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Catdaddyhorn

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  1. After the podcast with Matt Bruenig I came away feeling they were certain to come out on top in this whole imbroglio.
  2. Yep, Bobby's change in outlook is a lot of what I'm basing my optimism on. He's seen every Texas team up close and personal since the early 90s. So he's a good point of reference to gage this year's prospects on. Additionally, he's typically tempered in his prognostications and is usually anything but a sunshine pumper which is rare for a 995er. Before that list that @closetohumping put up there, Bobby was routinely saying he'd be happy with 9-3 for this season on their YouTube shows so I'm pleasantly surprised he's upped it to 10-2.
  3. The development of actual players on the roster is another key differentiator between Sark & Herman. Christian Jones, Keandre Coburn, Overshown, Jaylon Ford, & Jahdae Barron are just a few of the shining examples of players getting demonstrably better under this coaching staff. And while NIL and the transfer portal have obviously been pivotal for Sark his approach to recruiting is totally different from Herman. Sark doesn't settle for lower ranked recruits when their target commits to another school. You don't get to pounce on Kelvin Banks and Cam Williams when that coaching change happens unless you've not only maintained that relationship with them, but didn't fill their spot with a lower tier player. The latter being something Herman routinely did, particularly with Oline targets. Sark and staff simply don't quit and they don't settle for lesser talent.
  4. Yeah, highly ranked classes solely made up of 10 WRs & 8 safeties.
  5. One of the Top QB coaches in the league???? How Sway?? Top offensive mind? , yeah sure. Top play caller? Absolutely!! But top QB coach in the league. Exactly who has he coached up. He's a brilliant playcaller who makes it easy for a lesser QB to succeed, but I'm not exactly sure what proof you have of him being a top QB coach.
  6. Yeah I remember during Sirois' exodus tour he was on IJB sans Jake, and TC noted how the producers/board ops/etcs at 105.3 made 2 and 3 times what the comparable positions made at the Ticket. When TC was doing tickers he made the exact same amount (~25k) as what ticker guys in the mid to late 90s made and we're talking over a 20 year time span in between.
  7. I think this is his 2nd OV to Texas. Hopefully this bodes well.
  8. For this exact reason I don't expect Sark to name a starter next year until some time after fall camp. Maybe not even going into our first game next season.
  9. It was so predictable during the preceding period of time when NIL was theoretical but still viewed as a far fetched impracticality that I didnt understand why the movement for change wasnt more directed towards NIL rather than the nickel and diming of the transfer portal and other penny-ante nonsense that has left the sport in such disarray. Had they started with NIL first there'd be a much more reasonable transfer portal protocol than what we have now. People forget that the transfer portal was really just a carrot thrown out to further avoid the inevitable of players eventually getting money in some form.
  10. I believe Lewis and Tuohy are high school classmates from some high school in New Orleans. In fact, it may be the same high school that all of the Mannings went to. Not reading Liars Poker before I finished college is a life long regret of mine. I remember reading an interview with Lewis where he related how he wrote it as some sort of exhortatory tome on the ills of Wall Street, but after reading letters from fans of the book he realized it had the exact opposite effect on everyone who read it.
  11. I believe the conservatorship specified controlling the rights concerning his "life story". So I'm guessing it's not all encompassing like I imagine most conservatorships are.
  12. I think Herman is a better overall game manager than Sark, but his hubris and personality would've prevented him from ever being the recruiting juggernaut that Sark looks to be capable of and his stubbornness (and again hubris) led to some poor player evaluations especially in areas he considered himself as being an expert on (ie WR, OL, etc) Herman also seemed adverse to the chase when going after elite recruits deep into the cycle. Of course some could argue that Sark's penchant for doing that is more or less a byproduct of the NIL/portal environment and our move towards the SEC.
  13. Not to mention he was only there for 18 games total and dealt with the after effects of NCAA probation. .
  14. Thank you for saying this. The people who want Sark gone in the middle of the build after watching the clear and substantive roster changes he's made the last 2 years are children with a child-like need for gratification without enduring any sacrifice. I don't give a fuck what his record in the past was, but even if you do you're basically saying that his sole full season at USC and his 5 years spent turning around a down trodden Washington program are totally determinative of his capabilities. This guy came in here and within 3 offseasons has not only identified our chronic roster issues, but he's given us clear evidence that he's well on his way towards solving them and making them sustainable for the long term. Gone are the days of fictitious top 5 recruiting classes built on 5 safeties and 6 WRs. Now we have well rounded roster building. And his strength and conditioning program is demonstrably better than anything we've seen here in the last decade. Not only is it specified towards the needs of the individual players (Malik Agbo dropping 40lbs of bad weight, Maalik Muhammed gaining 13lbs and getting faster while doing so), but it's yielding immediate improvement. I havent seen this much across the board player development in the last 15 years. Yeah his game day coaching and overall feel for the game at hand needs improving, but given all the other areas he excels in I'm certain that will come or at the very least the talent will be so overwhelming that it wont matter in the end.
  15. Pretty sure Bruenig was an employment/labor attorney prior to joining a think tank/becoming a podcaster.
  16. https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/12/03/248515217/why-chaucer-said-ax-instead-of-ask-and-why-some-still-do @bolverk beat me to it.
  17. That 2009 Georgia game was the first time I realized how much brand management work ESPN was set on doing for the SEC. Oklahoma St beat Georgia by 2 touchdowns yet the entire game all I heard was how Oklahoma St was playing SEC defense and demonstrating SEC speed in route to beating the breaks off an SEC team. Back then the difference in talent between conferences wasn't that vast, but every 13 year old watching games on ESPN got drummed into their heads how the SEC was the best and had the best of everything even though only 2 schools in the conference at the time deserved that level of intrigue. Now after 15 years of kids hearing that nonsense Kentucky routinely sends first rounders to the NFL.
  18. I doubt Jake was making "big money". If he made more than 150K I'd be surprised. Dan, on the other hand, probably made well over 300K.
  19. Totally wasted this guy. https://www.instagram.com/p/CvIywQDuaon/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
  20. Such an unbelievably vapid and inch deep way of offering examples of the resiliency of the enslaved. If that was truly the objective there are a myriad of stories to use as narrative devices, not this laughable "John Henry was a blacksmith therefore he was not a victim" even though he couldn't monetize that blacksmithing skill in any way whatsoever nor did he have any autonomy in exercising said skill. And another thing, can we talk about this childish bastardization of the concept of victimhood and this incessant need to not refer to actual victims of atrocities, as victims. Where is the virtue in this?
  21. The performance based pay pool that Domonique refers to in the tweet up above has no effect on the salary cap. Therefore changing the terms or benchmarks for players gaining extra pay from this pool won't have to be part of a CBA.
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