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I feel like he’s always poor-mouthing though. I will say, I would be highly entertained by seeing the SEC get snubbed a 4th team. The hue and cry from these idiot-laced fanbases would be glorious.

Yes, that dude is legit if he is healthy.

On the coaching change end, there’s also a serious expense attached to buying guys out in terms of those getting fired and potentially those getting hired. I don’t know to what extent the aggie assistants are covered by buyouts, but we all can see clearly that they’re really dumb with their money. If they’re going to fire a guy that is owed $1M in buyout money, that is going to drawn from the same supporters helping on NIL. For a glimpse on that, I read this morning that Joe Jon Finley is owed $1.95M if he’s fired at OU. Castiglione is usually far better with his deals than any idiot involved at ATM.

Feel free to post about whoever is transferring. We don’t know who the staff might value at this point.

I view the coaching change discussion as mostly fan fiction on the aggie end. They went 8-4 and The Elk isn’t likely to be wanting to just fire guys that he hired less than a year ago due to a few losses. Sarkisian didn’t face that kind of pressure after 5-7.

There is a zero percent chance of Bama getting snubbed for an 11-2 SMU. Zero. You guys batting this notion around haven’t been paying attention. Time and again, the committees have gone out of their ways to fuck over any and all contenders for a SEC helmet team, particularly Bama. SMU brings nothing to the table over big brands with large audiences. They also do not deserve any form of benefit or the doubt. Beat Clemson or go get fucked.

It is bad TV. I can’t remember who mentioned it, but one of the analysts on XM84 said a while back that the viewership analytics showed a lot of channel changing once injury timeouts became prevalent in a contest this season.

Maybe this post and others like it are correct, but I can’t be the only guy that reads them and thinks “fuck this shit, Texas needs to beat Georgia and win the conference title”, can I?

“Fire Elko!” ”Look at Nick Saban’s early coaching years as a guide for Elko’s future!” ”Let’s go back and dominate the Big 12 like we never have before!” ”Onward to the Big 10! Trust me, we’re in talks with them! It’s happening!” Texas A&M is the Wile E. Coyote of college sports. They’re like a fucking cartoon villain. It’s greatness.

I love it when they start in on The Elk being a fatass and that’s a problem posts. That is uncut dope for me.

Regarding corporate NIL, it's already a case of have's vs have-not's. I'm excited about it because Texas is probably the largest beneficiary of this and fuck everyone else. USC could be winning with it also, but that's only if they are ever worth a fuck. That might be it. Large city, no professional competition in any sport but soccer in UT's case, massive brand, massive brands for both the city and the state as well. Ewers is making millions this season in pure corporate NIL. A proven or hyped QB at Texas is guaranteed to make millions each year and likely into the 8 figures sooner or later. Other stars on the team will benefit nationally and value for players will trickle downward. That is a hard counter for small town teams unless they've built national branding. Alabama and Notre Dame have some of that, but not many others. Even still, those programs can't connect players to local Ferrari, Lambo or Maserati dealerships. There are numerous "local" entities that exist in Austin or Los Angeles that simply do not serve Tuscaloosa, South Bend or even Baton Rouge.

You watch and read Texags daily and then bring some of those hawt takes over here as concerns. That’s not “hate watching”. That’s some sort of fetish. They’re trying to throw crazy money at Fasusi, Hilson and Townsend. They’ll finish in the top 10 by landing some or all of those guys. Elko isn’t a developer. He’s actually shitty at it if you look at draft results for him as a DC or HC. He’s a great X’s and O’s guy and he currently has a lot of NIL support. That doesn’t necessarily translate to getting better year over year. Most of their talent is in the draftable levels of the program. We’ll see how much of that is around and better next season.

New here? I was intentionally vague because the current incident is not at all isolated.

Why doesn’t the bag game exist in professional sports? When players have true transparency in how they’re going to be compensated, the effectiveness of offering their family something on the side for a pittance of that compensation, while risking suspension, isn’t going to be there. The black market currently still exists due to a lack of transparency in the process, and that causing ignorance and apprehension for the families. That opens the way handlers to get theirs.

Why do you dipshits insist on arguing with proven imbeciles who belong on ignore?

It will relieve booster donation fatigue for sure. Collectives will likely still serve as toppers to the revenue splits to go along with corporate. I would personally prefer to see collectives go away, to your point about Reid and the Chiefs. I'm just assuming that the current arms race continues, which means collectives playing a role. To put it simply, $20M+ is what it takes to have the rosters of Texas and Ohio State this year. The rev share, across all sports, is in the same range. That means going backwards for football and likely basektball for those schools and others approaching them. We'll see. I would like to see actual collective bargaining and actual corporate NIL and then hard, clear rules for under the table payments as they exist elsewhere. That still doesn't prevent a player getting $100k for an autographed jersey, but it puts a stop to the bag game, real quick. It also truly disincentives boosters from feeling like they have to post big payments as well. If LSU or ATM is busted paying a handler $50k to lock in a signee and they're banned from a postseason, the player is suspended without pay (these are professional adults getting covered in money now), and the coach is fined $500k, that shit stops. Bowl bans were one thing, but if now you're prevented from the playoffs, that's going to hurt. Once they figure out how to herd the cats and get to collective bargaining, they need to look at the NBA, NFL, and EPL for the punitive elements of deviation.

You’re missing the part where the school has nothing to do with NIL. Grasp that part first and start over. No one, not the NCAA, or schools or the government can tell an adult or a collective or a corporation what they can pay a person for an autograph or what they can pay a person to promote. Is someone out there setting those rates for Tom Cruise or Patrick Mahomes? No. And they won’t for Arch Manning or Bryce Underwood either. Those days are gone.

I was not alive when DKR was the HC at Texas. The black bolded part is reference to the academics resenting the acclaim of the football program under DKR. When he left the HC role, there were several power struggles in the aftermath, part of which was the academic side fucking with athletic department constantly, trying to descope it, disrupt it, suffocate it, you name it. These idiots didn’t realize the importance of athletics for higher application demand and quality of applicants. May those people rot in hell. Others will have to provide better details. 1) Dude left on his own. Burned out and hated the cheating. 2) Others would have to explain it. 3) Patterson allegedly had a great interview and claimed he’d happily do the dirty work of cleaning house and reducing costs. He reported into a bad/clueless regime above him. Anyone who followed the Rockets, NBA or Trailblazers knew he was going to be a complete fucking disaster. 4) The academic regime hid behind the utilization of a search firm to hire someone and they wanted it to be a black guy that didn’t cost much. Charlie Strong checked all of the boxes. That may bother folks, doesn’t matter. That is the truth of how they looked at that role for UT at the time. The boosters were fatigued from the Saban/Jamail/Brown debacle and let it happen. Stick around and read and follow the recruiting board and you’ll find a ton of stories about the school, programs, personalities, rivals, players, coaches, boosters, etc.

I am not sure what to make of what this thread has turned into in the aftermath of Mack Brown’s unceremonious firing in Chapel Hill, but it seems like there’s at least a vestige of a notion that this is also a North Carolina football thread? I don’t know. Anyway, on the chance that it is, I was amused to read that those idiots are trying to recruit Arthur Smith to the their next HC. I hope that happens. CDC is great, but for a machine as complicated as Texas athletics to truly hum, the support of the UT President and the BOR is paramount. The AD at Texas wields a lot of power, but it is not unlimited. An unsupportive and uninterested structure above the AD has served to our fandom’s detriment on multiple occasions. A hostile group above the AD at one point attempted to actively dismantle the program and did a great deal of damage in the process. Hartzell, Eltife and the current BOR working well in conjunction with CDC is a blessing and here’s hoping it continues as higher ups transition in the future. You make great points. Nebraska, CU, Miami, ND, hell, even Michigan and Ohio State, all benefitted from Texas talent while UT played with its food. It was brutal to read the top 100’s in the newspapers as a kid and see everyone leaving the state. While I am no great fan of Dodds, I do think you may be underselling his admin and business contributions as AD. Not taking away from you giving him some credit, but to build on it: My understanding, from what I’ve read and been told by the elders, is that the dude revolutionized revenue generation within college athletic departments. The LHF was the first of its kind and became a model for others to follow. Sponsorships and advertising in aggressive and new ways also drove change in the sport. This plus the LHF played major roles in making Texas the revenue juggernaut that it remains to this day. His conversations with ND and conference commissioners helped plant the seeds for conference networks. I was at a gathering in which he spoke in the early 2000s and he talked of, at some point, the viability of going independent. The small group knew him well (I didn’t) and poo poo’d this take as silliness. He looked at us with a straight face and said that having our network channel changes all of that. This was years before the MWC Network or the Big 10 Network. It kind of haunts my memories of the past 20+ years to this day. Anyways, I’m not going to go into all of the obvious negatives that came along with those innovations, hopefully everyone can see and know them and realize that some of it is still with the department, but the guy does deserve credit as something of a pioneer, with all of the flaws that come with those types.

He’s a cloak roomer. I remember reading some of the worst takes on the football board I’d seen in a while, and with certitude. They were so bad, and he continued to double down and use weak rhetorical moves to try to persuade posters, that I ended up saying “how does this dumb motherfucker have this much rep?” So I clicked on his profile. Stunningly, much of his activity and all of his rep activity was in the fucking shithole echo chamber Cloak Room. So I put him on ignore and forget he exists until he stirs you guys up again with more absolutely terrible takes.

For my part, I’ve always said you take him because he’s got 5 star talent, even if he doesn’t love football. If you can fix that, you’ve got a star. If he goes elsewhere, good luck to them making it happen and not the end of the world for Texas. I don’t really see why things like this are so hard for people to grasp. That’s not inconsistent thinking or being homers. This isn’t a board that does that. Still, every time something like this kind of opportunity comes around, we see these kinds of lazy “gotcha” drive-by posts.

I guess the key is low expectations. I went in to seeing it not expecting much and not reading ahead. I thought it was pretty fucking great. Anyone expecting a sequel to match a first masterpiece is simply not giving the sequel a chance.

I watched PTA with my wife and kids earlier this week, as per tradition. Probably seen it 10 times now and didn’t realize there was an after credit scene. I need to remember that next year.

You have a better chance of bedding Melania Trump and Kamala Harris in a threesome tonight than Purdue does of beating Indiana. Purdue is the worst P4 team in the country. Mississippi State, Florida State and Okie State would each beat Purdue by 3 touchdowns.

Syracuse plays in a dome. If Michigan somehow beats Ohio State, they don’t make the Big 10 title game. Indiana and PSU both have one conference loss and one of them goes.