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  1. This also shines a spotlight on the difficulty of recruiting the portal in the modern age - each one of those guys was a lesson unto itself. Bond got the money and immediately came in as an entitled diva who set all time high water marks for entitled douchebag behavior. He was unfocused, was a bad teammate and the team ultimately let him hide behind an injury to save face for the fact that he was flat out benched by the end of the season for being unreliable. Golden was the complete opposite - he came in focused and motivated to improve, and he did and was a portal success story that you'd want to identify and emulate. AD Mitchell was in-between Bond and Golden - less focused and more of a pain in the ass than Golden (his NFL pre-draft comments were accurate) but not the disaster that Bond was and Mitchell performed on the field. The portal is like speed dating, with the extra variable that you don't know how the money changes players. As the system starts to mature into approaching some kind of equilibrium and more players get more money sooner, then it may well turn out that throwing more money at players in the portal who have already been paid substantial amounts doesn't run as much risk at distorting their development. Figuring out not only who is the right fit for your team or who may have untapped potential, but also who is going to be coachable and fit into a team (I.e. not just be about their own stats for their next payday) is of utmost importance, but also really difficult. It will be interesting to see how things evolve in figuring out how to value those intangibles. Guys like Livingstone and Wisner were legit good culture guys - they did their work, they played hurt, they were good teammates. That's not a given up and down the roster. It would be a mistake to overpay for those qualities or feel like you can't lose those kinds of guys, but it isn't wrong (at least in my view) to value it. I think in previous years Texas has probably overvalued it, so I welcome this development, but I also think this is an experimental time of dialing things in during a whirlwind. None of this is easy.
  2. This is exactly right, and it is good for the program to not get bullied or intimidated by this kind of bullshit and it is good for the players in the program to see what happens when guys try to pull this kind of bullshit. Too many guys have a distorted view of their own worth. They should be free to pursue whatever avenues they like, but that doesn't make Texas the bad guy, and Texas is under no obligation to overpay because of feelings. This is a good development for the future of the program.
  3. This is correct. PK had a known weakness for aligning the front with the coverages. That wasn't Gideon's responsibility and shouldn't be held against him. He's a good coach, a good communicator, and players like him. That he was molded as a player by Muschamp and has Muschamp's endorsement as a coach makes the fit even better. This is a good development.
  4. someguy replied to LTtxfan's topic in Football
    I think it is healthy. There was too much comfort and complacency.
  5. Ready to be the cheeziest.
  6. I wouldn't draw conclusions one way or another based on Cheez It Bowl press conferences.
  7. it is so, so, so very bad. Hate watching something can be enjoyable in its own right, but the writing and acting on this show - with a few exceptions - is awful.
  8. Do you actually think Texas would be so concerned with playing an experienced RB for the Cheez It Bowl that they would be leveraged into panicking and paying more for Wisner so he could play in the bowl game? If so, I can assure you that is not the case.
  9. you need to subscribe to my newsletter for that info - $10.95.
  10. Do you think you could be convinced of anything, provided enough of the world's best psychologists, psychiatrists, motivational speakers, and negotiators? Not just your opinions, but core aspects of your sense of self and how you interact with the world? I'm not trying to be confrontational or play gotcha, I just think satisfaction with this show is enhanced by exploring the questions presented around what are foundational aspects of being human - what makes people happy? the interplay between the individual and the corporate? the rational and irrational parts of humanity? Can you be loved as an individual when everyone is treated the same? Is it wrong to be dissatisfied with that (as Carol is)? - and less about looking for plot holes about the hive mind or focusing on the aliens. I'm not saying those things aren't legitimate, and everyone is obviously free to enjoy shows on whatever terms they like - it is just that the show is pretty transparently an exploration of humanity (with COVID and AI clearly serving as background inspiration) and not engaging it on those terms will lead to frustration and dissatisfaction.
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