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Professor Chesney

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  1. 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.
  2. So you’re saying she’s not going to let him drift around aimlessly?
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. “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.
  6. Love the idea of bringing in the O-Line commits together on visits.
  7. Just donated. Didn’t realize it was tax deductible. Will likely donate more when sufficiently inebriated.
  8. Okay but if he talks shit to my wife I can’t forgive that.
  9. @immamac berated my date. But 10/10 would come again.
  10. Didn’t they gift him a Land Rover too before he signed? Seems self inflicted
  11. 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…
  12. 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.
  13. Major props to the tailgate and the game. Never had a better experience
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. “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”
  18. I didn’t see the words “slam dunk” or “home run” used once in that 247 write up. They must be nervous.
  19. Ugh. That disaster of a post might only be edged out by the “Chief in the deer blind” copypasta. But it’s close.
  20. 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.
  21. Working with Harsin after spending most of the last decade at Stanford and Vanderbilt must have been a real shock to the system.
  22. It’s nice to see the other fanbase is already accepting that Neyor is gone while we are busy rationalizing that this just a “for fun” visit and not getting hopes up. The stoppable force meets the moveable object.
  23. Those are good points. My only caveat is that you have to go back 6+ years and the current game places a much higher emphasis on passing. I think we would have to disagree that Hill, Edelman (or Gronk), and healthy Alshon/Ertz aren’t elite. I am moving the goalposts with the tight ends though.
  24. I know you’re not defending him, but what was the last NFL team to win it all without an elite wide receiver? I can’t think of one. BoB failed twice with the Hopkins trade: first because he traded a player for a personal reason because the player did not respect his coaching style and quality (which was justified on Hopkins’s part) and second was trading that player, who was also your best player, for meager returns. Hubris and incompetence.
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