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  1. 22 minutes ago, irishtexan said:

    Suchomel comment feels like click-bail bullshit to me. That's a lot of words without any specifics on a recruitment that was assumed to go Texas' way the whole time. He's a top-10 national player and the announcement seemed like a somewhat foregone conclusion. Have to manufacture some drama in the days leading up to it. That's what I'm telling myself, at least. 

    I just remind myself anybody that works for OB is a fucking idiot. 

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  2. 10 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    I should have clarified that the part about not getting both Ojo and Turntine is just coming from my inner sarvanash. I haven’t heard that from anyone lately. It was a thing earlier in the cycle though. 

    With A&M pretty much out of it would Turntine really head across the country to Michigan or Stanford. Seems fairly realistic they can land both at this point. 

  3. 28 minutes ago, satyanash said:

    There's a fundamental asymmetry to losing a NIL recruitment vs. winning one. You have to outspend many schools to win a recruitment, but it takes just one school outspending you to lose a recruitment. For Edwards it was A&M. For Bowman it was USC. For Lott it will be Oregon. For Atkinson it will be Georgia. We can certainly pride ourselves on not overspending, but whether we finish in 2nd place for a recruit or whether we never even pursue the end result is still the same.

    Yes, you can say A&M/USC/Oregon/Georgia/Ohio State are stupid for overspending and that we'll ultimately benefit. But teams can now pick and choose which recruits to overspend on, knowing that the House settlement has freed up a lot of additional funding and scholarship limits are much looser. For each of them it's one recruitment won, with a decreased chance of winning future recruitments that we or other unaffected schools may or may not be involved in. But for us it's already four big recruitments lost and counting. We're trading concrete, known losses for the hope of nebulous, hypothetical future recruiting wins.

    Exactly, just like when Georgia bought Justus Terry and Oregon bought Sharma right out from underneath our noses. Don’t forget when Ohio State poached Hero Kanu off of our roster this past spring. 
     

    You really are just a whiny bitch with a room temperature IQ. 

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  4. 41 minutes ago, Fondren & Main said:

    Larry had so much integrity for the college game that he skipped it for money...sit your ass down, Larry...

    Not defending his takes but do you really expect the first pick of the draft to go to college?

  5. 5 minutes ago, Helobious said:

    I’m in the same boat. It’s a lot more fun to follow when you see kids you recognize from their high school days vs mercenaries from anywhere USA. And then you had that large study a few years ago that showed most NFL draft picks went to college in their home state. For a lot of reasons you should focus on homegrown talent and just supplement with out of staters.

    I’d rather get the best players we can and win than suck shit through a straw with a bunch of kids you watched play in HS. 

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  6. 1 hour ago, ATXbronco said:

    I don't know anything about Sacramento but they seem to be huge spenders the last couple of years.
    Going for big time hires and buying recruits.  I'd guess they're using NIL to become a name in the sports world.

    Pretty sure they’re putting it out through media channels that they have much more money than they actually do, at one point people on twitter were reporting they had 50 million which is laughable.
     

    Mike Bibby’s only coaching experience is HS and that was from 2015-2019, Shaq has no experience in a GM role at all, Brennan Marion took the best HC offer he could get. None of these guys were money whipped away from better programs, they’re just the one willing to give them a shot for the publicity associated with their names.
     

    As far as recruiting their HS class was ranked in the 120’s and their transfer class is full of P5 washouts and big name busts. They haven’t pulled a single name that I’m aware of that had significantly better offers. 

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  7. 1 hour ago, Getafix said:

     

     

    - lately, the $9.95 chatter has been a lot more about Ojo as opposed to Turntine, and it would clearly be a tough pull to land both (and re: NIL, here's a quote about Jackson Cantwell (#1 OT) that puts the $$ in perspective, if the numbers are directionally correct - "Rosenhaus is believed to be aiming for a deal that would get his client a three-year deal with an annual average value of over $2 million."

    - but I haven't heard anyone say definitively that it can only be one or the other

    - and FWIW, Gerry had both in his class projection (but note, it was his Best Case Class ... )

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    Not sure how reliable he is but Charlie Williams from 247 said a few weeks ago he expected Texas to land both. 

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  8. 32 minutes ago, UpperWestside said:

    It's not lashing out. I just don't care about what someone says when that someone is a guy teams feed information to like what happens with Schefter. There are reporters and then there are access merchants like Breer. There is a difference.

    So basically if you don’t like what they say they’re an access merchant and if you do like it they’re a reporter? Am I doing that right?

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  9. 4 hours ago, msucolt45 said:


    Cam Ward ran the Wing-T at Columbia (TX). His play calling (coaching directed) only got about 10-12 passes each game, so that’s why he was such a “missed” talent in HS.

    GJ Kinnie (TX State) deserves respect as he saw that diamond in the rough and brought Ward to UIW. A very little time later they had NDSU on the ropes in the 1-AA Semis, and this is UIW!!!

    That week most likely had the biggest “Google search” on what is a UIW.

    Hook’em!!!

    Eric Morris discovered Ward and then took him with him when he went to Wazzu. 

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  10. 21 minutes ago, Longhornlove said:

    Where exactly was Jonah's name? Is he a star? No, he's supposed to be in HS right now. We have no clue if he will be a star just like we had no clue if Dunn would be a star or not. To this point, neither have played a football game. Take the L.

    Once again I don’t think you realize the thread you are in, check the title for the name. You obviously aren’t going to figure this out so I’ll let you go back to licking the windows clean. 

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  11. 2 hours ago, Longhornlove said:

    This isn't about Jonah either but since you brought it up, he can't get drafted because he enrolled in college and is a scholarship athlete. These two scenarios are drastically different. Jonah decided not to enter the MLB draft when he enrolled early. Adam Dunn didn't do that. He got drafted his senior year of high school and enrolled in Texas afterward. He literally spent less than a year on campus yet did indeed choose originally to play football.

    Brother do you know what thread your are in right now? See below…

     

    1 hour ago, CycleTex87 said:

    This is the gist of my question. A star CFB player who is also a star CBB player that has the option to choose one over the other.  

     

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  12. 5 minutes ago, Longhornlove said:

    There is a major hole in that theory/interpretation. He wasn't a 1st round draft pick. He also chose to play football full time at Texas instead of pro baseball initially. He himself said it was the hardest decision he ever had to make.

    There is a major hole in that theory/interpretation too, Jonah Williams wasn’t drafted and signed out of HS and isn’t going to leave school for another 3 years. The hypothetical is if Jonah Williams is a potential top 3 round NFL and MLB prospect would he forgo NFL for MLB. The only player to do that in the last 30 years is Samardzija. 

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  13. 8 minutes ago, Longhornlove said:

    He literally quit school to go play baseball.

    He was at school because he was on a football scholarship.

    @CycleTex87 can correct me if I’m wrong but I interpreted his question as in a star CFB player choosing between NFL and MLB draft. Not a HS prospect choosing between 1st round MLB money and a redshirt season. 

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  14. 19 minutes ago, kevwun said:

    Early in life money definitely favors football, longterm earnings and it swings back heavy to baseball assuming a player is roughly as good at each sport.  You have to be good for a few years in MLB before the money starts to roll in, but when it does it could be a whole lot.  Football you can get a decent amount just by being a high draft pick. 

    Another big factor is his family has been through the MLB process with his older brother being a 2nd rounder out of high school and having a cup of coffee in the show. His family will understand better than anybody the grind of the major leagues and trying to make it past those arbitration years if you do make it. 

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  15. 8 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

    Considering his new contract which was signed in December 2024 runs through 2032, there is no way they'd have a buyout of him leaving that low of 4 million. The 4 million tracks with his contract from 2021 due to it being his salary for each remaining on that contract. He also received a 2 year extension in 2023. His buyout if Iowa St were to fire him prior to his new contract was around 18 million.

     

     

     

     

    So you don’t have anything, got it. Once again I’m going to take Goodman’s reporting since he’s probably talked directly to people involved in the negotiations over what you think makes sense. 

  16. 7 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

    I saw that but that was his contract from 2021. He was extended in December 2024

    Nope, that article is from this past Saturday and has this direct quote from Jeff Goodman.  

     

    “His buyout was really high a year ago. He renegotiated – $4 million right now. Nothing. It’s nothing,” national college basketball reporter Jeff Goodman said Friday on The Field of 68 podcast. “So the big question is, would T.J. Otzelberger want that job?”

    So if Indiana really wanted Otzelberger, the price tag wouldn’t be in the way. It would appear to come down to whether Otzelberger wants to leave Ames.

  17. Fiancé bought me a pair of the black cherry Arturo’s from Rujos as a Christmas gift and I’ve been pretty happy with them so far. Went by their showroom to exchange for a different size and talking to the sales person they are made in a sister factory of Tecovas as the owners originally worked for Tecovas before branching off. 

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  18. 1 minute ago, TreatyOak said:

    Yes, I saw that, which is pretty amazing, and one of the most incredible posts on Surly Horns, if true. I would like to believe it is true since it adds a level of context we rarely see, but sharing the alt info since it has become part of the narrative.  

    Henry was involved as well, believe he assaulted and tried to intimidate one of the witnesses. It sounds like there were multiple robberies committed, could be a case of Joseph/Jones committed one and Joseph/Henry committed another. 

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  19. 18 hours ago, TreatyOak said:

    Is this a clue that Andre Jones was actually innocent and a victim of mistaken identity ,as he always claimed?

    "The Austin American-Statesman reported that police may have actually been seeking James Henry back in July when they arrested Andre Jones. When Robert Joseph was arrested, police said they were "police are still looking for a black man, described as 6-2 and weighing more than 220 pounds".[17] One week later they arrested Jones, who was 6-foot-5 and 295 pounds. The Austin American-Statesman reported "That discrepancy led to some questions about possible mistaken identity regarding Jones in the days after his arrest. Now it appears that police were looking for Henry, who was listed at 6-foot-2 and 200 pounds."[17] Henry had been questioned and released on the day of the robbery.[17]"

    Poster in the Johntay thread was a victim of one of the robberies Joseph and Jones committed. He confirmed Jones himself pistol whipped his dog during the incident. Not a case of mistaken identity, just a piece of shit claiming to be innocent. 

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