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  1. I listen on apple podcasts and the ads are insane there too, but they're uploading the audio without any ads except for their sponsored reads? I don't notice randomly interjected ads on other pods I listen to 

  2. 6 hours ago, immamac said:

    Free only for now would you like the paid stuff to show? I thought that would be frustrating but it may be a good advertising tool with the blurb of the title and premium tag. 

    Personally, I'd be more likely to go get a premium OTF sub if the paid articles were on the feed because I'd be able to access them from here without going to a separate site 

  3. 49 minutes ago, boilerhorn said:

    Tangentially related.

    csb?
    On Sunday, Uber from airport to NW Austin was $75.  WTF?  Tried Lyft: $43.  OK great.  Driver opens trunk to load up my bags and I see he's packing a 9mm - clearly visible.  I proceed to ask about it.  Open carry proponent?  Past incidents?  Nope.  Just finished police academy and is waiting for a position in (formerly rural now a suburb of Austin) ISD for next year.  OK.  Proceeds to tell me about moving from Brooklyn, his family, damn near everything about his life.  I am sure I contributed because I asked a few questions.  "Oh, you drove for a delivery company that delivered to Brooklyn, Staten, and Jersey.  Did you ever drive through Manhattan?"  "I fucking hate Manhattan.  My last GF wanted me to take her on a date there and I refused."  etc.  He moved here to get better work in a better weather environment (as most are, I guess).  I still wonder if $75 might have been a better deal, but I contributed to my own discomfort.
    /csb?

     

    In NOLA for the sugar bowl this past year I ordered an Uber and he had a pistol just sitting in the front passenger seat. Don’t know what make/model/whatever. Panicked for like a split second then just nudged it over to get in and he was like oh whoops and put it away. Normal ride otherwise and can’t say I blame the guy driving around NOLA on new years 

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  4. 29 minutes ago, immamac said:

    They pay NIL for these? 

    Sorry, I don't mean that they're being paid for the appearance. I have no inside info but from my google, Shuley started CFC and has helped with TOF in some way so he's tied in. And the guys they've brought in were Hill, Moore (Shuley talked about starting the food truck), Cook, etc. from the '23 class and now Simmons from '24 plus a number of vets that we know have had at least some kind of NIL support. So my guess is it's TOF-adjacent, not that they're being paid for their appearance itself. 

  5. It's getting too late in the cycle to not have some calculator discussion

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    This isn't meant to be a class prediction. Some of the guys were added as placeholders because I don't know where our board is but I imagine we'll land some guys in the range of their ratings. A class above 300 points is safely top 5 and usually top three. 304.17 would fall in line with Sark's other high school classes like so: 2024< 2022 < 2025 < 2023. 

  6. 1 hour ago, bejezuz said:

    See for yourself:

     

    I thought he handled himself well in the interview.  I'm not worried at all about his commitment to the team.  

    This felt like the first 3&L interview that was just a bunch of softball PR questions for an NIL guy. I mean, I know all the players on there are getting NIL (which is a good data point), but Blue's not as polished as the other guys and there's more off-the-field stuff that just got glossed over. 

  7. 2 hours ago, closetojumping said:

    I feel like weve been as clear as we can since December on a lot of this. There’s been a reserve in case the right few guys entered the portal. 2 DTs. They may not wind up with any, but I think at least one is a better bet. They also know of a punter.

    2-3 guys from the portal, plus Auburn, gets you to 92-93 guys with an 85 man limit and hardly any dead weight. Now some of you dorks can start worrying about the numbers. 

    I wonder if we see Silas Bolden reopen his recruitment at some point 

  8. 2 hours ago, BurntOrange&White said:

    OTF has said they're seeing some looks this year in spring they didn't see last year from Texas and experimenting with one high looks....they believe this is coming from Nansen.

    PK ran a ton of single high at UW. I've been waiting for us to install it. When we hired him I actually thought that BJ Foster was going to kill it as the box safety (oof). I think he's just been limited by having so little reliable athleticism at DB so far. 

    I'm hoping that the combination of corners who can be trusted more than 15 yards downfield and Derek Williams lets the defense evolve in similar way to the offense last year; that is, the coordinator can finally run their full playbook. 

    Side note: I see people talking about Wisner being a good fit for the "Keilan role." The Keilan role isn't really a unique position. Sark is going to use a variety of motion and screen concepts for lots of his skill players. It was only limited to Keilan the first two years because X was our only good receiver, so he needed to be running down the field, and it was more important to use Bijan/Rojo as traditional RBs. Once we added Mitchell last year, X was able to eat up Keilan's snaps. Next year I'd expect Bond, Blue, Wingo and others to all be able to fill that. I hope Wisner gets some PT, but it won't because he's put into a special Keilan role position.

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  9. They're both fine landing spots. Let's just not get carried away with ideas about guys buying in to a 2 QB class because of an imaginary option to transfer to a spot of their choosing. As transfers, guys are more likely to start at a place like Duke then transfer up than they are to be backups at a place like Texas and transfer laterally. Case in point: Hudson Card almost went to Notre Dame but they ultimately went with Sam Hartman. 

  10. 38 minutes ago, Reynolds Woodcock said:

    I think NCAA will enforce whatever the SEC and Big 10 want/allow them to enforce. Making transfers sit out a year absent a head coaching change or real family issue seems like a reasonable way to curb the rampant player poaching/transfers. Probably not a good thing for Texas since at the moment we are a net winner of the current landscape.

    I don't think that's up to the NCAA and conferences. Unlimited transfers are allowed because a court found they were in violation of antitrust laws. They'll have to find a way to do this legally before anything else. 

  11. Week 5! 

    Final Score: Texas 40 - Baylor 14

    AP Ranking Before: 3

    Highlights

    Every Play

    Broadcast

    AP Ranking After: 3

    Postgame Articles

    This was a weird game with Jalon Daniels being a very late scratch. It went from being a fun test to a near-cupcake game an hour before kickoff. Jonathan Brooks had a great game with 200+ yards as he tried to follow in Bijan's 4 TD performance against the Jayhawks last year. Quinn also threw for 300+ and had another long TD run. On the negative side, two of our season-long issues continued to plague us: red zone offense and a deep shot from Jason Bean. 

  12. 3 hours ago, closetojumping said:

     

    1) When the groups come together in order to set salary caps, they will establish steep costs for violating the salary cap. This won't be a black market. Anyone trying to establish one will be punished by the collective org. That's basic shit when a market is transparent yet closed. Corruption can occur only within short windows. 

    2) Players will still get compensated outside of that for NIL. 

    Item 1 presumes that a metric fuckton of things would have to happen in order for 1 to come to fruition. Conferences would have to find a way to align and anoint a commission or commission who would have unchecked power and they would all have to agree to that role and responsibility. If they can never do this, 1 never happens and it doesn't matter.  

    Item 2 exists now and won't be changing. People can call it what they want and whine about it if it doesn't serve their purpose, but no one is going to be preventing a player from getting endorsements in whatever form they manifest. They'll be getting run over repeatedly if they try to limit it.  

    If folks want to understand how this will all shakeout between the conferences, programs, players, and media deals, they should read a book or two on game theory. A lot of this shit is going to play out in paint-by-numbers fashion once framed in that context. My view is that nothing is going to change this from the "wild west" until the conferences and schools are able to "give" some of the media revenue pie to the collective of players within those conferences. That is a long walk from here. The SEC can't just tell its 16 members that they are all now required to give a certain percentage of their money to the players on campus. Anyone looking for something expeditious is fucked. I think Saban ultimately came to this realization. Alabama is fucked on NIL for the rest of his lifetime. Praise the Lord that that stay true.

    On the topic of reading materials to frame what's happening, I would throw out Essence of Decision. It's a breakdown of the Cuban missile crisis through three lenses: rational choice (the heart of game theory), organizational processes, and bureaucratic politics. I'm attaching a PDF of a journal article published by the authors. I highlighted the most important parts of the models and the portions that apply them to the missile crisis. 

    That said, resource dependence theory is my personal favorite way to understand the NIL landscape. 

    surly missile crisis.pdf

  13. 4 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

    Tyler Owens is from Plano.

    Sorry, as I was compiling the list I forgot about the whole out of state thing and just listed the replacements. Hookfin was in-state too. But the original point about going OOS was a big theme with Bru, Floyd, Smith, etc. The spin was about going national after the sugar bowl win, but really we were just missing on guys. And without NIL and the SEC, we weren't even really making in-roads to southeast. 

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  14. I remember one of the big dynamics for the 19 class was going out of state. Jimbo was able to capitalize on the first year coaching bump and some bags with in-state guys, so we ended up going out of state for replacements. Demarvin Leal, Kenyon Green, Demani Richardson, Dylan Wright, and Brian Williams were replaced by Tyler Owens, Myron Warren, Marcus Washington, Chris Adimora, Tyler Hookin, etc. I also remember the twitter slap fights about our WR class vs. OU's class of five stars (Jadon Haselwood, Theo Wease, Trejan Bridges). At least we weren't alone in misery there. 

  15. Week 4! And I'm even posting it on time!

    Final Score: Texas 38 - Baylor 6

    AP Ranking Before: 3

    Highlights

    Every Play

    Broadcast

    AP Ranking After: 3

    Postgame Articles

    My big takeaway from the game is that this was the official coming out party for Sweat, Murphy, and the rest of the IDL. We already knew they were good but they completely blew up Baylor's gameplan on the first couple drives. Really strong performance. We also got to see Brooks show out, improved mobility from Quinn (which is something worth revisiting in later games), and stellar red zone defense (two field goals on six trips). And one thing that luckily did not carry throughout the rest of the season was two muffed punts by Xavier Worthy and Jordan Whittington. 

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  16. 2 hours ago, Sgt Hulk said:

    I forgot the wide open worthy drop in the first.  Oof but we are gonna miss his soeed

    Worthy is like 5 plays away from being an all-time longhorn great up there with Shipley. Started to type them out but decided to not go that route. Just sucks all around, but luckily it didn't matter in that game. 

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  17. Immamac and I haven't figured out the hosting yet but here is the Wyoming game. I promise to remember to post on a Monday at some point before the end of the series!

    AP Ranking Before: 4

    Highlights

    Every Play

    Broadcast

    AP Ranking After: 3

    Postgame Articles

    Well, this was certainly the letdown game that we all feared after Bama. But the team rallied late and put an inferior opponent away. To their credit, this was the third straight game to start the year where the team finished strong. The narrative around the clutchness of this team swung all sorts of ways over the course of the year. Two quick notes on the actual gameplay: 1) those quick outs were a harbinger of things to come in the secondary and 2) as far as I remember, this was the only really long run we gave up this year. 

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