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Catdaddyhorn

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  1. He's more of a guy who prior to this past Peach Jam and summer league season was expected to stay 2 or 3 years because his offensive skillset, while sound, isn't particularly special in anyone area. But his performance during the most recent summer session opened a lot of eyebrows. Not only Beard, but scouts like Mike Schmitz and Sam Vecenie have taken notice and sung his praises over his recent performances so who knows what will happen.
  2. What do you mean still? His smoking habit is new and is a direct result of his sobriety journey.
  3. What a sight for sore eyes. I've missed your basketball discussion over the last decade. Totally agree with this point and I doubt most college basketball fans would be surprised by it. Had NIL been in place a couple years earlier there's a real chance someone like Zion, who reportedly loved college life, stays an extra year.
  4. Wallace's hard nosed style fits Beard's approach to game much more than George so I understand why he likes him, but I'd be super surprised if we land him. He's basically a more athletic Marcus Smart with top tier offensive skills. George, on the other hand, is so skilled and makes everything look so easy that people question his heart and tenacity. I can't say that I've seen him enough to know whether that's a legit critique or if people are just picking nits on a guy who doesn't seem to have many discernable flaws.
  5. Yeah I'm kinda shocked Beard went this route. He's behaving as though he just recently discovered Wallace even though he's been a known commodity and highly rated for just as long as George. If anything the new talent on the block is Arterio Morris. Both Cason Wallace and Keyonte George have gone back forth as the #1 or #2 players in the state ever since their classed started being ranked. I'm not gonna lie, my original desires for this class were Morris and Wallace so I can't say I'd be disappointed if we got him, but given the apparent limited likelihood of getting Wallace and the fact that up until Beard changed course, George was in the bag, this move is surprising.
  6. Ah regardless of the fact that Bob only recently made it public, it was pretty obvious he leaned Aggy a long time ago. He routinely made trips to Kyle field. He often talked about having Aggy friends, and even mentioned how in all his years in Dallas he never ran into Longhorns in the areas he's lived in. So while I thought there was a chance his daughter might choose UT given her apparent class rank it made way too much sense that the end result would be what it eventually became. The thing that gets me is how uncritical he is of college sports propaganda. Be it SEC homerism, or in his view how unfair UT was to Aggy, it's as though he reflexively exhibits skepticism against the prevailing orthodoxy in every aspect of his sports life except when it comes to college football. When it comes to CFB, unless it has to do with the draft, he turns into an absolute dumbass.
  7. For a guy who is supposed to be "smart" Bob continued insistence to pretend he knows anything about college football outside of how it affects the NFL draft is grating as fuck. Sure Bob, Mississippi St's 10 draft picks on their 85 man roster puts them in an entirely different stratosphere compared to Iowa St's 5 draft picks on their roster.
  8. Rumor has it that she's heading to NBC.
  9. Yeah this is overrated. Often times the losing players come into the WInners' lockerroom and congratulate them there behind the scenes. It's much easier to greet them there when they're all together rather than trying to meet each opposing player individually during the immediate chaos that begins after the buzzer sounds.
  10. I agree we shouldn't underestimate the amount of seasoning KD's long ass foot allowed Milwaukee to gain. This experience is going to make them a much tougher out for playoff seasons to come. Giannis worked some kinks out of his game due to the the extra reps that series win over the Nets allowed him to get this playoffs, and he's gained confidence in his midrange game as a result. The midrange was something he needed to add to his bag much more than a 3pt shot IMO.
  11. Don't get me wrong his Dad looks young as hell and was dunking at 50+ years old on a little pregame interview/excerpt TNT or ESPN did on his family earlier during the season. I'd feel young and spry too if I had 3 sons playing in the NBA.
  12. She was sitting by his youngest brother, Aaron. At least that's what I saw when Breen made his comment.
  13. This is the aspect of NIL that from the very first discussion of it I was surprised more people didn't see this beneficial fallout from it. "It took players about a nanosecond to setup online shops where they could endorse products, send birthday shout-outs to strangers, print t-shirts, tattoo a vape shop Venmo on their neck, or whatever else they could think of, and good for them. Across every sport, there are players cashing in on their fame in myriad ways, it’s a cash grab with immediate and profound impacts, and it has in significant ways leveled the field for college programs to compete against early entry into the professional world. A player than can clear a $2000-5000/month in endorsements is marginally less desperate to get to the next level to start getting paid, and for a famous freshman whose game/abilities may not be tailor-made for the next level - I’m thinking here of a player who might be a mid/late second-round pick in the NBA - it’s possible a program with the proper levers to pull with local businesses & boosters could drop an extra-nice endorsement deal in their laps to help tip the scales to keep a talent around 1 year longer than they otherwise might have. (This is technically not allowed in the current NCAA landscape, but we’ll get to that shortly.) The lottery picks are going to leave because they should leave to make seven figures, but the fringe NBA prospects are suddenly somewhat more persuadable to get on campus in the first place and possibly stay around a little longer. This is a net-win for high-major college programs, plus they got to watch the NCAA take it in the shorts in front of the world. Just an all-around great situation for everybody not working at NCAA HQ." This was clear as day to me at the very instance momentum started building for NIL. Somebody like Isaiah Taylor or J'Covan Brown doesn't leave a year early with NIL on the table. Shit you may even guys like Joseph Ossai and Connor Williams would possibly be persuadable if their first round grade prospects turned as flimsy as they ended up being in the end.
  14. That back might be a thing. It crept up on him during their series with Phoenix.
  15. UCLA was a play-in team, but their best big man was injured for the season which sent them down an end of season slump. So while they might not have been as good as they were in the tourney they weren't as bad as they were when they ended the season as a play-in team.
  16. Well, when people have spent the better part of the last 10 years worshiping the concept of amateurism and sticking their collective fingers in their ears while rejecting reasonable disagreements they're not gonna be prepared to see the issue clearly when the paradigm finally shifts. Rather than fully accepting the incoming change our legislature enacted a law that only partially embraced that incoming changes, thereby putting Texas schools at a comparative disadvantage to schools in states that fully dealt with the changing reality.
  17. Non tier 1 personnel doing paid endorsements seems to be a new thing. I remember only 2 or 3 years ago it would be rare to hear people like Donovan doing ads, much less Ticker people like Julie and Ty or even engineers like Killer have done lately.
  18. I can't help but root for this guy.
  19. I could see Askew transferring within the next 2 seasons.
  20. Fucking A!!! I can't describe how elated I am about this recruit. This guy is fucking Ja Morant in the making and the fact that he's still not rated as a top 10 player in his class is beyond stupid. This dude is the fucking truth. Not only did we get my favorite player in the 2022 class, but Beard has made his presence felt in the Metroplex, which is no small task. To put our woeful recruiting in the Dallas area into perspective in the last 19 years of college basketball recruiting we've gotten only Lamarcus Aldridge, Andrew Jones, and Myles Turner out of Dallas when it comes to elite, top tier recruits. We've fucking sucked there. In one fell swoop (because Beard is going to get Keyonte George and hopefully at least one of Anthony Black or Cason Wallace or Rylan Griffin) Chris Beard said fuck that Dallas recruits don't go to Austin noise. And with Kentucky faltering and Coach K retiring we're going to absolutely dominate Dallas for the foreseeable future.
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