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  1. 5 hours ago, immamac said:

    Sanders is the best TE and it's not particularly close. Helm is the 2nd best all around TE, but gets edged out by some of the experience and attributes of Billingsly. Juan Davis is the fastest, most dynamic TE and will be used in certain packages and looks. 

    The 4 deep at TE is ridiculous, if not for our absolutely absurd RB room the TE room is one of the best, if not the best in the country. 

    You should be very excited about this news. 

     

    Impressive results less than one year in.

     

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  2. 7 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    I don't mean to beat a dead horse, but Texas isn't going to get moneywhipped by anyone going forward. If Miami is offering $4million over the course of a TB's time on campus, Texas can show that same trajectory, but actually proof of concept.

     

    2 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    Things don't look great with Hicks. They look a lot better with the standout LB, Hill. Hicks is closer to being a mercenary, and his dad wants to see him in a scheme that let's him make plays. Texas isn't interested in a pure old school bidding war and certainly can't credibly argue a scheme that let's the DL make plays.

     

    Texas isn't going to get moneywhipped, but also isn't interested in an old school bidding war. I understand what you're getting at, but can you fill in between the lines on the difference in approach?

  3. 1 hour ago, Sark4President said:

    I really hope the boys come ready to play. We can not over look this team. If the guys look ahead to the piggies we will be starting the season 0-1 just like the team in Ames did just last year to this squad

    Yes, but how did Louisiana do against Iowa State last year? If only someone around here could give us the answer that question. It holds the key to everything.

  4. 16 hours ago, LTtxfan said:

    Great Memory -- Thanks for these goes to @Voluminous Banality

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    First game my wife attended in person. She must've asked me a hundred times if Texas was going to win. I kept telling her, "I don't know, but I like our chances." When tOSU scored with two minutes left to take the lead, she asked again if Texas was going to win. I said, "I don't know, but I like our chances," and when Quan Cosby dove across the goal line with 16 seconds left, she decided then and there that this Texas football thing is pretty great. Yes, dear, yes it is.

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  5. 5 minutes ago, Red Five said:

    This was the obvious conclusion everyone came to the second the news broke. I can't conceivable come up with any other way to break it up, other than something stupid like swapping Mizzou and Kentucky. 

    You would think, but media speculation and a huge chunk of the discussion in this thread would suggest otherwise. Pods make no sense, imo, when two divisions is so clean.

  6. While I realize that traipsing through copious volumes of preposterously erroneous speculation is a good bit of what we do here, the tripe about pods really needs to go, imo. I've seen proposals with Tennessee, Vanderbilt, South Carolina, and Kentucky in one pod and Alabama, Auburn, Florida, and Georgia in another and that scheme doesn't stand out as remarkably worse than dozens of others floated in this thread.

    Aside from being too esoteric to effectively market, when a conference (pending any further additions) breaks down into two divisions of eight, providing both regional and competitive balance as well as preserving nearly all historically significant rivalries, a pod system simply isn't necessary or beneficial. It’s been said before, but a breakdown like this would work very nicely.

    Texas
    Oklahoma
    LSU
    Missouri
    Arkansas
    Texas A&M
    Ole Miss
    Miss State

    Alabama
    Georgia
    Florida
    Auburn
    Tennessee
    Kentucky
    South Carolina
    Vanderbilt

  7. 9 hours ago, Zhorn96 said:

    for those wondering why the Pac wouldn't take TCU or Baylor...there is a long held sentiment of "no religious schools" to be in the Pac.  BYU has wanted in forever and they're a better take than the other 2 I would think

    Out of 3,000 new posts in this thread, I don't know why this one bothered me enough to comment on, but while you're analyzing the Pac's reasons for not inviting Baylor and TCU, don't discount the fact that they are Baylor and TCU.

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  8. 5 hours ago, ButtFumble said:

    we should know something on this pretty quick

    https://static.big12sports.com/custompages/pdfs/handbook/bylaws.pdf

    the Big 12 bylaws

    some important parts here

    SECTION 3WITHDRAWAL AND SANCTIONS

    Each Member acknowledges and agrees that the Withdrawal of a Member and the payment of the Buyout Amount and implementation of the provisions of these Bylaws does not abrogate the obligations of such Withdrawing Member (as defined below) pursuant to that certain Amended and Restated Grant of Rights Agreement dated effective as of July 1, 2012, or any replacement or extension thereof or other agreement pursuant to which such Member grants the right to telecast some or all of its sporting events to the Conference (a “Grant of Rights Agreement”). The Grant of Rights Agreement which will remain in full force and effect as to such Withdrawing Member and the Withdrawing Member shall continue to be fully bound under the Grant of Rights Agreement after Withdrawal for the remainder of the term of any Grant of Rights Agreement as if it remained a Member of the Conference, but the Withdrawing Member shall not be entitled to payment of any amounts or any other benefits arising under the Grant of Rights Agreement after Withdrawal

     

     

    (C) if a third party offers to, or attempts to induce a Member to, leave the Conference and/or breach or not to fully perform its future obligations under the Grant of Rights Agreement and the Member does not both (1) inform the Conference of such action as promptly as possible (but in any event not later than twelve (12) hours after such action) and (2) immediately and unconditionally reject that offer in a form and manner reasonably acceptable to the Commissioner; or (D) if a Member otherwise takes or fails to take actions that are determined by a Supermajority of Disinterested Directors to be contrary to the best interests of the Conference taken as a whole.

     

    Buyout Amount. Any Withdrawing Member shall pay to the Conference a commitment buyout fee (the “Buyout Amount”) in an amount equal to the sum of the amount of distributions that otherwise would be paid to the Member during the final two years of its membership in the Conference. The Withdrawing Member shall be deemed to have agreed to forfeit all distributions of any type that otherwise would have been made to the Withdrawing Member during the Interim Period (the “Distribution Withholding”) and the Conference shall not pay the Distribution Withholding to the Withdrawing Member. A Withdrawing Member agrees to pay to the Conference the amount by which the Buyout Amount exceeds the Distribution Withholding, with such payment to be made not later than the Effective Date. In addition, if (A) by legal action or otherwise, a Withdrawing Member, or any other person or entity, attempts to challenge or oppose or interfere with, or challenges or opposes or interferes with, (i) the payment of the Buyout Amount by the Withdrawing Member or the withholding of the Distribution Withholding by the Conference, (ii) the enforcement by the Conference of its rights under the Grant of Rights Agreement or the performance by the Withdrawing Member of its obligations under the Grant of Rights Agreement, or (iii) the right of the Conference’s telecast partners to televise games of the Withdrawing Member under the terms of the Grant of Rights Agreement during its then-remaining term; or (B) for any other reason the Conference’s telecast partners are unable to produce and telecast games of the Withdrawing Member during the then-remaining term of the Grant of Rights Agreement or the Conference is unable to realize the revenues relating to those games from its telecast partners, then the Members agree that such actions, in breach of the Withdrawing Member’s agreements in these Bylaws, cause additional damage to the Conference and therefore that the Buyout Amount shall be increased by, and shall also include, and the Withdrawing Member shall be obligated to pay to the Conference immediately upon the occurrence of any of the foregoing events, the amount of all actual loss, damage, costs, or expenses whatsoever (including but not limited to lost revenues, damage to reputation and public image, and damage to relationships with related parties) incurred by the Conference or any of its remaining Members directly or indirectly related to that challenge or opposition, whether economic or otherwise.Each of the Members agrees that Withdrawal of a Member contrary to its commitment to the Conference and the other Members pursuant to Section 3.1 above would cause damage and financial hardship to the Conference and the other Members without regard to the continued enforcement of the Grant of Rights Agreement, that the financial consequences to the Conference and its remaining Members cannot be measured or estimated with certainty at this time, and that the payment of the Buyout Amount is a reasonable method of compensating the Conference and the other Members for such damage and financial hardship and shall not be construed as a penalty.

     

     

    so basically Texas and OU have 12 hours to inform the conference that they are talking to anyone about leaving and failure to do so gets them removed from voting on any conference business.....they also have to reject those offers in a manner acceptable to the conference or they cannot vote on conference business

    and the exit fee is 2 years prior revenues and there are additional penalties for trying to get out of paying that or doing things that cause further damage

    if Texas and OU are in fact talking to others and they have not given the required notice there are a lot of actions the Big 12 an take and I do not think that would look good in any forthcoming lawsuit

    Texas and OU are probably going to have to pay a lot of money to leave especially if they have not done things properly I don't think this will be a case of getting the exit fee cut in half or getting it down to 75% like Maryland did.....all the more so if there was no 12 hour notice

    this could be anywhere from $60 million to $90+ million for Texas and OU to leave depending on the amounts paid by the conference the prior two years and how much anyone and everyone wants to fight in court.......which I think the other 8 members of the Big 12 will be up for a pretty big fight

    the Big 12 can also refuse to televise games of the members leaving if they are in violation of the contract

    Anyone else come across these banal, long-winded soliloquies from BF and start furiously scrolling assuming they are preambles to one of RD's interminable diatribes? I can't be the only one.

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  9. 2 hours ago, satyanash said:

    For all the hooplah surrounding the spring game QB competition this year, it was probably the worst one we've had in a while. Thompson didn't look comfortable going past his first read against pretty vanilla defensive setups - if the first guy wasn't open it was mostly a) flee from the pocket b) throw it to him anyway. Card was a lot better about checking it down and was playing with a much worse OL in front of him, but Thompson would mostly just stare at his one read until things broke down and he's going to throw a lot of picks this season playing like that. In fact, that pick he threw was a similar mistake he made against Colorado (late throw to the wrong shoulder) - he got away with it because the Buffalo DB dropped a sitter. On that deep ball to Alexis he made no attempt to look off Schooler, which is another pretty big negative (he did once do it with Omeire though, so maybe there's hope). If his first read is open, he'll hit him but beyond that it's a total crapshoot. Sometimes he'll find a guy open on the run like he did with Whittington at the end of the second quarter, but most of the time the play is dead. Card bails early but that's fixable with a 1st-string OL in front of him and more reps. He's very promising but A) probably not really ready to be starter yet and B) clearly better than Casey Thompson which leaves us in a bad position.

    Stupid two-point trick play aside (still not 100% sure that wasn't a hallucination brought on by my day-drinking), that first TD drive with Bijan at RB was awesome. Didn't see much outside zone but I haven't really been following spring practices so I don't know if that'll be a thing with Flood/Sark.

    The WR group is awful. Drops, drops, drops. Woodard and Epps were big culprits but even Washington, when he makes catches, makes doing so look like a herculean task. So much dead roster weight and no game-breakers of the calibre Sark was slaughtering secondaries at Alabama with. Reminds me of the late-era Mack Brown days when we had Greg Timmons, Brock Fitzhenry, DJ Grant, etc. cluttering up the roster. And evidently neither Jared Wiley (who was beaten a lot in pass pro) nor Gunnar Helm can block, so that's fantastic.

    DL looked really good. But a lot of that was Majors + Angilau getting dominated by Ojomo + Coburn. We've been waiting for Angilau forever to take that next step and it doesn't look like it's happened. Majors just looks too small to effectively deal with Coburn, that'll change with time but this season will be rough going. Saric got beaten by Jones multiple times on money downs, when Jones could just pin his ears back and go. And my God, Jett Bush getting three sacks as an edge rusher is not a good look for Tyler Johnson, who he was facing at RT. Giving how poorly recruiting is going at the edge rusher spot, we need some real production from them this year.

    At least the OL can run-block 🤷‍♂️ for now. Card got saddled with a pretty bad OL group, one red-zone play the walk-on at guard got beaten hilariously quickly by SGW and Card was running nearly as soon as the snap came to him.

    Schooler was channeling his inner Dylan Haines all day at safety. Someone should check on that. I guess he's better off there then warming the bench five-deep at WR.

    Lowell Galindo suuuuuuuuuuuuucks. So does Andre Ware. Whose bright idea was it to put them within five miles of each other, much less in the same booth?

    And yes, I'm aware of all the usual caveats. Nth-team players, zero-sum game, "why are you saying [insert OL] looked bad when clearly it was because [insert DL] across from him is the next Reggie White??!?" The same excuses from the past decade. TL;DR is we've got promising players + coaches, but we're probably too weak at QB and OL to make a run to the Big 12 title this year.

     

    Aside from that, did you enjoy the game? 😃

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