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Barbacoa

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  1. 11 minutes ago, chad.ihrig said:

    We wouldn’t pony up $600k for Mathis, by all accounts the biggest position of need. Why the hell would we pay Addison $3M or whatever is being reported for a position of well, greed?
    Other than the ‘eff LR’ vibe.

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    Just think about how much easier Addison is to pitch to someone. It’s why we haven’t had issues getting $$$ together to keep Worthy, to get Neyor, to get Ewers, to make a competitive bid to Manning. Our donors know Sark can coach offense, so they may jump on board with the idea of let’s build the best offense we can and see what happens. 
     

    I mean it does sound like C Williams has been talking to Addison for a long time so we may not have a real shot, but if we do I can see our donors matching his other offers.

    The $$$ issue with us is are people willing to donate to just general needs for the team? Not as much. Are they willing to donate to something sexy like reuniting Addison with Marion and pairing him with Worthy? Possibly. That would likely be the best WR duo in Texas history. If you donated, you could tell your other rich buddies you helped make that happen.

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  2. 2 minutes ago, Hornlover said:

     

    “Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching” - C.S. Lewis

    A feckless NCAA doesn't mean we need to act like Sooners or Aggy or whomever else is in the pantheon of cheaters. If the system is broken, I'd rather we work to be part of the solution and fix the system than to wallow in the mud.

    "I'm part of the solution!" as the SEC shoves your face down in an ant bed and fucks you in the ass. 

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  3. 3 minutes ago, Hornlover said:

    I think it would be interesting to poll Burnt Ends members, and ask them "Why do you donate to Burnt Ends?"

    I'm guessing that the response rankings would be something like this:

    1. To help Texas win recruiting battles - 50%

    2. To reward the players - 30%

    3. For that sweet Burnt Ends flair - 8%

    4. For the lulz - 7%

    5. "getting WAY MORE ACCESS into a position group in the form of interviews and appearances" - 5%

     

    Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I underestimate how many people really want to listen to Juan Davis on a podcast.

    The first one should be in the 90% range. I just want Texas to pay our players more than anyone else, I really don’t care how. If they want the Wild West, we should be giving it to them and will follow future rules and regulations assuming they are actually going to be enforced. 

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  4. 7 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

    Everytime I talk to @Scipioand he mocks me for my limited football intelligence I always come back to this point:

    In college football it's often case "who has the best QB" that wins the game.  Or, "how has the best QB and play makers".  Absent Alabama the answer (if Ewers is good) to that program will be "Texas" in every game we play.  I feel like that will matter, a lot.  

    We didn’t play around with Ewers and we got Sark his QB. We are making an impressive run at Manning. Those two would pay dividends for Sark no doubt. I think it’s important we remind ourselves there are donors out there making it happen at the most important position on the field. It goes back to reading a roster. Maybe we really have just said screw it we are gonna build Sark the best offense in the country and hopefully the defense can give us the 30% output we need from them to win big games. 

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  5. Also I wanna make it clear that Sark is currently getting a high level of support relative to the rest of cfb. Its just only for one side of the ball, and it isnt competitive with the few programs that are actively engaged in trying to buy a championship. Ewers didnt just fall into our lap. The Arch Manning project is massive. We just arent going all the way to win, and Im wondering if our staff has made the decision to focus our support on offense, because thats what we feel like we can do well, and distributing support equally on both sides of the ball wont get us any closer anyways, so might as well try to be elite on offense. 

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  6. 5 minutes ago, 6th Street said:

    That's fair, but I mean we'll probably start doing some A&M like crypto NIL payments for recruits and USC style poaching once we get the right coach in place. Right now the investments feel somewhat constrained given lack of confidence in the current staff. 

    Yep. It's a huge problem. At the very least, people want to see that Sark can win here before they pony up. I think many felt like they were up to participate under a guy like Meyer. Guess how they feel after 6 straight losses including a loss at home to fucking Kansas? 

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  7. 1 minute ago, 6th Street said:

    I imagine our NIL program will be much broader in scale and scope once Sark is gone after 2023 and we bring in a more successful HC. At this point it feels like throwing good money after bad under this staff. 

    Here's the problem, we can't get the next guy we want without showing the commitment to winning. Thats why stuff like the Pancake Factory is so important. It exists independent of who the coach is. The best coaches will go to the places that are doing what it takes to win. 

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  8. 44 minutes ago, tokamak said:

    What's really interesting to me is that with NIL as it is right now, there's a fundamental misalignment between who lays out the money and who reaps the tangible rewards of that spending. When an NFL team signs a player, yes they're hoping he will help them win, but there's an additional hope that a better team equates to more tickets sold, better TV viewership, more merchandise, and so on. Jerry Jones signs the checks, and Jerry Jones reaps the rewards.

    For NIL, BMDs are laying out big money, but all the financial benefits of better players and a better team accrue to the program itself. The spending is for pride purposes only, and probably viewed in the same way as a donation to the athletic department. I think that's a system that's untenable in the long run for a variety of reasons. IMO, we're much farther down the road to true professionalization than many realize.

    Ive had two people laugh in my face when they asked me what they got out of it, and I told them we get to win. 

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  9. TLDR- It's my opinion that modern recruiting is comprised of these parts:

    Traditional recruiting: Facilities, location, history, staff salesmanship, NFL #'s, etc. What we think of as being the old model. 

    NIL: The $$$ programs that are completely above board and are registered with the school, and now even coordinated with the IRS. Shout out to the members of this board that have us on the cutting edge of this section. 

    Black market recruiting: This is your bag money, but more importantly, your faux NIL "deals". The NIL moniker has been used to justify illicit transactions, because the whole underpinning of the new NIL phenomenon is these kids deserve this compensation. 

    Transfer Portal free agency: This is the Ewers, Addison, Mathis stuff etc. It is a mix of all three of the above. Tampering may be against the rules, but theres easy loopholes around it, and the whole system is now designed around facilitating these deals. 

     

    It's a really complex system now, and all of those parts are intertwined in different ways for different players. In the future, I agree with those saying robust NIL programs will trump the black market stuff. But I disagree it will be because schools dont want to take the risk. Theres very little risk. It will be because an above board structure will be set in place with $$$ so big, it will trump the black market money being offered. This is what Ive seen people on here refer to as the death star, and should be the ultimate goal.

    Here's where I think we are right now, and where I think we need to be focusing: Faux NIL deals are the most effective at the moment. I dont think theres any real way to argue this. I dont agree with people saying this stuff a&m is doing has nothing to do with the NIL. It has everything to do with the NIL. They have taken the spirit of the NIL (paying kids for the perceived value they bring to a program), and combined it with the bag man game. In doing so, they have anticipated a necessary legal defense of their actions the same way big O&G companies do when they blatantly break the rules. Which is, if the NCAA or the State want to come after them, they better be prepared for an extremely long and expensive process. Something the NCAA isnt set up to do, and something the State isnt even inclined to do. But more, it paints any entity that comes after them as the same greedy old men who prevented these talented and deserving young student athletes from receiving due compensation for decades. I think this is the game Texas should be playing, while we assemble the death star on the NIL front. 

     

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  10. What it comes down to is a we have a losing culture. You can blame it on all sorts of different things, but the reality is we don’t find ways to win. 
     

    The best question to ask is how did we get so good under Mack Brown? If you can answer that, you can see the path forward to fixing this deal. There is a shocking amount of naivety in our fan base regarding the answer to that question.

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  11. 1 minute ago, BurntOrange&White said:

    Admin/compliance side? 

    I could be getting bad info, but I’ve been told twice now that we are ok to play the game. Not in some crazy A&M way, but if we want a player from the portal it shouldn’t be a problem. I’d have to think anyone would be satisfied with who told me this personally. I have tried multiple times to put a group together for just one player, but people aren’t convinced it’s safe. There has to be clear messaging that the culture has changed in that regard. It’s just not who we are yet I guess, yet we have these incredible packages ready to go for Qbs and receivers. I don’t get it. It’s fucking frustrating though. We could be doing a lot better.

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