UncleBuck

And not to be all sappy or anything, but really, proud of you guys. Thanks for trying, and hopefully succeeding at doing something [/seriousfont]

You, CTJ and Carton should be a three-headed AD of NIL. Step aside, Crystal, we got top men on this shit.

damn man, they've turned home boy into BurntOrange&Satyanash over here. RIP

How much of that $40-$50M are you willing to hand me right now? I will drive to West Louisiana after work, and in five hours we'll all be on Twitterdotcom watching Bryce Anderson's commitment video where he throws up the horns at the end.

Can't wait for CDC to tweet the NCAA rules to explain why we can't drop bags.

It's a fucking nightmare.

I gotcha

This is the "Bend Over & I'll Show You" thread, so go get fu... oh hi immamac sup guy?

Yah but he bolted for the USC job. That was a no-brainer. Then he fucked it up.

Wait.... are you gunna start locking up players for us now please thanks

Wait we're now adding Washington to the list? FUCK! I thought he did alright there.

Once you get some nice black greasiness to seal it all up after a few cooks, the thing works great. When I bought mine I went ahead and got a BBQ Guru with it. After a few cooks I didn't even need to use the Guru so I sold it. Just use good charcoal (I use KBB) and go with it. If I'm cooking low, I use the water pan, which I have filled with sand and covered in foil. I start with every vent wide open, and once I hit my target temperature I close them down to about 1/4-3/8" open. All depending on the wind. If I need to bump it up I just open the door until the fire kicks up. Longest cook has been 12 hours, using one 16# bag of KBB. After about 7 hours at 225-250, I wrapped that brisket and opened the vents and door and got up to around 295-300. Held it there the rest of the cook and still had a little bit of charcoal left in the bottom. If you're worried about it getting to hot over time, maybe use B&B briquettes, as those have been a bitch for me to get up to higher temps. Franklin briquettes also burn low and last in mine. The only upgrades I've done are -replaced the thermometer with a River Country, -added a bolt with a beer bottle cork to the top vent so I can close it without burning my fingers once the cook is done -added some metal to make my basket four inches higher to hold more charcoal if I need to (I really haven't) -added an 18" grate to the bottom of the basket, turned perpendicular to the original grate, so I don't lose bigger chunks of coal that are still burning.

Have done a couple of reverse seared tri-tips starting it off on the 22 WSM. I go 200-250, gradual rise. Usually by the time it reaches 250 the tri-tip is ready to come off before a slight rest then sear. Can't tell you what a big difference doing a salt dry brine does to the inside flavor. Even if you only have a couple of hours, just lightly salt it with some kosher salt. I didn't use too much because I was still going to season it with a salty rub, but it still worked really well and in only a couple of hours the salt worked its way in there.

The NIL isn't gunna kill the bag game. You're still gunna need to play that game with recruits, though maybe on a smaller scale, because if I'm not mistaken, in most states (and especially here in Texas), these kids can't capitalize off of NIL in HS. Now how much smaller of a scale are we talking? I dunno. Obviously a dominant NIL showing can lock kids up, seeing they'll be taken care of, but do you think the programs with lesser NIL appeal are just going to sit and take it, or are they gunna try to bridge the gap with bags? What about guys on your level, are they not gunna try to gain an advantage some other way? Not every kid is a Ew*rs who can just split HS a whole year early and start collecting, and even so, they'd still take some under the table benefits up to when they do leave. I kinda equate it to prohibition. Cool, alcohol is legal now. Everyone just walks up and buys their beer.... except for the 20 year olds and below. So those kids just don't drink then, huh? No, they wanna drink now! And they get theirs... somehow. Now sure, the side of the bag game where you're keeping up with and taking care of the players already on campus almost completely goes away, I suppose, and obviously taking care of those guys with bags has always shown a recruit that they'd be taken care of as well. So yah, that side of it gets covered by a strong NIL program. But there will always be moms whose car shits out and needs a way back and forth from work, before that kid is able to earn his money.

Herman actually did recruit well at first, but just didn't win. There's still talent on this roster that's not near as bad as you're making it sound. So yes, if Sark can coach the wheels off of this bitch and win this year while still in the Big 12, with some pretty fucking good talent, it'd help recruiting. Obviously, it'd help if they were just stellar at recruiting regardless, but here we are.

Hit him with the ole "rage party." It's either going to be ignored, or it's gunna be ugly.

Man, I just can't bring myself to do an entire hot and fast cook on a brisket. Takes some balls!

The resources available to this athletic department to have done ANYTHING on the NIL front are too many.

Same. 3-cone. Figured that's what "L" was, but good to know for sure. Thanks.

Dammit. Was going for a joke because they were cut off in the tweet preview. They're there on the actual tweet. I failed.

thinking his L-drill numbers might not have been so hot. 👀

Can't disagree with that. I mean, I get it that they were working on the SEC deal, but you're fucking Texas: put some people on the shit like a year ago and let them work. That would be much better than the alternative we're dealing with now. Saw you say Spring 2022 as the soonest we'd have the NIL shit fixed. I know there's a lot involved in it, but if they can't put a group together to get something halfway respectable up and going before then, then we're really fucked on that front, and even further behind.

You know just as much if not more than most that it's a combination of things that are taken into consideration. Texas doesn't have a lot of those on their side right now, but a clear indicator that they will be playing in the SEC sooner rather than later would be huge. Technically our recruiting is unfazed at the moment as well (unless you count Brown), as all the vagina ringing going on in this 2022 thread since the SEC announcement has been based solely on predicting the worse off the words of 995ers and the over-analyzing of tweets by 17 year olds instead of off of actual results. Hell, people were jumping off of buildings at the loss of a Derrick Brown to Baylor. BAYLOR! You fear mongering assholes actually bought into all of that shit, only to have Brown come and crash your rag party when he verb'd to the good fellas. Not that I believe that everything will go great/as planned in the upcoming months, but let's not act like Oklahoma's just been killing it since the SEC announcement with the one commit they've gotten since (3* DL) and their "picking up ground" on a whole other year outside of this thread. Outside of rumors and predictions, it's kinda stale. Anderson will be more movement.

We've been here. We know that shit. I think the staff knew that coming in, that being Texas will only get you so far with higher end recruits. We've always known an improvement on the field is what was going to turn things around (along with the development of a worthy bag program). Now throw it in the pot with the NIL, and IMO the added benefit of going to the SEC. It's an interesting mix. Remember, we flipped one of the biggest recruits of the past few years at Texas in October, because of what was going on on the field. Unfortunately, it was the other way. That fact that there are always committed fence riders ready to jump, coupled with possible positive NIL movement before December/January is why I'm not going to freak out about missing out on close guys right now. But I might bitch a little bit.