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Posts posted by Not a Sock
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16 minutes ago, TXpride said:
"Max exodus" was used in reference to transfers, not early draft entrees. The point is that it's possible to have both an elite roster and elite recruiting assuming you have the funds and the willingness to use them.
Who has a better roster than Texas and currently has a better recruiting class?
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32 minutes ago, TXpride said:
The implication was that they haven't had mass exoduses due to lack of NIL funding, which is true. Players leaving early for the NFL has very little to do with NIL, or lack thereof.
The sky isn't falling, but it looks like Sark and TPTB will have to reevaluate some things and adjust accordingly. They've done just that every cycle, and I expect them to do it again.
It has everything todo with NIL. Do you think that there are separate funds for roster retention and high school recruiting? The money directed towards Hill is going to reduce the funds that can be allocated towards recruiting a HS player. Schools that have a shitty roster are going to have an advantage in being able to fund their recruiting vs having to spend on retention.
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The “Super Bowl windows” are now part of this sport. Having guys like Hill, Collins, Wingo, Muhammad, is going to limit our ability to spend on HS recruits.
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18 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:
Has Ohio state had a mass exodus? Georgia?
Yes? OSU and Georgia both took heavy losses to the NFL draft. So far most of Texas’s draft success has come from the development guys or one year rentals that were cheap from an NIL standpoint. Banks and Worthy so far has been the only big dollar NIL player to leave Texas via the draft. There’s a reason basically every preseason prediction has both UGA and OSU behind Texas.
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11 minutes ago, texifornia said:
Did you forget about Cleveland and Wesley?
I think at this point the majority of the bitching is about the “reporting” and OTF and IT clearly had no idea about Wesley.
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Someone got way the fuck out over their skis when reporting on the current state of our recruiting. Gerry, CJ and Bobby definitely deserve to catch some flak for this one because they hyped this summer recruiting season way too much.
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23 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:
The state has changed a great deal from the 1990s to present. The rural kids that were automatic aggys are gone. Their families moved to the suburbs. A vast majority applied to Texas and didn’t get in. If you don’t believe me, go join a rodeo committee and ask somebody under 30.
They still do a good job of indoctrinating them at fish camp, but it’s a not a multi-generational of anywhere but UT thing anymore. That’ll die out with Looch’s dumb ass generation.
This is absolutely not true, multigenerational ag families are alive and growing. Texas is the school that’s has completely destroyed generational pipelines.
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1 hour ago, Park Gothic said:
I mean, I think you've already solved the problem. Can't say I'll miss his particular brand of dumbassery.
That being said, he does post a lot of recruiting updates.
We’ve got @texifornia for that.
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6 minutes ago, SL Xpress said:
BTW, Corpus Christi is an hour closer to Austin than Galveston is. So there.
Not that Corpus Christi is exactly paradise or will remind anyone of Hawaii, either, but the water isn't brown.
It’s green instead of brown, but not blue. Also the massive population of sea manatees that crowd the beaches drags it down as well. But corpus does have S tier bay fishing going for it.
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1 hour ago, Post Oak said:
These guys cheered for a murderer. They can fuck right off.
That came out way after Hernandez left Florida.
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7 hours ago, victory88 said:
We have seen this train wreck:
- Overpay a bunch of incoming freshman. Many of those are coming only because the money was too much to say no to.
- Older players get pissed they are in contributing/starting roles and their backups are making more
- Older players don't welcome or integrate the younger guys leading to culture issues
- Older players transfer out of the program leading the younger players starting when they are not physically or mentally ready.
- 5-7 loss season ensues because you're playing a bunch of young players, lack depth, and experience.
- Same players portal out because they do not want to play for a losing program, realize they are putting out bad film, and are not getting developed.
- Aggy fires their coach.
College football programs can now put themselves into NFL rebuild cap hell situations. You fire a coach and all the quality players portal out. Your roster is dirt cheap but crap, so you go big and spend all your money on rookies (HS recruits) and free agents (portal). Now all your vets leave but you have your new expensive signing class, but you have to also sign your new class and cheap out on that because you’re having to now pay your current roster. You are never able to successfully build depth or continuity and you fire your coach for underperforming so you start the process all over again. This is must watch TV because we are now getting into an era where programs can destroy themselves for years at a time and require full scale institutional rebuilds beyond just hiring a new coach. At least in the NFL they have contracts, the draft, rookie pay scales and mandatory league reporting to add clarity and transparency to what’s going on.
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My initial thinking is that they might be using the majority of the House allocation for recruiting. That would be fucking nuts.
Benefits of have a mediocre roster is that it doesn’t cost you anything to retain it.
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22 minutes ago, RockyMountainHighHorn said:
I’m still confused on this brown situation. We got development from a few players we thought were jags, this year we are relying on a peg leg Tar Heel and transfers. Getting a 5 star to have for multiple years seems like a massive need. Same with Bowman? I understand not being able to pay everyone what they want to the max but when are we going to start swinging our big Texas D and saying F it, an extra million won’t hurt. He went from loving our visit to now it’s over?
Because it’s fucking stupid. USC is paying Bowman something absurd like 7.5 million over 3 years. 2 million plus for a TE is regarded unless he’s putting up Brock Bowers numbers. Y’all need to familiarize yourself with the concept of Cap Hell which is going to be a big thing in college football going forward. Also A&M and USC suck ass and don’t have an elite roster that cost a fortune to retain but is actually proven unlike high school recruits.
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12 minutes ago, Post Oak said:
From OTF
Gerry Hamilton
Posted 1 hour ago
OTF believes Texas leads for Lamar Brown BTW
The swamp people will have a fucking meltdown.
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12 hours ago, closetojumping said:
The guy is a piece of shit. The fact that he is gainfully employed in a people person industry is fascinating. He’s never been worth a shit with what he does.
Even though I consume their content you have to have a certain lack of shame to be employed as a purely recruiting “reporter “. Guys like Gerry and Jeff at least have talent in regards to being player evaluators and being able to project scheme fits and development.
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18 hours ago, UTEX_ME said:
Can you imagine time traveling back to this on the Shag and telling the board that this dipshit gets canned and we hire the dude that USC just fired for being a drunk? Also I would absolutely want to time travel back in time and post the all the 2024 results and 2025 preseason predictions on Texags.
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57 minutes ago, closetojumping said:I'm outside of that, but not by a lot, and they have reached out to me without realizing things regarding NIL. The cutoff is somewhere between you and I, so I am guessing it's at 1000. Could be as high as 600, I guess.
I am like in the mid 30,000s and I have been personally contacted. They asked me to donate to the NIL fund by sending them prepaid visa debt cards and western union money orders. They must update the list annually because I sent them the money 6 months ago and I still haven’t seen my loyalty points go up.
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12 minutes ago, Red Five said:
Offseason chatter about the roster/starters is essentially gone, outside of one or two spots. Who is going to play nickel, and well that’s pretty much it. There have been times where the offseason talk was like “hey is there a combination of five guys we can put on the o-line who won’t embarrass the university all that much? Also who is going to play QB and TE and DT and LB and…..”Also we no longer endlessly debating and watching G5 film on what our new O/DC is going to install to fix our offense or defense. While we also discuss how the former blue chip recruits that have regressed will be coached up like the G5 3rd round picks our new coaches had put in the league before being hired by Texas.
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Just now, BurntOrange&White said:
So you agree a softball player deserves the same revenue split as a football player. They don't.
Deserves got nothing todo with it.
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5 minutes ago, Lou_Sassle said:
No no...Venables is comparable to Strong.
Venables is still a much better coach than strong. Y’all seem to forget just how dog shit we were under Chuckles.
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39 minutes ago, Fondren & Main said:
Herman never had a losing season and never lost a bowl even if he was a douchebag.
Herman also never got blown out.
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21 minutes ago, Armybrat said:
He is wearing a toupee to cover the severe burn scars all over his head.
He was shot down while piloting his helicopter in Vietnam in 1968. It caught on fire, burning off his nose, ears, hair, and his forearm that he was holding over his eyes (saving his eyesight).
He spent two years recovering through many surgeries at the Brook Army Hospital burn unit in San Antonio, with many months lying face down.
Then many months more with his good arm strapped up by his head while a strip of flesh was attached to grow him a new nose.
In spite of the severity of his wounds, he recovered well enough to remain in the Army, becoming a helicopter battalion commander and eventually retiring as a lieutenant colonel.
Along the way he married a beautiful Army nurse, adopted a child who grew up & graduated A&M, becoming a nurse herself.
Unfortunately his wife passed away a decade ago from an aneurysm.
Their daughter got married and recently made him a proud grandfather who enjoys making the infant smile by singing military cadence songs (clean ones) to him.He is a true BAMF
He and Mrs. Brat were a steady couple from their high school senior year until they broke up their last year in college.
We are all good friends to this day.Why wear a wig when he can wear the fact he’s a BAMF?
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5 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:
That’s not a mantra.
It certainly is a mantra, it’s just not a good one. It’s mantra of the mediocre who spend all their time discussing greatness instead of being great. This is the exact type of gimmicky shit you do when you don’t have any real football accomplishments to talk about.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: They Can't Keep Getting Away With This
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Posted · Edited by Not a Sock
I just don't see how on earth an athletic department is going to hide millions of dollars in excessive revenue sharing long term. ADs can and will be audited and millions of dollars will attract the attention of regulators with actual teeth and now you're creating situations in which fines and jail time become a risk for playing games.