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LCHorn

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  1. I used to think that kind of thing mattered, but college football is littered with sociopath head coaches that will trapdoor a kid and have the personal skills to massage around it with his peers. Also, kids aren’t stupid, they see what we see and know the rules. If you perform you get paid, if you don’t oh well. Not to get too Marlo Stanfield on you, but you seem to want it one way and college football in 2025 is going to do it the other way.
  2. I’ll add something else about Baxter that @DZX158 appears to overlook-most of these lower profile athletes with NIL deals aren’t offering anything of value to Sonic or Warby Parker or whoever. In those instances, those NIL dollars come from someone who is writing a check, and usually it’s because they are a fan/alumni of the university and they have the same performance expectations we do. When you’ve got someone like Baxter that’s already been paid a ton and delivered almost nothing you’re not going to get someone that wants to write that check, regardless of cajoling from Banks and Sark. This is, btw, a somewhat reasonable way to handle the exit interview with a player and mirrors the same kind of layoff potential all the rest of that work for a living have to hazard.
  3. You do understand there’s a finite amount of money and every dollar devoted to Baxter comes at the expense of someone for whom the coaches have more confidence helps in 2026, right? It’s unfortunate that being a great student of the game or good role model as a student athlete doesn’t also result in more than 3 yards a carry. I’m not aware of what his NIL looked liked in 2025, but I was in 2024 and he’s the most overpaid on the team relative to production. In every professional sport in America that would make him a cap casualty, buy-out candidate or DFA.
  4. They are 21-1, pretty much any move is a downgrade.
  5. No way, unfortunately the prestige of the job is such that it takes a person of rare character to retire before dying in office. Does that sound like Alito to you?
  6. What’s particularly galling is the ignorance of where Voltaire’s sympathies lay.
  7. I was ready to call a Sengun/Giannis trade nuts but I just looked up his stats and Giannis is really, really well rounded. I’s probably favor standing pat because of health concerns (particularly due to age and mileage), but a healthy Giannis on this team is undoubtedly a stronger squad.
  8. If that had any merit our 2025 o-line would be rockstars. We ran out a very good DLine this year and every bit comparable or better than Georgia.
  9. I love a good explainer but I don't have the attention span to sit still for 54 minutes looking at someone with a cold sore. Cliff notes?
  10. What makes you think Vasek’s future portaling is up to him?
  11. Speaking of that, there‘s a fun NY Times Op Ed today from someone positing that the Supremes are actually trying to rescue democracy because the Legislative Branch has ceded so much of its authority to the Executive. They truly are the bulwark against continued despotism! Actually, the Supreme Court Has a Plan
  12. I’m not following your point and was referencing that offer in my post. You think another team is giving him the Jabari contract as a restricted free agent? I think the most likely scenario is a sign and trade after the season and that’s mostly if it’s mutually beneficial, and not because Tari has some kind of incredible leverage.
  13. Tari Eason is going to into restricted free agency and there's no immediate need to trade him. I'm a little skeptical that another team is going to be offering that much more than the reported Rockets offer for someone who's missed a whole season's worth of games in his first four seasons of play.
  14. Mocking west Austin partisans is 2nd only to Aggie jokes as a source of mirth. Interesting that, if you're correct about the numbers, the are predominately on the offense.
  15. Re: Henry, Jr., it's a win simply if we made OSU dig deeper into their pockets for him.
  16. Phil Klay with a really good piece on this in the NY Times, I'll gift it because the whole things is worth reading and some good St. Augustine quotes for@Kyrie Eleison, @Brisketexan, and @Ghost of LL that used to contribute to the old Hornfans philosophy thread. What Trump Is Really Doing With His Boat Strikes Choice quote:
  17. Haha, always one of my favorite surly shout-outs.
  18. Why would we be happy about Michael Huff leaving? Hah, I was thinking the same thing. So I talk to a couple of former GA's and guys that have had an analyst title and they will report to not knowing shit outside of their position group, which makes me wonder who is the "source" that can comment on the entire roster.
  19. I meant to add something to this effect and I agree; I’m not particularly bullish on Texas’ chances in the playoff this year and I’d rather the coaching staff have some early mover advantages going into portal season. I started taking a look at the roster for dead weight and I didn’t see that much behind the guys that played. There’s a lot of first and second year guys behind older players, and maybe they are candidates but it’s hard to know. Guys like Neto, Vasek, and Will Randle are more obviously passed over and those are easy. Maybe a couple of RB, a couple of the 2nd year “DB” who don’t have a clean position fit or OL that seemed passed over by a freshman Brooks at LG.
  20. That's 25% of the roster and terrible roster management (more concerning, NIL deployment) if it happens to that degree. I get there's inevitably scouting misses but that's way past trimming a little fat.
  21. I'm going to take the under but wow if it's even close to this number.
  22. When I say in his favor, it's evidence that he's able to make adjustments that lead to improvement. Again, I don't think we have visibility into what was going on in practice. Why, for example, did it appear Stroh was working? One of my biggest complaints about the $9.95 coterie is they don't seem to dig into these kinds of questions and I think it's partially because Flood is one of their best sources. I'm not trying to defend Flood, I don't care who the coach is as long as they are pancaking defensive lineman and I have a suspicion that a good bit of the under-performance is unrelated to Flood's efficacy as a coach.
  23. Just playing this out, but do you? How do you know that Flood didn’t recommend grabbing lineman in the portal last winter and Sarkisian told him that money was getting devoted to DT? I think if you want to fire Flood it also needs to be because the line got dominated by Georgia in 2024, performed poorly in the Sugarbowl versus Washington, and that was with a Lombardi award winner and other lineman with lots of experience/NFL prospects. One might say that’s true of any top 5 vs top 5 match-up but it’s evident we aren’t matching the success Alabama’s offense had under Sarkisian and that was the standard presumably when you hired him. In his favor, the line clearly improved between Florida and A&M.
  24. I'm still bullish on Alphabet because a) they aren't getting broken up during the current admin and b) they are monetizing AI in a way that's going to become increasingly clear the others cannot do so yet. Not sure if this is a 2026 impact, but I'm long-term bearing on Meta because it has nowhere to grow and I think ultimately the end user recognizes the product has social harms. I liken it to a Diageo or Constellation Brands, in that consumer tastes are shifting away from it not because of policy changes but consumer preference for something healthier. Also, parents are going to continue to push for later adoption of mobile devices and it's absence in schools, and this later adoption I think will help disconnect successive generations from habitual social media engagement (it'll still be huge, just less so). I'm a little bearish on Amazon, too, but I think the market already recognizes they are struggling to grow revenue. Maybe even more than Meta, there's also some externalities that Amazon has exploited and that make them far more exposed to policy changes (like the tariffs, but also product fraud, huge amounts of product waste, very capable management in direct competitors, etc.)
  25. Hmmmm...., I do wonder who might be most responsible for collecting intel and advising the coaching staff on this....
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