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bad_teammate

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  1. "This isn't about some god damned game, this is about our lives." That will never stop giving me chills.
  2. Someone pants this reporter. Just show up in his driveway and pants him. oh my god
  3. Looking over and seeing guys laughing and joking while getting stomped on has to be so infuriating. Find and burn the leaker.
  4. 2nd half performances tell the story on this.
  5. We'll get a couple of wins under our belt and business will pick back up. When we get Ewers there'll be a bump, then when we get Arch. Gotta have faith.
  6. why lift bars when you can sell them? who needs to a bar when you got that stick? or something
  7. Sark, on social media criticism
  8. The deal itself is visible in terms of him being publicly involved (It's an endorsement, after all). How much he is being paid doesn't seem to be easy to find with a lazy Google attempt. Maybe he's private. Maybe he only tells the people he thinks need to know. Maybe he's got it posted in his locker. Maybe there's a database somewhere I don't know about. Don't know and don't really care as long as he's happy and it helps us keep him. (As mentioned above, we're in some new waters where we worry about endlessly re-recruiting our own guys.)
  9. I literally just described a thing I am currently involved in. Not sure what follow through I am asking for. I think BE is awesome and have said so and will continue to say so because it's true. I hope you get all your returns back and it grows. I think you guys are trendsetters. I think you guys are pioneering a fantastic model that I would love to see others emulate. You're doing awesome stuff. I love it. I also believe that we need a lot of action outside of BE. You'd agree with that, right? I'm not plugged into the AD. I don't know what "NIL conversations" you're talking about. I do know that a specific Texas player is getting money in his pocket directly correlated to the amount myself and others are investing into a project. That seems to be what people are interested in doing. I don't need your help in order to accomplish this task. I appreciate the offer, though. Keep kicking ass. I mean that sincerely.
  10. If true... why was he on the team this long to begin with? (don't answer, stripper monkey coaching)
  11. There are people who want to get involved who don't know how. I think it's helpful to give examples of how it can work so they feel empowered to get involved. because that's what we're looking for. The fact that everyone else is below CTJ and we will infuriate him with our ignorance will just have to be the cross he continues to bear. DODGE STRATUS
  12. Early 90s in the Mesquite area. So probably same guy. Bald black coach.
  13. Yeah it's stupid to talk about real processes that are working right now to put money in players' pockets we should only complain vaguely and with increasing rage about things we have zero control over. lol UT's admin needs to do a much better job, and as I said, if you're relying on them to guide you in your NIL proceedings it's going to be a bad time. We have to do it ourselves. I wish it wasn't that way, but it is. Our culture isn't ready for this right now. Don't know why it enrages some of you to hear that when you seem to believe it, too.
  14. No, but the tournament I was attending was up there in North Texas so it's probably the same guy. No memory of what his name is or what team he was coaching.
  15. Very odd hostility about a pretty banal thing that isn't even hard to understand. I think people here who have money they want to spend on paying players should find ways to do it. Burnt Ends is a good one. There are other ways to do it. I'd think you want people to actually make an effort, right? Not sure what your goal is here. If you're calling UT to have them walk you through the process then it might be a problem, but if all you want to do is hire a player to endorse a business it's pretty straight-forward and, if you've got people doing that legal side who know what they're doing, it can go pretty smoothly. We need to do it better. We need to do it more. Most of us aren't in a position to sign someone to a $1M kombucha-endorsement contract (I'm certainly not), so we've got to get more creative and work together (again, hat-tip to Burnt Ends). We, as a fanbase and institution, are new to this. We're learning. This is way outside our comfort zone after decades of not Playing The Game.
  16. You're not making the athlete a partner in the business, you're paying them for their endorsement. YOU, the money guy(s) become the partner in the business who is then paying the athlete for the endorsement. At the end of the contract period, you renegotiate just like anything else. Bobby has a tire shop. You (solo or as part of an investment venture with other guys) go to Bobby and say, "Hey, we want to invest in your business. We would like to give you $X so that you can grow your business by increasing advertising. For instance, here's a great idea: Pay this football player for the local favorite Texas Longhorns to say your tire shop is the best!" You sign on as a minor partner in Bobby's Tires and Bobby uses that investment money to hire a new endorser. Forming an investment company would be a good way to turn a bunch of minor players money-wise into a single bigger player. It helps if people in your group do this kind of crap for a living anyway.
  17. You tellin' me that #14 TE Benji Gosnell isn't twice as good as #28 Colston Loveland?! Buddy, get outta here.
  18. Once saw a HS basketball coach who would yell "CONTINUITY!" at the boys all the time on the court. I think it made 'em more contiguous.
  19. Don't. They're really really bad. We're going to light them up.
  20. Do we need better players? Definitely. Do we need better coaches? Probably. I have a lot of track record on our coaching staff (not just Sark), and it's really good. I have some track record on our players, and it's mostly bad.
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