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Vertigo

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Posts posted by Vertigo

  1. I think our portal strategy for this year was clear, and I think the results of that strategy are also very clear. From the looks of it Sarkisian was banking on all of the coaching turnover and churn shaking out some legit stars into the portal. While not a terrible thought, I think it was a miscalculation as to how hard schools will fight to keep those guys with new incoming coaching staffs desperate to start off well. To make it worse, we went after other schools in our stratosphere of spending in Michigan, Florida, etc. Just like we overspent to keep Worthy here and tell USC to go fuck off, I am sure these other schools did the same just to set an example. Clearly this did not work and now we are scrambling.

  2. 41 minutes ago, bschoolprof said:

    just spitballing here . . . can we not sign some dudes first, paying top dollar, and then try to walk back what we've committed to dudes we don't value as much? Or is that not allowed? The strategy of cutting dudes loose, hoping to sign someone better, seems reckless.

    That is a slippery slope and not a narrative that you want to have to overcome when recruiting high school players.

  3. 16 minutes ago, Newy25 said:

    We currently have nine scholarship linemen including Robertson. Typically we are carrying 13-15 scholarship linemen. That means we need to retain Robertson plus land both guys we have an offer to plus sign two more players to get to 13.

    Maybe in the portal era you can argue it’s more like a pro system and you carry less players at the position but 11 seems like a very low number for a pipeline of player development.

    If that is truly their plan, then they would need to go huge in this next recruiting cycle at OL. I think it would be a mistake, but what portal OL wants to come to a school knowing he will be a backup?

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    24 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

    If you can't sell Austin, Arch Manning, and Unmatched NIL money to Portal WRs, you are bad at recruiting and should feel bad. That's all I'm saying.

    Maybe you could write up how you would present this really unique point of view into a sales presentation and we can have our NIL folks on this thread forward to Moncrief? Powerpoint is probably best.

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    Edited by Vertigo

    14 minutes ago, Newy25 said:

    I cannot speak for everyone here on who to put on ignore but my rule is I only put obvious trolls on ignore. If you have a really shitty take I actually want to read it and debate it. You are upset because Bobby told you Texas was going to be meaningfully better than 10-3? I actually listened to most offseason podcasts from OTF and IT and I do not recall anyone predicting undefeated or anyone better than 10-2. So they missed it by one loss, effectively. What is your specific complaint about what was told to you about the offseason? I actually thought they did a reasonable job of discussing our relative strengths and weaknesses. It wasn’t just non stop sunshine pumping.

    As for the transfer portal how can you make any conclusions until the process is over?

    Bobby actually was the one guy who predicted 9-3 including a loss to Florida. Gerry and the others all predicted 10-2.

  6. 32 minutes ago, RGBIII said:

    I think this was a joke, but just to make this clear to every single person and to ensure they spread this to their Texas Tech friends/Cody Campbell dick slurpers....Texas has spent more in NIL than Tech has in every single year since NILs existence. Cody Campbell is just loud about it, and Tech is such a shit ass school that the mainstream populace can't believe anyone would go there for any reason outside of vastly overpaying to get them to that shit ass school in butt fuck egypt

    Oh, and they still haven't scored a single point in the playoffs

    What's worse, they fully lean into everything you just said and proudly acknowledge the fact that they have to overpay by 15-20% to get guys there. It's like hazard pay for jobs in dangerous locations. At least they are self aware, unlike our aggy brethren, but to take out a billboard in times square and promote on twitter how much money you just spent on a mid level quarterback is some serious little man syndrome.

  7. 26 minutes ago, RGBIII said:

    Cody Campbell is embarrassing as fuck at this point. People think Tech outspends everyone in NIL, no they are just brash and loud about spending. Its the dude that hit 6 figures for the first time and decides buying a tesla truck is the best investment of his new found wealth. Now with this its taken it a step further, now hes the loser kid in school whos mom had to bribe people to come to his birthday party. Even once you are there you can't wait to leave, even with the clown, petting zoo and magician it doesn't change the fact you never ever wanted to be there...thanks for the cash loser

    Cody Campbell is Taylor Hamm?

  8. 2 hours ago, crash_davis said:

    Times Square is about as polar opposite as you can get from Lubbock. Not sure who Tech thinks they are flexing too but I'm sure most of the people who actually saw that shit have no idea where the fuck Tech is and would have no fucking interest in suffering 4 years of juco there.

    Cody Campbell wish casting that Tech is a national brand is honestly a little sad.

  9. 5 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    @Park Gothic has offered to pay up on the Livingstone bet of never getting to 750 yards receiving while on campus at Texas (the latter part explicitly stated by me on page 25 of this thread). I don't remember who else joined the bet other than @BurntOrange&White who owes me a burger and a snow cone. I should probably keep up better with the bets I place.

    I was tempted to get in on that one, but glad I didn't.

  10. 20 hours ago, closetojumping said:

    He’s a pussy. We got into a disagreement that he escalated at a happy hour function. I offered to take it outside. He panicked, had people intervene in the altercation and then he Irish goodbyed the whole group as fast as he could.

    Being angry doesn’t make one a badass. I doubt he’s been in a fight in his life.

    In an alternate universe where he took you up on the offer, ctj getting his ass kicked by Eric Nahlin in a parking lot might make for a new texags documentary.

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