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  1. 2 hours ago, closetojumping said:

    Are they just being willfully oblivious about Ohio State? The highest functioning NIL programs are Texas, Oregon and Ohio State. Then there are tranches below that. Ohio State won Downs over Georgia by making an offer that Georgia couldn't even approach. They also went with a shutdown offer to keep Sayin from doing any kind of longer term search. Yet this guy is talking Georgia NIL? Okay. 

    I think Georgia is the comparison because he is comparing the last other team to win a National Championship, and how they've parlayed that into continued success on paying coaches, assistants, NIL, etc.

    And yet here is poor old Michigan, less than a month out from a National Championship, and all of the pets' heads are falling off.

  2. 9 hours ago, Caver60 said:

    That's so accurate. Random awesome Austin shit.

    I was a poor and frequently worked on my truck in our garage in a north campus condo. One night I took my buddies catfishing and forgot to throw away the extra chicken livers when we got home. The next week I was working on the truck again, and the garage was filled with this awful smell. Obviously I forgot to throw away the chicken livers from the week before.

    But because I'm sort of a negligent dick, I blamed my girlfriend for farting in the garage. Bye bye girlfriend, but it was all for the best. That's when I remembered the chicken livers. So I walked the ice chest full of rotten chicken livers out of our garage and along an alley next to yards full of future Austin assholes behind our condo. They were tech people who had just moved in from California, no shit. Anyway, I dumped that ice chest out in our dumpster and the smell was honestly horrific. The California folks had been having some wine and cheese deal in their backyard. Obviously I nuked that shit. They literally ran away screaming.

    I suppose the whole point of this is that if a monkey named Kong had appeared right then, it would not have been an aberration. That was a huge part of what I loved about Austin.

     

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  3. 1 hour ago, closetojumping said:

     

    I've talked about this when it pops up in other forums like baseball or the other sports one, but I may never have gone into any detail here, so bear with me.

    LSU and OU are probably the two best examples of handling limited in NIL in a highly productive manner. Here's what I mean:

    Both of these schools came to the realization at some point in the first year of NIL that they were simply not going to be able to compete in NIL against all comers in all sports. They realized this through the lens of football, and soon sorted what the numbers would have to look like everywhere. Very few schools could make the effort to work on NIL against all comers across all sports. More on those later.

    So what did they do? They both knew they couldn't avoid football, as their institution and major donors and students cared more about that sport than anything. So for football, they've largely adopted a "target of opportunity" approach and competed where they thought they had a shot of winning whether due to Texas/Georgia/Ohio State/ATM looking elsewhere or because they had a competitive advantage, such as the player being from Louisiana or a legacy or a big fan of cajun food and abject corruption. 

    Outside of football, they've chosen to apply significant NIL pressure to the sports in which they are actively competing for national titles and the enthusiasm from the opposition is measured.

    OU chose, outside of constant efforts addressed already for football, to focus on gymnastics and softball. Anything else like baseball or golf has to hunt for its own support however that coach can find it. Softball at OU is a machine. They may reel off UCLA basketball from the 60's numbers for the next decade (UT may well do this in volleyball in the same span). They've had national title success in a regular manner in gymnastics too. They're doing what they can to ensure they're as good as anyone in NIL in those two sports.

    LSU's work has been more driven by serendipity than anything. Livy Dunne is hotter than Georgia asphalt and was a social media star ahead of NIL. Vuori and several other brands were on her early and she's been the top NIL earner across all sports for years now. That allowed the rest of the gymnastics team to draft off of that success and they're supposedly in good shape across the board there. Marucci being based in BR and run/backed by LSU people allowed baseball to be gifted $1M a year from the jump. Texas NIL has been busting its ass from an NIL perspective in baseball and might be in second nationally, but that is a tough hump to jump each cycle for that sport. There is word that LSU is trying to take the same approach in women's basketball now, but this is a poor institution with poor backers compared to most of their national competition. Gymnastics and baseball are a lot of heads to count and cover for LSU, plus limited football means, making other sport NIL dominance mostly fantasy. 

    Many other schools are working with this same approach out of necessity, and it is a slog for most of them. 

    There are also many schools that have only nominal offers in NIL to provide athletes in any sport, until an athlete becomes a true star that attracts boosters or corporate. 

    There are schools that are by and large just focused on making sure they can compete with anyone in football and/or basketball. Georgia, Alabama, USC, Tennessee, UNC, UK, UH, etc. Those are kind of easy to spot in either sport.

    Then there are the few schools that are able to at least pursue the ambitious goal of being able to take on all comers in every sport. Texas*, Stanford*, Oregon**, Ohio State. Those are the ones I know of, and maybe I am forgetting someone. 

    Finally, corporate is a big deal when it can be accessed. The post above has a tweet talking about corporate being less than 10% of the NIL nationally and I'll argue that isn't true generically for all programs. Texas is accessing corporate well and that is a growing, important element. Most of LSU's non-football NIL is purely corporate if you count Marucci as such. Anyone with a Heisman candidate is accessing corporate NIL.

    *Rowing has like 45 participants. T&F has a shit ton too. Helping with NIL there is basically stipend inflation. T&F gets help in global corporate ways too for the best programs.

    **As long as Knight is alive and cares, Oregon has an ATM for NIL. Problem for Oregon will always be that, well, they're grounded in Eugene, Oregon. While you or I may aspire to live somewhere like that, it's just not a big city, bright lights, with beaches and bitches nearby kind of place. 

    Great stuff here. Any clue what Notre Dame is doing? 

  4. 26 minutes ago, Newy25 said:


    No, the assistant line coach is not the one responsible for coaching the line. He’s not in charge. It’s like the analyst position. Helping out? Yes. Responsible for scheme and scouting? No. 

    If that's what you meant, you should have said "He's never been the Head DL Coach at a level above WKU". 

    But that's not what you said. You said he's never coached DL above the level of WKU, which is objectively just fucking wrong. 

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  5. 26 minutes ago, Newy25 said:

     

    I guess I missed the part where he was the defensive line coach at Miami. I read “assistant defensive line coach”. As in, not the defensive line coach. 

    I hate to break it to you, but the Assistant Defensive Line Coach coaches the defensive line. What the fuck do you think Rod Wright's title was this year with the Texans?

  6. Just now, Newy25 said:


    He has never coached the defensive line at a level beyond Western Kentucky. The only reason it has inherit risk is not simply the fans lack of knowledge. It is literally his own lack of experience. 

    Shit, I must have stopped watching the NFL for a while. I take it Western Kentucky is now at a level beyond the Miami Dolphins? 

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  7. 13 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

    I would bet that he's literally looking for one person to fill all of those...I won't say POSITIONS, but one person to do all of those chores. And to piggyback of RGBIII, I'll go ahead and shed some color on what I suspect the administrative assitant job will entrail:

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    "entrail" - Sydney typo or on purpose? I'm hoping it's the latter.

  8. 3 hours ago, closetojumping said:

     there are content and conversation drivers, then there are drive-by quippers, there are news updaters, there are question askers, there are simple idiots, and then there are lurkers.

    I like to believe that ctj was writing this to the tune of Toby Keith's "I love this bar" . 

    Signed,
    Drive-by-quipper

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