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  1. 1) Aggie95 is 100% incorrect on the patronage of NIL for ATM. They have a billionaire funding most of it. He’s young and Forbes hasn’t caught on yet, but they’ll track him eventually. He helped sign all of Fisher’s classes and then he okayed the Fisher firing, is paying a lot of the buyout and partnered with Liucci to kill the Stoops hiring. I know the guy personally. Great dude, highly intelligent, self-made. He’s not a schmuck, though and he wants to see solid direction in the program before he lets them go nuts like 2022 again. 2) Beveridge isn’t really involved with NIL. He’s done some stuff, but with sponsorship only. Booze companies cannot be involved directly with players. This is those idiots manufacturing a premise and then committing their entire community to adopting it as fact. 3) The mention of Hildebrandt is also laughable. That dude told us “no” straight up and has had every reason one can imagine to avoid helping. Dude played at Texas and is buddies with CDC, but he’s not going to transfer any wealth to young athletes inside the machine at Texas. 4) Good luck to the imbeciles who think their 16 returners are worth a shit. This is going be hilarious. 5) For Texas, there are multiple major donors helping at this point, plus corporate, plus significant crowdfunding and mid-level donors too. Those aggies are laughably clueless and they have no idea how far behind they really are. It is gratifying to see.
  2. My belief is that he's doing work for Sarkisian with this stuff. They want Butler gone and now this post leads me to think something similar for Niblett.
  3. At an FCS school? Sure. The guy is fucking tiny and focused almost completely on track. He make Brenan Thompson look swole. It was a truly stupid take from ATM that also cost them money.
  4. Here is an article from Sooner Illustrated talking about the transfers they're looking at in the portal. All of these guys are FCS guys. OU is focusing on these types because they're cheap and, allegedly, Nagy thinks he's arbitraging the rest of big time college football because he's a true evaluator and there are diamonds in the rough at the lower level that he's finding. I've also included a post from one of their established posters where he's more honest about what he's seeing. Be careful reading this shit because you might OD consuming this much hilarious OU shit in one reading session. Holy shit. " Rcsodak said... (original post) Williams is a 0 star transfer. What do they see in him that nobody else does? I'm perplexed. We aren't acting like a serious program. Everyone lambasted Riley for losing in the playoffs but that dude tampered like a mofo. This is all a hype beast until Nov where the “injuries” pile up in a violent sport. I'm an optimistic guy in life. Orphaned, created an amazing family, and company blah blah blah. I've never see a company this mismanaged like OU in such a short time. Jim is a great step but it is run by geriatrics and buffoons. Literally another mod at a reputable sooner site tonight said half the staff would leave for a HC job at a HS bc of NIL and portal. That's not the Mamba mentality to win 8. Maybe 8 wins which everyone will geek out over. Not my MO. Love the Sooners since 82 but our big dubs are Stone coming back, Jim ( win) and the HC who doesn't know how to be a HC saying he's the DC bc the OSU DC played us while the protege left for WVU and the horny Rich Rod. Wild times."
  5. Here's an article by Tarp about the ATM CBs and NBs, post-spring practices. They seem to believe that this part of the roster is a team strength. I see 1 guy (Lee) that Texas would actually take if they entered the portal and about 3-4 others that would probably get a look (Chappell, maybe Currie or the other freshman?). It's true, they have much shittier units, I guess.
  6. Spoilered below is a half-hearted article by the Aggie 247 staff. Earnest Campbell, the tiny speedster that they touted as the next Bullet Bob Hayes, is now in the portal. Their WR room is down one more midget with wheels, and no one of size or merit heading in as a replacement. They're also bringing in JAG from FCS at LB. The minute he commits, commands for tape-watching will commence as The Elk continues to do work. Not productive work, mind you, but that fatass is undeniably working on something. Anything. Surely?
  7. It’s just 2147 handwringing and pitching his own robotic hypotheticals, per usual. You worry about weird shit sometimes.
  8. Niblett is more of a Scatback/RB3 type than true WR at this point. I'll be pretty surprised if Niblett and Butler are each still on the roster by Monday. They don't seem to want Niblett to leave, but they don't know what to do with him, either. Butler, seems like what they want to do with him is to have him stand in just the right spot in Sarkisian's office, just as one of Sarkisian's minions pulls the trapdoor lever, hidden behind a two-way mirror in the next room. I would not be surprised if the number is 8 heading into the fall, with part of that being a new guy that is an instant starter who enables you and the others that have been squatting to pee about the WR room to pull yourselves together and stand up straight once again.
  9. Hopefully the Falcons aren't dumb enough to draft Shemar Stewart. Good lord.
  10. Things are moving philosophically with Akina onboard. There are numerous guys moving around in the secondary and getting reps at multiple positions, as I understand it. I don't think there is a sense that they can improve upon what they have in the room by doing anything in the portal. Texas has 9 guys that have gotten reps at Safety + Jonah Williams. Taaffe is a returning AA, McDonald and Derek Williams have that potential. They like the younger guys too. This doesn't even include Santana Wilson, who could looks at Safety and Nickel if they need to keep him away from the portal next year. WR and OL are the only two spots to watch unless either Texas loses a key guy at another position, or a guy enters the portal that everyone feels they have to go after.
  11. What he really meant to say is that they're loaded with talent, but they lack experience, at CB. Bringing someone in over the top of the guys in that room wasn't going to do the roster any favors and it isn't particularly merited. What they'll be fielding in the fall is highly likely to be better than the UH CB.
  12. He's telling the truth. He's the Landon Jackson of this board. He's basically Powder 2.0, the angry one.
  13. Buffalo MSA - 1.166M, 49th nationally Austin MSA - 2.743M, 26th nationally As of 2020. No one needs to tell him anything. He'll figure it out pretty quickly, I'm sure.
  14. Awesome. Chris Beard can go fuck himself.
  15. From Bobby today, below. His Butler comment is only the kind of thing he’s going to post when a coach is asking him to do so, IMO. **** Time for some news and notes (a lot of it on the freshmen): - KJ Lacey continues to look the part of a future starter at the D-I level. Lacey has a good presence, delivers the ball on time and has some escapability to him. He does not have the arm strength of Arch Manning or Trey Owens, but he has some wily-ness that makes him difficult to defend at times. - James Simon is ahead of Ricky Stewart of the two freshman RBs. Christian Clark is still running third team behind Tre Wisner and Jerrick Gibson. Some are saying Gibson’s body is leaning out some this spring, which is giving him a little more bounce in his step. - Parker Livingstone is the team’s go-to receiver currently. The clear no. 2 is Daylan McCutcheon. McCutcheon continues to be well ahead of the three other freshmen, as Jamie Ffrench, Kaliq Lockett and Michael Terry get accustomed to the intricacies of a pro-style offense. None of those guys played in offenses as sophisticated as McCutcheon did in high school. Aaron Butler is not a factor at the position. - Nick Brooks continues to receive high praise. The words “first-round pick” get used by a lot of folks when describing him. Brandon Baker, I am told, also seems to be taking a real step forward in the last couple of weeks. - Justus Terry and Lance Jackson are both receiving a lot of early praise. Terry is working primarily at strong-side end currently. Cole Brevard and Alex January appear to be a step ahead of their cohorts on the interior. Both Josiah Sharma and Myron Charles are showing real glimpses of why Texas liked them so much in recruiting. - Perhaps the surprise of the second half of spring camp? Linebacker Brad Spence. - Derrick Williams is still not all the way back. And he is only repping at safety. Jelani McDonald continues to improve. - Kobe Black has reportedly had a good spring, enough so that Texas is unlikely to look in the portal for experienced depth at corner. Kade Phillips has also shown some real value there early in his career. - Graceson Littleton may be the biggest surprise of the defensive freshman. The Tampa native is a future player for the Horns. He is giving Wardell Mack a real run at nickel.
  16. Texas is hosting a HS Kicker from St. Thomas this weekend. Dude has visited once and also visited LSU and ATM, so apparently he’s looked good on film. https://ontexasfootball.com/forums/topic/6811-2026-kicker-in-town-this-weekend-wednesday-351-pm/
  17. Restricting legal income for non-collectively bargained participants will not survive first contact in court. Jay Bilas was mocking the premise on the radio two days ago saying everything we’re saying here. He’s also a lawyer. The LSU and Bamas of the world are still really fucking poor. Collectives will still exist. The first time a deal for a player signing autographs and getting $500k to do so is declined, the whole thing goes to court and then we all get to point and laugh at those shitty, impoverished institution and the fucking cheaters trying to support them.
  18. The funniest part is that actually overspending on a defensive line and then watching the mercenaries kill all positivity in the culture is what Elko and Fisher actually did at ATM. So, yeah, sure, Texas must be that fucking stupid as well.
  19. He’s for sure one that should be on the radar. Like I said, if it’s kind of obvious, it’s not something people on this board should feel is unplanned. Not saying we have to agree with the staff on it. If something is a “whoa!!” for you and you don’t think you’re one of the board idiots, then that is something different. There are no current worries in that regard, btw.
  20. In our Dallas hotel elevator last October, two fat sorority girls, dressed up like whores on the Friday night before the game, drunkenly told me and my wife that OU was going to “beat that ass because of sooner magic, baby!!” I just smiled and waited for our floor.
  21. They didn’t scour the CFP landscape and say “man, this Watson guy up in Syracuse is a must get!” Fran Brown wants it to be one way, but it’s the other. The player’s agent called around to all of the big brands and checked interest. Then serious conversations were had. Sorry that Syracuse is poor. I feel super bad for two of the biggest huckster bagmen of the pre-NIL era in Brown and Robinson. Fuck those grifting gasbags. There is going to be more attrition from the Texas roster, planned for, and people will hand wring. I’m not saying there couldn’t be a surprise or two that is a net negative, but barring that, a few guys are still likely to leave and that will be obvious and according to plan. There is still a good shot of a few more additions, and at least one could be another really big deal on several levels. Some of this might not conform to the portal window timeline, which should be fun on the boards as well.
  22. Ah yes, Luther Vandross. The Velvet Voice. RIP. But what does he have to do with any of this?
  23. I’m, sorry, but there are tangents and then there is this kind of stunt. What on earth does maritime law have to do with any of this, sir?
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