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4 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:
If it ends up being a merger down the road whatever it becomes could take over the longhorn internet. Especially if Gerry comes into the fold again
Seems unlikely. Bobby likes running a "clean" ship, and if they're monetizing, then peoples feelings and being safe spacy will be important. That being said if Immamac will be a figure over there, I'll happily sub there as well. Gerry/Bobby have always been solid.
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Blake Munroes notes on yesterdays Junior Day.
SpoilerThis morning I spoke with a handful of prospects who were on campus yesterday at Texas. Here are a couple of highlights from those conversation.
- Missouri City (Hightower) 2025 four-star safety Kade Phillips had a good time on his visit. He mentioned that the overall environment of the day was a major positive and that he was treated well. He will visit Texas A&M and Baylor next weekend.
- Henry Harris is a name to keep an eye on for the 2026 class. The 6-foot-5, 180-pound wide receiver from San Marcos met with Texas wide receivers coach Chris Jackson for quite some time yesterday and it sounds like that made a strong impression on him. Harris currently holds offers from California, Texas Tech and Texas State, but that should change this spring. It's obviously very early in his recruitment and his stock should blow up in the near future.
- Prosper 2026 OT Zaden Krempin was one of many talented offensive linemen on campus yesterday and met up with Texas OL Daniel Cruz while there. The two have trained with each other for the past two years and Cruz has been in his ear about the Longhorns. He said that, after visiting, he can easily see why Cruz decided to go to Texas. Krempin already holds 14 offers from the likes of Florida State, Missouri, Texas A&M, Ole Miss and more. He will visit Texas A&M and Arkansas next, with plans to return to Austin in the near future. His current leaders are TCU, Texas A&M and SMU.
- QB recruiting seems to always happen very early and that's the case with Waco University 2027 prospect Savoy Nichols. He already has the size, as he measured in at 6-foot-4, 172-pounds yesterday on campus. Nichols met with both AJ Milwee and Tashard Choice and raved about both coaches, along with his visit. He was invited back to take part in their first camp in a couple of months. Oklahoma, TCU, Nebraska, Baylor and Kansas are already showing interest, but he has no plans to visit elsewhere at this time.
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25 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:
If I were guessing I’d guess Jaboree Antione.
Indicated it was someone offered prior to yesterday. Not sure if he meets that qualifier, just adding it.
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Wiltfong report it as well. Downs to Ohio State
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Also you were right CTJ, they're mad.
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7 minutes ago, closetojumping said:Guys like Bond, if they want one, will get a Lamborghini on lease while they're at school. Other cars for plenty of guys. That's all corporate. People are forgetting about corporate and that is continuing to grow and emerge as a formidable competitive advantage versus many schools in shitty locations. Bond is going to get something from other resources too, but the numbers being thrown out aren't correct unless various bama idiots are inclined to add the value of a new Lamborghini to the count. If that's what they're doing, uhh, okay. That's not accurate either, but whatever.
It's likely what @Burt Macklin said. Bama couldn't compete to keep the guy, so they've started pushing numbers into the stratosphere to look less poor. We've seen and will see more schools do this, of course.
In any event, Bond is a combination of corporate NIL + wanting to play in this offense and not have another year of hoping Milroe can find him + future NIL considerations once on campus and working in the Austin realm with groups like TOF. He's going to make nontrivial money, but he isn't making close to $750k. I'll say nothing else other than I am not really spitballing here.
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Just now, Gut Wagon said:
An old coworker here in GA is a pretty serious Bama insider. He claims the Tide dropped out of the Bond race when the number hit $750K.
Even this sounds more believable than $3m.
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Wishcasting is Niblack. Caleb Downs is a whole other level.
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We didn't even make a tpop 2 for Downs. I think thats a very very long shot.
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Muhammad is on campus and Ant Hill is tweeting out a random Hook'em. Calculator?
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LMAOOOOOOOOOOO Nolan is probably talking more than he should be.
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1 minute ago, Tex-19 said:
SIAP but is Blackshire being brought in mainly for special teams? Only 25 tackles in 3 years at Bama so doesn't seem likely to play a ton of LB
Upthread it was mentioned hes special teams + run stopper. 3rd and short situations.
1 minute ago, TexasRenegade said:I really need to get around to watching Oppenheimer...
It's incredible. I don't watch may movies these days but I've watched that one 4 times. I cant recommend it enough.
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COLUMBUS — Ohio State has its new athletic director.
The Buckeyes, and most notably new university president Ted Carter and outgoing athletic director Gene Smith, have found their new leader of the largest athletic department in the country: Ross Bjork will take over when Smith officially retires in June.
“Few athletics directors have established such an impressive and strong record of success in athletics, in the classroom and throughout the community,” Ohio State president Ted Carter said in a statement. “The bar is incredibly high at Ohio State, and we have found in Ross a highly intelligent and effective leader – not to mention a fierce competitor.”
Bjork is leaving his post as the athletic director at Texas A&M for the same post at Ohio State.
“I have been extraordinarily blessed to be a product of college athletics as a student-athlete and fortunate to work with so many outstanding student-athletes, coaches, staff and university leaders throughout my career, and Ohio State represents the culmination of these efforts,” Bjork said. “To be a part of Buckeye Nation, along with its storied traditions and long history of achievement, is a tremendous honor and a welcome challenge for me and our family. I can’t wait to get started.”
He will begin on July 1. He has been at Texas A&M since 2019, when he took over that athletic department following an eight-year stint at Ole Miss.
Despite a hit-and-miss career in making coaching hirings for football and men’s basketball, Bjork is known around athletic circles as a good athletic director who can fundraise and has a vision for the future of college athletics. Now he takes over as one of the most powerful people in the college athletics space.
He’ll have a massive responsibility in shaping the next era of Ohio State athletics.
Background on Ohio State athletic director search
Smith announced in August that he would be leaving his post as the Buckeyes athletic director June 30, 2024. The Ohio State brass immediately went into search mode. Of course, they had to hire a president first, and that came in August.The Ohio State board of trustees appointed Walter “Ted” Carter its next university president. Carter, 64, had been serving as the president of the University of Nebraska system since January 2020.
Carter is replacing former Ohio State president Kristina M. Johnson, who stepped down from her position in May after taking over in August 2020. Carter is due to start his new role at Ohio State on Jan. 1, 2024.
Carter and the top Ohio State power players have now found their top name for the athletic director spot, and it comes from the SEC.
Bjork, who has been the athletic director at Texas A&M since 2019, was at Ole Miss from 2012-2019, where he oversaw football success — and plenty of NCAA involvement because of recruiting violations — from Hugh Freeze. Bjork also promoted offensive line coach Matt Luke to head coach before Luke was fired two years later.
Bjork oversaw the contract extension for now-former Texas A&M coach Jimbo Fisher before Bjork and his athletic department paid a historic $76 million buyout for Fisher after disappointing seasons in College Station. Bjork then made the hire of former Aggies defensive coordinator and Duke coach Mike Elko as the next Texas A&M head coach.
The 51-year-old Bjork has also helped Texas A&M through a great transitionary period of college football in the SEC, as the conference is set to welcome Texas and Oklahoma next year.
Before his time at Texas A&M and Ole Miss, Bjork was the athletic director at Western Kentucky and had posts in the athletic departments at UCLA, Miami (Florida) and Missouri.
This is a developing story. Lettermen Row will have more information when it becomes available.
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6 minutes ago, horny_gunman said:
AND punk his old buddy Sark? The AZ reporter is as bad as Looch and Fat Ketch - wait are they really all the same person with different headshots?
Anyway, I feel pretty confident that a coach who has had his own system for a few years did not just accept his job at UA with a contingency/idea to re-hire the DC whom he has no relationship with.Fair points.
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1 minute ago, Richter said:
If they're hiring Brennan, I don't understand any concern. Do we really think he's going to quit the job and then just go back to the same job a week after getting a higher paying job at Texas? Does he have any relationship with Brennan?
Relationship with Brennan no. However its been heavily rumored he just wanted out from under Fisch and would take his old role to be play caller.
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Nansen is in San Clemente with PK this morning. I'm less concerned but also I guess it stands to reason he's gonna do his job until the very last minute.
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1 hour ago, Viper said:
Would have been nice if we could wait to release until a DL coach is hired but I guess that's still a few weeks away and not worth the bad blood it would create.
This is completely my thinking. Why not wait until the spring portal season, see if you mesh with the new coach, and if not then leave. At least you can say you tried. Definition of committing to a coach not a school but it is what it is.
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File this away for this cycle, but seems like TyAnthony is related to a 2025 recruit.
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CJ posted on OTF that things are trending for a commitmet for the AZ DT. THey have him at 6'4, 305.
Bobby chimed in later that ideally we take him and then another DT in the spring portal. Makes sense. New DL coach probably wants time to evaluate his room.