Bodacious Bevo

Lol Will Reichard is good and he's made kicks against us two years in a row but this post is really funny given Saban's historical results at kicker

very on brand post Let's go win this. Ten more points might put it out of reach for Bama.

Sooo can we change this back to the aggy thread? Let this thread live it's best life

Y’all, they definitely prepped for Rice. Teams don’t just completely skip opponents. Look at it another way: prep is a skill in and of itself. There’s a routine to game week. Watching film, installing the game plan, practice, etc. The game vs Rice is practice for Bama and prepping for Rice is practice for prepping against Bama. They’re not going to sacrifice that, especially when Bama has two news coordinators and a new QB, so all that prep work last week could have been a waste depending on what Bama does in week 1.

Texas 55 Rice 13 Ewers 219 yards

Here’s the OB scrimmage notes

I agree it's unlikely. It's just what I think would be the best way forward. At least each state would be equally represented in the governing body so maybe that could help with consensus-building. In my dream world, some of the SEC states like Texas, Alabama, and Florida come together for it and then start politicking smaller states like Missouri and Arkansas into joining. I have no idea about existing entities. The NCAA and conferences will only ever be able to govern around player eligibility and school participation (e.g., bowl bans, scholarships) in NCAA or conference events. And I have no idea where their authority actually falls for NIL. I don't think the end goal should be to replace the NCAA. It could happen with a conglomerate of the conferences, CFP, and March Madness (if the last two are even separate from the NCAA) but then there would still need to be other organizations that step up to handle the national championships for other sports. And it would also mean the conferences would start having to do a lot of stuff they don't currently. At least based on my understanding of how all these organizations operate.

FWIW, as someone studying public administration and policy, I think the best way forward with NIL is through interstate compacts or uniform state laws. Interstate compacts are the most legally binding form of cooperation between states. It's basically a contract between states in which they agree to work together on an issue. It be a common set of laws that each state must follow or the compact forms a governing body (agency or commission) that governs the issue between the states. The states cannot unilaterally decide to leave the compact. Uniform state laws allow states to opt in to a set of uniform standards. A compact would be ideal but it might be too hard to bring a state like Missouri on board. The dynamics around inducements are different in states with a single university compared to those that have competing interests for recruits.

Makes sense. I have no idea how it will play out once those challenges actually come. I'm actually really interested to see how these challenges start popping up. One weird thing about the bill is they make it all about a student attending the school, not participating on the team like the Texas NIL bill. So to your point, if a kid is a highly ranked sophomore so they lock him up in a contract, but then he falls down the rankings or gets injured and enrolls as a normal student, there's going to be some unhappy folks.

Yeah, part of the confusion here is that we're using our Texas NIL understanding for a different state. The Missouri legislature is very open about the purpose of the law being to help Mizzou and other Missouri universities (are there others?) in recruiting. Inducements are illegal in Texas but that doesn't matter in Missouri. Linux already posted the text about it. I guess it might go against whatever the current NCAA rules or guidelines are but that doesn't seem like it matters. There are a couple clauses that I think specifically exempt both collectives and athletes from NCAA and conference rules. Here's the relevant portion for high schoolers. Altogether, the intent of the bill reads to me that a recruit can start earning money as soon as they sign a written agreement that they will enroll in a Missouri college or university. Right now, we conceptualize that as meaning letter of intent or financial aid agreement because that is what exists through the NCAA. But I think the bill opens up a legal course to sign a new type contract between only the athlete and the paying party in which the athlete agrees to enroll at a Missouri university and earns money contingent upon that enrollment. The 8/28 start date (might be misremembering the exact date) only matters this cycle because that's when the law starts. I imagine this will be a bigger advantage in the future because I think they'll be able to start paying HS athletes anytime they want. So that couple months of a head start could end up being 4 years if they think a kid is good enough. Here's the bill. Relevant portion starts on page 8: https://documents.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills231/hlrbillspdf/1211S.10T.pdf

It's pretty lazy to not read the article and shit on it, even if it is Ian Boyd. His premise isn't that Majors is the problem. The title isn't declarative. It's a question - one that's pretty common in the Texas message board space. And his answer is that the issues were more about assignments and propped up when we were playing defenses that did a lot of slanting and post-snap movement: "In none of those games was Majors’ inability to bully big defensive tackles the issue. Problems always centered around “who’s got who” execution when D-linemen would move after the snap and slant across gaps. In a related story, Texas was using first-year starter and true sophomore Hayden Conner as the left guard and true freshmen Cole Hutson and D.J. Campbell at right guard."

I think y'all are reading way too much into this DL depth chart stuff

I'd say it's pretty easy. Bama's the only guaranteed top 25 team. We get the 3 and 4 teams in the conference by odds at home. Bama and ISU are the only games outside the state. The Big 12 will have a couple teams that are better than expected but it's generally a down year.

Nah man, they didn't have bad culture, just a bad case of the flu

I propose that all discussion of C personnel should be banned forever, effective immediately.

Have they put out anything on how the freshmen linebackers are looking? I'm very curious to see if they managed to find something in either.

Corey Raymond

FTFY Not that I'm arguing against you. I'm indifferent. Let's just not make this into a bigger deal than it needs to be.

Also I haven't seen this posted here

I guess the copium take is that this staff has flipped a lot of DBs. Jaylon Guilbeau, Terrance Brooks, Warren Roberson, and Xavion Brice were all straight flips. Jelani McDonald had also previously been committed to another school.

Y'all I'm pretty sure we just got beat for Mack. Gerry has been saying UF was Mack's personal favorite. Which makes their confidence a little weird IT's info seems industry average when it's not an NIL recruitment

Santana Wilson is turning out to be a huge get now that we've missed on Gipson and Mack. DB class is somewhat disappointing but neither Warren Roberson nor Jelani McDonald had offers at this point last year so there's some time.

I think the info from last year was good, especially considering that things were extremely murky after 5-7. I just remember the old post and think the phrasing is funny. I'm hoping that the analogy holds. 8-4 : '22 floor :: conference champs : '23 floor

Sorrell and Ford whose hypothetical injuries could lead us towards the shitter, but I generally agree it wouldn't get that bad. If Sorrell goes down I think that we can pivot to more three man fronts. The DL room is deep and flexible. We already heard about Collins at DE in the first scrimmage. There's also a couple guys that might be able to unexpectedly step up into that spot (Finkley, Bledsoe). If Ford goes down it would really depend on our opponents during his absence. We should be good enough to tread water against most of the schedule. I also think pretty highly of Bush and reports on Lefau are positive. A couple of our opponents could abuse Bush's limitations and Lefau's inexperience though.