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Professor Chesney

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  1. Shocked they found actual game footage of him to use for the photo…
  2. Yeah that is a very weird tagline. Could have referenced his role as productive jumbo TE. Probably not the right place to discuss this, but I’m curious to see which of the 22’s the staff use to replace him in the bowl game.
  3. Ugh. Yes, I’m sure the all of the other recruits are going to ignore Arch and Baxter and flip to Houston because this one charismatic DE from humble is there preaching the praises of Landry’s seafood.
  4. I am continually floored by how good Kyle Flood is at his job and what a stark contrast he has been from the past 16 years of Texas offensive line coaches. How often have we seen Texas identify a prospect before TCU or Baylor? Noting the normal caveats that he still hasn’t hit campus yet and careers are unpredictable, Cojoe is looking like another positive data point. One of the reasons that he is still committed here despite our heavy depth chart is that Flood has always recruited him the hardest, especially early in the year when no one else wanted him. Holgorsen and his staff didn’t think he could ever see the field. Baylor and TCU weren’t pushing, and either SMU or tech was probably the runner up when he commuted to Texas. Now, all of these schools are trying to sneak back in but hopefully it is too late.
  5. Last cycle, Arkansas was one of the schools that (allegedly) was aggressively recruiting kids before they hit the portal. I seem to recall Drew Sanders having followed the entire Arkansas coaching staff on Twitter before entering the portal. Hopefully our staff wont be working with as big a handicap this go around.
  6. So you’re saying she’s not going to let him drift around aimlessly?
  7. Matthews in particular seems like someone who does not enjoy the school, but is having success on the field and received considerable $$. Wonder if LSU will be able to put together a competitive enough pitch to bring him back to LA this off-season.
  8. You are correct and I am mistaken: it doesn’t look like there is NCAA rules on point. I confused it with the Texas NIL statute language, but there is arguably ambiguity with respect to whether it covers enrolled collegiate athletes and is only limited to Texas. Sec 91.5246(j): No individual, corporate entity, or other organization may: (1)enter into any arrangement with a prospective student athlete relating to the prospective student athlete’s name, image, or likeness prior to their enrollment in an institution of higher education;or (2)use inducements of future name, image, and likeness compensation arrangement to recruit a prospective student athlete to any institution of higher education.
  9. “Offered…over a million dollars to pull him over to another team” is not “indirect” inducement, it is plain inducement. Which, whatever you think the consequences will actually be, is against the NIL rules as written. I don’t think anyone here finds the idea of directly tampering with opposing players who have not entered the portal appealing or noble. But it may very well encourage a race to the bottom if there are no consequences and the behavior continues. Hiroshima-style carpet bombing the other Texas schools with leaflets advertising how much the average O-Lineman gets paid at UT would be more of an indirect inducement.
  10. Love the idea of bringing in the O-Line commits together on visits.
  11. Just donated. Didn’t realize it was tax deductible. Will likely donate more when sufficiently inebriated.
  12. Okay but if he talks shit to my wife I can’t forgive that.
  13. @immamac berated my date. But 10/10 would come again.
  14. Didn’t they gift him a Land Rover too before he signed? Seems self inflicted
  15. Not sure if Gerry’s post is exactly on point, but Marshall’s problem isn’t physical talent. A lot of competent programs met him and his circle and decided to pass…
  16. With the amount of offsides going on, they were way better than expected even with those two pass rushers lining up next to them too.
  17. Major props to the tailgate and the game. Never had a better experience
  18. Been busy with a new job but was able to have lunch with one of the DTs recently. He was optimistic about the defense this year, said they’d be attacking more and there’s a better overall understanding of responsibilities generally. Obviously he’s biased but it is better to hear that than the alternative. Please Venmo all $9.95s to the Burnt Ends account.
  19. This makes very little sense on multiple levels. (1) Without a federal exemption, any type of agreement to arbitrarily cap player earnings will run into the same antitrust issues as before. This goes down a rabbit hole quickly. If EA sports pays a royalty to all athletes to use their likeness in the new video game, wouldn’t that bust the cap? The ability to legally prohibit the rights of third parties to contract is extremely limited, and I’m not sure what ground they will try to stand on to do so. (2) At the end of the day, the NCAA is going to have to prove that it is actually willing to go to the mat to enforce these rulings and pay the litigation costs for each instance some ornery booster takes them to court. If they wouldn’t do it for the blatant bag violations over the past decade, why should we think that they would be willing to do it now? (3) I’m sure our administration will nonetheless find a way to make this more difficult than it needs to be, until enough alumni and donors make enough noise to force change. Would love to see the AD staff restructured to support these initiatives, or at the very least take those expenses and increase professor salaries.
  20. I don’t know if these words have ever been included in the same sentence before now, but if so, then certainly not to greater effect than this. Top shelf.
  21. “A lot” can actually be singular or plural depending on the noun that it modifies. Further complicating the choice is that some nouns, like “bunch,” are indeterminate and can be flexible. Others are definitively plural, e.g., “there are a lot of dicks in this bag”
  22. I didn’t see the words “slam dunk” or “home run” used once in that 247 write up. They must be nervous.
  23. Ugh. That disaster of a post might only be edged out by the “Chief in the deer blind” copypasta. But it’s close.
  24. Is this going to be the new “what about the numbers?” Even at prestigious public institutions, registrar personnel and associate deans have strong discretionary power to allow registration changes. They just don’t do it often as a matter of practice because it opens the floodgates to whiny students second guessing their poor decisions. At a private institution that places academics as a tertiary priority, they can do whatever they want.
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