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Octavian

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  1. 16 minutes ago, Vertigo said:

    I have already signed off on Bama being a nightmare of epic proportions featuring Will Anderson and Dallas Turner. I was more thinking about B12 play. 

    Agreed, people keep citing the fact that A&M had two freshman on their line last year when they played Bama but A&M’s left tackle was an upperclassman transfer. 

  2. 10 minutes ago, Hermanator said:

    Yeah, that's why the pro sports leagues around the world don't have contracts and none have salary caps. Free ass wide open anything goes payment to players in team sports is the best thing for the sport and consumers of the sporting product. 

    I think his point is that professional sports teams actually have an ownership that ideally would like to make money. If a donor/NIL collective sponsors a player, they are not the “ownership” in this scenario (the school). In fact, the school’s profit is not influenced by the player “payroll”. If you wanna argue that NIL funds not driving on-field success could impact donations, that’s another argument altogether.

    If you wanna argue a bigger market team having more money is a bad thing for a sport being competitive/“fair”, that’s a pretty subjective issue. But, it is an objective fact that this is an advantage for Texas right now and I am all for it.

  3. 5 hours ago, Ignatius said:

    If Card needs that decision to be ‘official’, that tells you everything you need to know about his own decision-making ability…

    Pretty sure he’s sticking around just to get his McCombs degree and solidify that Sark pedigree now. Not many better business schools with good football programs.

  4. 14 minutes ago, Hiphopopotamos said:

    From Gerry:

    Inside Texas has been told that Jordan Addison is wrapping up his official visit. He's leaving Austin tomorrow.

    Addison is expected to visit USC before making a decision.

    Well I guess that’s that, then? Although a four day visit is probably longer than most people expected this to go. Perhaps this will be an Ochaun Mathis situation but in our favor.

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