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  1. We might want the UH DB, or others. In the new format, there are 25-40% more snaps in a season against P4 (hell, P2) opponents than before. I think Sark knows that he needs more guys to physically play snaps at a high level. I understand perfectly why they would try to sign more guys, not because they’re needed to finish the regular season, but because they’re needed to finish the post season, too.
  2. One thing is clear- in this era of college football with eight figure roster salary totals, and near unrestricted freedom of movement, Texas has thought through some things, like: - what to do when a top recruit costs more than you are paying entrenched starters - what to do when a player performs well but the scale for his position rises dramatically - what to do when a costly recruit doesn’t produce quickly that our competitors are working through on the fly. I know nothing of Texas One background, if the primary funders insisted that parameters and protocols be worked out in advance, in a coherent manner. I bet, though, that the funders of One Oklahoma’s are asking now why it is such a shit show, why they paid nearly a million for 96 snaps that are now going to Miami or similar.
  3. I listened to the SoonerScoop podcast. They were cautioning their fans to not get mad at Stone. The moderators admitted this is a bad look for OU. When players leverage their position for more money, fans can get upset at them for being greedy,…if they are fans of a team that doesn’t churn the bottom of its roster and process disappointing prospects out. OU is not that team (neither is Texas), so it doesn’t get to point fingers and cry about gratitude. The rules in Liar’s Poker- “no tears” and “don’t bet more than you can afford to lose”
  4. I hate to keep bumping, but I have to tell you- I absolutely love seeing Sooners post on their boards about college football not even being fun anymore, since team building is just a function of raising and spending money. As a Longhorn fan of over 40 years, I can tell them that you can still enjoy this sport even when your most bitter rival is winning recruiting battles by just paying more.
  5. Also, good luck for OU continuing to recruit high profile HS players given: 1. They have a poor recent record of five star recruits developing (this used to be Texas) 2. They have earned a reputation as a program that will compete financially to sign a high profile recruit, but will cut the pay if he fails to flash early.
  6. At IT, Ian Boyd trolls the Sooners regularly. He predicted when they hired Nagy that the org structure (they both report to the AT&T guy, who may be parallel to Castiglione) would create conflict. Before Nagy, when (frankly less than special) Damonic Williams was threatening to enter the draft (Ha!) in order to vie for continued NIL (he was overpaid last season), OU found a way to keep him. Now, maybe Nagy is trying to enforce a pay scale? Loving this.
  7. In the OU message board, someone posted that his NIL was $800k, and that was halved for next year, and that didn’t go over well. Have no idea how good the info is, but it sounds plausible.
  8. Oh, sure, that’s how Texas operates. First thing we do in building a roster is find out who OU likes…
  9. Ha-ha-ha-ha!
  10. Fair enough. Mukuba was great for Texas and Texas was great for Mukuba. I’ll accept what you say about Texas and Downs, because I don’t know any more than what I hear on podcasts. If anyone is worth $1M, Downs is probably it, right?
  11. Alright! We get to discuss a counterfactual! As I recall, Down decided on the Buckeyes over the Horns and Dogs fairly late, so Texas had a number it was ready to pay. Therefore, I only need to come up with enough more to overcome the Buckeyes’ package (and it may not have all been money that won him over). I stated that would have been worth it- Texas would get notably better (for two years), and the Buckeyes get notably worse. How much would it have taken? Would dropping Niblack have done it?
  12. The female version would be a 50 year old woman that looks 60, wiry, wrinkled leathery skin, lots of makeup and barb wire tattooed around her biceps.
  13. On the Shipley recruitment, I was hoping that the OU full court pressure strategy would be less effective on a transfer, than on a HS kid, just due to being older and (hopefully) more mature.
  14. This is what the SoonerScoop mod was posting late last night
  15. Lex Werner funds Buckeye football. They downplay his ties to Jeffrey Epstein
  16. On SoonerScoop, Stoia noted that OU is feeling good about Shipley, and are trying to keep him on campus until he commits (and that he is still there tonight)
  17. I know this- as good as our secondary was last year, it would have been worth it to outbid the Buckeyes for Caleb Downs.
  18. I have a question- 1. We have read, in multiple sources, that last year a handful of programs had football player payrolls north of $20M, funded all by donors/NIL marketers. 2. How much do the other 60 or so P4 programs pay? I don’t know- I’ll guess (pull out of my ass) $5M (Oregon State?)to $20M, maybe with a bell curve distribution? 3. The “House settlement” expected to come down- will have P4 programs distributing $20M, with $15M typically slotted for football, coming from AD coffers (and schools required to pay that if they wish to stay P4): doesn’t that mean a big increase in football player pay, even when not counting donors and NIL? Shouldn’t this mean fewer players entering the portal (better pay where they are), and higher bidding on players in the portal? It doesn’t appear that we have seen that yet, or am I missing something? Are most schools waiting for it to become official?
  19. By now, are we right to think that the “why” of the trade is extreme Dunning-Kruger on the part of Nico? That he really did look at Luka and think, “that guy is holding us back”, and it was because he really isn’t any good at scouting and assessing basketball talent? Is this the last GM job Nico will ever have? When he gets fired from the Mavs, it’s on to marketing CBD products?
  20. I know you’re a Sooner. I almost negged you in this, but I really hate to neg. OU is the one to hate. I hate OU for Barry Switzer, who learned the Wishbone from Bellard, at Royal’s instruction, as a favor for Royal’s alma mater. Switzer repaid the favor by mocking Royal when his purchased players were beating Texas. I really hate OU for 2008 (still!), when Stoops got some coaches to vote Texas artificially low, to make sure that Oklahoma made it to the B12 CG, and the resulting BCS CG and Heisman for Bradford (and not Colt). OU is the enemy. The agreement between Texas and OU to leave the B12 was more akin to the Molotov-Von Ribbentrop pact (a temporary agreement to be honored until it suited one party’s purposes to betray the other) than any real alliance. It’s not about OU’s casual indifference to any crimes their players may commit; it’s that OU will do anything they can to win. It is their identity, fed by decades of insecurity and feelings of inferiority as a state. Texas is in the same conference, will always play them every year, and shares a recruiting territory. They are the enemy.
  21. My take on Stiles Switch- they may not be great at anything, but theyre really good at everything
  22. We would have liked to have kept Neyor, right? However, his competition for playing time was going to be tougher in 2024 than it was in 2022, right?
  23. I posted on the Tennessee thread about the SoonerScoop board being all whiney about the current game (“Somethjng must be done about this!”) Here is an example. A moderator was asked what he would do to fix the game, if he were football czar. It’s a nice touch to bemoan “the rich getting richer” while freezing the SEC and B1G at the top. Not self serving at all.
  24. This is interesting. The last couple of years, Texas has been very active and acquisitive in the portals. I am a little surprised they are being a little restrained now. Does Texas really like its hand that much, that it will forego drawing more cards at WR and RB? Or is this a reaction to the expected high expense of this spring portal offerings, and a desire to not blow the salary structure over anything but the most needed pieces?
  25. Thanks for the explanation. It helps a lot. I have been enjoying reading SoonerScoop on this topic. There has been a steady drumbeat, for a few years, of “This has to be fixed (current system where they struggle to compete)! Clearly, this is broken!” There was a dawning of hope a year ago, when plans for the “House Settlement” came out, with Castiglione explaining it as a functional cap, with auditors enforcing “real NIL”. Now, there are a lot of voices that realize that the “House Settlement” will not make things like they used to be, like they want them to be. I do wonder about how much OU’s problems are not having enough donors and how much is lack of enthusiasm for Venables as HC. If I were a whale donor, I don’t know how much (if any) I would give if I didn’t believe the coach could deliver.
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