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Hornlover

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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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).

  4. 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.

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    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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  5. 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 it

    Not sure if the OU insiders have the same proclivity about lying to their fanbases

  6. 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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