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Texas Recruiting Notes 2025: Duck Around and Find Out
closetojumping replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
Well, there we go. All of those buyouts are shameful, including UT’s. The Fisher buyout was a horrifically bitter pill to swallow for the force behind it, and what ATM traded to get that done may be something they wind up regretting for decades. If LSU actually found someone willing to front the $61M buyout of Kelly, the cost on the other side for the program would also likely be that above rubies. These deals don’t just happen due to school spirit. All of the lamenting at the media level of the notion of boosters at Texas meddling, which was largely dumb outside the Jamal/Brown bullshit, will look remedial compared to what will start happening at some of these places. That said, I don’t even think LSU could put together a cabal of folks willing to post that kind of capital. They could be dealing with Kelly on the sidelines for years. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2025: Duck Around and Find Out
closetojumping replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
Just thinking out loud here, but it would be cool to have some sort reference area in which one of the things we house is a tracker of coaching salaries, buyouts, assistant buyouts, etc. We have the one dude with a weird handle name that does a great job of tracking eligibility for the UT football roster, @AP101S I think?, and that would go there too. I don't know, could add depth to the site that outpaces other places. Wondering what the actual size is of Kelly's contract, plus his assistants, made me think about it. I'm not lazy enough to not type this out here, but I am lazy enough to avoid going elsewhere and trying to decipher what in the fuck is real versus some coonass spitballing over it. -
Game Week Thread Game Week 13: Kentucky at Texas
closetojumping replied to Wulaw Horn's topic in Football
Ha. ctj’s law #1 of the sports Internet: the longer a college football coaching discussion carries on, the likelihood of Nick Saban being invoked approaches 1. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2024: Bags Don't Beat Bankrolls
closetojumping replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
@TheContractor is a dumb motherfucker who has been wrong the whole way regarding LSU’s wherewithal in the NIL era. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2025: Duck Around and Find Out
closetojumping replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
Maybe. Some schools will have to because they are up shit creek trying to stay competitive for players otherwise. One casualty that I expect to see quickly is the Sexton Fisher Maneuver in which horrendously lopsided buyouts in favor of the coaches are woven into their contracts. No coach is so important that they deserve a full buyout when they’re putting dogshit on the field. That idiot Woodward is hilariously the one that started that and now LSU is trapped for years with that asshole Kelly. -
Sub-Educated Cretins: The SEC screenshot mega-thread
closetojumping replied to SimkinsMan's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
Remember that guy who was on this forum declaratively telling us that LSU had plenty of NIL support and was always going to get theirs? I can’t really remember his handle but he was hilariously wrong and if he is still posting, he needs to be mocked for being an absolute clown. LSU has been beaten since NIL like a borrowed mule. I guess Kelly’s gambit of paying a bunch of guys for commitments early and then hanging on for dear life might be a little flawed. Who could have predicted that? -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2025: Duck Around and Find Out
closetojumping replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
Hey man, get a fucking grip. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2025: Duck Around and Find Out
closetojumping replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
At least we’re in agreement that Die Hard, is, in fact, a Christmas movie. Now, Die Hard 2 is a different story. -
Non Texas Recruiting 2025: Look at the poors trying so hard
closetojumping replied to Ricky's one-hitter's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
This is their Perrilloux. Fuck those cheating asswipes. I hope they cry themselves to sleep tonight and every night through signing day. Dirty cajun clowns.- 369 replies
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Texas A&M Recruiting 2025: The Land of Melk & No Money
closetojumping replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
I like reading cookbooks and I use a lot of the recipes. My wife buys me a new and interesting one every Christmas and some of them are from decades ago. Or hell, Julia Childs’ stuff is something many of us have read and used. One common thread? All of them include at least one, and often, many, horrific recipes. One of The Art of French Cooking books includes multiple recipes for trapping meats and veggies in gelatinous molds. But yeah, the NYT buttermilk pancake recipe is delicious if you also use bacon grease and add vanilla. -
FINAL 2024 CFB polls/rankings - Texas #3/ #4 /#3 (CFP/AP/Coaches)
closetojumping replied to TKthunder2's topic in Football
Texas had Georgia and Florida scheduled for OOC home & aways from 2028-2031. To your point, there isn't a fucking program in this country that operates more clearly in the OOC scheduling with the attitude of "we will play anyone, any time, anywhere" than Texas. Anyone claiming someone else as close to this is full of shit. No FCS teams, usually competitive "cupcakes" that go bowling, sometimes 2 P4 teams. Notre Dame, USC and Maryland concurrently, LSU, Arkansas, Bama, Michigan, Ohio State, Notre Dame (previously UGA), vacant and likely major program to replace UF, then ASU. All of these pundits can go get fucked whining about UT's schedule.- 4466 replies
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Game Week Thread Game Week 13: Kentucky at Texas
closetojumping replied to Wulaw Horn's topic in Football
ctj's law #12 of the Internet: The longer an opponent discussion thread goes on, the likelihood of it ultimately digressing into the most inane shit imaginable approaches 1. -
Game Week Thread Game Week 13: Kentucky at Texas
closetojumping replied to Wulaw Horn's topic in Football
Yes, we discussed upthread why this is a dumb take and you should feel bad. Read page 1 if it helps. -
That all makes sense. My FIL is proudly British (as well as a proud American citizen) and grew up lower middle class and sent off to sea at 15. He still carries dreams and beliefs of the kind in which you reference. After he'd made a pile of money in Houston in the petrochemical space, he decided he was going to get himself a Jaguar, whether his wife wanted him to or not. So he goes down to a Houston dealership and gets them to let him test one out for the weekend. He's a tall, big dude. The climbing in and climbing out, along with the shifting/transmission being really jankity was enough for him to disavow any illusions he'd had of wanting to own a Jag, returning it to the dealer on Monday. Got a Cadillac instead. I hear that story every 6 months when the in-laws fly in. My uncle got rich in tech in Austin when I was a kid. Did the same thing - went out and got himself a badass Jaguar. He had it for less than a year and said it spent more time in the shop than on the road. He's long since passed away, so add another tally to your notion that that demo has mostly died off or will be doing so within the next decade.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2025: Duck Around and Find Out
closetojumping replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
You don't have to assume anything or manufacture cause. I already told you what was happening. Don't make it harder than it has to be. -
I've dealt with branding and advertising and marketing, and agencies associated to all, so I cannot say that this kind of rebranding silliness is all that surprising, but I do have to admit, I also cannot figure out who in the fuck they are attempting to address here? It looks like a total repudiation of what I've always assumed was their core demographic - macho, or aspiringly macho, well to do men. What am I missing? That shit looks absurd and it is baffling that it made its way into the public eye.
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FINAL 2024 CFB polls/rankings - Texas #3/ #4 /#3 (CFP/AP/Coaches)
closetojumping replied to TKthunder2's topic in Football
Generally, she's a good journalist who puts in the work to verify claims and sources and facts and wild shit like that. She's even won awards for it. Legacy media and even much of sports media could learn from her on those fronts. As a commentator on XM 84 and elsewhere, she's not normally taking a position as a journalist, and she's a Michigan alum, so for sure she's going to be far less redeeming in that context for us as Texas fans. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2025: Duck Around and Find Out
closetojumping replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
All recruitments are equal, but some recruitments are more equal than others. There is often chicanery towards the end of a cycle, as we're seeing now. Should said chicanery involve a "must-have", a final and best offer scenario might play out. See Wingo, Ryan, in the 2024 cycle. To all others, the original agreement will stand and the prospect can make choices accordingly. Reminder that none of this is applicable to recruits who haven't agreed to anything or committed anywhere. Those guys get to do whatever they want and the schools pursuing them understand that. Also a reminder that other programs have their owns codes that they follow in how this is all handled, with nuances, of course. Regarding contracts, those would only be signed by players showing up to campus. If you take Robinson last year, he basically decided he didn't want to come to Texas due to Davis leaving. He dug his feet in, and Texas let him loose even though he'd signed documents. Not exactly NIL related, but similar. Holding someone's feet to the flames due to an NIL agreement is unseemly and likely to wind up in the media somehow. Mostly, if a guy wants to quit and go elsewhere, the player just stops performing their duties under the agreement and stop getting paid. Again, this only applies to people on a campus. Offering and signing NIL contracts ahead of a recruit becoming a player, I believe, is still subject to penalty with the NCAA and schools like Texas will adhere to that requirement. -
Mack Brown Tarheel Football: The Orange Slice Boogaloo
closetojumping replied to Machinator's topic in Football
I don't disagree about anything associated to the points here except that the situation at UNC is different. The UNC boards feel an element of trapped, but they're not actively demanding an alternative. As long as he keeps winning and going to bowls, which he mostly does, they're likely to let him putt around the facilities and bitch and whine as the insecure bitch that we know he is. -
Travis Hunter isn't the best CB or the best WR in this cycle. Why would anyone draft him in the top 10 with his frail frame and overuse heading into the league?
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Game Week Thread Game Week 13: Kentucky at Texas
closetojumping replied to Wulaw Horn's topic in Football
I can't figure out which thing is more fucking tedious - the multiple posts displaying the same fucking factoid or the immediate "well ackshually" follow-ups pointing out that UK already played at DKR once, as though that invalidates the point. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2025: Duck Around and Find Out
closetojumping replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
Regarding how they balance the locker room, it's unlikely to be the same dynamic. Why? Because everybody is now getting something. Guards aren't living under the impression that they're going to get paid like Tackles, much less QBs and such. So the risk in overpaying, should that occur, is positional. A 4 star starting Edge getting paid $75k because that's where they fit ahead of the season is not going to feel great about an unproven freshman coming in and bragging about getting $500k. That could happen anywhere, happens in the pros, etc. Regarding the general notion of mercenaries, which was a major flaw with the 2022 approach for ATM, that could again be an issue. Part of the evaluation of a recruit these days includes answering some variation of the following question: Would this guy want to come here and would we want them to come here if money wasn't a part of the equation? If that answer isn't firmly "yes, yes", then caution needs to applied and folks need to dig deeper on the evaluation end. There are turds in every cycle. Some of them are 5 star or top 100 turds. That's a tale as old as time in CFB. Some have terrible people around them that make them a turd by extension. The guy who just reclassified at DT or DE/Edge out of NOLA fits firmly into the latter, for instance. These types are always to be avoided unless the HC or his processes are truly elite. Bad character creep is a thing. Headcases are a thing. Herman and staff rightly punted on Umanaliamanlien because he proved himself to be a turd. He went on to middling shit at UF and was a vocal problem in the locker room. Kiffin ignored that, believing they could deal with him in a contract year, and he's been rewarded for that. The same is true regarding Walter Nolen. Bo Davis and Texas had no interest in either guy. Kiffin's risk is Norvellian. Here There Be Dragons when it comes to the portal as a means of wholly rebuilding rosters. So is ATM evaluating this new cycle differently now that they're just throwing big numbers out to whoever takes their calls? I don't know. The likeliest place with ticking timebombs on their roster right now is apparently Miami. Georgia to a lesser degree. Florida looks kind of desperate out of the blue, like ATM, over the last 2-3 weeks. I'm betting on them to continue to have problems inside of their locker room. Sorry Hans, wrong guess. Would you like to go for Double Jeopardy where the scores can really change? See my prior post. You guys are in the business world. Is this how you work with employees, vendors or even clients after a firm deal is already struck? Firm deals don't have to be signed into contract to exist. particularly when the law prevents it. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2025: Duck Around and Find Out
closetojumping replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
I just named a few. This isn't how it works and recruits and their agents have gotten fucked by trying that in the past. Programs and supporters, for the most part, are not stupid or naïve. There's largely a foundations set and processes in place to prevent the "forever negotiation" bullshit at most programs. Agents would like to be able to tell clients that they can negotiate on their behalf to any program. If they fuck blue blood programs, those programs will let prospects know that they're not going to recruit them if they're working with a bad actor. That's already happened and it has cost shitheads money, if not their lot in the whole process. Whoops. That's one way in which the bullshit is prevented. There are others as well. A new offer has to really be something to make the juice worth the squeeze for a recruit to flip due to NIL alone. The bottom line is that a recruit with a strong NIL deal at the place they really want to play is unlikely to flip after the cards are played. However, if a recruitment was close, or the player wanted to go somewhere else all along, they are candidates to head elsewhere with a bigger NIL deal promised. The Townsend recruitment was close. That's one with non-mercenary issues if the deal is ridiculous. Whatever winds up happening, this board needs to remove its illusions that seem to be defaulted to around how this shit works. There are few straight-up clowns just letting recruits and agents constantly renegotiate. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2025: Duck Around and Find Out
closetojumping replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
ATM NIL interest is a rollercoaster just like the rest of their program. Suddenly they’re letting Elko offer gobs of money above and beyond what they’d previously proposed to recruits. It functions off of the emotional swings of the traders backing everything for them over the past 7 seasons. That means that Charles, Fasusi and Townsend, among others, are being given new offers that are straight-up fucking dumb, just like 2022. Same people and forces at play, including Elko, and only sans Fisher. We’ll see how things wind up. These are camps that already had agreed to good terms with other players and they’re now trying to renegotiate. -
Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
closetojumping replied to LTtxfan's topic in Football
As you know, we have an abundance of idiots on this board. In the hierarchy of imbeciles running amok on Surly, that dude has progressed his way in rapid fashion into like at least Colonel Buffoon or higher. It’s been a meteoric rise.
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