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  1. It was pointed out that Elko didn’t take his QB to SEC media days. Either he knows there is a good chance he goes with someone else, or he doesn’t want Reed getting comfortable?
  2. Venables,…ha-ha-ha Some people will tell you that Venables is a good guy. I don’t care- I’m still pissed about the 2009 trip to Tuscaloosa that Stoops assigned him, to brief Saban on Texas’ tendencies. I am enjoying every humiliation coming his way.
  3. So, after starting this thread, I did nothing. After about a year and a half, my right shoulder stopped hurting. A few months later, my left shoulder stopped hurting.
  4. Trying to figure out budget options on getting there. Anyone know of charter buses there, for that game?
  5. I think he was a five star LB recruit that wasn’t panning out at all. They decided he’d be one of the bodies they threw at TE.
  6. College football is a professional sport without salary caps or barriers to player movement. Before the House settlement, P4 team salary costs ranged from a few million to mid 20’s, depending upon the size and generosity of alumni fanbases. Now, P4 ADs need to budget for $20.5M and up. Texas is one of the very few schools with an AD than can absorb that expense with minimal pain (and still have a reservoir of alumni giving). That expense is damn near breaking ISU. OU is in between- their AD had layoffs to free up money, and they rolled their collective into the AD. They do not have much to give above and beyond the House settlement amount. There are other programs in the funding space occupied by OU, and many have championship aspirations. Some, located in regions with extreme concentrations of talent, will be ok. (They will still have to pay their stars market rates, but they can get young high talent prospects enrolled affordable, because of their region) OU is not located in a talent rich region. For decades, it has gotten around that, by claiming north Texas as its region. That strategy doesn’t work as well now. Texas and TAMU also claim that region, and have more money to offer. Hell, TT and SMU may also have more money to offer. This is a new game, and I don’t know that they have a solution.
  7. Great points. A couple of comments- In the pre-BCS era, the surest way to a NC is to build a really good team and have an easy schedule. Mid ‘50s OU and ‘80s Miami played about three games per year against comparably talented teams. Weren’t they terrific teams? Sure- but they weren’t playing a schedule like 1981 Texas. Going from the BCS to the CFP, that path has gotten consistently more difficult. Now, a NC has to go on a 4-0 streak against top 12 teams (counting the CCGs). Asfor Venables, you’re right. When they first started to create their new GM position, Venables should have said, “that’s not the terms of my contract. I report to the AD, not to the GM. If you insist on this, pay me my buyout and go find your new HC”.
  8. A couple of things: 1. It’s reported that ISU has a $25M annual athletics budgeting shortfall for the near future. I have to think that is largely a result of the $20.5M House settlement for P4 conferences. Texas and Ohio State are the exceptions as programs with so much money that the AD can just absorb that with some minor adjustments. Most major programs are like OU, where they needed to have AD layoffs and roll their collective into the AD to cover it. And then, there are programs which are just going to have to go to the university administration to get floated low eight figure annually, to stay in business. 2. Memphis trying to buy its way into the B12. Nope, not going to happen, not for Memphis, not for anybody. The B12 has a nice media contract for the next six years or so. The results from its first year without Texas and OU show that the media contract is too generous to the B12. The ratings stunk. The B12 is not going to do one Goddamned thing that would allow ESPN and Fox to revisit their contracts.
  9. The assistant for the kickers left for a job at App State in the spring. Sark has an edge to his staff handling.
  10. Yep. Often, when siblings live in different places, it makes sense for one sibling to carry the bulk of the load. Everyone gets that. It doesn’t mean that you can’t acknowledge that one sibling is covering for the others. And if you’re the “distanced” sibling, when the one that is on site asks you to cover while they take a vacation, you really need to try to do that. An attitude of “I’m just too busy to rearrange everything and come up there to help” (I have a SIL who doesn’t work and has no kids, who is the busiest Goddamned person in the world) is really shitty. Especially combined with “you seem to have it handled pretty well”.
  11. Wilson was fired for not winning enough and Bum Bright hired Jackie Sherrill to come in and cheat like hell on the recruiting trail.
  12. The other day, I was bitching to myself, while running errands for MIL, about how my wife’s brother and sister not only don’t help (financially or with contributed time), but don’t even acknowledge all the shit we do for their mom. A “thank you” now and then would be appreciated. Then, I reflected a little on how much of the load with my dad is carried by my sister. I got her on the phone to say how much I appreciated what she was doing and asked her when her vacation plans were, so I could cover for her with dad.
  13. I know the answer to Question 1. One of the spring DCTFs, of that era, answered it. Aggie boosters pressured Bellard to take Tom Wilson on his staff as OC, to modernize the offense with pro style passing. Bellard took Wilson on staff, but kept running the wishbone. The Ags faltered a little, and the seat heated up. Bellard said, “Fuck this, I’m out of here” and Wilson took over as HC.
  14. Sure, it’s smart to departmentalize work so that one person is not responsible for too much. Still, how departments are organized, with who reports to whom, are important. Texas and Georgia are following the Saban model, with scouting reporting to the HC. OU says they are following the NFL model, which typically has a GM overseeing relatively autonomous personnel and coaching staffs. However, to me, they look more like the Dallas Cowboys, where the GM hires coordinators and limits coaching inputs to personnel decisions.
  15. There are more coaching and coaching-adjacent (scouting, analysts) jobs than ever before. The pay is ridiculous. It’s not a bad idea at all to see where your kid can catch on as an assistant trainer and enroll him there, and have him major in PE or kinesiology. If he fails to rise in that career, he ends up making six figures in a Texas suburb. And not once will he have to solve a problem requiring the use of the square root of negative one.
  16. Sure they can. People lose sensitivity to price in July and August, when the AC is out.
  17. The SEC dominated men’s basketball this past season, for obvious reasons. Now, ACC and B12 schools can use their House settlement commitments primarily on basketball, but it will come at the expense of competitive football. Will be interesting to follow.
  18. Do we know if Venables is like a Cowboys HC, not allowed to overrule his OC’s play calls?
  19. I really try not to post in DT anymore, but this is such a powerful piece. https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/russian-soldiers-view-ukraine-war-749a0494?st=o4UC8q&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
  20. Matt Hayes? That guy has been writing about college football for almost 30 years now. He has seen it all. Just kidding. He’s an idiot. Here is a saved copy of his pre-season 2005 article about who had a better QB, Texas or Texas A&M. He uses his keen insight and analytical abilities to cut through the hype.
  21. I don’t k ow how significant this is, but Nagy’s Moneyball scout staff lists six scouts on their website. Texas’ site shows 11 scouts.
  22. They don’t like the world the way it is now. They want it to be like it used to be. They know they are at a disadvantage, are pissed at their program’s leaders for not navigating this better, and can’t believe the rest of college football can possibly be ok with a world where OU struggles to compete.
  23. Here we go, from Sooner Scoop, an explanation for “why recruiting is going like it is…” https://www.on3.com/boards/threads/2026-recruiting.7643212/
  24. Really, what’s great is the total lack of understanding that maintaining a relationship requires both parties to get something out of it. That they never pause to discuss what would be in it for the SEC goes a long way to explain how the B12 felt about Texas, and why they say Texas betrayed them by leaving.
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