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    58 minutes ago, Hiphopopotamos said:

    Could be a huge deal for roster management in the coming years - imagine if a team can 'give' a PWO tuition because of a deal with a booster, or in this case an Energy Bar company.

    Should make the sell to give up that shitty FCS or other scholarship offer and come to Texas a lot easier.

     

    31 minutes ago, Sir Ulrich said:

    Need somebody to figure out how to duplicate this for our baseball team 

    Especially at a place with in-state tuition like Texas or LDS/non-LDS tuition like BYU. Both are very cheap compared to the relative landscape of American college education.

    Yes, please, for baseball. OLF could ban together and create some sort of fund for such. Again, cheap in-state tuition makes this much more doable for your average group of superfans.

  2. 55 minutes ago, Hiphopopotamos said:

    Could be a huge deal for roster management in the coming years - imagine if a team can 'give' a PWO tuition because of a deal with a booster, or in this case an Energy Bar company.

    Should make the sell to give up that shitty FCS or other scholarship offer and come to Texas a lot easier.

     

    Especially at a place with in-state tuition like Texas or LDS/non-LDS tuition like BYU. Both are very cheap compared to the relative landscape of American college education.

  3. 2 hours ago, SquishMitten said:


    I’ll admit there’s a difference between HC and non-HC, but if Meyer or Saban had come here in one of the last cycles, would you be making the same point of “well they haven’t done shit at Texas yet?” You’re stating and buying in to the same negative recruiting that the HS players are. Unfortunately, Sark does have to prove himself to get over that argument, but someone over the age of 18 should be able to acknowledge that it’s not a well founded selling point.

    You kind of just proved my point - you can't compare the pull of Sark to that of Saban and Meyer (of course it would be different with either of those two). So, you can't just automatically assume that with a coach like Sark, who I very much like, but who has not had tremendous success as a head coach, to change the perception of the program overnight. He's going to have to develop that perception.

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  4. Just now, closetohumping said:

    They are coming off a top 5 finish and their head coach has won a national title.

    Yes, CTH gets it. This is what matters to recruits who are weighing their options to try to be the most successful version of themselves. We, as Texas fans, have to take off our UT bias here. Sure, there will always be kids who grow up red ass or bleeding burnt orange who go to aggy or UT because of it, but when BLAKE F'N BROCKS kids go to Bama because of UT's current development and program reputation, that should tell you something about how everyone else else currently views Texas.

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  5. 2 minutes ago, Big Woodrows said:

    What does aggy's DB development look like though? Off the top of my head, can't imagine it's much better. This is a good analysis but not sure it was the nail in the coffin here.

    Again, DB development (which what I provided showed we underdeveloped our high-star DBs) doesn't matter to recruiting overall. 

    As far as A&M recruiting well, that's where this gets fucked up logically and easy to fix if Sark can win quickly. Negative perception goes out of the window when you can sell a coach with a national championship, a winning trajectory, and current positive results. They were one spot out of the playoff last year, and the reasons as to why don't matter all that much to recruits. The dude is selling f-ing College Station to recruits. Three reasons: winning (and winning in the SEC despite not even playing for a conference title), development, and they're getting compensated.

    Previous 5-Year NFL Draft Total:

    aggy: 21

    Texas: 15

  6. 11 minutes ago, Ricky Butler said:

    I think his issue is that it was an oversimplification. Which it was. We made Bryce's top 2. If development was the main issues, we wouldn't have sniffed his top 5.

    Everything in life is more nuanced than it appears. However, if Texas was consistently developing players and winning, Anderson would be a Longhorn. That's a fact.

    This isn't as much as "Sark sucks at recruiting" as it is that Texas has repeatedly garnered the same result over the past 12 years and is now on its fourth head coach in that time span. The program now has a large sample size that's turning into a reputation and it's getting harder to combat.

  7. 3 minutes ago, SarksJuggs said:

    We haven’t won, but we’ve had plenty of solid DB’s make a name for themselves in the NFL in the last 10 years. 

    That's one positional grouping. It doesn't really move the needle for the perception of the program. Also, many of those guys were late-round picks or undrafted. Which, again, just supports the narrative that Texas hasn't been good at developing players.

    Current NFL DBs:

    Phillips: 2014, undrafted

    Diggs: 2015, 6th round

    Elliott: 2018, 6th round

    Hill: 2018, undrafted

    Boyd: 2019, 7th round

    Locke: 2019, undrafted

    Jones: 2020, 3rd round

    Sterns: 2021, 5th round

    Now, go compare their recruiting rankings with where those rankings get drafted, on average. Spoiler alert, it's shit.

    DB is, by far, Texas' most successful grouping in terms of sheer numbers in the NFL, but when broken down by draft position, it doesn't point in our favor. This, right here, is how other schools are able to negatively recruit us.

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  8. Kids want to win, develop, and go to the NFL. Texas hasn't accomplished those tasks for shit the last 10 years. It's as simple as that.

    Here's the silver lining:

    Sarkisian just needs to show a positive trajectory (and not embarrass himself repeatedly like Strong and Herman did), and we'll be able to pluck players from other schools via the one-time transfer policy to fill in roster holes until Texas starts truly being in the conversation for championships.

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  9. 12 minutes ago, mr. littlejeans said:

    this reminds me of the time a fortune 50 IT Director argued against implementing google analytics as a short-term, additional data point to try and help them understand why they were hemorrhaging revenue at the bottom of the funnel because "it's free until it isn't." 8 years and untold amounts of lost revenue later they're still fucking around implementing their long-term martech stack vision while continuing to lose market share to smaller, more agile competitors. 

     

    5 minutes ago, immamac said:

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    BRO! Do you not even Fortune 50 IT? No wonder Surly is so far down the list of sport-fan-site conglomerates.

     

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