 minutes ago, Frank Drebin said:

    I will make sure to bump this thread and the one on Maalik in December.  We will see who is right.  I am not expecting much out of our 6th string running back who is 5'10" and 240 pounds with a fat gut.  Or the quarterback who makes Garrett Gilbert look accurate and poised in the pocket.  But for some weird reason you are a big fan boy of JAGs who transfer.

    But let me check to make sure I understand you.  You think Maalik is going to be good at Duke.  I don't.

    I also think Wisner is much, much better than Red.  You don't.

    Is that right?  Or is there some other point you were making here?

    he was saying that your Red take is obvious

    Edit: I think. Or maybe not. Maybe there's other context

  18. Alright well I went ahead and subbed to OTF

    @immamac their premium posts are showing on the home page feed but not on the individual forums like football and 9.95

    also if there could be a way to get back to surly from OTF that would be dope but I can see why that might be a nonstarter. Maybe a header button that only shows up for treefiddy members? 

  19. 1 hour ago, Burt Macklin said:

    Why is it shocking? He came in super raw, and he’s only in his second year. Guys like him take time, and he has a bunch of 4th year guys ahead of him.
     

    He wouldn’t be if Broughton was at practice. He’s also one of two true NTs on the roster, so that probably has something to do with it. He’s likely going to get pushed down when we add another guy who can play NT in the coming weeks. 

    Not to nitpick but Bledsoe is a third year now

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