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Bodacious Bevo

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  1. Sounds like we got really lucky. A&M, UF, and OSU all decided he wasn’t worth bidding on. Logically that should mean our initial offer was his only option so we got him on the cheap.
  2. Lmfao I dont think I’ve seen anyone use 3 year old high school scouting reports when talking about upperclassmen before.
  3. I saw that in some of the screenshots but it seems weird that Liucci would initially be so adamant that Hudson would be welcome back with open arms if that were the case
  4. Haven’t checked on this thread since page 1549 on October 5th I can’t wait to see our boy Graham’s takes on the second half of the season!
  5. Zelus Hicks skipping his entire senior year to be an early enrollee is extra insane
  6. TexAgs briefly had some kind of partnership with The Athletic awhile back
  7. Maybe, but there needs to be more nuance than 10 5*s, 10 3*s, and a hundred 4*s every cycle. I still wish OTF would do their rankings based on their perception of priority for the staff, but it's still valuable to see how Gerry (read: the people he talks to) views prospects.
  8. Pros of 10 days between games: player health, time for travel plans Con: matchup thread has gone to shit before a normal game week thread would have been posted
  9. … wouldn’t this math have put ASU up 31-24 with 2 minutes left? Tennessee has a really good front seven too. Difference for us needs to come from the secondary. I personally don’t put any stock in the Michigan game. Ohio State care more about sending a message than playing their best and got burned for it. They seemed to have learned their lesson. This is a lot of anger considering a decision hasn’t been made yet. They’ll likely be told “No” and “Too bad” too. Hell, just because Sankey asked doesn’t mean it’s being considered.
  10. There’s a policy process term for this: policy bubble, when suppressed change in a policy area finally occurs and over-corrects so that the solution to a problem becomes a problem itself. It’s part of a larger policy process theory called punctuated equilibrium theory, which is a way of explaining why most governance systems change very slowly with occasional periods of large, explosive changes (i.e., why you don’t often see moderate, reasonable change in government). PET looks at agenda-setting and information processing to show how the desires and values of the general population get distorted in the policy-making process. In the case of CFB, the NCAA was a policy monopoly. They had complete control over the rules of collegiate athletics. Anybody that wanted to create change had to do it through their system. They used that power to dampen such efforts. Grievances with the system slowly accumulated as the difference between the NCAA’s rules and the wants of players/fans/coaches/etc grew. Eventually people found an alternative way to create change: the courts. The introduction of a new policy venue opened up all of collegiate athletics’ institutional rules to change and attracted tons of new policy actors: TV networks, collectives, agents, private equity, etc. They all have their own agendas that may or may not align with what the original stakeholders wanted. The processes of negative feedback that used to suppress change were replaced by positive feedback that encourage it. We’ve completely flown past the moderate change that was originally desired and find ourselves in a policy bubble.
  11. I’m not sure Arnold is better than Thorne. Thorne just has an uncanny ability to throw horribly disastrous INTs. Arnold can do that too and adds in fumbles to match
  12. Can’t wait for Brauny’s next post where he cries because Braxton was at his wedding
  13. Hugh Freeze is worried they won’t throw enough interceptions for his liking
  14. The really fun part of the arguments about the value of a degree vs. name recognition for Maalik is that it completely ignores the single most important factor in the entire deal: what the guy actually wants to do Please shut the fuck up about it
  15. Gen Z: the first generation to need guidance and to learn the value of hard work
  16. From what I recall of the ‘23 DT class, we liked Mitchell as a high-upside take but hated only signing one DT
  17. That makes sense. I guess they wouldn’t have access to the university’s contract management system. Hadn’t put it all together in my mind.
  18. I’m surprised to see TOF uses opendorse. And to the tune of $622K. My understanding is that their value-add is access to athletes for people that want to do NIL deals. Am I wrong on that?
  19. Personally I’d have Taaffe as a round 3-4 guy with the important caveat of not having all-22 so DBs are hard to grade
  20. Plus Texas has a higher total tax burden than Oklahoma. It’s a more than fair price to pay to not live in Oklahoma, of course.
  21. “Yeah, the shrooms really make my typing make zero since. I haven't taken any in like a week ans a half, I had to stop because I was seeing all kinds of rfindsm things. It made it extremely difficult to watch the games, so I needed to stop. Not to mention I began having bad trips and thinking too much about my divorce and lost my furry best frienda. I knew it was time to let” I’m not going to subject myself to reading S2Y posts in order to find/quote the post, but the fact it was difficulty watching the games due to hallucinations that made someone reflect on their drug use is fucking hilarious
  22. lol I only reference PMs because it’s easier to check dates there than to search for the discussions on there
  23. Something that the aggies seem to universally misunderstand is that Texas' NIL efforts were not a response to 5-7. They weren't born out of desperation, to make up for a coach's poor performance, or to gear us up for the conference move. They were purely motivated out of a desire to be the best and to seize the moment. If the early movers had waited for external motivation, it would've been far too late to pull it off. I have pm proof of the work being done going back to July 29, 2021. That's months before Sark's first game and 7 days after the SEC leak, which means the work started long before. It takes a lot of time and effort to build something new. Especially when you intend to do it well. Until the aggies accept that sweat equity is still more valuable than the dollar, they'll stay little bro. I'll let the guys on here correct me if I'm wrong about any of the above.
  24. Time to reallocate Mills' NIL to Fasusi! /s
  25. Part of what I'd like to see in the DB portal work is finding a gunner. Kern isn't great but we're also suffering from losing two elite gunners. I thought the punt that got a touchback Saturday was actually pretty good and could have been downed inside the five if the guy timed his jump better. To me, this is much more important than signing DTs, so I am therefore not going to be saddened by the news of our pets heads falling off at all. I'm compartmentalizing the shit out of that and reserving any meltdowns for after our portal search for gunners.
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