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  1. The only part I care about is alignment in dunning contributors. I don’t want Big Cigars being worked for big donations to pay for a new tennis center, and then called by TexasOne to help cover portal needs. There needs to be coordination and prioritization
  2. Burks is a good example of how programs should be careful in the portal and NIL era. OU invested an amount that mattered to them, to sign him. When he got injured, and was unavailable, they hurt. Then, they had to recommit this spring, lest this talent get away and they have to spend more to replace it. Contrast that with Isaiah Neyor, a speedy WR portal transfer Texas brought in for 2022. He got injured before the season. It hurt not having him out there across from Worthy, drawing coverage or exploiting the attention Worthy got. But, that’s football. No one felt cheated. And, when the off season came, and Neyor rehabbed, Texas went out and signed AD Mitchell, who beat out Neyor. Texas wasn’t counting on Neyor for anything more than to compete. Neyor moved on to Nebraska for 2024. Texas signed three more WRs from the portal for that year. it’s supposed to be investing, not gambling. You don’t spend any money that you can’t lose, or the game is too rich for you.
  3. The WSJ had an article about elderly scams. You know the one where they use your family members’ public social media to learn that a teen is in Mexico? And then they have someone call the grandparents, claiming to be the kid and needing a few thousand $$? Evidently AI is making the voices more realistic. The article suggested having a code word for kids to say to let family know it’s really them.
  4. Aah, so this Deathstar is fully operational. Now we see that Bevo, not Nandi, is the bull god that is the faithful mount of Shiva, the destroyer. Or, maybe Moloch.
  5. That is fantastic! I didn’t know that- is that a new development?
  6. This is a terrific topic, as this (financial means) is one of the key pillars of the program. Bellmont has decades of experience in raising funds from football boosters (the other big extra revenue source is marketing t shirts and other stuff to rank and file fans). These donations funded other athletic programs, facilities and occasional coach contract buyouts (to avoid taking on too much debt). Bellmont fund raisers (there is a dedicated professional group assigned to this function) have not asked donors to fund player pay. In the past, other programs would have informal cooperation between a coach staff and boosters to fund disallowed player pay, typically five to low six figures, often in cash. Texas didn’t do that. Current disconnect- does anyone disagree that TexasOne needs should be a higher priority than Bellmont-LHF needs? I don’t know that TexasOne should roll into Bellmont, or vice versa, but I do think coordination between the two is needed, especially as the competition with other well funded programs increases. Are we moving in that direction?
  7. Don’t forget FSU! Nole Nation, baby! The Sooners don’t get it. Texas is a lot bigger than Oklahoma. A lot more people want to watch Texas, than OU. A lot more people want to hate watch Texas, than want to hate watch OU. I do suspect that there is some big donor OU money on the sidelines right now, waiting for the Venables regime to end. They’re thinking that there is no point in throwing good money after bad.
  8. Straight into my veins. I love this so much. The masses of college football will rise up, shouting, “This is wrong! We need the Sooners!”
  9. I know Tech will spend to win a bidding war, but is their full roster really funded to that level? Also- don’t the Ags have an expensive roster (I know they have to pay Himbo and their 2022 recruit glass is to the wind; I thought they still had a rich donor base to mobilize, even if in idiotic manner)?
  10. RIP. I saw her open for Lloyd Cole, back in the day.
  11. OU thought they led for the WR, Miles, out of Duncanville. He committed to SMU and the Sooners are questioning everything… I have to admit- they’re smarter than Aggies. Liucci would just tell them that they had an even better prospect lined up, one who “get” A&M, and the goobers would all be happy.
  12. For all the tradition, I can only think of a few Longhorns with raw athletic dominance akin to men playing against boys- Nobis, Campbell, Ricky Williams. Maybe Derrick Johnson? On this team, I think Collin Simmons is in that category. Is Anthony Hill? These are the good times.
  13. Caveat: I, “statsman”, do not know shit about fuck on this topic- I have seen rumblings that a delay in the “House settlement” would cause chaos in college football. Observation- in the last couple of transfer portals, teams have retained key players better than before. Hypothesis: Have P4 teams all assumed that they will be allowed to budget $15M for football next year, out of AD revenue, which represents a big increase for about 80% of the schools in P4? Allowing them to retain and recruit. Would a delay in the “House settlement” require them to make up budget shortfalls from donors, causing extreme stress in program support? Or, in such an event, would AD’s just go ahead and write the checks to players anyway, and worry later about any consequences?
  14. Thx- on my phone I couldn’t tell that it was picked
  15. OU did well on defense in 2023 with three deep DL JAGs, on short rotations, instructed to give it their all on every play, because they would be rotated out quickly. That’s our floor, next year. If a couple of guys can play, we’ll be good.
  16. Wait- did UCLA really have the ball on the Texas 15 for one more play? Why didn’t they try to kick a FG to tie? Even back then, that had to be better odds than trying to score a TD from the 15 (and I get that the game would have ended in a tie). Did they not have a TO left?
  17. You played it right. It just doesn’t go as well with the nice guys. Horn: “Man, that Sherrill may have been a good coach, but he was one creepy dude, wasn’t he?” Nice old Ag: “I named my daughter, Jackie, after him”.
  18. I pretty much but, in hardcopy, any grownup (and some kids) book about Longhorn football. I was going to ask if anyone could recommend the Unlang coffee table book, “Texas is Back”, but, who am I kidding? I’m going to buy it. Anyway- categories and recommendations: Books by era: Sarkisian: the Umlang book, and the book the AAS issued last year to recap the Big XII years. Herman: unaware of any books Strong: Mac Engel wrote a book covering one weekend of HS, college and pro football in DFW. That TCU prick fully expected OU to drill Texas that one Fall Saturday in 2015. Ha! Brown: Probably the Brown/Little (mostly Little) “One Heartbeat”. Mackovic: there is a coffee table book “Texas Longhorn Football Today”, heavy on pictures. That’s about it. McWilliams: “Bleeding Orange” by Bohls/Maher. Akers: “The Courtship of Marcus DuPree” by Willie Morris is the best we have. Short on real Longhorn info, heavy on literary quality. Royal: a ton of books. The best two were ghostwritten by Blackie Sherrod- “Darrell Royal Talks Football” and “I Play to Win” (Freddie Steinmark). (I bought Dave Campbell’s copy of the former from his estate sale- the Sherrod quip by his signature is “This was a real ‘labor of loot’”. Price: nada Cherry: he wrote an article in the Saturday Evening Post, called “Why I Quit Football” with more insight (and bitching) than most books. Bible: “Championship Football” by DX Bible- a hard slog.
  19. I think a true “Hail Mary” is a long pass (think Staubach to Pearson” against the Vikings in 1976) that wins the game at the very end. Phillips to Speyrer against UCLA in 1970 may be closest (even though UCLA had a few seconds at the end, and this happened before the first official “Hail Mary”, see above). Stanford to Jones against Arky wasn’t too long, but it did end the game. It was a lot of fun, too, because the favored Hogs had led the whole way and really expected to win.
  20. It’s a shame they haven’t played any games where a play call going different could affect a championship, since Rice in 1957.
  21. Sure. In a similar situation, 20 years earlier, in an ESPN gameday bout with peak KSU, RS freshman VY came in and did just enough to lead the Horns to victory (along with an excellent defense). I was there- Texas didn’t light up the scoreboard, but the offense was clearly better with VY in than with Mock at QB, even though it was clearly a more limited offense.
  22. Posted before, but Klatt’s podcast on the UGA game, right after, said (paraphrase) “There are two reasons to pull a quarterback- to replace him, or to give him a chance to collect himself. Sark’s pulling of Ewers was the latter, but…each of Sark, Ewers and Manning knew that if Manning played well, Ewers wasn’t going back in.”
  23. It’s hard to decide between Ryan Williams and Jeremiah Smith
  24. I should have known. That’s why this site is so down on Ewers.
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