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  1. In a weird way, gymnastics and tennis. It's strange because sometimes a 16 or 18 year old might be amongst the best in the world and become pros as teenagers while the "really good" ones go to college and almost never become "pro".
  2. @immamac Who is the GM at Texas? Is there one per sport, or one for men and one for women? Also, for someone who is not already on the team, either a high schooler or someone in the portal, what is the process supposed to look like? I know NIL is not legal for or supposed to be used as an inducement to go to a school, it is merely a benefit of having made the decision to enroll as a student athlete and actually being on the team. I'm assuming the "proposed / acceptable" steps and order of steps are: 1. Decide to matriculate at State U. (signs scholarship deal with school) 2. Collective or individual brands reach out at some point to say congratulations and we would like to tell you about the NIL opportunities that are available to them as a student athlete at this institution of higher learning. 3. Discussions / Negotiations take place between student athlete and the Collective or Brand 4. Contract with collective or brand is signed 5. Student athlete attends classes, plays sport and makes appearances 6. Collective or Brand provides the promised benefit. I suspect that the real order is something like: 1. Recruitment is open (High school or portal entry) 2. Collective or individual brands reach out based on someone's (coach / school, etc.?) suggestion to tell them about the NIL opportunities that are available to them if they come to State U. 3. Discussions / Negotiations take place between student athlete and the Collective or Brand. 4. Agreement is reached (verball, handshake, wink and nod, etc.) 5. Student signs scholarship agreement with school. 6. Contract with collective or brand is signed 7. Student athlete attends classes, plays sport and makes appearances 8. Collective or Brand provides the promised benefit. As many have said, the legalities vs the practicalities of the situation lead to misunderstandings and the ridiculousness we are seeing play out in front of us. What is the student athletes recourse if they sign a scholarship agreement / enroll and then the agreed-upon deal with the collective or brand does not materialize? If another spot is better for this discussion feel free to move it.
  3. Sound on
  4. What did Traylor say about Texas or Sark or whatever has people fired up?
  5. You guess?
  6. Full CR... unlike the candidates we have to choose from this photo contains two solid choices vs. none
  7. Klatt moved to Thursday for this week
  8. I'm not sure that is correct. I think if you have a TV package that has SEC network, then you can access SECN+ for free through the ESPN website, Smart TV ESPN app or Phone app. I could be wrong though.
  9. Typically around 5:15 pm on Wednesdays
  10. Fight song talk, serious business.
  11. MICH QB is kinda right. Had they just gotten it the 4th qtr, they DID make more plays than we did. Would have been a great plan for them. 🤣🤘🏻
  12. Hopefully you're leaving the shirt on the island. j/k... the things we do for love. Looks like an awesome trip. Thanks for sharing it with us.
  13. My concern with Michigan's O vs. our D is if they are able to pick us apart in the shallow middle (5-15 yards downfield ) similar to what I recall from OU and UH last year. Maybe I am not remembering correctly but it seemed like in both of those games we gave up play after play over the "shallow" middle and then couldn't tackle. I'm hopeful their QB play doesn't allow for them to do it consistently.
  14. Crappy way for him to get clicks. Same message could have been delivered by saying that while they had great success the year before (2009) and still had a lot of great parts, they didn't do the things necessary to be a good team in 2010 and that he sees some familiarity with FSU this year. No need to call out a specific teammate.
  15. From the currently 77 degree suburbs north of Dallas... FIGHT!!!
  16. Quick search shows that Weigman's dad is VP-Ops for Cotton. No big deal, but explains why they have NIL with him and were so gung-ho to sponsor this. Was it mentioned how much they are putting up to be the title sponsor? I agree with whoever said it above that it is better than giving all their $$ straight to tamu.
  17. JMU -8.5 seems like free money in light of the above. Prove me wrong.
  18. It literally goes with everything and nothing simultaneously.
  19. RIP Mrs. Royal 🤘
  20. Took the family vacay to Ireland and Scotland this year. Stayed at the Old Course Hotel in St. Andrews toward the end of the trip. Our room looked out over the Road Hole... My youngest and I are the only golfers in the family so we didn't plan to play but we stayed on Saturday night so we could walk the course on Sunday morning. Finished by playing the Himalayas putting course. Overall very fun and spent way too much $$$ at the pro shop. Definitely want to go back to play a round at some point. IMG_5286.mov
  21. Yes, my biggest surprise when my oldest went to college was how she basically didn't know anyone on her dorm wing / floor, etc. Ultimately, I think the reason for the change from when we (70s / 80s / early 90s era students) were in the dorms is that most every dorm was single sex and people just left their doors open and there was near constant interaction with people walking by, etc. Walking down the hall saying, " I'm going to the cafeteria / rec center / drag, etc. anybody want to join?" was a daily occurrence. Now, with most dorms being co-ed people don't leave their doors open and almost none of the kinds of spontaneous interaction mentioned above occurs. It took a few weeks for the oldest to find her people, it worked itself out but the first few weeks were a bit more isolating than I had expected.
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