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1 hour ago, honolulu horn said:

I contribute through the legitimate channels but that's not my point. I'm saying that many posters here continue to find creative ways to feel optimistic about a pretty shitty situation. Believe me, I hope like hell that we get some of these guys over the course of the fall. But to this point, recently losing out on top guys has sucked and it seems like it has caught our recruiting staff off guard. I don't think anyone here can say with a straight face that they feel really satisfied with the way things have gone over the past 2 weeks. That's all I'm saying. 

Again, here's hoping that the staff is able to turn things around this fall. And fingers crossed for Turntine today. 

Posts like this are so weird because there has been plenty of worrying, whining and gnashing of teeth on this board. What is it that you want? You seem to be upset that it’s just not  100% that.

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4 minutes ago, Hornmatic said:

 

Each recent loss should be evaluated case by case. Some were for reasons other than nil primarily (Crowell, Griffin, Lee), others were because we were willingly outbid (Calicut). 

With others the competing team went stupid overboard (Henderson, guervil, ojo) In these cases we wouldn’t have matched even in a pre-House world. 

The sentiment I disagree most with is that House is a massive game changer and somehow we aren’t cheating hard enough. At the very most it’s causing programs to either have or think they have more money right now. 

I don’t believe it’s impacting our ability to make competitive, responsible offers, in the least. But if others in the know disagree, I’m willing to listen. 

Good post. 

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We could recruit the best 100 players in the country one cycle, sign 25-30 of them, and people will be bitching about the 70-75 that we didn’t get. Or the string of 4 or more in a row that didn’t go our way. 

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37 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:

I haven’t followed this house settlement issue much, but does that mean a whole bunch of schools now have $20m to spend that they didn’t have before?

I'm torn between seeing this question as a serious one or trolling. Because of your post numbers, I'm leaning toward the idea that you're poking the bear here, but it's not a strong lean (and apologies in advance whether you're serious or if I've just let the joke fly over my head).

Regardless, here's a link showing NCAA athletic revenue and expense data from 2024. Using $50 million in revenue as a cut-off figure, there were only 69 US universities who had at least that amount in 2024. Regardless, virtually every school listed the same expenditures as income.

I suspect that once a school is anywhere below $100 million in revenue, sharing $20 million of that with the athletes directly is going to take some serious and painful shifting. That part won't be painful for Texas or Ohio State. Probably a lot more painful for Tech, Arizona, Arizona State and Kansas, all ranked in the 35-40ish range in revenue (likely BYU in here, too, but as a private, it wasn't listed). And once a school gets down to around $50 million total revenue, I'd guess they start taking a much harder look in the coming years at what intercollegiate competition means to them.

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Posted
2 hours ago, Elmer_Fudd said:

Ojo's loss.  Every 5* Sark has brought in has been/is being developed into a high round NFL draft pick.

Johntay Cook would like a word on this absolute statement. Also I think DJ will be drafted, but not high.

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9 minutes ago, rvm96 said:

Johntay Cook would like a word on this absolute statement. Also I think DJ will be drafted, but not high.

You referenced the “absolute” tone, so not a knock, but sure, Sarkisian and team have signed enough now that ultimately being perfect on hit rate becomes impossible. 

Regarding Campbell, I might be alone on this one, but given that he was a 5 star as an OG, I am inclined to give both the services credit for still rating him that highly and the staff if he winds up getting drafted in any round, but for sure any round better than 6. He got a low round draft grade last cycle, allegedly, so he’s got a shot to hit the mids if he has a great year. 

3 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Wasn’t turntine a 12 central announcement today?

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I think we got caught smelling our own farts.   Just win. Once we get to sec errrbody etc 

only team with back to back playoffs. Each play off coming down to literally a single play from the championship game.
 

going in with our best roster it would be fair to assume all the nationwide elite talent wants on board showing what we have done lately so I’m in the same boat as I expected an Alabama run of all the elites.
 

but oh well.  Let’s see who flips  

Posted
1 hour ago, Dbeasy said:

I haven’t followed this house settlement issue much, but does that mean a whole bunch of schools now have $20m to spend that they didn’t have before?

Not exactly. It means that out of the revenue that schools ordinarily, generate, $20MM can be paid directly to athletes. 
 

none of this makes any sense to me because very few schools operate at a profit, so that money is coming out of some line-item somewhere 

Posted
2 minutes ago, MrX said:

Our pets’ heads are falling off so hard they’ve created an event horizon back to our 2015 cake bakin’ era

I'm supposed to be upset that a kid chooses *checks notes* Tech over Texas? Really?

Bless his heart and good luck on the south plains.

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Posted
2 hours ago, tokamak said:

I've got a calendar. The current roster construction calls for a big OL class this year. We lost Mills late and unexpectedly last year and threw a last minute Hail Mary at Fasusi. We've never gone to the portal at OL under Sark and Flood. All spring this thread was talking about taking as many as 6 and whether or not we'd have to turn away a guy like Zaden Krempin.

Last year, 21 of our 25 eventual signees visited during the big summer OV weekends. The year before 19/22. Those are the priority targets. This year at OL we brought in the two current commits, Turntine, Ojo (Tech), Lee (Michigan), Krempin (aggy), Roseborough (aggy). Let's be honest, Ojo and Lee will be difficult or impossible flips. We looked at guys like Evers and Katoa and said no thanks already. No luck (yet?) getting Pepe, Utu, or Greene to visit and they're all committed elsewhere now.

So yeah, you're absolutely right. It's July. No panic. But like, what's the fucking plan here? Anyone on this thread that says this is shaking out how they expected in April is a liar.

The whole house settlement issue could change things to our detriment. We just don't know how that will shake out yet after all the lawsuits and legal junk. The main issue is not having terms that players sign for preventing immediate transfers with no penalties. As far as I know that hasn't been addressed yet. 

Fact is no one has any idea how this will ultimately play out. It could not have much of a negative impact on us, or it could revert to old days where there were rules we refused to cross but our fellow top programs very willingly crossed and routinely beat us to the best players. If that worst case happens then get ready to lose Sark to the NFL after the 2026 season if this AD isn't ready to get as dirty as needed to win as well.

But for now we have no idea, the only thing we know is we have a championship level window for 2025 and 2026 with probably the 2nd most talented QB that's ever stepped on campus. So relax now and get ready for September and enjoy the ride. Nothing we can do about the future after that right now. 

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I can take getting out-bagged in today's era. We've done it too (Justus Terry), but to troll Texas by faking out the hat grab - go kick rocks dude. Hope you love the smell of cow shit. 

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Posted
6 minutes ago, texifornia said:

He'll take you behind the scenes to Tech handing Ojo a contract with a lot of zeroes and Ojo saying "yes"

 

Best of luck to this young man in his development - he's going to need it. Especially when there's intense pressure to play him early

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Ojo was apparently not very straight with the staff. I’m interested to see how interested they are in him down the line when he inevitably enters the portal. They were interested in Hudson or Stewart with similar histories.

 

 

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Posted
2 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

Ojo was apparently not very straight with the staff. I’m interested to see how interested they are in him down the line when he inevitably enters the portal. They were interested in Hudson or Stewart with similar histories.

 

 

If it's true that he was telling Sark, as recently as last night, that Texas still led, I can't imagine he'll get anything less than the full Evan Stewart treatment

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Posted
43 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

You referenced the “absolute” tone, so not a knock, but sure, Sarkisian and team have signed enough now that ultimately being perfect on hit rate becomes impossible. 

Regarding Campbell, I might be alone on this one, but given that he was a 5 star as an OG, I am inclined to give both the services credit for still rating him that highly and the staff if he winds up getting drafted in any round, but for sure any round better than 6. He got a low round draft grade last cycle, allegedly, so he’s got a shot to hit the mids if he has a great year. 

Yeah, I'm not knocking the staffs development at all. Nobody has a perfect hit rate.

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2 hours ago, tokamak said:

I've got a calendar. The current roster construction calls for a big OL class this year. We lost Mills late and unexpectedly last year and threw a last minute Hail Mary at Fasusi. We've never gone to the portal at OL under Sark and Flood. All spring this thread was talking about taking as many as 6 and whether or not we'd have to turn away a guy like Zaden Krempin.

Last year, 21 of our 25 eventual signees visited during the big summer OV weekends. The year before 19/22. Those are the priority targets. This year at OL we brought in the two current commits, Turntine, Ojo (Tech), Lee (Michigan), Krempin (aggy), Roseborough (aggy). Let's be honest, Ojo and Lee will be difficult or impossible flips. We looked at guys like Evers and Katoa and said no thanks already. No luck (yet?) getting Pepe, Utu, or Greene to visit and they're all committed elsewhere now.

So yeah, you're absolutely right. It's July. No panic. But like, what's the fucking plan here? Anyone on this thread that says this is shaking out how they expected in April is a liar.

Well that sucks

Posted
5 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

Ojo was apparently not very straight with the staff. I’m interested to see how interested they are in him down the line when he inevitably enters the portal. They were interested in Hudson or Stewart with similar histories.

 

 

 

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Posted

That's a lot of money to spend on a prospect who's far from a sure thing just to be able to say, "see? we can recruit with Texas." I don't blame Ojo a bit for taking the money - and I also don't blame our staff one iota for deciding to pass on that potential albatross of a deal

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