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58 minutes ago, UncleSonny said: Reads like he’s conceding that the Aggies won’t get him and expects Tech so he’s trying to frame it as specifically an L for us.
Texas definitely thinks Coleman is coming. The Miami DL and Cal LB too. Not that that means anything.
Spitballing here, but do you think we're at the point that taking out Help Wanted ads in school newspapers seeking anyone with OL experience might help? Offering competitive rates and a nice benefit package?
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33 minutes ago, The Dog said: Listening to the OTF livestream and Bobby mentioned that we had a higher offer than Ohio State for this guy. Matt Patricia signing a 3 year deal was likely the difference.
Bobby then mentioned something I was thinking yesterday - at some point the numbers are large enough that the differences don't matter as much. For example, there's not much of a difference between $1 million and $1.5 million in terms of lifestyle. It's not like the difference from 60k to 90k, which does. This is especially the case if you are a college kid living on campus.
Of course if someone comes in with an offer several times another then that can make a difference (like $1 million vs. $5 million.) But that just doesn't happen very often.
Have we really descended so far into denial that they want us to believe college kids - even football players making 6 and 7 figures - do not care about half a million dollars?
yikes - OTF is really struggling.
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29 minutes ago, chainsaw said: Sark's most successful season is when he completely raided the portal for WRs. Isaiah Bond who was playing like our our top receiver before he got injured in Dallas, Silas Bolden who gave 100% on every snap and made big play after big play, and oh yeah some guy who saved our asses by the name of Matthew Golden. The portal has definitely surpassed HS recruiting in importance, and I don't believe bringing guys in that way is an obstacle to having a culture, either.
This also shines a spotlight on the difficulty of recruiting the portal in the modern age - each one of those guys was a lesson unto itself. Bond got the money and immediately came in as an entitled diva who set all time high water marks for entitled douchebag behavior. He was unfocused, was a bad teammate and the team ultimately let him hide behind an injury to save face for the fact that he was flat out benched by the end of the season for being unreliable. Golden was the complete opposite - he came in focused and motivated to improve, and he did and was a portal success story that you'd want to identify and emulate. AD Mitchell was in-between Bond and Golden - less focused and more of a pain in the ass than Golden (his NFL pre-draft comments were accurate) but not the disaster that Bond was and Mitchell performed on the field.
The portal is like speed dating, with the extra variable that you don't know how the money changes players. As the system starts to mature into approaching some kind of equilibrium and more players get more money sooner, then it may well turn out that throwing more money at players in the portal who have already been paid substantial amounts doesn't run as much risk at distorting their development. Figuring out not only who is the right fit for your team or who may have untapped potential, but also who is going to be coachable and fit into a team (I.e. not just be about their own stats for their next payday) is of utmost importance, but also really difficult.
It will be interesting to see how things evolve in figuring out how to value those intangibles. Guys like Livingstone and Wisner were legit good culture guys - they did their work, they played hurt, they were good teammates. That's not a given up and down the roster. It would be a mistake to overpay for those qualities or feel like you can't lose those kinds of guys, but it isn't wrong (at least in my view) to value it. I think in previous years Texas has probably overvalued it, so I welcome this development, but I also think this is an experimental time of dialing things in during a whirlwind. None of this is easy.
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52 minutes ago, closetojumping said: I don’t blame Jaggy for asking for what he thinks he’s worth.
I don’t blame Texas for making a firm offer that he could take and standing on it.
I don’t blame Jaggy for deciding he’d rather try on the open market.
I don’t blame Texas for letting him walk.
That said, Jaggy McJaggerson can go get fucked and never make it out of obscurity for turning this into a victimhood, clubhouse lawyer play. He attempted to politic for his buddies to go in and take a stand for him to get what he thought he was due. He then went to the press and known writers who salivate over the opportunity to paint any blue blood as an evil machine. Then he cozies up with OU? Yeah, fuck you, dipshit. Go drop passes and be a wealthy redneck wannabe somewhere else.
This is exactly right, and it is good for the program to not get bullied or intimidated by this kind of bullshit and it is good for the players in the program to see what happens when guys try to pull this kind of bullshit. Too many guys have a distorted view of their own worth. They should be free to pursue whatever avenues they like, but that doesn't make Texas the bad guy, and Texas is under no obligation to overpay because of feelings. This is a good development for the future of the program.
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1 hour ago, Im_smarter_then_you said: Gideon was hired before PK. I think at the request of Will who obviously left us at the altar. I don’t have any inside info. Just pretty easy to see
I doubt Blake was insubordinate at all.
This is correct. PK had a known weakness for aligning the front with the coverages. That wasn't Gideon's responsibility and shouldn't be held against him.
He's a good coach, a good communicator, and players like him. That he was molded as a player by Muschamp and has Muschamp's endorsement as a coach makes the fit even better.
This is a good development.
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11 hours ago, Nicole44 said: IIRC a few pressers back Sark said he wasn’t concerned about our culture. Is this an unusual amount of players hitting the portal? The other day Sark was talking to the press about unreasonable “agents” (not easy to deal with types players have that have no agent experience.) Our Cheez-It win should be a pretty good recruiting tool for us. It’s not like we don’t have the money. If we make smart portal decisions (ahem look at Cig) we should be able to build a team around what we still have and Arch.
I don’t keep up with recruiting nor the portal but is the consensus here something is WRONG and that we are losing players bc of it? Or is the amount we are losing no different from any other team? Is it on the level of Bama or Aggy attribution when DeBoer and Elko were hired?
don’t know what to do with my very sweet Parker Livingston/stone jersey from someone I love dearly. Damn.
not trying to stir up shit…just don’t know what people make of this. I realize there are a lot of wait and see types but is this amount of players leaving normal for a coach entering his 6th season or is it abnormal? Confused.
I think it is healthy. There was too much comfort and complacency.
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2 hours ago, GTJ1982 said: You actually think Flood is going anywhere after sark sent him out for the press conference? Sark laid it out; the problem this year wasn’t the offense. Until further notice I assume Milwee, Banks and Flood are untouchable.
I wouldn't draw conclusions one way or another based on Cheez It Bowl press conferences.
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6 hours ago, deech said: It seems to me that Wisner was attempting to leverage our lack of RB depth in our bowl game in an attempt to get more money. I mean if he has frank discussions earlier regarding his status, he should have hit the portal three weeks ago. So it could be that Texas said something like let's see how things go before we talk final NIL numbers, but the more likely scenario is he knew a few names were jumping to the portal in the RB room and was hoping that would make Texas desperate to meet his NIL ask so we had a RB to play in the bowl game.
Do you actually think Texas would be so concerned with playing an experienced RB for the Cheez It Bowl that they would be leveraged into panicking and paying more for Wisner so he could play in the bowl game?
If so, I can assure you that is not the case.
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6 hours ago, 52-80 said:
So it’s the TV version of the Aggy football ‘coaster.
Within the sci-fi construction of the show, one wonders why they cant be more effective when they have the collective intelligence and capability of every living person and absolute cooperation.
It should be easy to convince Carol to join them. The experience of the worlds best psychologists, psychiatrists, motivational speakers, and negotiators are all simultaneously available to them!
The same for having to sleep in a gym to conserve energy or going through the conventional motions of operating a plant or a hospital or whatever. Hyperintelligence can do that much better!
Do you think you could be convinced of anything, provided enough of the world's best psychologists, psychiatrists, motivational speakers, and negotiators? Not just your opinions, but core aspects of your sense of self and how you interact with the world?
I'm not trying to be confrontational or play gotcha, I just think satisfaction with this show is enhanced by exploring the questions presented around what are foundational aspects of being human - what makes people happy? the interplay between the individual and the corporate? the rational and irrational parts of humanity? Can you be loved as an individual when everyone is treated the same? Is it wrong to be dissatisfied with that (as Carol is)? - and less about looking for plot holes about the hive mind or focusing on the aliens. I'm not saying those things aren't legitimate, and everyone is obviously free to enjoy shows on whatever terms they like - it is just that the show is pretty transparently an exploration of humanity (with COVID and AI clearly serving as background inspiration) and not engaging it on those terms will lead to frustration and dissatisfaction.
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Bingeable series for the whole family
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I think at that age, for most things either they are going to need to stretch in an adult direction or you'll need to stretch a bit in the kid direction. Lots of suggestions here stretch in the adult direction. One that we did and enjoyed as a family, but was a bit on the adults stretching toward the kids side, was Lemony Snickets Series of Unfortunate Events (the show on Netflix, not the movie). It was a perfect bridge show for the family at that age.