Everything posted by Magus Ossis
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2025: Duck Around and Find Out
After Achilles tear and repair, most players do return (70-80 percent). Most that return are not as good 1 year out. That effect tends to wash out by 2 years for those who actually do return.
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Non Texas Recruiting 2025: Look at the poors trying so hard
Not to go all sour grapes here, but is someone with great prospects elsewhere who signs with Auburn these days accidentally telling us something about his insight and/or priorities?
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
Aggies. Should always be #5 for the fifth wheel.
- Brent Venables goes 45 in the left lane in his Tesla truck...
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Tell me about ou
Assuming those OU fans are actually believers, I wonder what they imagine their creator thinks of being used as part of football trash talk.
- Brent Venables goes 45 in the left lane in his Tesla truck...
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Its happening (stadium renovations)
What do you want to do on our vacation? I know! Let's go to Austin to see the historic School of Social Work Building. Said no one ever.
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NFL Week 4
Caveman commercial
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Coach Sark Press Conference 9.30 - 11:30am
Surly Intelligence
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Deion Sanders "Coach Prime" Now At Colorado
Me last season: this is crazy! Colorado is actually winning some games! Me this year: WTF? How can he not... NVM. (Waits for wheels to come off)
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Deion Sanders "Coach Prime" Now At Colorado
Ocho Cinco v Ocho Dedos?
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Mack Brown Tarheel Football: The Orange Slice Boogaloo
His chance to hang a loss on them?
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Mack Brown Tarheel Football: The Orange Slice Boogaloo
Brown #2 time at UNC stinks
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
Fixed it for them
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Tell Me About Texas a&m
I'd buy that for a dollar!
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2025: Duck Around and Find Out
We should at least about it.
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Week 5 2024, Mississippi State @ Texas
If I'm the team doc and he isn't 100 (footballese 110) percent healthy, I recommend sitting that guy until OU. It's easier to hurt something more than to start hurting something like this. Ewers is not going to play 80% effort or 80% contact and shouldn't be throwing and getting hit at "80"% health. Don't take an injury 1-2 weeks away from being all better and make it 4 weeks away unless you are in single elimination and the player is mission-critical. That medical opinion may be worth exactly what you paid for it.
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Tell Me About Texas a&m
I like listening to Klatt now. Watching that game in real time, I loved the crushing victory (we could have named any score we liked in a conference championship!), and I loved the hit (sans penalty). Looking at old videos and stills of the hit makes me feel a little bad for him now. I guess I'm going soft.
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UNLV starting QB: fuck this shit, I'm outta here (check bounced)
1. QB quitting on team = wrong. Do not let your team down. Fight the man another way, but do not quit on your team. 2. BM promising money that won't be delivered = wrong. Looks very slimy. 3. NIL group comes off, to me at least, looking a little low-power but not necessarily culpable in this show. 4. HFBC needs to know more and/or intervene more if this was BM. If you aren't coaching it, you are allowing it to happen. 5. This makes them look like amateur hour and will hurt the opportunities for all involved when more professional counterparties are available in the future. 6. This increases my gratitude for the professional way Texas and its NIL program appear to be run.
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Week 5 2024, Mississippi State @ Texas
Back in the day when I used to be in the ER more, this chick came in missing her front few teeth, upper and lower. She indicated that it was her "love groove." Just say no.
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Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet, Now Starting for the Miami Dolphins
Punt on first down every possession and let our defense win this 2 points at a time. Avoid risking injury to our RB or QB.
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UNLV starting QB: fuck this shit, I'm outta here (check bounced)
Some people are so insightful that they can discern PfP when a commercial benefit independent of interest in the well being of the team motivates NIL. They are so insightful that they can tell the person making the deal himself, e.g., immamac, what that person is thinking and doing. They can discern PfP when playing is neither anticipated nor observed during the contract year. We should listen to them. Or maybe NIL very frequently functions like PfP without actually being it. Logical distinctions are tricky. Broad brushes are easy.
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UNLV starting QB: fuck this shit, I'm outta here (check bounced)
That’s great. There are now contracts that protect players in case of injury. How about addressing the issue of players receiving payments with the express understanding that they will not be playing as I also referenced. EDIT also, what about all the contracts where there is a more commercial benefit for the people paying for the NL? Is that paid to play?
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UNLV starting QB: fuck this shit, I'm outta here (check bounced)
Pay for play is: here is your money for last week's game; here is your money for last week's statistics; here is your money for next month's game against State; here is your money for next month's statistics. (To date, with legit contracts) NIL != PfP. Full stop. Does the likelihood of or reality of playing at school X change the market for NIL? Of course. No one is arguing otherwise. But don't be fatuous and say that Burnt Ends payments to tight ends that (1) don't even see the field during the contract year, (2) do, in fact have a contract (not with the school), and (3) fulfill the terms of their contract are PfP. If you interpret financial benefit that is associated with being a member in good standing of the football squad (especially a promising one at a position of need) as pay-for-play, then you have tautologically created your own conclusion. When you define something as more or less than it is, you can create or banish it quite easily. Some NIL will be motivated by love of school, some by love of publicity, some by market analysis and choice of profitable publicity. If the average UT student could demonstrably do a commercial that helped sell product X, he would get a contract. Does NIL get canceled for season-ending injury? If no, I guess it isn't PfP. If you see pointing out nuance as dissimulation, you will never be convinced.
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Week Five Preview: It Just Means More
Especially if that loss were, for example, early season and close to a great team. Imagine a rolling ball of butcher knives being left out of the playoff so that Texas State could go as the conference champion #5 or #7? Is the sacredness of a conference championship so great that either 11-1 tOSU or 11-1 Bama should sit at home and watch Liberty play for all the marbles? EDIT oh, and remember that meaningless game no one cared about in Ann Arbor. I mean, it didn't materially affect our path to the playoffs so why even play it? Probably no one even watched it. I bet no one tunes in for the game at Pyle field in November if we already have a CCG appearance clinched because the games don't mean anything in the era of the 12TCFP.