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I'll post some thoughts on what was, what is, and what will still be in terms of the 2024 class for Texas and others in a bit. That said, Evans is absolutely above McKinley on Texas' list of priorities. He's a far better culture fit and he's plenty talented. Now that he's serious about Texas, this is a pretty big recruitment. I went from not caring about this guy as simple fodder for ATM's DL roster to now being willing to be really irritated if he finishes and signs with ATM because of the trend in his recruitment. I am as skeptical as anyone, but AD Mitchell isn't a foregone conclusion to go to the NFL unless I missed an update. He's under no pressure to do so from his seriously wealthy family. One thing that might be more instructive regarding the NIL impact is to look at the top 20 recruits nationally and who they signed with, versus, say the 2015 or 2019 classes. Parity is developing in recruiting, among tiers, and you can see it already impacting outcomes such as the playoffs, or what has happened to programs that have ignored NIL and the landscape shift. Think about Clemson, as an example. To be clear, the work will never end on NIL for football. It would take an endowment for the roster of something like $200M for that to go away. The roster is too big and the competitors/money/fervor/eyeballs are too big. That considered, the Texas NIL machine for football is rolling along far better than most, even if we're always playing from behind. No one predicted Georgia falling behind. I've talked about NIL here since before NIL opened up. Georgia is always going to be a have. The reason for that isn't a rabid and wealthy fanbase. That helps, sure, but the bigger reason is due to corporate density within relevant proximity to the school. No one predicted Alabama falling off immediately due to NIL because of their current position on the national landscape. We did discuss them struggling with it compared to Texas, Oregon, USC, Georgia and a few others. They don't have the same kind of money. And they have been impacted by that. They've struggled to keep up and they haven't won as many of the top of the list recruitments as they used to before NIL. Schools like LSU have been visibly impacted. They don't have the money to win many of the key battles that they otherwise would when the bag game was king. Clemson is actively denying NIL's existence, and that's harming them. There are other stories like these. While any competent HC at Texas should always be able to bring in top 10 classes, NIL is fundamental for exceeding that. The current class is underranked both relative to schools that Texas was up against for various players ranked lower than recruits that many powers paid passing attention to, but also due to the fact that Texas did not pursue a highly ranked QB in this cycle and did not take as many players as other programs due to low attrition. Nonetheless, it is top 5 to the public and we are splitting hairs on quality between Texas, Bama, and Georgia. Ohio State is ahead of Texas but they are the Tom Herman fantasy college football team in which they overload on WRs and DBs in every class and almost fully ignore OL and interior DL, which is showing up on the field now when playing quality opponents. Miami and Oregon are excellent examples of schools that are using a fuckton of money to win recruiting battles. FSU is another example of a school lacking some of the firepower necessary to offset a neighbor's wherewithal. Anyway, I would expect to see a more diverse field of competitors for the playoffs and titles. For most of a decade, it boiled down to Bama, Clemson, Ohio State, Georgia, Oklahoma and Michigan/LSU every now and then. Generally, you knew who the five teams were that would fill the four team playoff. This season, 20 teams could make arguments for being a contender before the season started and by season's end, there were still 7-8 teams that could do the same. That's NIL and the portal+NIL factoring in significantly.

Maybe it’s just the season, but whenever you follow CTJ around the site forcefully parroting his takes, I always picture you as this little guy

That mod at Rivals deleted the Evans tweet and then tweeted this. Sounds like Evans lied to him.

For those of us in this forum it is the two joys of schadenfreude and "I told you so" combined. We started stating immediately that the Fisher contract was absurd and would come back to bite them in the ass, then we told them that hiring mercenaries would backfire, then we told them that trying to finally ramp up the bag game as NIL was getting started was comically absurd. Throughout it all they insisted we were dumb and they were brilliant all led by their #1 idiotic grifter The Blooch. So now we are being vindicated while watching those morons implode. And they keep giving us ammo even while it's happening because they still refuse to admit that they were wrong and we were right. They know it but they are still desperately clinging to hope that they can somehow bend public perception to say the '22 class wasn't actually bought and paid for mercenaries but they really loved A&M. So they reject their first hire in an internet tantrum to hire the guy they foolishly believed could hold their roster and recruiting together. And he is pouring gasoline on the dumpster fire that is their program. All because they are too stupid and proud to ever publicly admit Texas fans were right. Which is exactly why it's okay for us to publicly and loudly share over and over again what mistakes they're making and how they should do it. Because the absolute best way for Texas fans to make sure A&M never does the right thing is for Texas to tell them what they should be doing instead. Every single time they have a decision to make they fuck it up because they don't want people to think they listened to Texas people or that they do things like Texas would do them.

The issue was a PFO. It came out of nowhere on September 12, 2022. It has been a bitch. I’ll fill you in sometime. https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/17326-patent-foramen-ovale-pfo Thankfully, this wasn’t something that any aggy had any fucking thing to do with the issue. Hook ‘em!

Texas and Alabama have some more important stuff to do in that time.

Don't fucking fall for any of this propaganda. Wake the fuck up. This is an insidious plot to kill us all off via aggie misery overdose. Straight up Longhorn genocide. That's the only plausible explanation for what they have done to their program. It's like the Holocaust, but Hitler using Three Stooges movies instead of gas chambers. First they came for Jimbo, and I did not speak out because mother of god, they are actually going to pay a $76 million buyout. Then they came for Stoops, and I did not speak out because Texags is running their program and humiliating their AD. Then they came for Elko, and I did not speak out because holy shit that suit button is about to give up the ghost. Then they came for the Duke assistants, and I did not speak out because even they were like, "WTF? No way I'm moving to College Station." Then they came for E Rob, and I did not speak out because OMG he's actually recruiting guys to fucking Syracuse off their roster while he's the acting head coach. Then they came for the "NIL", and I did not speak out because the BMAs had to allocate that cash to paying off Jimbo. Then they came for the five stars, and I did not speak out because Lane Kiffin is trolling the hell out of them on twitter. Then they came for the committed recruits, and I did not speak out because Flipmas! Then they came for the no name comfort hire middling inside LB coach of a DOA Florida program who got shitcanned by Mack Brown and cheated at Army... and I just don't know how much more of this I can take. My biggest fear, outside of OD, is that I'm forever going to be chasing the dragon.

My only regret is we never got to see Sweat and Murphy absolutely destroy Bryce Foster & Co Every single fucking time I dont think the aggy destruction can get funnier and then they hired a dude who worked at Dunder Mifflin. Holy fuck this is hilarious

Kinda going under the radar, but they really are building this staff in their own image. Tell me this collection of men aren't at every single aggy tailgate that has ever existed:

Welp, Christmas is a wrap. I don't really need anything else this year.

😅😅

There is a ton of optimism around this recruiting class as it relates to roster fit from folks that look at this more objectively than we do. Folks think they've done a great job of evaluating. Hampton got an upped offer from very little with Bama. "Well, you should sign with them if that's the case." As it pertains to what's left, McKinley is purely a vanity play. He's a momma's boy that could have graduated early and chose not to because she wanted him to have his senior year. They've asked programs about coaching approaches to addressing performance and how much "yelling" happens at practice. But, for the starfuckers, the guy is a 5 star by the services and it would be a win over LSU and a flip from ATM. Sarkisian wants him, at least. Evan is higher on the board and likes/loves football a hell of a lot more than McKinley. Butler is way more valued than Bussey. If they spend much more time on potention 2024 freshmen after this week, Butler is a more likely expenditure of that effort.

@immamacthis you because it's hilarious

The judge said if I tweet at any more middle school kids, he is going to make me join the Coast Guard.

I had to google. Apparently his dad was a comedian/writer/producer (lists his mother as also in the entertainment industry) who did well enough to leave LA in the early 2000's to move back to Houston to open a Non-profit org for HIV education/prevention. They still do philanthropy in and around the Houston area. Dad was at one time homeless and living in Central Park before getting his break as a comedian at the Apollo.

1) Absolutely against the guy coming to Texas even if he wanted to pay for other players' NIL and participate as a walk-on. 2) You know fully fucking well Stewart is too weak to change his circumstances with his circle. I have no sympathy. I cut people out of my world who were causing my future harm when I was younger than this idiot and more was personally on the line. 3) Like I said, he is highly likely to eventually be seeing himself at USC or Tennessee, where he will be a perfect fit. As I said above, I wouldn't take him if he were paying into the Texas One Fund to help others. I explain further, again, below. You should spend more time working on evaluations, then. Higher ceilings, that will be approached by performance, exist with at least 15 guys across the collegiate landscape in 2024. Nope. This is the problem with you, Wulaw, the other draft junkies and the unrealistic recruitniks who prefer to follow recruiting more than watching the actual games. Potential never pays the fucking rent. There is zero reason to be as enamored with Evan Stewart at this point as many of you are. The guy was skipping classes at ATM in month one of his freshman year. He continued with that shit for his duration there. He failed 3 different drug tests while on campus. He quit on his team in both of his seasons there, having to be talked back onto the field more than once. His inner circle leveraged him twice already for significant paydays. They're going to do it again because the guy has that ethereal potential. So maybe potential does pay the rent - for Stewart's dad, I guess. The guy dropped 4 passes this season in limited playing time. He had more than that his freshman year. He's a shit blocker. He's a social media diva. Why in the fuck do people insist on what-iffing a scenario for a malcontent with a proven history of underperformance and undercutting an organization's culture while doing so. Would any of you hire a guy like that? Right. But you'd want TOF and Sarkisian to do so? What the fuck? Like I said, USC and Tennessee are an on brand match for Stewart.

Bateman power rankings 1) Patrick Bateman 2) Jason Bateman 3) Master Batman . . . . . Jay Bateman

Their self destruction this offseason will go down on the mount rushmore of aggy fuckups. There is no possible way paying $77 million to blow up your entire team, your current recruiting class, ruin your NIL engine, and hire a coach who is already failing at a Charlie Strong level just in time for Texas and OU to walk in the door of the conference is not among the all timers.

It keeps getting funnier.

"Consistent and authentic."

He really is a fucking scum bag, and the fact that no one cares about the legitimately awful things he's done because he's good at sports, but guys who were merely average got blackballed due to their politics is a gigantic indictment of our society.

Oh boy he's now saying it's Texas.

Looch out here trying to spin it already

Didn't they only sign like 10 recruits?

Don't worry - this guy has this whole DC thing figured out.

I'm with you on this, C-Dav.

Why does watching the complete gutting of the A&M football program bring me so much joy?

"Taysom Bateman is not only a great corch of young men, but a fantastic fit as a Texas Aggie. Whoop!" - Bud Sherrill, Asst Head Coach at Katy Sul Ross HS "Corch Bateman is a sitting SEC coach, so this is a win for Texas Aggies everywhere. Whoop!" - Tubby Elkman, Asst Head Coach at Katy E King Gill HS "Corch Elko's newest hire is not real well known, but Melk knows his stuff, so I trust that this young up and comer will make College Station lit again. Whoop!" - Gunny Norton, Asst Head Coach at Katy John Sharp HS

At least Bateman was a good head coach.

Lulz ... (Twitter appears to be acting up again - screenshot below)

The dear leader hit it out of the park, again.

This shows exactly how Blooch is still in business. They literally need someone to tell them what to think every day, since they are capable of holding opposing beliefs so easily. 1: Stars don't matter!!! Those rankings are BS! (No doubt driven by the BOMC) 1b: We are incredibly talented, you can tell because of all the high ranking players we have. 2: We have the most talented team in the country, forget onfield results, you can tell becuase of our past recruiting!!! 2b: that guy in the portal is not important - never really contributed anyway. 3: We are the richest school in the history of ever! Our donors mean our NIL is unstoppable! 3b: NIL is ruining college football. Those mean sips are overpaying. 4: (aTm player enters portal) These guys only care about money!!! 4b (aTM player comes back from portal) See! He loves us!!! 5: Nothing is more important than honor. 5b: Hire coaches that cheat and kill kids. 6: Jimbo is the best ever! Trust the process! 6b: Jimbo was dragging us down. The future is now bright! 7: E-Rob is the best! 7b Santucci Bateman is the best! I can't even keep track anymore...

Holy shit, this is the guy they waited three weeks for? How many people must have told Elko no?

We are truly witnessing the birth of Taylor Hamm 2.0

We should devote any resources that would be expended on Stewart, triple it, and put a full court press on Ryan Williams.

You sick bastard. Don’t be mad at Ian Boyd. Be mad at yourself for reading Ian Boyd.

So let me get this straight. Aggy didn't promote ERob because he was a position coach. They did ask him to coach the bowl game and keep the recruiting class together. The class turns into a disaster, and he actually took a couple of players with him. Flash forward two weeks. They hire a POSITION coach from the only other program that's as big of a dumpster fire as them?!?! Holy crap. Some of my elementary students have better decision-making skills.

I have come to the very simple conclusion that in order to be Republican, the main criteria is the ability to completely discard intellectual honesty. This more than any other factor is a necessity in being a true Republican. You just really, really, really have to believe a lot of shit that is not true. You have to promote a lot of shit that is not true. And you have to adamantly above all, avoid actually caring about what is or is not true. I can take most any "important" issue for the GOP and show the intellectual dishonesty necessary in the political position. Take immigration for example. The GOP controlled all three branches of the Federal Government and packed the Supreme Court. Yet there was no effort at all to pass an immigration bill. Because... for the GOP they main thing is having something to complain about. When you control all the government and you fail to take any action, how can you honestly blame the other side? It's simply intellectually dishonest. Take the outrage of Hunter Biden! I have no problem at all going after Hunter Biden. But to pretend the prosecution of Hunter Biden is anything other than a selective political prosecution started by the TRUMP ADMINISTRATION is simply to be intellectually dishonest. But let's pretend that it is not intellectually dishonest! Now let's ask about Jared Kushner, who received $2 billion in Saudi money for a startup where he has no experience. This after using his office representing the United States in the Trump administration to negotiate this deal. So the Trump Crime family received $2 billion? Gotta be outraged by that if you are even a little irked by Hunter right? Not if you have the Republican cloak of intellectual dishonesty to protect your mind. Let's take a look about the love of the unborn, and the sanctity of life. Let's pretend this is a true principle of the Republican party! How then can you explain the abusive treatment of the only children in the care of the Texas GOP year, after year, after year in the Republican designed and implemented Texas foster care system? If the state of Texas treats foster children in a manner that would land individual parents in jail over the neglect and abuse. Why doesn't the GOP give a fuck about these children while cheering on Abortion laws creating more unwanted children, some of whom will end up in the Texas foster System. The solution to this? Simply use the GOP cloak of intellectual dishonestly! With the millions of Republicans in Texas wanting more unwanted children, is it a fair question as to why Republicans are not adopting these children after they are born? (cue up intellectual dishonesty defense here) Take any GOP issue supposedly based on "principles" and you will find the necessity of intellectual dishonestly by Republican voters and politicians.

... posting in case you haven't seen the Dicker the Kicker bit which dropped a short time ago.