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  1. On 5/23/2024 at 3:17 PM, Teryor said:

    Gerry said yesterday that the most likely outcome is poaching a grad transfer by getting them into the portal but options will probably be slim if we're being realistic

    Someone should remind Gerry that the rules were changed. Grad transfers had to be in the portal by the closing of the Spring window just like everyone else starting this year. 

    https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/40022677/all-college-basketball-transfers-portal-1

    Unless there is some loophole I am unaware of our options are limited to those players already in the portal and the pickings are slim to say the least. 

  2. 1 hour ago, Texas Wahoo said:

    I'm not sure if you wrote this or copied it from somewhere, but I think the conclusion of Title IX not applying is far from certain.  And the last part about competent lawyers is definitely not correct.

    As just one example, see https://www.hklaw.com/en/insights/publications/2023/12/lawsuit-with-claim-of-unequal-access-to-nil-opportunities-raises.

    This was about the access to NIL opportunities when the schools were not even handling NIL.  It's much closer to an NIL issue now that schools will apparently be paying it out themselves.

    I am aware of that case and the NIL specific claims in it are mostly asinine. Unless Oregon was specifically limiting those female athletes from being able to use their NIL collective portal to seek opportunities they really have no case. There is no rational interpretation of the publicity sections within Title IX that would somehow mandate you spend the same amount in total on licensing deals for female athletes as male even if this were being directly handled by the university (which obviously was also not the case). You have to equally help all sides put their best foot forward and make deals but if they can't find deals (because they literally have no marketable value whatsoever) that is on them. The requirement of providing equal access was met. Obviously that is just my personal opinion on the matter though and I'm sure many disagree. 

  3. Just to provide additional clarity and information to those that are curious about the settlement:

    Where the fuck did that 22M number come from?

    That 22M figure being thrown around is such because the average power conference athletic program's revenues have been 100M over the past few years. So 22% of the 100M = a 22M cap. That number will adjust naturally based on how power conference revenues fluctuate each year. They decided upon 22% because scholarship costs and other athlete benefits currently come out to being about 28% of your average power conference program's revenue. Scholarships being around 16M. So they didn't just pull the 22% number out of their ass; it pushes the split of athletic program revenue going to athletes to be roughly an even split at 50%. 

    There are also some built in escalators where the cap increases by like 4% each year but it was confusing how they worded it. It sounds like that is a 4% increase over the actual dollar amount (the 22M) rather than meaning that in year two it would become 26% of the average revenue. I assume that yearly 4% increase in the actual dollar value of the cap is done to combat inflation. 

     

     

    Will Title IX apply? 

    Short answer is no. Not if the schools involved are smart. All that matters is that the funds equaling that 22% end up in the pockets of players. The method used is irrelevant to the terms of the settlement. The loophole that has essentially been created here in conjunction with the ruling of protected NIL rights for athletes is that schools can enter into likeness usage agreements with specific players and essentially pay them whatever they view to be fair. Title IX has no involvement in this. If Texas thinks that using the likeness of Ewers to advertise our program justifies giving him 3 million a year we can do so. Without issue. It doesn't mandate we then find some female athletes or members of other sports and likewise buy their rights for equal total amount. There are plenty of people on Surly who can explain this better than I can but I imagine they are probably keeping tight lipped about how Texas specifically plans to attack this issue until it is actually in motion. The NCAA's stance on the issue so far has been strongly against Title IX having any application to compensation of these athletes and that so long as equal opportunity is provided for male and female athletes to show their value to the program Title IX is satisfied. 

    Really we won't have a concrete answer till the department of education rules on it but pretty much every competent lawyer who specializes in that area seems to think regardless of if Title IX is mandated to apply it will quickly be struck down in a court challenge. 

     

  4. This change is going to be bad for Texas initially. Our advantage in NIL is not going to come anywhere close to making up for the shortfall we will face comparative to teams that specialize their funding in specific sports. Football will be fine and likely maintain its edge but our other sports are a bit fucked. 

    Imagine how Vanderbilt will approach the revenue sharing. What are their options? Put 10M towards a football team with no players worth paying and no hopes of winning either way? Or do they go put 15M towards baseball and a build a super team filled with a dozen future first round picks? Even if they still do put a few million towards football, basketball and women's athletics to take care of the few high quality kids they have the lion share of that funding is going to the one sport in which they can actually compete. There are plenty of other baseball focused programs out there that can do the same. Even non power conference programs that only have 10-12M total to disperse can double the realistic budget Texas will have for baseball as we struggle to try and take care of all the major sports at once. Texas is not going to become one of the poors but we aren't going to be anywhere close to that top tier of baseball spender. 

    Same deal with basketball. Texas might at most put how much towards basketball? 3-4 million tops? Yes we can supplement that with NIL and we have had tremendous support for the basketball program recently but it isn't going to make up the gap between ourselves and those who make that sport their top priority. I'm not even talking the blue bloods that kick our ass in recruiting and the portal anyway. A school like Indiana for example can easily justify and afford to put 10-12M a year of that 21M cap into just basketball. Even if we can double our direct school budget for the sport with NIL it isn't going to give us an edge any longer. Not when you have a couple dozen mid tier programs putting that same amount into the pot due to direct school funding and prioritization. In the long run Texas will have much healthier athletic program but in the short term you are going to have a bunch of new bidders suddenly able to compete at the same level as you for mercenary recruits and portal talent. 

    Even football will not go unscathed. Lets say we put a few million into basketball, a bit into baseball and the obligatory million or two into women's athletics that optics will require. Sure we might still be left with ~15M going towards football but there are programs like OU that will probably put basically the entire 21M just into football. We literally watched them pillage their women's athletics NIL fund in order to get Williams secured a few weeks ago. Football will still in great financial shape for us but this change is going to cut into our edge we have over teams that just currently can not compete with us due to a lack of NIL funding. They will just sacrifice other sports to try to close the gap. 

    TLDR Football at Texas will be fine but sports like basketball and baseball are absolutely fucked once this revenue sharing begins and a lot of teams just decide to focus on one specific sport other than football. In the long run I fully expect some stricter guidelines in place as to how that revenue gets distributed, to make sure most of it goes to football (who actually generates the damn revenue) but until that happens it is going to be absolutely wild watching certain teams be bold and just specialize into a single sport to try and buy titles while the window of opportunity exists. 

     

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  5. 5 minutes ago, LTtxfan said:

    Good news today for Illinois & Terrance Brooks

    Illinois hires Corey Parker away from Toledo

    MAY 13, 2024

     

    Iirc someone was pointing out during the draft that the entire CB room had a significant increase in their PFF coverage grading under Parker. I know he was being connected to some other jobs earlier this cycle. Strong hire for a school that probably doesn't care much about the recruiting side and needs to lean on ability to develop to get talent there anyway. 

  6. 12 hours ago, Lone Star Horn said:

    They don't give a fuck, but they have to quote and post to tell you that they don't give a fuck.

    Cary Elwes Disney Plus GIF by Disney+

    We give a fuck about the extra minutes of our lives wasted wading through your boring tedious idiotic off topic rambling on here. We do NOT give a fuck about the content of that rambling. It isn't a difficult concept to understand. Or at least it shouldn't be. Considering you and others lack the basic social awareness to realize this isn't an appropriate venue for you to be spewing your life story bullshit in the first place I guess I shouldn't be surprised. 

     

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  7. 1 hour ago, Lone Star Horn said:

    I went to Keesler AFB in 88, before Biloxi got casinos. I heard stories about Lowry AFB in Denver. Apparently in the late 80s Denver was a hotspot for pussy. 

     

    1 hour ago, Sgt Hulk said:

    sheppard is absolute dog shit  holy hell what a trip 

     

    4 hours ago, NorLa Horns said:

    Yeah. If yall are feeling all patriotic about atomic bomb stories. Ya dont wanna hear mine. 

    no fucks given GIF

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  8. Illinois is a great landing spot for Brooks. Look at their schedule. 

    Kansas, Central MI, Nebraska, Penn St (decent team but fairly awful offense), Purdue, Michigan (again a great team but they barely pass and don't have crazy speed at WR), Oregon, Minnesota, Michigan St, Rutgers and finally Northwestern. 

    Pretty damned ideal if you are trying to hide the fact that you suck complete ass against anyone with above average speed. He is going to likely be another of these BIG 10 cbs that grades highly because they only faced one guy all season long who could run faster than a 4.5 forty. That Oregon game could be rough but the rest of that schedule is full of the kind of slow mediocre WRs that he tended to look decent against at Texas. Their DC is proven at developing DBs as well so maybe he will finally learn to turn his fucking head around. Not sure that ultimately matters much though as his bigger issues are simply physical limitations. 

     

  9. On the one hand those individual commitment threads are pointless and pretty gross. Just a bunch of the thirsty weirdos on here spamming and reacting with drooling to the same tired memes and sex gifs they've seen posted by the same people a hundred times before...     but I'd still prefer that happen THERE as opposed to in the actual relevant recruitment threads. So I guess if nothing else they serve the purpose of quarantining the creeper spam a bit. 

     

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  10. 2 hours ago, Red Five said:

    Dumb this down for me. If Sweat/Murphy were 9s, and Collins is a 7, and the Arizona guys are 5/6s, where do we slot Williams. 

    Based on your scale I would say he has currently been an 8 with the upside of possibly becoming a 9 by the end of next season. Really just a question of where his ceiling is and how maximized he already is as a player. Either way he immediately would be our best DT if he came here. 

    There seems to be a difference of opinion as to whether he will turn that corner and become a surefire first round pick type player or just stay where he is which is still very damn good but probably not "lets pay this guy 1M+" good. 

  11. 8 minutes ago, Red Five said:

    Sark was gushing about the DBs today at a speaking deal in Houston. 

    I don't think Holmes is going to be a high draft pick or anything but I don't think it would be the end of the world if he ended up starting opposite Manny. I'd probably be more concerned that the primary backups are true freshmen. 

    Go rewatch Holmes allowing every single pass thrown his way against OU to be a completion last year. Or the exact same thing in any other game in which we faced a competent QB. He is trash. He hasn't improved this Spring either. As for the "Sark was praising him and the others!" bullshit I would point out Sark made similar comments about Catalon, Taafe, Thompson, and every other useless JAG we've had come through here in our secondary in recent years. It means nothing. 

     

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  12. 1 hour ago, CashMcCoy said:

    Stuck in the Shaka era? We finished 240th in the country in 3FGA/game, 99th in 3FG%.

    Not talking about this past season. Talking about our current roster and what it needs to be more well rounded exactly so that we do NOT see a return to the cancer that was Shaka ball. Honestly with the size of these guards it may not really be an issue anyway. 

  13. Hopefully we can bring in one of these forwards with actual scoring ability. I can't stomach another year of bullshit where we can do absolutely nothing but run down and brick a three on offense. Need some versatility. Absolutely must get at least one true center type though. Shedrick is injury prone and Onyema is one of the worst players to wear a Texas bball uni in a long time. 

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  14. 21 minutes ago, IDIOTsavant said:

     

    He’s young, but the kid can play. As a Michigan fan, it sucks to see him go. Would definitely like it if Texas was in the mix here.

    I'm not doubting you but curious what you are basing this on? He was a low tier recruit that barely got into a handful of games after they became blowouts. Was he getting a lot of praise from Michigan insiders and practice reports or something? 

  15. 3 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

    You're forgetting Tapp, Melvin Hills, and Wardell Mack. 

    I won't bother trying to troll you with Arch Manning and Will Randall. 

    I meant Mack when I said Ward (had a brain fart) but you got to it before I could edit it. For some reason I always want to think Wardell Mack's last name is Ward instead. Probably because I am regarded. 

  16. 46 minutes ago, DixonHur said:

     

    As for Louisiana, I think his value there is overrated.  Not saying he's not a good recruiter there, but we have NIL and a winning program now. 

     

    100% agree. 

    Who has Joseph actually helped us secure from Louisiana? We keep hearing that fucking narrative and it is usually in the context of "Joseph is helping with player X due to his ties to the state!" followed by that player never actually landing at Texas. 

    Derek Williams was 100% a financial decision. I don't care how certain people try to spin it. That was an NIL war and we won. Be proud. No shame in it. Thank those who opened their wallets. We could have ritually sacrificed both Gideon and Joseph at midfield to Bevo three hours before his announcement and it wouldn't have changed a thing with Williams. 

    Only other notable player I can think of from Louisiana is Mack and Joseph's great contribution was finishing well behind both LSU and Florida. He ended up not being a take at LSU and it took Florida both completely imploding AND firing Mack's primary recruiters (both of them) including his position coach with no replacement plan in place. I'm glad to have the kid but it isn't like Joseph did anything impressive in that recruitment. Am I forgetting someone? We haven't even brought in any notable non DBs from Louisiana except Manning and if anyone tries to give Joseph an ounce of credit there they should be laughed off this site. 

    I'm by no means saying Joseph is not overall a very solid recruiter. I know he is. The specific "he helps in Louisiana!" bullshit however hasn't seemed to actually matter at all. Sure as hell no reason to factor it into his ongoing employment. 

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  17. 1 hour ago, Laxtonto said:

     

     

     

    Don't even get your hopes up. It is USC. They almost had him in the Winter portal but he wanted to see how that new defensive staff would come together first. Apparently he liked what he was hearing from people he knows on that roster. Unless something really crazy happens I doubt he even takes other visits. Maybe he will use it as an excuse to get some free travel in but USC came in way over market value to make sure this one doesn't turn into a bidding war with others.

    Obviously something could change but I've been expecting this one for weeks. This info per one of the bigger contributors to USC's NIL efforts. 

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  18. 21 minutes ago, Rickylovesweed said:

    Khalif Battle is somebody we should be all over, Big guard that can really score.

    Gets downhill and to the FT line which is something we really struggled with last year. 

    I am assuming all the Arkansas players hitting the portal are just planning to follow Muss to USC. 

  19. 7 minutes ago, Viper said:

     

    Is this the kind of stuff the NCAA is going after Tennessee for? I assume based on these quotes that there will be more investigations. I guess it's just a question of if the govt allows the rules (and how soon the BIG10 and SEC leave the NCAA)

    Nope. That is what makes the NCAA such a laughing stock right now. 

    The heart of the Tennessee investigation comes down to them flying a QB in for a meeting with their collective on a private jet owned by a booster. No one from the school itself was involved and this literally predated the national NCAA NIL guidelines anyway. It was during that wild west period. So even if the NCAA wanted to claim it would be a violation to do such a thing now it certainly was not then. The whole thing is a complete joke. 

     

    You have kids being outright taken advantage of with predatory contracts that piss all over both the spirit and letter of the NIL regulations (state and NCAA both) not being investigated because then the NCAA might actually have to hand out a real punishment. Instead they are doing this smoke screen horseshit chasing after impermissible travel with both Tennessee and Florida State. 

     

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  20. 23 minutes ago, South Austin said:

    I know we have Cedric Baxter and two highly-rated freshman RBs who just enrolled. But I think we need to find ways to get Blue as many touches as possible. From what I read about him in high school and his flirtations with the transfer portal, I thought there was a chance he’d be long gone by now. But he seems to have put it together and could be one of our best players on offense.

    It is a fairly meaningless distinction at this point but I'd argue Blue is RB1 going into Spring. He simply looked consistently better and more productive than Baxter when getting the ball. He didn't even seem appreciably worse at making it through contact than Baxter. It really doesn't matter though because both will feast if they stay healthy. 

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