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Danimal

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  1. Unless more NIL dollars flow in, I don't see how the additional roster spots will affect spending decisions for most SEC schools or most college football programs. I think most schools were hitting their spending max at the 85 limit already. To use an MLB analogy, I think these extra roster spots are going be filled with guys from the portal who are like journeyman/ "AAAA" type player who who signs with an MLB team in the offseason with an invite to the MLB spring training with a chance to make the MLB roster if the stars align in spring training. Every now and then that works for a 4th or 5th outfielder or a middle inning reliever spot, but rarely do teams get a middle of the order bat or rotation ace out of these guys.
  2. It seems like Texas is more or less doing this. I think there are plenty of examples from this past recruiting class where Texas held to its offer on a 4 star type kid and that kid went for bigger money elsewhere. Also, there are the examples where Texas is being aggressive on sure fire talent, which led to us getting Atkinson and Cooper. Overall, I think the approach Texas this past recruiting class was in line with this sentiment to not overpay for 4 stars and target sure fire 5 stars. What threw Texas off was 1) they misread how the flood of money across schools would shock the market - this led them to not getting 4-stars at reasonable rates because other schools overpaid + having to be more aggressive of 5 stars than they otherwise expected, and 2) completely misreading the OL landscape - this was partly due to #1 but also poor prioritization on Ojo v. Lee and others. It seems Texas will be shifting to a more highschool recruiting approach of targeting premium players & value investing in lower 4 stars and 3 stars + portal recruiting for proven players to fill needs and fill development depth. I think in the long run, if this approach takes hold across other programs, this will push down the starting income of these 4 stars and/or sink programs that are overpaying for them.
  3. The world is and has always been full of idiots with opinions. We just so happen to live in an era where there are few safeguards or obstacles to limit the number of idiot opinions for mass consumption. Game threads on Surly are a top example of this plague.
  4. Is this a WATCH.THE.TAPE eval? I love these; these 100% always workout.
  5. It's the pre-spring game. I am looking forward to seeing guys like Townsend, Lance Jackson, Kobe Black, Lockett, Sharma, Cruz, etc. get a good amount of snaps
  6. I think Texas fans will have to get used to some 4 star kids flipping on signing day every year going forward. There will be those schools that will spend more on the 4 stars at the last minute than Texas is willing to go because Texas will use the budget to be more competitive on 5 stars and portal kids.
  7. I wouldn't mind having the OL coach that practices against the Georgia defense every week coach our OL.
  8. Having players like this will help justify future ND wins over Stanford as a reason to always put ND in the playoff. Apologies for the CFP rant on this board.
  9. Maybe Sark wants another Cole Brevard type that he can line up over the ball? I think Sharma is the only one of the list that fits that mold, and Sark probably wants another one with experience
  10. Dude is mad because worthless Arkansas was worse than Florida and couldn't play spoiler to any team this year. That's all that Arkansas football has become.
  11. So the Texas vs. OSU 16.6M was the highest regular season number. The TV network execs are really going to hate losing that windfall of money starting next year. I guess we will see tonight if the networks have talked with the CFP committee. That's our only hope. My longshot call is they drop ND to 12 and put us at 10.
  12. I believe Sark only targets transfers from P4, right? Probably not worth posting portal news about non P4 players.
  13. Opposing offenses figured out how exploit Jaylon Guilbeau, and our back up freshmen had a learning curve. Michael Taaffe was out some of those games. Jelani McDonald was out most of the Vandy game. Refs helped Vandy along. Georgia got hot in the 4th quarter. We put backups in against Ark in the 4th. I'm less concerned about our defense. A better offense that can sustain drives can help the defense.
  14. Cry more? Are you 12? I know there are idiots on this board, but I didn't know I was responding to someone who needs their parents permission to use the internet.
  15. Who cares if we look like birches? I don't care
  16. We are 100% being punished for ohio state. Is bama being punished for getting blown out for FSU? The same FSU that just got blown apart by Florida? This narrative of its the Florida loss is getting exhausting. And the narrative too of "well Texas barely beat Miss St and Kentucky". Bama just barely beat a terrible Auburn team. Oklahoma just barely beat a terrible LSU team. We have 3 losses. That's what we are getting punished for. If we played Minnesota or some other junk team, we would not be getting punished for the Florida loss. No way, not at all. Get this Florida punishment narrative out of here. It's 100% because we played a top 5 non conference game and that cut into our margin of error. There's no other reason.
  17. We should immediately cancel all P4 out of conference games. There is no upside at all. I don't care if we get shade from talking heads or Facebook power posters. I want to be in the playoffs, and P4 out of conference games put that at risk. Cancel them all tomorrow. I don't care for the "it's great for the sport." I care about what's great for Texas and screw everyone else. Putting the playoff at risk for something that provides no upside is stupid. Kill all P4 non conference games immediately.
  18. - The passing defense will be better with Taafe back. - Sark finally decided to call the offense differently the past 5 quarters and it is working. - The OL looked better with the better play calling and Hutson at LG and Robertson at C. - Arch is showing more accuracy and confidence. Those are the reasons I am thinking we will win this game.
  19. I don't think costs have changed. Rev shared has allowed more schools to offer amounts closer to what Texas been able to provide. So there is more competition across the board than we have seen in the past. That also brings in more schools that will pay unreasonable amount for some players that Texas won't match. This might be a short term problem for Texas, but it should even out as those teams feel a budget crunch in a year or two.
  20. 99% of this board has that guy on ignore for a reason. Him posting here is the equivalent of Creed Bratton posting on Creed Thoughts - no one is reading it. He is writing stuff that no one will actually read because he is on ignore by nearly everyone. He is waisting his time and server space because no one cares.
  21. You chased down one of my older posts from the other week in a different thread just to neg me back. Then you made a separate post to disparage me. All because your feelings were hurt. I can tell it will be a waste of my time explaining what's dumb about your post.
  22. Don't be soft when you get negged for making a dumb comment. Stick to Facebook commenting if you can't handle it. That might be a safer place for you
  23. I don't think I've seen Arch pull the trigger to make a throw all season as quickly as Caldwell did on that pass.
  24. Have the same fans that want Nagy to pick a HC looked at Nagy's recruiting class this year? There isn't anything there to brag about - it's worse than the typical coach transition class. Why trust the same guy to get a good HC? This class stacked on to the past couple of classes and it is easy to see that there are many dark years ahead for OU. I don't think the portal can solve the woes of recruiting this poorly.
  25. Sounds like Malakai Lee and Dre Quinn
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