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  1. To build on this and to remind from further up thread - we discussed this guy contemporaneously during his recruitment as a fucking mercenary that most programs wanted no part of once they dug into to his details. He checked all kinds of red flags - multiple HS’s, talked about money first, had a helicopter dad, didn’t make multiple progressions on film, known as a “me first” guy in recruiting circles. The dude is not a “kid”. He’ll play as a 21 year old this year. He was directly involved with this whole debacle. He thinks he’s way fucking better than he is. He’s as likely to be a flame-out cancer in the locker room at UCLA as he is a productive starter. He’s not a victim. I’m going to enjoy actively cheering for him to flop at UCLA.
  2. Neuheisel’s full of shit on the one. Most guys entering the portal think they can make more elsewhere or are just doing what players have done for over a century - trying to find a sweeter depth chart for PT. Guys have been trapdoored for forever and a day. Guys haven’t been constantly asking for raises or putting a gun to the head of a program for more money each semester for over a century. That shit is new, it is built for mercenary exploitation and the players and their camps are the cause of it.
  3. I don’t get all of the hate for Jerry Jones around here. I fucking love that guy and I hope he lives forever.
  4. Sometimes pitchers just get dead arm for a bit. Nothing’s torn, but they’ve just pushed their body beyond its point of tolerance. In that kind of a case, dude’s have been out of 2-6 weeks and then can magically pitch again. Not always, but it happens. Not saying that’s the case here, but you don’t need a battery of tests to identify a torn UCL or rotator cuff. Maybe there’s a a small blood clot issue or something. It’s odd that they’re going in for further examination if it’s already known to be something legitimately structural.
  5. They talk about and so did LZ, apparently. I know we’ve all had a good laugh at what Elko and that old ass S&C rube are doing, but it really is unbelievable. They want an overweight roster, I guess to fit the image of their head coach. What’s headscratching in all of this is why they insist on getting involved with, and paying top dollar for, pass rushers. There has to be some delusion in there somewhere.
  6. 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.
  7. It’s honestly shocking how inept they look at this moment.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. Last year they whined about the lack of first round grades, as always. What in the fuck are you talking about?
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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:
  15. 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?
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