TheBryMan81

I know the rule about coaches....if you hire a high school coach to a non assistant position, you can't recruit his team's players for two years. Does that apply for parents as well?

I'm gonna go with the SK Wyverns. I love a good comeback story...and Wyvern just sounds like a cool mascot.

How many royal names are we trying to get on the roster?

Haven't watched his film yet, but I think he's the next Christian McCaffrey.

Just 3 more years and this will be entirely accurate.

Good thing the two newest coaches in the League of Champions are...checks notes...Mike Leach and Lane Kiffin.

As funny as having Bobby Brown at #9 in state (and above Coburn), I think it's funnier that he's listed as a DE.

Interesting. Per that article, in the last 5 years, "cited as undisputed fact that from 2015 to 2019, the women's national team averaged $220,747 per game in total payments (for a total of $24.5 million), while the men's national team averaged $212,639 per game in total payments (for a total of $18.5 million). Those figures do not include compensation women's players receive from U.S. Soccer for play in the National Women's Soccer League." I did not know that and if that's true, then I don't see what the argument is in terms of compensation. So the hypothetical that the USWNT presented about 20 friendlies...how can that be true if they got paid more per game in the last 5 years? I don't know. Also, ChickenSandwhich hit the nail on the head. In the article, there's a video interview with Julie Foudy (https://www.espn.com/video/clip?id=29125706) where she states that back in her day, they negotiated the CBAs to include guaranteed salaries in order to provide protections from injury, maternity, severance pay etc since women didn't have the massive club contracts that men do to fall back on. The federal judge ruled against them partly because of these extra protections and guarantees and the value that they add. "Therefore, while the women's players argued that, after winning the World Cup in 2015 and 2019, they would have made more money under the terms of a men's CBA, which offered higher game bonuses, the court noted that there was "indisputably economic value" to the guarantees included only in the women's CBA. "Merely comparing what WNT players received under their own CBA with what they would have received under the MNT CBA discounts the value that the team placed on the guaranteed benefits they received under their agreement," the ruling stated, "Which they opted for at the expense of higher performance-based bonuses." Also interesting to note: "Klausner (judge) noted that representatives of the players rejected a pay-for-play model identical to the men early in those negotiations in 2016. In later negotiations, the players offered a counterproposal with lesser bonuses than the federation's offer in exchange for more contracted players and higher base salaries -- benefits not part of the CBA between U.S. Soccer and the men's union." The only thing the court left unsettled was "the plaintiffs' Title VII claims regarding discrimination in charter flights and hotel accommodations and medical and training support" which I suppose would be much simpler to prove one way or the other.

Thought he signed before Matt Rhule took Carolina job?

Are we trusting the word of Anwar "Tyrone Swoopes is starting and it's not even close" Richardson now?

That count does not include Urquidez. He's not listed on that chart.

First I heard of it was actually for a softball transfer we just got...Ole Miss pitcher, had the choice of going to OT school in Iowa or taking more undergraduate studies at Texas in order to play a grad transfer year at Texas. I don't know how that process works though....do you have to declare a major and get accepted to a certain school? Some sort of general admission in order to take any classes she wants? (Think about someone who graduates, but then transfers schools in order to take 1-2 classes needed as prerequisites for some late career track change)

I don't remember where, but I've read that in some other reports.

I'm a little younger, so I never really saw Bird play other than highlights (obviously, not saying Dirk was as good. Bird of course was definitely better). The "shoot with range" part that you mentioned was really what I saw in that clip of Bird that led me to make that comparison. That post-up turn around fade away, reverse lay ups, ability to hit from anywhere, I thought it looked pretty similar. To your point, I can't compare the rest of their game, but shooting wise at least, that's all I was going for.

He's broken each foot once. Left foot in 2017 and right foot in 2018

It does include the guaranteed salary. That's kind of the point they're making; they get a guaranteed salary, but it's less than what the men make. The men's salary is partially based on wins while the women's is not. So if the women were losing all of the time, then this would be a way better deal for them. (See hypothetical above. If both teams played 20 friendlies a year and lost all 20, they would get paid roughly the same. The women are arguing that since they play more, win more, and have high revenues, they should get paid closer to equal what the men get paid). If they had the same, nonguaranteed deal that the men have, then they would make more money because of their wins. One of the statements the player's federation made has to do with the CBA that the men signed in 2011. Since then, the USSF has had unprecedented growth in their financial assets (almost tripled). When the women went to negotiate their next CBA in 2017, the USSF, even though their revenues had tripled, offered them a deal that was worse than what the men had signed 6 years prior (at least subjectively. I don't know the terms of the deal, but just going off what I can find when I google). And then the men renegotiated their CBA in 2018, which is their current CBA. It's been stated that they agreed to this collective bargaining agreement because they felt that it was the best that they were going to get without going on strike, which would've affected their 2019 World Cup qualifying and also would've included non USWNT players in the NSWL, since the USSF is in control of it. Also, I don't know how the guaranteed annual salary works. If they make the roster one time in a calendar year, are they guaranteed that salary? If they make the roster x amount of times? Annual salary is adjusted for how many times you make the roster? Idk, but for your question about maternity leave, if the guaranteed annual salary is anything but that first option, then maternity leave isn't really a benefit that they get (since it would affect the amount of times they would be able to make the USWNT roster that year). However, I'm sure there's something about that worked into the CBA.

Watching that clip, the most apt comparison I can think of for a modern day player is Dirk. Dirk is obviously bigger, but I see a lot of similarities in their shooting style and ability to hit from just about anywhere.

Texas Players eligible for 2021 draft RS Sophomores: Josh Moore, Willie Tyler Junior: Jalen Green, Anthony Cook, D'Shawn Jamison, Juwan Mitchell, Caden Sterns, The Punter's Cousin, Brennan Eagles, Dicker the Kicker, BJ Foster, Keaontay Ingram, Demarvion Overshown, Reese Leitao, Kobe Boyce, Montrell Estell, Sam Cosmi RS Junior: Josh Thompson SR: Sam Ehlinger, Chris Brown, Daniel Young, Jacoby Jones, Marques Bimage, TQ Graham, Tope Imade, Derek Kerstetter, Denzel Okafor, Cade Brewer. I got this from the 2020 roster on Texas Sports, but there's some obvious mistakes regarding classification. I don't know them off of the top of my head, so I just left it as is. Point still stands, these are the guys that would be eligible to declare for 2021 draft https://texassports.com/sports/football/roster/2020?&sort=class

No shit, Bama has had a machine rolling for 10 years. You wanna know how many Bama players got drafted in Saban's first 3 drafts? 0 in 2008, 4 in 2009, and 7 in 2010 (after winning a national championship. Included 2 juniors from his 12th ranked transition class and one community college transfer that he recruited) Nick Saban first 3 drafts: 11 players, 8 that he did not recruit Tom Herman first 3 drafts: 9 players (plus guys like Poona and Holton Hill who should've been drafted). All 9 guys were not recruited by Herman. Yes, Herman has to recruit better to improve our talent baseline, which should improve the number of players drafted. One of the things that he has to fight against is Saban putting 10 guys in the league. But let's not act like Saban came into Bama and immediately starting sending 10 guys to the draft. He needed his guys to win a national championship and then he got his machine rolling. I'm on the "Let's See What Herman Can Do With His Recruits" (and hopefully better position coaches) train right now.

He was in the class of 2017 and was given a medical redshirt by the NCAA in his freshman year due to an early season injury. 2017 - redshirt due to early injury 2018 - injured before season, played late in season 2019 - played. So looks like he's got two years of eligibility remaining.

The receiving totals of 3 players tend to be lower when you include a player that only played 2 quarters the entire season. So to support your contention that the WR room is empty, you picked: Jake Smith: true freshman slot behind senior Devin Duveranay. Scored 6 TDs, only 3 power 5 freshman WR scored more. Jordan Whittington: played 2 quarters all year. Former 5 star and one of the most athletic players on the team Brennan Eagles: showed flashes as a sophomore (100 yards + TD against LSU). If stanco were an LSU fan going into 2019: "Other than Jefferson, I wonder who will step up this year. Chase, Sullivan, Marshall? Shit our WR room is empty, those 3 only combined for 860 yards last year"

His rankings ended up looking really good, but of the 81 players that Charlie Strong signed, approximately only 50 stuck around until they graduated or declared for the draft (just did a quick count, so may not be exact.) So although he had no problem recruiting, a good chunk of his players did not stick around to get coached by Herman. Of those 50 that stayed, 10 got drafted (D. Foreman (never played for Herman); Malik; K Boyd; Deshon; C Williams; Omenihu; Dickson; Duvernay; B Jones; Collin Johnson) + 12 more UDFA that signed with teams (Poona; Andrew Beck; Chris Nelson; Jason Hall?; H Hill; CW3; D. Davis; PJ Locke; Hager; LJH; Roach; Shack); so 22/50 Strong's 3 classes: 50 players including 2 5stars (both drafted), 22 4 stars (4 drafted, 4 UDFA), and 27 3stars or below (4 drafted, 8 UDFA) Herman's 1st 3 classes include (players still around): 3 5-stars, 33 4 stars (1 UDFA Gary Johnson), 24 3 stars or below (graduate transfers weren't counted in this as they did not show up on 247). Although Strong's classes had good individual talent, by the time they were draft eligible, there wasn't a high number of them left. Now that Herman has more players with a higher talent baseline and more players that fit his physical and mental eval, I think more of them will develop into draftable players. Just in Herman's first two classes, I think 18-20/38 have decent chances of being drafted or signed as UDFA. I think, if Herman makes it for another 2 years, it would be fair to judge his ability to develop players from start to finish based on how many of those 18-20 actually get drafted (and get drafted high) rather than having to sign as UDFA.

There's a lot of variables that make it complicated. Supposedly, only a quarter of USSF revenue is actually from games played. About half of it is from sponsorships. You may argue that sponsorships for the USSF have increased specifically due to the USWNT (global success, championships, worldwide movement towards gender equality and more support for women's sports), but exactly how much sponsorships have increased solely due to the USWNT is difficult to quantify, and therefore difficult to argue. But even without that, the USWNT has a strong argument: "We play more games in order to bring in more revenue than the men, we sell more jerseys, we win more championships, and we still get paid less."

2 UDFA - Roach/Saints and Shack/Bucs Point still stands.