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9 hours ago, texifornia said:
Proving again that Oscar Giles is the G.O.A.T., and that through hard work you can achieve anything.
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6 minutes ago, texifornia said:
Do they have anybody worthwhile on their roster after Beck? I know Raiola flipping messed up their plans.
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4 minutes ago, lucious leftfoot said:
How funny would it be if Looch got caught skimming money off Aggie NIL? Is he too big to fail in Aggieland?
Caught? He straight up tells them he's skimming money off the top.
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8 minutes ago, closetojumping said:
Everyone on the Texas end, besides I guess a few of us observers, was more confident about Jordan than they should have been. Make of that what you will regarding the "knowing your room" aspect of being a coach for Terry Joseph and Blake Gideon.
Can't read coverage. Can't read the room.
Perhaps we have a reading issue in the DB room.
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32 minutes ago, closetojumping said:
TOF is run by people who are not paid a dime. There is one very competent employee who is paid competitively. Anything else that doesn't go to athletes is vendor-related or marketing-related. I haven't seen numbers in a while but the percentage was well above 90%. Frankly, that's like not fully sustainable, at least the only one employee part.
These are two groups with two completely different agendas. What is now TOF is the culmination of a small bunch of people from a few different groups who put a shit ton of work, risk and money into organizing something that Texas sports could gain leverage out of for the purposes of winning titles and building a sustainable engine that would repeatedly unlock that across sports. It isn't perfect, it has warts and flaws, and it has a long way to go, but it's out there about as far as NIL programs can get so far and that is all driven by one simple force - a collective love of UT and its athletic programs.
The aggie thing has always had one other important factor involved with it - people finding ways to get paid. That's the problem that a lot of these collectives have repeatedly run into - What's In It For Me? and also bureaucracies not understanding how to build things from scratch and handing those responsibilities off to vendor cronies.
To be clear in terms of folks' understanding regarding moving parts everywhere as it pertains to the corporate side of NIL - a fuckton of that money isn't going to the players. There are agencies, agents, etc., involved and they're getting theirs. That is different. Unscrupulous agents, and I am not saying they all are because that's not true, but there are those out there who are allegedly getting more money from the endorsements than their players.
@RGBIII if I am missing something or wrong. He's closer to some of this stuff than I might be.
Shocking that the group affiliated with UT and the McCombs School of Business is run competently, while the group affiliated with A&M is run like a bunch of Aggies.
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10 minutes ago, mantis toboggan said:
How many of those can we blame on Brandon Harris?
2 minutes ago, Park Gothic said:Sark is doing Spring exit interviews for every player on the team. The players that get told "you suck and will likely never see the field at Texas" are likely going to get the hint and jump in the portal.
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2 hours ago, BurntOrange&White said:2 hours ago, texifornia said:...that's definitely a tweet of praying hands alright
You should have heard what Bobby said on the Livestream about Simmons' praying hands tweet.
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1 hour ago, Dbeasy said:
I'm trying to understand Elk's strategy. He seems to be trying to change the culture of the program by either pushing out certain players or having them decide on their own they don't want to be there. But the guys they are replacing them with are very pedestrian. I think that strategy might backfire. Normally, a coach either: a) brings in quality talent right away that he can get from the portal, or b) does the best they can to recruit quality high school talent and bleed out the bad talent over a one to two year period.
Either of these types of approaches ensure the coach can still win 6-9 games in the first year. With the current Elk approach, it could mean 6 or less wins, AND also the need to upgrade the roster over 1-2 years. But the problem with that is once you've only won <6 games, things can spiral quickly. No top talent is going to join a <6 win team. MAybe he thinks we can win with just pedestrian talent. He did it at Duke, but that was in a very different league.
Maybe he's trying to do both A&B, but is just spectacularly failing because nobody wants to go that shit-hole, and they no longer have any competitive advantages (SEC/bags of money).
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2 minutes ago, closetojumping said:What the fuck does that nonsense mean?
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6 hours ago, Thetexashammer said:
I have a buttplug training kit, in case anyone wants to borrow it.
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1 hour ago, DanTheHorn said:
I like Maalik and all and the fact that he was willing to work behind two guys that had more potential then him. Yet it is best to take the word of Mike Leach when it comes to consistently missing wide open passes.
Mike Leach: "If a quarterback isn't accurate, you shouldn't recruit him"
"People make this mistake all over the country, and everybody can think of one, but there will be a guy who is big, strong and athletic, and everyone gets tempted by speed and if someone has a super strong arm."
"Then they say 'Well all he has to do is work on his accuracy. Well ok. He won't be accurate in high school. Then some college will take him, and then he won't be accurate there, and then the NFL says 'all he has to do is work on his accuracy,' and they'll take him there, and he won't be accurate there and then he'll be out of the league."
"The thing that's amazing to me, is that after all of high school he's not accurate, and now all of a sudden you're special and you're going to make him accurate? And then after college he's not accurate, and you're special and you're going to make him accurate? I just haven't seen that happen. I've seen guys improve, but they don't all of a sudden become accurate."
Josh Allen is the only example I can think of, where an inaccurate college QB, in his second or third year in the NFL, somehow miraculously developed accuracy.
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Okay, it's probably already time to burn this thread down and start a new one
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43 minutes ago, Park Gothic said:
"If we do what we always do, it should be considered a disappointment" is a weirdly honest way for an Aggie to think about his team.
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45 minutes ago, texifornia said:
That's one of the oddest assortment of teams I've ever seen in a Top 10
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8 minutes ago, HenryJames said:
They couldn't even keep their fucking coach.
I wouldn't want to keep Chip Kelly.
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12 minutes ago, statsman said:
From Sooner Scoop, on Damonic Williams -
If this were Tarp or one of the other Aggy $9.95ers, we'd know that:
1. The coach had begged him to sign and not take other visits, but he said no
2. He is looking for a bigger bag, but they are too poor
3. OU is out of itNot sure if the OU insiders have the same proclivity about lying to their fanbases
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BTW, old news from yesterday, but not unexpected to see Jaden Rashada in the portal.
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2 hours ago, Post Oak said:
Toia apparently has a little brother class of 27 who is a fucking wrecking ball.
Freshman on varsity highlights.
https://www.hudl.com/video/3/19382286/65d45219176c600a1c229e0f
After the first or second highlight, I wondered why he needed to do the circle-himself thing on Hudl, since it was very obvious which guy he was. He's the giant fucking mammoth blowing up anything in his path.
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You'd think Toia -> USC and Damonic -> Texas would just make sense. I'd be happy with either of them.
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21 minutes ago, closetojumping said:
Boy, the last two posts here sailed right over my head.
Be sure to have your trigger finger ready to post a screed on why The Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles are just terrible, humorless movies.
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1 minute ago, texifornia said:
See, Rodney Terry doesn't offer only 6'3" Guards.
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4 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:Well spend 10$ more and get a better service with YT premium
Apple Music - $10.99 / mo
YT Premium - $11.66/mo (on the annual plan)
BO&W trying to flex by outspending SC by 67 cents a month? - Priceless.
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