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Burt Macklin

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  1. I have no doubt this commission's conclusion will be that there needs to be a strict NIL cap that's lower than the House Settlement number being thrown around because there's been no talk of any player representation on the committee, only boosters and school-side people. It will all be for nothing though, because any attempt to limit the NIL earnings without collective bargaining of the players is going to get struck down in court.
  2. Brother, this pick had everything to do with the trade.
  3. When you add Cooper Flagg as part of the deal, it was actually a pretty smart move by Nico.
  4. Got dam. I had completely forgotten about this guy. He pissed me off more than almost any player I can remember. There were so many games where teams ran all over us and most of their big runs came from outside runs to his side. He couldn't set the edge to save his life, but he was also dogshit as a pass rusher.
  5. Good stuff. It's incredible that Sark got 8 drat picks and 2 first round picks out of this class considering we didn't land a single 5 star, only landed 4 guys in the top 250 and only 2 guys in the top 150. One of my favorite parts about following Sark's program has been watching guys actually learn how to play football and develop year over year. We hadn't seen that in Texas in more than a decade. Hell, a lot of our guys would be good as freshman and get worse each year. Following college football is a lot more fun when you get to witness the progress of guys year after year.
  6. To be fair, Chip thought he was getting a quote from Tom Herman.
  7. It's a pretty crazy situation. Oakes and his brother took over HiTech (a junior series team) right before the Russia/Ukraine conflict. They've long been rumored to be in bed with Mazepin Senior and they applied to gain entry to F1, but the source of their funding was an issue. Oakes' brother was just arrested in the UK for transfer of criminal property, i.e. using Mazepin's money to fund/run HiTech. Oakes flew straight from the Miami GP to Dubai. Seems like he'll be hanging out there avoiding extradition for quite a while. I assume that also means HiTech won't be competing in the junior series anymore. On the bright side Flavio Briatore is running Alpine now, so they've definitely cleaned up their act.
  8. I laughed out loud when he was citing Sydir Mitchell at DT and Harold Perkins at off-ball LB (when the only thing he's good at is pass rush) as part of his reasons for optimism. Pretty clear he has not clue what he's talking about and is just trying to pump LSU blindly for whatever reason. Maybe he has a GA he's friends with on staff or something.
  9. Using the word simple to mean excluding relevant factors to reach an inaccurate conclusion is certainly one way of going about it. If you factor in that 75% of the NFL is black and the other 25% of players are white and then look at the demographics for states that value football like Texas, Florida, and Georgia, the numbers are all pretty much in line. Georgia's not "punching above its weight" or doing anything exceptional compared to similar states.
  10. Not really. If you look at the demographics of states in the south that play football more than other regions, those numbers more or less correlate.
  11. *Fuck off, asshole. **You cannot fucking read, dumbass.
  12. I saw that as well. It was a shockingly stupid comment. Jahdae has been really good for 3 straight years now. He was the best slot CB in the country two years ago and then switched to outside CB last year and won the fucking Thorpe Award.
  13. Sark/Bo Davis's first DL class of Finkley, Bryant, Bledsoe, Tapp, and Kriss Ross was a total flop. Thankfully, we could rely on the best DL recruiter in the country's prior efforts to field elite DLs the last two years.
  14. Merc’s wind tunnel is also pretty old. It seems like state of the art wind tunnels are key to these ground effect cars. McLaren got a new wind tunnel at the end of 2023, and they have nailed it with every single update since then and are the first customer team to win a title in a long, long time. No other team has been able to consistently develop their car without huge setbacks that weren’t seen in their wind tunnel/sims.
  15. Deandre Moore in the 2nd and DJ Campbell in the 3rd are some very, very optimistic projections.
  16. Vasseur said recently they're not giving up on this season. It'll be interesting to see how much things change with the Imola upgrades plus the reg change after Spain. I'd say if they're not able to be at the front by then, it'll be time to shut this season down and focus solely on 2026. Throwing away a shit load of points with a terrible strategy call for both drivers in Australia and DQs in China certainly didn't help.
  17. Bond was a diva who actively hurt the team in multiple games, and he has an assault charge hanging over his head. There was no fucking way he was going in the second. I’ll be shocked if he goes Day 2 at all.
  18. Forget it, DetroitHorn is rolling.
  19. No. All the other words were extraneous.
  20. Hahahaha I did not remember this at all, but it doesn’t surprise me. The guy was an elite nickel CB for two years and then won the fucking Thorpe award as an outside CB. Ian Boyd’s evaluation out of HS was he wouldn’t make it as a CB, so he should move to safety. Just incredible.
  21. Definitely possible. There are a number of freak athlete DEs who just weren’t good at football, but his biggest issue is poor hand usage, which is by far the most coachable aspect of pass rush. When you watch his film, it’s all just long arm rush with no counter or ability to disengage, and his hand usage is absolutely terrible. Similar dynamic with them bulling Scourton up way too much to the point his pass rushing opportunities became much worse. He hasn’t been developed well at all, and Elko’s system limits his true pass rushing opportunities significantly. It doesn’t appear their coaching staff prioritizes DE pass rush in their coaching or scheme.
  22. And Shemar Stewart has a chance at being a top 15 pick in spite of his production. He put up one of the most impressive combine performances ever. He was right up there with Myles Garrett athletically. Yet he had 1.5 sacks this year, because Elko wants 4 guys on his DL averaging over 300 lbs who play run defense first on almost every snap. Elko wants his DL to stop the run, and he manufactures pressure with blitzes on third down. If Stewart played in a better system, he'd be a no doubt top 10 pick this year, probably top 5. Much like WR, any pass rusher who chooses to go to A&M is out of their mind and hurting their career. Any amount A&M is paying over the next highest bidder will be negated by their S&C and usage hurting their draft stock.
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