Clark already has fielded offers. Texas circled back and they have been having discussions. Now they are having discussions with Hollywood also. If Clark's discussions were going really well elsewhere I expect he would have signed somewhere else already. So we may be giving him his best offer in lieu of his track record/injury history right now.
You and Revolution are clowns. They read the damn text messages. This isn't a disgruntled Stroh agent. Harris and by extension Texas are burning bridges with agencies that rep multiple players because of how they are apparently treating people. This has the likelihood of spreading and may be an explanation as to why the Michigan kids returned for less money or we missed out keeping/retaining a few players. We all understand the changing landscape of college football this year. I trust Imma and RGBIII when they report that the text messages are fucked. They aren't trusting anyone's opinions via conversation. They read the damn things.
It has to be impossible to tell these young guys that there salary demands do not match their productivity. At the same time, if you and the agent are appalled at reading these things than there is a huge disconnect between what people think is being said and what is actually said. I get wanting to place this blame on Harris, but Sark enabled Harris to do and say whatever is said in these text messages. Educate Sark and CDC and give them the chance to fix it. Then give him them a few weeks. If nothing happens, give those same texts to Kirk Bohls who likes to incinerate anything Texas positive or negative.
He may have given 30 days notice and he gave it 2.5 weeks ago. Or it could just be that his current deal may finish in February. Since he was hired in early February, I think that makes a lot of sense that he is just waiting for his current contract to end to be formally announced.
Every player that lists Texas as an option they are considering or contemplating to visit is using us for a bigger offer from other schools. Until the staff convinces them to commit here.
I guess I am in the minority that was hopeful that we got massively outbid on Coleman so we could sign the Vandy WR instead and then take the difference between our Coleman offer and what we paid the Vandy WR and overspend on Offensive line and LB.
Which is why I lost my shit on how we had a lineman come to visit and then realized he wasn't to our liking measurement wise. I get that programs and kids can lie. I also believe if you do your homework well enough, you can figure shit like that out. If the premium is on scouting/evaluation, we are failing as a high resource school. Heavily. Not just on whether a player wants to leave/jump in the portal - but on basics like size. Then developing our recruiting strategy in a year where we have Manning and are "going all in" and to do so at a position of need on a player that we are concerned doesn't meet the measurables. It still blows my mind. I am sure when we circle back to the next wave and overpay for whoever is still on the board it will be a significant improvement over our interior OL play the first six games. But that is not a high benchmark obviously.