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  1. Miami has allegedly tampered with him and offered him $1M. We’ll see if there’s any truth to that, but that’s how it is being framed on Sooner Illustrated. One of the alleged “insiders” and several of the moderators are really touting Nagy as a wizard who is going to reshape their whole org into a machine. Washing machine, maybe. The current set-up looks hilariously dysfunctional. The “GM” reports above the AD. The HC reports to the AD and the AD reports into the same role as the “GM”. That structure means the HC is absolutely fucked. He’s lost control of personnel evaluation to a wonk who cast out of the NFL personnel world. The guy was in purgatory running an annual bowl camp in Alabama with less than 10 employees and doing his own PR. That dude now controls who Venables has on staff and the make-up of his roster. He doesn’t even have to meet regularly with Venables or consult with him. “But ctj, that’s how many NFL orgs work!?!” The idiotic talking heads on XM 84, including guests from ESPN, Fox, SEC/ACC/Big 10 networks, The Athletic and so on have all convinced themselves of the argument. “OU’s ahead of the curve. This is the way things will be structured at all schools in the future. Look at Stanford as well!” Maybe. Maybe CFB HC’s are as fungible as NFL HC’s. I’m not sure I see it that way. There’s way more variance in numerous aspects of CFB that don’t exist in the NFL. One in particular is that the budget for the roster is nowhere near parity across the sport, even in each conference. OU can pat itself on the back about being disciplined and essentially telling Stone to walk with a big pay cut. Do Texas or Georgia have to do the same thing with their freshmen 5 stars going into their sophomore season? No. They do not. Who is better off by the time the ball kicks off in August?
  2. Does anybody know the last time a draft was held where all of the blowhards were proclaiming that there were actually 32 or more round 1 grades in the draft? I’m guessing it’s never happened. A lot of the purpose about “there are only x round 1 grades this year” is to make scouts and evaluators seem like they’re really fucking smart doing this super hard job. It’s all bullshit.
  3. There’s a thread on aggie 247 about Lance Zurlein evaluating the aggie draft prospects and he concludes that Turner is the best of their prospects and that all 3 will go in the first 70 picks. The thread tumbles into angst about those guys not really doing anything at ATM and handwringing about Elko and his program’s development skills, or lack thereof. Then this guy flies in over the top with an all time heater: Byew said... (original post) I could be wrong but I think the personnel was different than a typical Elko D. I think it might be far more effective this year with less talent.
  4. As Derka slowly pulls up to the keyboard and prepares his sausage-fingers to hammer out their next bloviating post, monastery dirge music plays quietly from his boombox nearby as he contemplates this being his lot on this spinning rock. Then he shouts: “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?!?” and then that keyboard gets the beating of its life.
  5. Best friends are honest and with each other. Your kid sucks.
  6. Only Jesus can climb up on a cross faster than Derka.
  7. That loser is really scraping to claim victimhood with this baseball season. He really is a pathetic bitch.
  8. Good shit right here, @immamac
  9. It sounds like this Shipley guy makes a lot of stupid relationship decisions. If you’re letting a sooner “mentor” you, something went off the rails a while back. Then you marry an aggie while still in college? Time to start looking forward to Texas Football 2025 - Stone Cold.
  10. I think you kind of have to view NIL circumstances as photographs in time, rather than a motion picture. A lot of guys are getting $1M+ for 2025. It’s only been a minute since Downs got that. QBs have been getting more than $1M+ from the jump. Kickers, just so we’re clear, are still nowhere close to anything like that, no matter how hard folks in social media or on other threads here want to honk about it. For clarity, there are multiple non-QBs getting $1M+ on the Texas 2025 roster. Few would argue that those guys aren’t worth it.
  11. Texas was never in on Downs. Georgia tampered with him and they were backslapping themselves. Ohio State came in over the top with $1M/year and Georgia and Bama were cooked. Texas got Mukuba for a fraction of that and the upgrade to Downs would have been marginal and would have cost Texas Mukuba and Filsaime, if not also D Williams. Probably another position due to salary reqs as well.
  12. He did not get close to $1M. Not even vaguely close. Don’t just make shit up on here, especially with something that makes us sound really stupid. Miss us on that shit.
  13. I read this, after watching this tub of goo trade actual talent into the portal with a bunch of JAGs out of the portal and I’m momentarily perplexed. Does The Elk really believe that he’s got a great roster? Or does he just realize that that’s the only thing he can say to aggie reporters and fans that will keep them quiet for the most part? This a bad team he’s about to field. Dumbasses who don’t follow them will drive by and say “yeah, yeah, yall say that and then they always go 8-4”. No, sometimes they go 5-7. The ceiling for this team in 2025, barring something wild in the portal in the next few days, is 7-6. The schedule is unforgiving, they lost key talent, and the roster is hilariously overrated. I fully expect the lazy AP voters to have them in the top 20 and I am excited about it.
  14. Outstanding. That shit would have been a story globally.
  15. This is where I am at on Auburn. He made more money last year than 99.9% of the 20-21 year olds in this world and he fucking choked repeatedly and cost us a SEC title and altered the way they had to gameplan for the playoffs. Go look like an idiot and miss field goals somewhere else, Sideshow Bert.
  16. I hope they go four straight for the earhole on her today. What bullshit. LSU is a piece of shit institution in every possible way. The education is below Texas high school levels, the institution effectively revels in cheating, and the people coming out of that place are fucking trash. The worst employees, as a group, that I’ve ever had work for orgs that I’ve been a part of have been LSU grads, by far. We eventually just filtered those resumes and candidates out they were so bad.
  17. The guy who played Gaston at Disney World got shithoused on July 4th a few years back and attempted to launch a large firework off the top of his head, decapitating himself. Gaston Gramatica just made the equivalent to that move in recruiting.
  18. Also, Endries isn't considered a head case who's afraid of contact.
  19. Here's an OU update on transfers from an "insider" at Sooners Illustrated. Spoilered below and highlights next: -They've already given up on landing Endries and are moving on towards other TEs. They're going after yet another FCS TE after having already signed on, plus another from legendary football program Kennesaw State. -They're targeting an FCS WR and calling it scouting. They were very proud of themselves for landing the Gibson guy out of UA Pine Bluff and crowing about being another sooner WR wizard. They do this every spring. That dude broke his femur or something and may not be back for the fall. Onward and upward, some poor bastard from Illinois State looks like he might be the next big thing. -They're so fucked at Kicker that they throwing a 6 figure offer at the guy from Texas State, apparently. I guess Sideshow Bert is a bargain for our mere $25k+ and we should be thankful to be keeping him or something.
  20. Here's Carter Karels talking about the spring portal and examining aggie roster needs. I've spoilered it, but here are the highlights: -Karels acknowledges that ATM is likely to suffer losses within this portal cycle. They have 88 guys on scholarship right now and they're planning on signing more guys from the portal. So, they need to run off 5+ guys. They're also hinting at some likely losses that they'd prefer not to experience. -I wonder if it's true that often times, before someone does the unthinkable to themselves, that there are these brief bursts of optimism? I sense that in this write-up from Carter. He ultimately claims that there are 7 position groups that are not in need of taking guys from the portal: QB, IOL, OT, DE, RB, P, K. Now read who they have returning at these spots. We would be pleading for Sarkisian and staff to go out and find help at almost all of these slots, given who they return. Marcel Reed is not a good QB. If you're all good with Chase Bisontis, you're fucked from the jump. Crownover and Fatheree means you're all set at OT? Okay, then. Moss, Owens and Daniels means you're all set at RB and don't need to sweat injuries. DE returns a random who picked up 4 sacks in garbage time and a bunch of young guys who haven't really played. -They have dogshit at TE, but they added a lot more of it to the pile. They still really need that elusive badass that no one else can find, and then they need to convince him that Klein's offense will actually use him. Good luck. -They're tiny at WR. What they casually need is a tall, fast WR that can play outside, catch most of the 50-50 balls, block well, and not need too many targets due to the Klein offense. -They need a true mauler at DT. Luckily, that's not a coveted thing in the portal. -While they think York and Scooby Williams are the stuff of legend, they also want another experienced LB to show up and sit the bench behind them.
  21. Here's Tarp putting lipstick on the pig that is the WR room at ATM heading into 2025. Lots of "work in progress" and "blue collar" types out there for old army. Terry Bussey seems to be headed quickly towards Bust City, USA, population: many other ATM and OU 5 stars as well.
  22. Is this going to become a board fact now that a few people have misread what Hill was actually saying?
  23. Hahahahaha. Oh man, it’s always glorious when the bitter tears come out. It’s happening more and more these days. Texas shows everyone what a payroll to meet looks like, finally, and other fans can’t handle it. So then they start grasping at straws in whatever direction they can find to make themselves feel better. We’re not the bad guys in all of this, Sbb. You have a great institution, so do we. Your athletics department has tumbled into the shitter in some important sports and climbing out will be tough, but you sold your soul to join the Big 10 rather than get left behind and you’ll get there.
  24. The first episode was trash. The casting of that 6-headed retard as the main protagonist makes this show almost unwatchable. She is fucking terrible in every way. As much as I liked the first season, I am giving this one more episode. This feels like Hollywood garbage in its usual form.
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