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  1. I think Venables broke a primary rule of HCing last year- “You hire your OC for his offense”. He inherited Lebby’s VeerNShoot (Briles) offense and promoted Littrell (from the Leach-Mangino Air Raid tree) to coordinate it. Disaster. 
     
    Now he has Arbuckle as OC, to run a different style Air Raid (more QB running), and the hire would not be as hopeful if Arbuckle didn’t bring his Qb, Mateer. I have no idea how good of an OC Arbuckle is. He might be a Lincoln Riley starter kit, or he might be a Sterlin Gilbert. 

  2. 4 minutes ago, TexasGary said:

    My money is on LSU playing them in Baton Rouge and then finding a reason to cancel the game in Dallas. 

    The first game being in Baton Rouge is the clue. 
     
    I think the way they played TCU- as the game approached, they threatened to cancel unless it was moved to ATT, and thee schools compromised by canceling the Baton Rouge game. 
     
    Maybe I’m wrong. OU has played at Ford at least once. Maybe it’s not a big deal to LSU. It was in 2013, though. 

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  3. It doesn’t have to be ATT (and, Lord, is ATT a horrible place for college football). The announcement says “Dallas” as the site. There is a large stadium in Dallas, available for games. That stadium has a history with SMU football. Some used to call it “the house that Doak built”. 

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  4. 12 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    Here's TE. This author's ability to make this unit sound like something enviable is borderline witchcraft. Tarp or Karels at Aggie 247 would have offed themselves facing the same obstacle here. Highlights also below:

    -They have 7 TEs on their roster. They were trying to find an 8th, anywhere, somewhere, nowhere. Not one of these 7 TEs would be a scholarship player at Texas. 

    -One of their TEs is Jaren Kanak, former highly rated LB who was "perfect for Venables' system" and is yet another high 4 star or 5 star bust at OU. 

    -Davon Mitchell, a 5 star TE prospect, was apparently force fed Chef Boyardee on a daily basis in order to gain enough weight to be an SEC in-line TE. He ballooned up to 275 where "he carried the weight really well" all spring until he announced his transfer, then sooner pundits online and on XM 84 blasted him for being an immature fatass. He's now at Louisville and has allegedly lost 15 pounds in 2 weeks or some shit. 

    -Their probable starter and 2nd string guy are from Pittsburg State, D2 school, and Kennesaw State. 

    -Arbuckle, whose TEs had less than 25 targets last year at Wazzou, is claiming that the TEs at OU are going to be a force. 

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    The tight end position has left something to be desired for Oklahoma's offense the last couple of seasons, as the position has largely underwhelmed in the two years since Brayden Willis' solid 2022 campaign during Brent Venables' inaugural season along with then-offensive coordinator Jeff Lebby.

    The position was mostly a non-factor in the offense in 2023, and then last season provided a mixed bag with Seth Littrell—and then Joe Jon Finley—calling plays. On the one hand, Bauer Sharp finished the season as Oklahoma's leading receiver (42 catches for 324 yards and a pair of touchdowns); on the other hand, those were lackluster totals for a No. 1 receiver (a symptom of a calamitous offensive season overall), and the tight end group struggled in other aspects of the game, whether from a blocking standpoint or other miscues that contributed to a disappointing inaugural SEC season for the Sooners.

    While Finley is back as Oklahoma's tight ends coach (but no longer calling plays, as he did on an interim basis the second half of the year), his position group has undergone wholesale changes in the offseason as the Sooners worked to reshape the room ahead of Ben Arbuckle's debut season as offensive coordinator. Gone are Sharp (transferred to LSU) and Jake Roberts (graduated), the top two players from last year's tight end rotation, as well as former four-star prospect Davon Mitchell (now at Louisville). In are a trio of transfer additions — Will Huggins, Carson Kent and John Locke Jr. — as well as two other newcomers in freshman Trynae Washington and converted linebacker Jaren Kanak. They join two returning pieces in Kaden Helms and Kade McIntyre, as Oklahoma hopes to find an answer in a new-look tight end group for 2025.

    Projected depth chart

    -- Will Huggins, redshirt senior (2024 stats: 22 receptions, 395 yards, one touchdown)

    -- Carson Kent, redshirt junior (2024 stats: 18 receptions, 217 yards, three touchdowns)

    -- Jaren Kanak, senior (2024 stats: 17 tackles, one blocked kick returned for touchdown while playing linebacker) OR

    -- Kaden Helms, redshirt junior (2024 stats: two receptions, 19 yards, one touchdown)

    -- John Locke Jr., redshirt junior (2024 stats: one reception, 2 yards) OR

    -- Kade McIntyre, redshirt sophomore (2024 stats: 55 total snaps, no receptions) OR

    -- Trynae Washington, freshman (2024 stats: N/A)

    Post-spring departures: Davon Mitchell (Louisville)

    Due to arrive in the fall: N/A

    (Photo: SARAH PHIPPS/THE OKLAHOMAN / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images, USA TODAY Sports)

     

    Outlook: Despite the personnel overhaul at the position, Oklahoma's tight end group heads into the 2025 season as the biggest question mark on the roster — a notion underscored by the team's (unfulfilled) attempt to add another piece after the completion of spring practices during the April transfer portal window.

    After missing out on its top transfer target during that window, Oklahoma heads into the summer with largely the same group it entered the spring with — with the exception of Mitchell, who left the program late in spring practices before transferring to Louisville. It's a vastly unproven group, but one that features a couple of intriguing pieces who could pan out into viable options in the Sooners' new-look offense.

    Chief among those is Pitt State transfer Will Huggins, a 6-foot-6, 262-pound transfer from Pitt State who started his career at Kansas. Huggins is a massive target who was solid as a pass-catcher last season for the Division-II Gorillas, and his size makes him a natural fit as an additional blocker when the role calls for it. But Huggins, despite his prior experience at Kansas, lacks production at this level; his lone reception in four seasons with the Jayhawks was a 20-yard touchdown as a true freshman — against the Sooners, no less.

    That lack of proven production at this level of college football applies to the rest of the room, as well. McIntyre has one reception in limited opportunities the last two years. Locke caught one pass at Louisiana Tech last season. Washington, obviously, is a freshman who just completed his first spring with the Sooners.

    Then there's Kent, who began his career at Kennesaw State, which was an FCS program during his first two seasons before joining Conference USA last fall. The 6-foot-4, 244-pounder was a second-team All-Conference USA player last season after catching 18 passes for 217 yards and a trio of touchdowns. That pass-catching ability has seemingly translated well to Oklahoma, where he garnered some strong reviews from teammates for his receiving prowess during spring practices (center Troy Everett remarked after the Crimson Combine that Kent is "out there catching everything. Ball gets thrown up to him, he's coming down with it nine out of 10 times.").

    Huggins and Kent emerged from spring as the projected top two options at tight end, but opportunities are likely still up for grabs heading into the fall, especially for guys like Kanak and Helms, both of whom got first- and second-team reps at times during the spring, including in the Crimson Combine. Kanak is an interesting case, considering he spent the last three years at linebacker before making the position switch this offseason. He has some qualities to like at the position — athleticism, football IQ, work ethic and physicality — but is still new to the position and is working tirelessly to learn the ins and outs of playing tight end in the SEC. Helms, meanwhile, has been hampered by injuries during his first three seasons, which has limited him to just 102 offensive snaps in his career. When healthy, Helms has upside as an athletic, 6-foot-5 pass-catching option, but staying healthy has proven difficult.

    It's unlikely tight end will be a strength for Oklahoma's offense in 2025, but after Arbuckle identified the position as the most improved over the duration of spring practices, there's some cautious optimism that someone can emerge as a reliable option in an unproven group and make sure the the position at least won't be a weakness this fall.

    What they said: "The tight end group, I would say, of any position group, they are the position group that has shown the most improvement over spring ball, right? From where they were on Day 1 to where they are now — I mean, I'm pretty sure in the last four practices, we've thrown like nine touchdowns to the tight ends. And not just wide-open touchdowns. I'm talking aggressive, contested catches. I'm talking they're on the line of scrimmage, and we're running the football, and they're getting so much better with their hand placement, moving people. And they're all unreal kids. That's one of my favorite position meetings to go sit in, because Coach Finley is an unbelievable coach, and those are unbelievable kids in that room, and they're so fun to be around, and they've shown the most improvement."

    — offensive coordinator Ben Arbuckle

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    The tight end position has left something to be desired for Oklahoma's offense the last couple of seasons, as the position has largely underwhelmed in the two years since Brayden Willis' solid 2022 campaign during Brent Venables' inaugural season along with then-offensive coordinator Jeff Lebby.

    The position was mostly a non-factor in the offense in 2023, and then last season provided a mixed bag with Seth Littrell—and then Joe Jon Finley—calling plays. On the one hand, Bauer Sharp finished the season as Oklahoma's leading receiver (42 catches for 324 yards and a pair of touchdowns); on the other hand, those were lackluster totals for a No. 1 receiver (a symptom of a calamitous offensive season overall), and the tight end group struggled in other aspects of the game, whether from a blocking standpoint or other miscues that contributed to a disappointing inaugural SEC season for the Sooners.

    While Finley is back as Oklahoma's tight ends coach (but no longer calling plays, as he did on an interim basis the second half of the year), his position group has undergone wholesale changes in the offseason as the Sooners worked to reshape the room ahead of Ben Arbuckle's debut season as offensive coordinator. Gone are Sharp (transferred to LSU) and Jake Roberts (graduated), the top two players from last year's tight end rotation, as well as former four-star prospect Davon Mitchell (now at Louisville). In are a trio of transfer additions — Will Huggins, Carson Kent and John Locke Jr. — as well as two other newcomers in freshman Trynae Washington and converted linebacker Jaren Kanak. They join two returning pieces in Kaden Helms and Kade McIntyre, as Oklahoma hopes to find an answer in a new-look tight end group for 2025.

     

     

    Projected depth chart

    -- Will Huggins, redshirt senior (2024 stats: 22 receptions, 395 yards, one touchdown)

    -- Carson Kent, redshirt junior (2024 stats: 18 receptions, 217 yards, three touchdowns)

    -- Jaren Kanak, senior (2024 stats: 17 tackles, one blocked kick returned for touchdown while playing linebacker) OR

    -- Kaden Helms, redshirt junior (2024 stats: two receptions, 19 yards, one touchdown)

    -- John Locke Jr., redshirt junior (2024 stats: one reception, 2 yards) OR

    -- Kade McIntyre, redshirt sophomore (2024 stats: 55 total snaps, no receptions) OR

    -- Trynae Washington, freshman (2024 stats: N/A)

    Post-spring departures: Davon Mitchell (Louisville)

    Due to arrive in the fall: N/A

     

    13091417.jpg?fit=bounds&crop=620:320,offset-y0.50&width=620&height=320 (Photo: SARAH PHIPPS/THE OKLAHOMAN / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images, USA TODAY Sports)

     

     

    Outlook: Despite the personnel overhaul at the position, Oklahoma's tight end group heads into the 2025 season as the biggest question mark on the roster — a notion underscored by the team's (unfulfilled) attempt to add another piece after the completion of spring practices during the April transfer portal window.

    After missing out on its top transfer target during that window, Oklahoma heads into the summer with largely the same group it entered the spring with — with the exception of Mitchell, who left the program late in spring practices before transferring to Louisville. It's a vastly unproven group, but one that features a couple of intriguing pieces who could pan out into viable options in the Sooners' new-look offense.

    Chief among those is Pitt State transfer Will Huggins, a 6-foot-6, 262-pound transfer from Pitt State who started his career at Kansas. Huggins is a massive target who was solid as a pass-catcher last season for the Division-II Gorillas, and his size makes him a natural fit as an additional blocker when the role calls for it. But Huggins, despite his prior experience at Kansas, lacks production at this level; his lone reception in four seasons with the Jayhawks was a 20-yard touchdown as a true freshman — against the Sooners, no less.

    That lack of proven production at this level of college football applies to the rest of the room, as well. McIntyre has one reception in limited opportunities the last two years. Locke caught one pass at Louisiana Tech last season. Washington, obviously, is a freshman who just completed his first spring with the Sooners.

    Then there's Kent, who began his career at Kennesaw State, which was an FCS program during his first two seasons before joining Conference USA last fall. The 6-foot-4, 244-pounder was a second-team All-Conference USA player last season after catching 18 passes for 217 yards and a trio of touchdowns. That pass-catching ability has seemingly translated well to Oklahoma, where he garnered some strong reviews from teammates for his receiving prowess during spring practices (center Troy Everett remarked after the Crimson Combine that Kent is "out there catching everything. Ball gets thrown up to him, he's coming down with it nine out of 10 times.").

    Huggins and Kent emerged from spring as the projected top two options at tight end, but opportunities are likely still up for grabs heading into the fall, especially for guys like Kanak and Helms, both of whom got first- and second-team reps at times during the spring, including in the Crimson Combine. Kanak is an interesting case, considering he spent the last three years at linebacker before making the position switch this offseason. He has some qualities to like at the position — athleticism, football IQ, work ethic and physicality — but is still new to the position and is working tirelessly to learn the ins and outs of playing tight end in the SEC. Helms, meanwhile, has been hampered by injuries during his first three seasons, which has limited him to just 102 offensive snaps in his career. When healthy, Helms has upside as an athletic, 6-foot-5 pass-catching option, but staying healthy has proven difficult.

    It's unlikely tight end will be a strength for Oklahoma's offense in 2025, but after Arbuckle identified the position as the most improved over the duration of spring practices, there's some cautious optimism that someone can emerge as a reliable option in an unproven group and make sure the the position at least won't be a weakness this fall.

    What they said: "The tight end group, I would say, of any position group, they are the position group that has shown the most improvement over spring ball, right? From where they were on Day 1 to where they are now — I mean, I'm pretty sure in the last four practices, we've thrown like nine touchdowns to the tight ends. And not just wide-open touchdowns. I'm talking aggressive, contested catches. I'm talking they're on the line of scrimmage, and we're running the football, and they're getting so much better with their hand placement, moving people. And they're all unreal kids. That's one of my favorite position meetings to go sit in, because Coach Finley is an unbelievable coach, and those are unbelievable kids in that room, and they're so fun to be around, and they've shown the most improvement."

     offensive coordinator Ben Arbuckle

     

    That is something, considering that the SoonerScoop posters regularly ask their moderators why Joe Jon Finley hasn’t been fired yet (which annoys the moderators to no end. “We don’t know why he still has a job! Quit asking!”). Occasionally, someone will whisper that last year’s starter, Bauer Sharp, who they bitched about constantly, might have a nice finish to his career at LSU, where he portaled. 
     
     

  5. Sure, but that’s how it worked for TCU- they planned a home-and-home, then LSU insisted on ATT (they saw it as a recruiting showcase and they wanted a lot of exposure), and it ended up as a one-off at ATT. 
     
    I fully expect, at some point, for LSU to say, “We’re not playing this in a 35,000 seat stadium, are we?”

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  6. 5 hours ago, Horn of Gabriel said:

    There is zero good things that can come out of this.  Saban isn't working in Texas best interest here.  He wants to roll back the clock.  The TTech guy definitely isn't working in our best interest.  Both would love to create a new system that is a super-league (that just-so-happens to include TTech), with caps on player movement and earnings and an anti-trust exemption.  That requires a CBA and congress to pass a law.  Oh and the best part, the Double Eagle guy wants the super-league geographically divided, which would push Tceh back onto our schedule every year.

    Let's be clear: the current wild west NIL situation is the perfect setup for Texas.  Paying players is legal and above board, so we don't have compliance getting their panties in a bunch and we don't have donors and administration clutching their pearls about dropping bags.  The House settlement will only raise the floor via rev sharing, we'll still set the ceiling with our NIL efforts.  The NIL clearinghouse will either get defanged or sued out of existence.

    You can see why most of the schools want to go back to the old way, or put a soft/hard salary cap on players: it was much better for them. Saban can feign ignorance but he had bag men dropping illegal cash to buy players and everyone knew it. Because that was under the table the amounts pale in comparison to what those players are getting today.  Now NIL can be up to NFL 3rd round type money. There are only a handful of schools who can keep up in that world: Texas is at the top of that pile.

    We should look at any change as negative because the current situation, while broken and imperfect, sets Texas up for success better than any other post integration.

    Agree with all this. Texas’ interests will be in the minority of any mass vote, though. UT needs to form bonds with the very few other schools in a similar situation (likes sports success, has large resources)- ND, tOSU, Michigan, (ugh) Oregon, UGA, USC, (sorry, but true) TAMU, maybe Florida, PSU and others, to prepare to split off if needed. 

  7. Looking at Phil Steele’s roster comparison from 2024 preseason…

    Ratings of (2025) draft eligible (3rd or later year) players:

    QB: Ewers (6 in nation), Arnold (too young)

    RB: OU’s Sawchick (11, he just portaled out, I think), Sam Franklin (68, I have no idea who this is), No Texas player listed, Blue was drafted. 
    WR: Bond (11, UDFA), Burks (12, coming back), Anderson (15, portaled), Boldin (49, UDFA), Farouq (52, portaled), no Golden listed (1st round)

    TE: Helm (25, drafted), Sharp (48, portaled)

    Center: Majors (25, UDFA), Hickman (33, returning?)

    G: Banks (1, huge fuck up by Steele, some NfL guy must have told him Banks projected as guard, drafted 1st round), Conner (36 drafted), Campbell (38, returning), no Sooners

    T: sexton (68, returning), no Cam Williams (drafted)

    DE: Burke (11, passed by Simmons), Sorrell(23, drafted), Downs (43, UDFA)

    DT: Collins (19, drafted), Broughton (27, drafted), Damonic Williams (33, bad draft grade and returned), Lole (53, GA)

    OLB: T. Moore (5, returning), Stutsman (7, drafted), Lewis (21, returning), Finley (43, portaled)

    ILB: Gbenda (65)

    CB: Barron (17, 1st round), G. Williams (34, returning?)

    FS: Bowman (3, drafted), Taaffe (23, AA, return)

    SS: Mukuba (15, drafted)

    You see a trend- Texas players typically either outperformed the expectations or were supplanted. Sooners…not so much. 
    Unit Rankings for preseason 2024-

    QB: Texas (1), OU (43)

    RB: Texas (10), OU (21)

    Receivers: Oklahoma (6!), Texas (19)

    OL: Texas (2), OU (47)

    DL: Texas (18), OU (21)

    LB: OU (2), Texas (4)

    DB: OU (2), Texas (16)

    Again, Texas units mostly met or exceeded expectations, OU not so much. 
     
    Texas seems to be better at scouting and coaching players and positions. 

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  8. From 2000-2023, the Sooners held onto a belief that there was just something in the water in Austin that made football players soft and stupid, and that OU was just faster, smarter and toughler. Last year, they started to grudgingly admit that Texas was better (but not by as much as it looked! Texas had an easy schedule, and Littrell was retarded!)

    They have taken steps to get better this year. They see that Texas’ 2023 starting lineup is now almost fully gone to the NFL. They are believing again. 
     
    Texas needs to spank them again. It’s the only way. I’m pretty sure that their schedule, from the Texas game on, will wear their one deep lineup down. 
     
    They host Auburn early, in their first SEC game. Jackson Arnold will probably be the Auburn QB. I suspect that their three games Venables has circles are Michigan in week 2, Auburn and Texas. If he loses to Auburn (QBed by Arnold) and Texas, Venables might not finish the season. 

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  9. More roster reviews:

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    This serves to show how so many fans just tune out on other teams, once their team has played them. 
     
    They don’t think DJ Campbell is that impressive (despite his temptation to enter the draft). They didn’t watch Goosby play late in the season, in relief, so he doesn’t exist, to them.
    They don’t seem to remember Lefau, despite his large role in the RRS gameplan. They would have been thrilled to sign Brad Spence in the portal or Tyanthony Smith out of HS, but they didn’t, so they don’t really exist. 

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  10. I was looking at the FSU Warchant board. You have to wade through a lot of constant talk about their standing offers to join the SEC and B1G (once they free themselves from the ACC), and oh- which one should they choose?- but, once clear, I saw their comments about Marvin Jones, Jr. portaling to the starting DE at OU. 
     
    They aren’t upset. They don’t miss him. They don’t wish him well. They think he half-assed it for them last year. 

  11. This is awesome, from the SoonerScoop mailbag this week:

     

     

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    I get it- their portal QB and RB have produced. Yes, DT is a worry for Texas. But, it is clear they have not paid attention to Colin Simmons, even after he ran down Hawkins in the RRS last year.
     
    Also, the four position groups he has rated better than Texas are the four that they probably have the most NIL committed to. Got to keep the fans interested.  

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  12. 1 hour ago, immamac said:

    I appreciate the ease of conflating "well LHF is just doing all the stuff now" with what I said, so I appreciate the clarification that these are still completely functionally different. What I meant by my statement wasn't that they were functionally the same - which I specifically clarified and said they serve different purposes etc. I was saying that the fundraising mechanism is now same same. There isn't 2 fundraising efforts running in parallel. LHF asks for money, some of it goes into the traditional bucket and some of it goes into the NIL bucket. The tight coupling of TOF to the AD and it's "business" arm, also allows for really seamless, nice and well organized corporate involvement. Lets say a corp wants to do a deal with Texas, but they also have ideas that involve using some of the student athletes in promotional materials, events or spokesperson. The university can now one stop shop that and fulfill those obligations with TOF and LHF at the same time albeit on different "paper". 

     

    Thanks. I appreciate that LHF and TexasOne have different structures, and purposes. My concern was with the one commingled funding source- donors. The Big Cigars (all of whom probably have suites) are the ones the school calls upon for special funding- new facilities, fleeing a crappy conference, firing a coach and signing a five star WR. My concern was that, as a fan, I don’t want that big donor to say he is tapped out from paying for a new swim center weight room, and can’t help with the roster. 
     
    You’ve satisfied my curiosity that this shit is managed, and that was all I needed. 

  13. On 5/5/2025 at 10:48 PM, Steamboat1874 said:

     

    And no 100 men cannot defeat a grown gorilla.

    Of course they can. The right strategy, of course, is to start using the detached body parts of the first men to die as crude tools and weapons, in order to defeat the gorilla. 

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  14. 1 hour ago, DaggerHorns said:

    This is incorrect.

    The Longhorn Foundation is specifically for student athletes costs. Think anything from wardrobes, travel, books, meals, etc. This is to support the athlete with direct payments.

    Texas One Fund is only for NIL. This funds media exposure, endorsements and direct payments to the athletes.

    Although they are similar in some ways for loyalty point purposes, they are completely separate.

    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 

  15. 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. 
     
     

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  16. 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. 

  17. 3 minutes ago, immamac said:

    This year. Also notice the not tax deductible language and there still being a tax deductible option? 

    They are still separate entities serving separate purposes, but the management has moved under the same umbrella. There's a lot of reasons for it, but a big one is in the new post settlement NIL world collectives fulfill a different need. 

    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. 

  18. 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?

  19. 12 minutes ago, texifornia said:

    Yeah everyone sure didn't want to watch a Texas / Ohio State / Georgia / Notre Dame playoff. The world wanted Oklahoma, Auburn, and Clemson instead.

    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. 

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