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TreatyOak

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  1. 6 hours ago, Michael Knight said:

    At some point you have to ask yourself why are you even watching college football, why root for Texas when it's just mercenaries with 1 year contracts and an NFL-lite minor league. You're so preoccupied with whether or not we could, no ones stopped to think if we should.

    Shout out for Jurassic park reference.

  2. 4 hours ago, BabaYaga said:

    Yep. Saw somewhere the average age of the starters is 23. These are grown ass men. There’s your differential with star rankings. Years and size.

    There’s something to this. Older, veteran players that are NFL age.

    Problem is how do you sustain this.

    Butler University, coincidentally also in Indiana, built a program that retained non-highly ranked basketball players for four seasons, and let them start their final years. It was a highly successful model. The players were believers in the system and it worked. It allowed them to compete w the one and dones and got them back to two consecutive finals. Perhaps it can be sustained for football but we shall see:

  3. On 1/1/2026 at 9:22 PM, Nicole44 said:

    He’s lightning in a bottle. I think it’s not just that he’s process oriented, or that his teams practice hard and they work hard, he’s exceptional at spotting talent. Plenty of good to great HC’s have been around Saban. Coached under him, they know he ate and breathed and slept football. Spent hours watching film, looking at this recruit and that recruit. Plenty of them have gone on to build good to great teams. But I submit that most on Saban’s tree don’t have Cig’s eye for talent, some don’t have the same work ethic and some try things that are not process oriented that don’t work. At the end of the day, plenty of teams work hard, have regular practices, have a great staff. And so on. Some have access to more money and talent and years of top recruiting classes to build on that Cig did not.

    So in terms of his being a unicorn 🦄 I’d say yeah he is: he is exceptional at finding talent. That’s his super power. Everyone can learn to be process oriented, practice hard, have good S&C coaches and so on…they can do this. But I don’t think anyone I’ve seen in my life has the innate ability or gift to spot the talent.

    I personally think it's only fair we give Sark seven to eleven more years to fully implement his system and come up with a new slogan, too.

  4. 35 minutes ago, NBHorn7 said:

    Another player that wanted more money and Texas said no it seems.

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    There is also word that for some players, it wasn't a case of demanding more money, but rather the school not wanting to match what they previously earned, due to their lack of production. I'm not saying this was true for Kobe Black, as he seems to have been a player with a bright future at Texas.

  5. 32 minutes ago, bad_teammate said:

    I suppose a big question is whether or not we're pulling scholarships. I can't imagine we would be given how big rosters can now be. It would seem that what we're doing is saying, "You have your scholarship and those attendant benefits, but you're not getting NIL on top of it anymore (or a huge NIL paycut)."

    I think the scenario you imagine is more accurate.

  6. 7 minutes ago, bad_teammate said:

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    For many of us here who worked their way through it and received none of this due to our exceptional lack of exceptional physical talent it was hard to get up in the feelings about this BEFORE we added grown-working-adult salaries on top of everything else. And for many, 2,3,4,5,6,20x a grown-working-adult salary.

    Yeah, we have to learn to wipe our own asses at some point in our lives. That's true. And yeah, it can feel bad to have to do that because we're so unused to it.

    But if you're in your 20s I fail to see what any of these people owe you after having already given you so much.

    I hear you and I honestly wasn’t judging whether the system ultimately owes him more or less. I was more trying to imagine the feeling of going from being the BMOC to a forgotten item. Big-time sports have always been a tough and cruel industry.

  7. 2 hours ago, BurntOrange&White said:

    Interesting also that if Cignetti makes it to the natty it would be year 2 at Indiana of all places and if Oregon wins then Lanning would make it in his 4th year while being 39 years old.

    Yeah, but Sark was in a completely different situation in his first two season. He inherited a bad roster, his players weren't experienced, he was in a tougher conference, the school wasn't ready to spend, the portal was different, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 😆

    Fair or not, Cignetti has re-set the bar for expectations. You're either smart enough to take advantage of the current system or it's taking advantage of you.

    This season and the aftermath has been a mess for Sark. Your offense sucked because...you had to be charge of the defense? Okay, got it.

    The verdict is still out on him, but thanks to people like Cignetti, he is pretty much out of excuses. So are a lot of other coaches.

    And as someone who makes a shit-ton of money and has some of the deepest resources in the game, he sure better produce next year, or stakeholders have every right to question whether he is the person.

  8. Say what you want about Mr. Livingstone, but the angst here caused by his recent transfer to Oklahoma is why college football is the craziest, funniest, most drama-filled and most entertaining major sport. You just don't get stories like this in the other major sports.

  9. We hear so much about a lack of loyalty from the players today, but consider this scenario for the players who aren't the stars:

    You're a scholarship player who has everything handled for you by the school including tuition, class schedules, tutors, stipends, swag, meals, health care, practice schedules, trainers, housing, and everything else.

    You've haven't had much playing time, but the coaches had promised that your time was coming, and that you just had to keep grinding.

    Now, you've been at the school for one or two years and you get called into a meeting with an graduate assistant and someone from HR. During this meeting, you are informed that your role on the team has pretty much ended, and you should really consider going into the portal and catching on at another school. You're assumed everything was fine and you're in shock. School was never your thing and you have no idea where you even stand academically.

    They give you forms to sign, and direct you to the portal website, show you how to register, and tell you that you should reach out to this person who might help you for a fee. They also inform you that once you sign, all those perks and help you've received will no longer be available to you. You can't use the facilities, but worse, you don't have anyone to help you navigate this confusing process. You enter your name but you see that there are hundreds of other players who play your position already registered. You tell them you need time to review the paperwork. They tell you you have 24 hours to review it.

    You try to call your position coach, but he doesn't answer. You call your parents, who are really upset, and they also try, but also get no response. You reach out to your high school coach and ask him to help you, and he promises to help. You try to force your way into the head coach's office. After all, didn't he tell you his door was always open for you? Today, it's closed.

    Finally, desperate, you reach out to that booster who 'helped you out last year when things were tough.' He doesn't answer.

    Now you have a complete understanding of big-time college athletics.

  10. 16 hours ago, 'stache said:

    LOL, nice try with your stats and anecdotes. He has full blown CDS (California Derangement Syndrome). He was told that blue state cities are lawless murder havens and red state cities are clean safe utopias and you'll never convince him otherwise. Like all magats he's incapable of any form of indpendent thought. I too have been to SF, Seattle, and Portland a few times over the last several years. I jogged past a large homeless encampment in Portland at night more than once and got a beer near there during late hours and was never hassled once. I was also in NYC last year and there were some rough characters but again wasn't once hassled, the guy who tried to sell us coke was actually pretty cool and talked with us for a minute before getting back to work. I get hassled regularly for change at the downtown QT here in my red state utopia and saw a methhead zombying around an intersection dropping my kid of at school this morning. I swear, these people are the biggest bunch of dickless pussies when it comes to big ol scary cities.

    I'm someone w deep NYC ties and spend time there each year, to visit our younger daughter, see friends and have fun. Two years ago, I brought one of my work partners so she could experience the city. Her husband is a super MAGA head and was worried about her safety. We walked the whole city, (Met, Central Park, HiLine, West Village, Soho, NOMAD, Shopping on Upper Madison Ave, pilgrimage to Pete's Tavern, Upper East Side, etc). I took her on the subway many times, and we had an amazing trip. When she got home, he was genuinely shocked from her description about how safe, walkable, clean and fun Manhattan is.

    Funniest moment is when we boarded an uptown subway car at Wall Street and it was full of maybe 70 NYPD police who had been in Brooklyn for some event. I said, "So are you feeling unsafe?" She smiled and said, "no, I'm good."

  11. 18 hours ago, wildcat09 said:

    You think the NYPD gives a fuck what the mayor says?

    Jessica S. Tisch is the current NYC police commissioner. She was appointed by Mayor Adams in Sept, 2024. Interestingly, Mandami asked her to stay in and continue in her role. Many thought he would fire her and put in one of his people. She is from the very wealthy Tisch family that owns the Loews Corporation. So she doesn't have deep ties to Mandami but is now partnering with him. His control over the NYPD is not great.

  12. "My goal in life is to retire as the owner that won the most Super Bowls," Jones said during an end-of-season news conference Wednesday. "That's my goal. To be retired in the NFL as the owner that won the most Super Bowls. We've got three. How many more do I have to go as a single owner? [New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft] has got how many? Six? So, I got work to do. Got work to do. But at least I'm up to the second rung in the ladder."

    The Cowboys just completed their 30th season since winning their last Super Bowl, finishing a disappointing 7-9-1 in Brian Schottenheimer's first year as head coach. The Cowboys are the only team in the NFC not to have made it to a conference title game since 1995, and they have missed the playoffs the past two seasons. 😆

  13. 1 minute ago, perfectchaos007 said:

    This turned out to be his Johntay Cook against Mississippi State in 2024 game. Cooks final drop was more egregious but the end result is the same. We learned both players were mentally unstable

    Don't you dare drop crap here about Johntay.
    His journey is still incomplete.
    He had everything in his grasp, but let it slip through his fingers.
    Leave him uncovered by this.
    He's trying his best to catch on somewhere else.

  14. ·

    Edited by TreatyOak

    I’ve reworked the final rankings based on playoff performance:

    1. University of Miami

    2. Texas A&M University Flagship Campus at College Station

    3. University of Oregon

    4. Indiana University 

    5. ‘Ole Miss

    6. East Texas A&M at Commerce

    7. Ohio State University

    8. University of Alabama

    9. Texas A&M University Corpus Christi

    10. Texas Tech University 

    11. University of Oklahoma

    12. TIE: Texas A&M University Kingville

    13. TIE: Tarleton State University 

    14. BYU

    15. Notre Dame

    16. texas university Sip Lesbian Campus 

  15. Big 12 representing well in the transfer portal.

    Penn State picked up the Iowa State QB. (Matt Campbell is their coach, so duh)
    Indiana picked up the TCU QB. They also picked up a K State edge rusher.
    Texas Tech picked up the Cincinnati QB
    LSU supposedly trying to sign Arizona State QB, so Texas may have to face him again next year
    OSU had 59 players enter the portal. Yes, you read that right.

  16. 4 minutes ago, Vanilla Strange Gato said:

    Here’s another good firing story:

    My cousin worked for a petrochemical plant on the coast. Like most companies, they had a cybersecurity policy to lock your work station when not at your computer, don’t use someone else’s account if it’s open, etc.

    A guy on another shift was quite a prankster. My cousin said this guy got into another employee’s account when that employee went to make rounds in the plant and didn’t lock his screen.

    The prankster (I went to school with this guy and he was always pretty funny) proceeded to use the other employee’s email account to tell the entire plant site (or might have been the entire North America email list for the company) that he was announcing that he is out of the closet as an openly gay man.

    Prankster got fired of course. He worked at a car dealership for awhile before getting into long-haul trucking.

    Really dumb and really epically funny, hahaha. Hats off to the dude, lol.

  17. 38 minutes ago, GhostOfTomJoad said:

    Coaches who've been fired so far:

    Stefanski out at Cleveland

    Morris and GM out at ATL

    We're here for the bloodletting.

    This thread always reminds me of an email chain that got two girls fired at the Austin ad company I worked at.

    We had a big layoff (2008) and two young account executive gals kept a running tab of who got hit. Someone else saw the email chain and was bothered at their lack of empathy (guess they were making jokes about people on the list), they shared it with management and the girls got axed. Can you imagine calling your parents and telling them that you fired for this, haha?

    We also had another funny one. We had the Southwest account and one of the account girls went ballistic at the airport to an employee at the counter when they didn't give her the trip credit. (Southwest didn't give us the miles, cause we billed them for our travel.) The Southwest employee complained, and Southwest called up the agency about her. Fired, haha.

  18. 6 minutes ago, NashLonghorn said:

    Who???!

    Sorry. Drinking leftover red wine from my nephew’s rehearsal dinner at our house. Insane amount of work. Glad that’s over.

  19. 37 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    You’re not responding to someone who would be speculating. And while you might have missed it while sniffing jocks, there was plenty of discussions about Bond’s attitude heading into the 2024 season.

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  20. 2 hours ago, someguy said:

    Bond got the money and immediately came in as an entitled diva who set all time high water marks for entitled douchebag behavior. He was unfocused, was a bad teammate and the team ultimately let him hide behind an injury to save face for the fact that he was flat out benched by the end of the season for being unreliable. Golden was the complete opposite - he came in focused and motivated to improve, and he did and was a portal success story that you'd want to identify and emulate. AD Mitchell was in-between Bond and Golden - less focused and more of a pain in the ass than Golden (his NFL pre-draft comments were accurate) but not the disaster that Bond was and Mitchell performed on the field.

    I agree w this post about the portal being a total crapshoot. You might get Joe Burrow, or you might get Nico Lamaleava. That is what is concerning about the Auburn WR.

    However, I never heard or read anything negative about Bond while he was at Texas. His injury is what derailed him and he tried to play through it. I spent some time with him and he was incredibly nice, and extremely grateful for what he has achieved in life and was giving back. He screwed himself AFTER he graduated w that sexual assault case. What did you hear?

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