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  1. 2 hours ago, bejezuz said:

    The average NFL player plays 3.3 years.  For every guy that hits a second contract, many more wash out after a couple of years.  Once you figure in the agent, taxes, and living expenses, a player taken after the 2nd round would be lucky to have 2 million in the bank at the end of his rookie deal.  It's a nice nest egg, but if you're trying to live off of it the rest of your life, you're looking at about 60-80K a year (3-4% of 2 mil) to live on without touching your capital. If you get chosen in the first round or early second round, yes, that's life-changing money if you can hold onto it.  But everybody else, unless you hit that second contract, odds are you're going to need an income-producing career after the NFL to live a comfortable middle-class lifestyle.        

    I bet a decent chunk of that money goes towards helping their families and girlfriends. It's not a lot of money once you factor in all the expenses these guys tend to have. Also, they probably don't believe this is all the money they are going to make in their NFL career, so they don't adjust their spending habits until it's too late.

  2. What happened to Worthy and Mitchell in this draft should serve as a great teaching tool for Sark to use with his current roster. One guy struggled with catching contested passes, but kept his head down, worked his ass off and, as a result, went in the 1st round. The other guy had all the skills in the world to go in the first round but perhaps didn't have the best work ethic, didn't want to do the dirty things, and lost millions as a result. Good work ethics almost always wins over skill.

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  3. 1 minute ago, tx 3 putt said:


    mitchell was always going to be.a 2nd / 3rd pick. He’ll have a chance to prove himself 

    Many mock drafts had him ahead of Worthy, I believe. The diabetes and the character issues reported by some scouts probably hurt his stock.

  4. 1 hour ago, DixonHur said:

    An insight as to why Joseph and/or Gideon were not replaced after the season?  

    Seems Sark would have to know they are the weak links on the coaching staff.

    My guess would be trying to keep the coaching staff from our first CFP appearance intact and the fact that they are good recruiters, especially TJ. Perhaps they thought we just needed better talent, not coaching?

  5. 34 minutes ago, D3zii said:

    I mean you say that but Rod Barbers was on the podcast saying the same thing , not that they forgot. But they didn’t put as much emphasis like the dline cause they thought they were better in that area 

    We don't have a lot of pass heavy offenses on our schedule and the SEC is a LOS league. Thank god we are not playing a QB of Penix's caliber next season. Maybe that's why they emphasized the lines? 

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  6. Just now, realgreggym said:

    I know exactly what the term means. You meant it as a negative because these

    kids were not from a P5 school. You still haven't answered my question.

    Well, that's because you're an idiot and I can't help you with that.

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  7. 27 minutes ago, realgreggym said:

    You're backtracking faster than a Port Lavaca sand crab. You never answered my question about the kid

    from Northern Colorado. You probably thought that he was low hanging fruit.

    Do you not understand what low hanging fruit means? Google says: 

    "Low-hanging fruit" is a metaphor that refers to tasks that are easy to accomplish, require minimal effort, and provide immediate rewards.

    In business, the phrase is used to describe projects that a team or employee can easily and quickly complete before moving on to more challenging work. For example, a company might identify low-hanging fruit projects that should be a priority, such as high impact, low effort projects."

    Yes, I believe we got the low hanging fruits. Feel free to disagree. 

  8. 8 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Lucky for you, different group.  Not that I'd actually dox you, but be careful how you insult people.  It could backfire with someone who isn't as nice as I am.

    I get along fine with people who matter. I have low tolerance for people who like to argue for the sake of arguing or try to defend the status quo when the status quo is subpar. I just tried to defend my position that you and few others took different from what I intended. You can't make positive change if you're not willing to take risks or be unpopular. Anyway, enough thread derailment and I apologize to other posters for this back and forth. 

  9. 1 minute ago, jimmyjazz said:

    I'll check in with my friend who directs what is probably the same group.  Your random, illogical and confrontational hot takes might be interesting.

    My legacy among UT engineering grads is not only beyond solid but is in the process of blowing the roof off Austin startups.  Pay close attention to huge international business publications over the next month for a clue. 

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  10. 10 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    LMAO.  Yeah, I struggle to be successful.  Oh how I wish I was UTEE97, a person who routinely brings shame on the UT Cockrell School of Engineering.

    I bring so much shame that the dean is pleading to join their innovation center as an advisor. You should quit while you're behind, moron. 

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  11. 5 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    You seem like someone who struggles with the definition of "replace".  Meditate on that, and write better.

    If you struggled to understand the intent of my post, then I have a fairly good idea of how successful you're in life. Stop wasting my time. I don't want to engage with you.

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  12. 14 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Wait, we need a 1/2 all-conference guy to replace Abmas, a non-P5 guy?  

    That don't make no sense.

    You seem like someone who needs everything to be spelled out for you to understand. We need better players to replace Disu and Abmas' production, if we hope to be equal or better than this year. Meditate on what I wrote for a few days and then maybe it will make sense.

  13. 38 minutes ago, realgreggym said:

    No one is telling you to fall in line. Just don't make comments about kids you 

    know nothing about. If they don't play up to your expectations next year, then bitch away.

    First of all, I never said I didn't like the "kids" that committed to us. I acknowledged in one of my posts that they were upgrades over what we lost in Mitchell and Hunter. What I also said was that we still needed to replace our top players in Disu and Abmas and that first or second team all P5 conference guys are what we needed for those replacements. Abmas was lighting it up in a non-p5 conference but that didn't translate well to big 12. You can be pleased with the new guys and still want better players to round out the roster. Only RT fanatics would take such comments as attacks on him or the "kids" who probably make more on NIL than most adults on this board except the nurses.

  14. 1 minute ago, UnhappilyMarried said:

    Bizarro season. 1-5 on conference Fridays. 5-1 in conference series’. Nightmare non-conference performance. They certainly know how to turn it on when things are on the line, but it’s hardly enough to dig out of holes they create for themselves 

    It's almost like they don't even try to win on Tuesdays and Fridays. 

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