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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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BOW has an interesting view on life, that's for sure. I'd love to see his resume, littered with nothing but success, to have such a high bar for others. -
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Well, he hired Mike Leach, who attended BYU while Edwards was coaching there. Leach was recruited to play football, but an injury apparently kept him from playing. Allegedly he would sit in on film sessions as a student with the coaching staff. After graduating in 1983 he eventually got his law degree from Pepperdine in 1986, became an assistant football coach in 1987 at Cal Poly, then took a job as the head coach of a team in Finland. That's when Hal Mumme plucked him to be his assistant at Iowa Weslayan University. I'm sure through his connection to Lavell Edwards. Hal Mumme was doing things radically different. He was purposefully trying to break football. Specifically how the game approached offense, and he needed people on his staff who weren't afraid of that. Which Mike Leach fit to a T. They left for Valdosta State then paired up at Kentucky. When Bob Stoops took the job at OU he hired Mike Leach to run his offense without really knowing the guy. He just knew the offenses at Kentucky were the ones that gave him the most trouble as the defensive coordinator at Florida, so that's the guy he wanted to run his offense. Honestly, it was kind of similar to what Sarkisian did with Pete Kwiatkowski. -
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Hal Mumme should get a lot of the credit there. Not that Mike Leach wasn't a bit of a mad scientist, because he was, but Mumme is the one who came up with something radically different. -
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Forget fade routes. I like deep pitches to the running back running to the pylon against very fast defenses. THAT is a recipe for red zone success! -
That said, there are few schools in compliance from a scholarship perspective. Some, like Oklahoma State, are far off the numbers. The only enforcement mechanism for Title IX is the court system. There's no regulatory body - state, federal, or a third party like the NCAA or conferences - enforcing the federal law when it comes to scholarship opportunities. And while Title IX isn't about compensation, there are still lawyers who are filing suits that say schools administering NIL to athletes directly should be complying with Title IX statutes. Whether I agree with that stance or not, the lawsuits are being filed. It's not necessarily about the merits of each case. It's about how much of a threat it can be to the NCAA so they're forced to settle rather than risk a judgement in court.
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Yes. The $20.5 million is supposed to be for the entire athletic department. For example, it's been said the Big East will have a competitive advantage in basketball because many of their programs do not field football teams, so they can theoretically use more of the $20.5 million to fund their basketball roster. There are a metric fuck ton of lawsuits being filed against the NCAA. Think about how much the behavior is being incentivized. As has been posted above, the House settlement attorneys are set to pocket $750 million. That's without having to actually go to trial. It's sharks circling chum in the water. The NCAA has shown they no longer have any appetite to go to court on just about anything resembling player compensation, because they know they will lose. So it's just a series of settlements that governs collegiate sports right now. Currently the three biggest litigation avenues are student employment classifications (some of these NIL contracts sure sound like employment contracts to me as a non lawyer), Title IX, and any kind of limitation to NIL compensation. Basically, the whole point of the settlement for the NCAA and its members in the first place. The NCAA and the member schools are hoping for legislative relief from Congress and/or the POTUS. Everyone understands the House settlement provides about as much cover for college athletics and is just as workable as using an umbrella made out of tissue paper. The real point of the House settlement is to take it to Congress and use it as an example that they're trying to create some kind of sense out of the chaos, but they need help.
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Sub-Educated Cretins: The SEC screenshot mega-thread
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A couple of years ago I had some regular interactions with a fairly fanatic Georgia fan who was questioning whether Texas had what it took to be competitive in the SEC. This was after Sarkisian's second season so it was a legitimate question if someone didn't know anything other than what they watch on television. I explained programs have to have the right coach, and Texas had been through a dry spell with late Mack, then Strong, then Herman, and the jury was still out on Sarkisian. But if he didn't work out we'd fire him and go after our next candidate until we found the right guy. But in terms of institutional commitment there's no issues right now, so it's simply a matter of time before we find the right guy and when we do he ain't leaving to go anywhere else. And maybe Sarkisian is that guy. Jury is still out (I should be clear I'm talking about two years ago). And then I turned on him and told him I found it rich that as a long time Georgia fan he's acting like it's always been the way it is right now with Kirby Smart. They've gone through a series of coaches since Vince Dooley who were nothing to get excited about, and frankly Dooley wasn't all that special. Good, not legendary or anything. Mack Brown was a way better coach than Dooley. Kirby Smart is by far the best coach they've ever had. But suddenly they're acting like they're entitled to their success because they're Jawja. They're making fun of Miami who was nothing before Schnellenberger, but the Hurricanes were demigods on the gridiron for 20 years, through 4 different head coaches - Schnellenberger, Johnson, Erickson, and Davis, before Coker inherited a stacked team until he had time to run the program into the ground. Georgia has never had a run like that. Yet another SEC program that's allowed Alabama to carry their water and then ride on the Crimson Tide coattails, but act like they somehow can claim partial ownership. Just some more "SEC! SEC!" troglodytes as far as I'm concerned. It's too bad I don't interact with that group any more. Of course, he'd still crow about the head to head victories from 2024, but I feel like Georgia fans better cling on to those wins from last year as closely as possible, because IMO there's a new sheriff in town.- 1164 replies
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
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If Barry Switzer wore that tie I'd hope he'd use it later that day to commit auto asphyxiation. It is a good deed, though. Apparently a couple of the victims were from my church, although I didn't know them. The church held a series of memorials over the past week. No one can remember the church being that packed. Thousands came to each service, and while it's a good size church, we're not equipped to handle the numbers that came to each memorial service. In certain parts of the Christian community in this state - which Taafe is openly a part of - this event has seemed to hit in a very personal way. I don't blame him for wearing the tie. I think it's a nice way to recognize the tragedy and keep things in perspective even in the midst of SEC media days. The Aggies are complete goobers. -
This is the one I wanted the most. Ever since we got Brian Robison as a somewhat underrated defensive lineman I've been enamored with significant shotput distances as an indication of explosiveness. Not exactly a brilliant insight. Robison also had a stupid vertical jump which he used to great effect on blocking field goals and extra point attempts. Robison also wasn't James Johnson's size. Still, once I saw those shotput numbers - plus everything else mind you - I really hoped we could somehow add him as part of the class. I love love love this commitment.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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The plus in LGBTQIA+ is for cat lovers. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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Using that .gif with Oregon involved in the recruiting is like posting a video to Jump Around with Wisconsin as the competition. Cheeky. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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Don't forget he loves Galveston. LOVES IT! -
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Well, they changed the state law in 1999 with Senate Bill 89 to help prevent another Kingwood scenario. In honor of the thread, Houston would now have to "recruit" an area in order to annex them. -
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Technically League City is right next to Houston. It's not the same as Georgetown is to Austin, because Austin hasn't aggressively swallowed up the neighborhoods next door to it. When Houston annexed places like Clear Lake, Alief, and Kingwood, it made the places next to it very close. League City abuts the city of Houston in the areas it annexed in 1977. I doubt there's another major city in the United States that has more aggressively swallowed up its ETJs. I know there isn't one in Texas. If you look at DFW, Dallas is landlocked by all the suburban towns around it. It can't grow. Houston made sure they weren't going to have the same issue. Against those neighborhoods wishes, at least in the case of Kingwood and Clear Lake. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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Shipley's. GTFO with your Dunkin Donuts. -
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I see this kind of post all the time. Like a message board is supposed to be some kind of hive mind. I see it from content creators who depend on engaging with their audience, then blame the audience for demanding contrasting actions on the part of the content creator. I mean, I see it from all segments of the population regarding all sorts of things. There can be a group that thinks Texas should be fiscally responsible in terms of their overall budget, their budget within positions, their budget with current players and upcoming retention --- contrasted with their budget for the acquisition of new talent. And then there can be an opposing segment that so desperately wants the dopamine hit from a talented teenager creating validation and affirmation for their favorite college sports team that they excitedly wish for other people to spend a small fortune to get the kid to say yes. People can hold contrasting opinions. Within the same person, frankly. One of the things that makes people most interesting to me is when they can simultaneously feel strongly in support of two opposing sides of the same position. It happens to me, too. But mostly I think it's a group of people who are very comfortable with spending someone else's money with no real limitations, and then a group of people who hope Texas has a plan they're trying to follow in terms of roster payroll. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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We need to step away from the jump to conclusions mat. There is no way to accurately speculate what the future is going to bring other than it's going to be very different than what it is now. Acting is if this is the final form of college sports - and college football specifically - and even more specifically, college football recruiting - is silly. Eventually there will be some kind of federal legislation, because that's the only avenue that can bring some resemblance of stability. Until then the whole ecosystem is going to be whipsawed from one direction into another based on the most recent court cases/settlements, new state laws passed to give the local programs a competitive advantage, and how different programs find ways around various restrictions. But acting like what has been going on the last few weeks is a harbinger of what the future will look like is silly. At the end of the day any sales pitch needs the opportunity to get your foot in the door. Relationships still matter. They always will. Success on the gridiron will make a difference. But when we're talking about millions of dollars being thrown around for individual players, of course that's going to often trump how many playoff appearances, NFL draft picks, or individual accolades are being earned. But it doesn't mean they don't matter at all. -
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It wasn't just the high school knock on him. That was the knock on him early in his college career, too. But with Casey Hampton as his teammate, that wasn't going to cut it. To Shaun Rogers' credit, he got on board with Hampton, and they turned into one of the most fearsome duo of DTs we've ever had, which is an extremely high bar, frankly. -
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I root against everyone who had a chance to go to Texas but chose to go elsewhere regardless of the reasons. It’s different when they didn’t get the opportunity, but I enjoy being petty. There’s a lot of making fun of the 9.95ers on this thread, but I feel like I’ve been steered correctly on my expectations for pretty much every recruitment this cycle outside of maybe KJ Edwards. I know some people are disgruntled because we apparently led at some point with a lot of targets, but once the bigger NIL deals started rolling in the 9.95ers adjusted accordingly. Him declaring for Oregon surprised no one who follows On Texas Football. -
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That's fanciful. First of all, Akers shouldn't have sent Curry out there in the first place. Just send out the regular punt team. They'd never practiced it. Akers put Curry in a position to fail, and that's all there is to it. Secondly, Texas was going down to mediocrity whether Akers won the championship or not. That '83 team was ridiculously loaded. But the recruiting behind that team had already been eroded. Third, Akers wasn't that good of a recruiter. He recruited well in spite of himself. He would regularly slow play players, telling his staff, "you got to make them want it." He was terrible with African American families. Completely tone deaf. The staff would prep families for his in home visit, telling them what he'd say before he'd say it so they could just nod their head at how ridiculous he sounded rather than get offended. Also, I don't know what you mean by a panic hire. The athletic department was poor at the time. Deloss Dodds wisely took a back seat regarding the head football coaching hire because he didn't want that to be a part of how he was measured for doing his job. If he just took marching orders on that hire he could go back to fundraising and make that what he was measured by. There's also no way the state legislature was going to let Texas go anywhere without A&M, Baylor, and Texas Tech. Not without paying the price of opening up the PUF to all state schools, which wasn't ever an option. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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That's the intent of the House settlement. It's unclear how it will be enforced. We know some of the mechanisms. We do not know how effective they will be. We can also surmise it will be tested by programs seeking a competitive advantage. In addition the House settlement has multiple legal challenges it will have to face. Also, there are other legal challenges to the NCAA that were not covered by the House settlement. The Texas One Fund has said they will retain independence from the athletic department, even though donations go towards Longhorn Foundation points. They have now pivoted to creating partnerships with local businesses for NIL opportunities to be given to Texas student athletes, rather than asking for charitable work. I don't have a clue how any of that works, but that's what they've said. -
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I think a big part of the point of spending $1 million on a softball pitcher was the message "if you're good enough, we're willing to blow our budget on you, too, so come to us and let's make a deal." It's unclear just how much of their wealth the Double Eagle guys are willing to invest in the football program specifically, and the athletic program in general, but it's obviously quite a bit. And unlike Phil Knight or T. Boone Pickens, they're pretty young. As far as declining enrollment, a good way to reverse that is to field a good football team. It's hard for me to envision Tech becoming a new Miami of the 80s through early 2000s. Or the SMU of the early 80s. But they could be like A&M under Sherrill and Slocum. Dominate their conference with no top 5 finishes. Look at what a golden age Aggie fans think of that as. -
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It's really two guys. John Sellers and Cody Campbell. They both played football at Texas Tech. They were partners with Double Eagle. They're the guys who brought in the softball pitcher, NiJaree Canady, from Stanford, for $1 mlllion per year both last year and this coming season.
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