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  1. The same people saying that the Stone deal was screwed up before Nagy are the same ones who were claiming a few days ago that this was all intentional and that Nagy was fine with him leaving.
  2. It’s honestly shocking how inept they look at this moment.
  3. EJ Holland is a simple idiot and a pathological liar. I’m pretty stunned he still has a gig in this sport. He’s never worked a day in his life at that job.
  4. I know this kind of thing is hard for you to gather, but the conversation was around 1st round grades and how it’s a take every year that there is a shortage of them. You misread that as an invitation to tell us about overall draft classes. Some are deeper than others? Really? Wow. No one asked you to find anything. There is always someone, and that someone here is you. Utterly oblivious but never in doubt.
  5. Last year they whined about the lack of first round grades, as always. What in the fuck are you talking about?
  6. Given that Texas is loaded at safety, I’m going to be really surprised if Williams is in store for much PT this fall outside of special teams. I guess if Filsaime just doesn’t come along and they have a rash of injuries, things could change. Seems like he should be just fine playing baseball through the CWS finals.
  7. Did you watch the games, or are you doing that thing you do with recruiting sometimes where you stared at the stats long enough for them to tell you how to feel? Some guys have it. Maybe JW turns out to be UT’s version of Gregg Jeffries or Carlos Hernandez or something, but in the first two games I’ve seen of the guy, his talent pops on the tv screen. We can decry small sample size, but the guy was planning on signing as a top 10 round pick in this upcoming draft until he had one really bad showcase camp last summer, thankfully for us. His raw tools as a HS sophomore and junior were viewed as elite. That and $5 might get you a cup of coffee these days, given how MLB is viewing HS talent, but it’s also enough to tell us that, maybe, wait for it now … good college coaching might develop that elite talent into a quality college starter or better.
  8. One unlikely person helped Texas figure some things out really quickly at the dawn of all of this stuff. That person? Abraham Lincoln. … No, actually, Lincoln Riley. Why Lincoln Riley? He tampered directly with Xavier Worthy and offered him $1M that he did not have at that moment in time. The offer came with less than a day of portal window left. The Texas end had to figure out really quickly what it could do, wanted to do, needed to do, and how this stuff needed to be proactively sorted in the future. That doesn’t mean anything is perfect, but a lot of turbulence has already been put behind Texas compared to many other programs. BTW, in that same cycle, Jordan Addison took the same offer. He’s still waiting to get paid most of that money.
  9. The level of getting down in their feels about “today’s state of college football” is unbelievable now. They’re projecting the downfall of college football because they’re poor and think everyone else must be as well. Here’s one of my favorite takes today:
  10. Miami has allegedly tampered with him and offered him $1M. We’ll see if there’s any truth to that, but that’s how it is being framed on Sooner Illustrated. One of the alleged “insiders” and several of the moderators are really touting Nagy as a wizard who is going to reshape their whole org into a machine. Washing machine, maybe. The current set-up looks hilariously dysfunctional. The “GM” reports above the AD. The HC reports to the AD and the AD reports into the same role as the “GM”. That structure means the HC is absolutely fucked. He’s lost control of personnel evaluation to a wonk who cast out of the NFL personnel world. The guy was in purgatory running an annual bowl camp in Alabama with less than 10 employees and doing his own PR. That dude now controls who Venables has on staff and the make-up of his roster. He doesn’t even have to meet regularly with Venables or consult with him. “But ctj, that’s how many NFL orgs work!?!” The idiotic talking heads on XM 84, including guests from ESPN, Fox, SEC/ACC/Big 10 networks, The Athletic and so on have all convinced themselves of the argument. “OU’s ahead of the curve. This is the way things will be structured at all schools in the future. Look at Stanford as well!” Maybe. Maybe CFB HC’s are as fungible as NFL HC’s. I’m not sure I see it that way. There’s way more variance in numerous aspects of CFB that don’t exist in the NFL. One in particular is that the budget for the roster is nowhere near parity across the sport, even in each conference. OU can pat itself on the back about being disciplined and essentially telling Stone to walk with a big pay cut. Do Texas or Georgia have to do the same thing with their freshmen 5 stars going into their sophomore season? No. They do not. Who is better off by the time the ball kicks off in August?
  11. Does anybody know the last time a draft was held where all of the blowhards were proclaiming that there were actually 32 or more round 1 grades in the draft? I’m guessing it’s never happened. A lot of the purpose about “there are only x round 1 grades this year” is to make scouts and evaluators seem like they’re really fucking smart doing this super hard job. It’s all bullshit.
  12. There’s a thread on aggie 247 about Lance Zurlein evaluating the aggie draft prospects and he concludes that Turner is the best of their prospects and that all 3 will go in the first 70 picks. The thread tumbles into angst about those guys not really doing anything at ATM and handwringing about Elko and his program’s development skills, or lack thereof. Then this guy flies in over the top with an all time heater: Byew said... (original post) I could be wrong but I think the personnel was different than a typical Elko D. I think it might be far more effective this year with less talent.
  13. As Derka slowly pulls up to the keyboard and prepares his sausage-fingers to hammer out their next bloviating post, monastery dirge music plays quietly from his boombox nearby as he contemplates this being his lot on this spinning rock. Then he shouts: “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?!?” and then that keyboard gets the beating of its life.
  14. Best friends are honest and with each other. Your kid sucks.
  15. Only Jesus can climb up on a cross faster than Derka.
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