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For perspective, Alabama's bag game was run for less than $1M per year. They typically got a Saban discount to boot. That enabled them to typically be the most powerful player in the black market of buying players through family members or street agents before NIL. Sure, a team like Auburn or Tennessee would occasionally show up and go batshit crazy and buy above everyone else's head for a cycle, but Bama would still get theirs. Georgia, under Smart, wound up with a bigger budget and started to encroach on Saban's reach, but they were the only true threat for keeping an absolute competitive advantage against the rest of CFB. The whole game was played between Bama, Clemson, Ohio State, LSU, Georgia, Ole Miss, FSU, Auburn, and few others. The game was closed and few new entrants could win their way into the dealings with the agents and such. ATM came in at the end with money ultimately so over the top that it made a mockery of the game, just as NIL was dawning in order to destroy the prior premise in general. Now? Bama's NIL isn't dramatically higher than their prior bag budget. They don't have the alumni base or local corporate density to grow it much. They aren't even close to being relevant compared to numerous other schools, but notably Texas and Ohio State. Without Saban and his gravitas and NFL placement history, the gap just grew immediately wider. I'm not going to go into further specifics right now, but we're talking about a Grand Canyon kind of gap between where Bama is and where Texas is. Also, if Oatis goes in the portal, much like Niblack and Bond, I expect Texas to be front and center in that recruitment.

I'm of the opinion that Karma is, finally, visiting Texas right fucking now, well fucking overdue.

Can karma play defensive line?

$3M? Sure

Go to your rooms, kids. Daddy's been drinking tonight and his belt is hungry.

LOL Ohio St is hiring Bill O’Brien to be OC

I missed that part of the show and wish I had heard it. Neuheisel talks like that when a staffer somewhere is feeding him the information. I really hope Alabama opens the can of worms of investigating other programs for presumed wrongdoings. If they want to go there, especially against someone clean like Texas, it won't take long to bring up their own bodies. Also, they may have more national titles in football than Texas, but that is pretty much the only spot in their entire world - sports, alumni, corporate relationships, financial wherewithal, brand, political reach, you name it - where they can go head up against Texas. They're welcome to get in their feels over something, but if they try to honestly fuck with Texas in some fashion, I expect Texas to aggressively cut their nuts off and throw a party for doing it. They have been the greatest offenders of tampering across the entire landscape of CFB, excluding USC. Mack Brown has outright named Bama and Saban as the perpetrators tampering with Maye and trying to buy him down to Bama. Not in public, where he's all but said it, but he's absolutely told contacts in the media about it and shown them screenshots of stuff. The idea that Alabama thinks they have a sympathetic leg to stand on regarding tampering issues is so rich that it's almost mind-numbing. This shit is outstanding.

Honda Camry?

So this is what the Death Star we were promised looks like.

Guys like Bond, if they want one, will get a Lamborghini on lease while they're at school. Other cars for plenty of guys. That's all corporate. People are forgetting about corporate and that is continuing to grow and emerge as a formidable competitive advantage versus many schools in shitty locations. Bond is going to get something from other resources too, but the numbers being thrown out aren't correct unless various bama idiots are inclined to add the value of a new Lamborghini to the count. If that's what they're doing, uhh, okay. That's not accurate either, but whatever. It's likely what @Burt Macklin said. Bama couldn't compete to keep the guy, so they've started pushing numbers into the stratosphere to look less poor. We've seen and will see more schools do this, of course. In any event, Bond is a combination of corporate NIL + wanting to play in this offense and not have another year of hoping Milroe can find him + future NIL considerations once on campus and working in the Austin realm with groups like TOF. He's going to make nontrivial money, but he isn't making close to $750k. I'll say nothing else other than I am not really spitballing here.

From an Oregon 247 thread, on Jabbar Muhammad. Max Torres is the publisher and lead editor of Ducks Digest. He's covered the Oregon football and recruiting beats for four years.

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GTFO. He's getting rightly raked because he took the coward's way out by pushing a position, and then claiming he was "too busy" to respond to the gaping holes in his argument, but conveniently not too busy to respond with insults in kind. Fucking bizarre to white knight that behaviour on this message board of all places.

Outstanding.

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Luke the Drifter spitting truth:

For decades the cheaters would constantly claim "Texas pays players just like everyone else." Don't get me wrong, I was vocal about how Texas didn't handle it correctly. They should have either joined the cheaters or turned them in. The tactic of not cheating or turning them in but just whining about it to boosters while not letting them pay players was nauseating. But still, the cheaters would always have the same retort when Texas fans pointed out how they were outrecruiting Texas. "You're just jealous, Texas pays players just like everyone else." Oh really? Now that Texas affiliated interests are actually paying players because it's legal (along with a splash of winning), how's that working out for y'all? Fuck 'em all.

So if I go into the football board, post some shit that is fabricated and/or grossly misrepresentative of a situation, mouth off about it, and then go running away while crying about how mean everyone is, then I can count on an admin to tell people to back off when I start getting called a stupid cunt or a dumb bitch or told to get my tits out of any of the other awful things that get thrown around about women in that toxic cesspool? I mean, I know I don't know any site admins irl, but I promise I'm a real person.

Hank South crystal balled Niblack to Texas.

McCormick would really spice up our tight end unit.

Per Bobby Texas immediately went to do an in person visit with Niblack yesterday.

Some of the shit @PenelopeWitherspoon has taken on this board is 10000% more "toxic" than piling on someone for using bad sources and doubling down.

Dude, what? I've only been an observer on this one, but the guy came in with cherry-picked snippets from an absolute garbage source, refused to answer what he thinks the DHS or administration actually lied about, then moved the goalposts to the "media narrative". When confronted, he fell back on the tried and true "echo chamber not allowing other perspectives" trope. Saying he just has a "differering opinion" gives his approach way more merit than it deserves. I'm not saying he was trolling, but he sure wasn't making an attempt to argue in good faith.

Alabama makes a damn fine farm system.

I looked it up back when Bijan got his Lambo, and I believe the owner's son was placed there as GM after having little-to-no other experience. So he may be a buffoon. But, as Wulaw points out, he's not a Longhorn fanboi. And business seems to be doing well. Also, they have an amazing Marketing Intern on staff.

You're the only one in this thread that's been particularly emotional. And it has nothing to do with a difference of opinion, it has to do with you getting facts wrong (while accusing us of getting the facts wrong), refusing to back up your factual claims, then crying about how mean everyone is being to you when you're called out for refusing to back up your factual claims. That's bitchass behavior.

It’s the same exercise every time. A poster wonders into the CR posting known debunked talking points or dubious sources. The talking points and sources are challenged, and the poster is unwilling or unable to defend said position other than offer the “ CR echo chamber” trope. Is it a differing opinion? Sure, but so is the opinion that Jews build space lasers to control the world. That is the level of discourse in this country, and it is reflected in the CR. People acting in good faith are asked to give credence to disingenuous or baseless opinions out of respect for “differing opinions”. That is asinine, but a reflection of the debasement of truth in this country. Everyone’s opinion, no matter how ignorant, is equal and should be validated. America

Once you go Niblack, you never go Yurosek.

Mark "HailSaban" as someone completely full of shit and claiming sources for future reference. Mark the rest of these guys down as absolute imbeciles if they think anyone would pay 7 figures, much less mid 7 figures, for a solid WR from a portal with many other solid WRs. Tell your coworker to get better sources or to stop lying to you. I can tell you with certainty that what he told is wrong and he's full of shit.

Posters get ripped on for their shit opinions and brainworm drivel all over this fucking board. In big time train wreck offshoots in threads where a particularly chucklefucky poster decides to die on Idiot Hill, they are reamed to oblivion with gifs/retorts/internet bitchslaps. They are often swarmed, mocked, negged heavily. Yet somehow it’s different in this particular sub forum. an ignorant cunt is an ignorant cunt and should be shamed in football, basketball, daily texan, etc.

plenty of people posting here have Down's.

Royal said, in response to the accusation that Texas bought players, too: “If I ever turned the Texas Exes loose on buying players, there wouldn’t be any left for anyone else”.

Bjork wasting no time!

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