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  1. Read through Kanu's commitment thread and you'll know all you need to know. Not a fact, btw.
  2. There is one employee at TOF. She isn’t talking to Chet Ketchum or Chip Schlichter Brown. Outside of that, there are 5 board members. None of them are paid and none of them are doing the work required, or taking on the risk required, in order to be able to talk to Fatfuck and The Gambler. Some of the bigger money guys talk to some of the $9.95ers. They’d of course like to see more people helping, and TOF is a simple thing to point at for those who wish to help. A couple of these highly intelligent, highly successful, extremely helpful individuals trust Ketchum and Brown for some reason. They’ve been shown evidence to the contrary. Burton, Gerry, Nahlin, some of the MSM guys, they’re able to keep their mouths shut. Wish that was enough. It’s a bizarre headache on a regular basis that Ketchum gets ahold of something and then actively works to fuck everything up for everyone. In this instance, it’s one of those times where no one told Ketchum anything but he wanted everyone to know that he “knew” something. He had the “scoop”. Due to the fact that he is hippo fat, he cannot spot the rakes lying on the ground as he walks into them. It’s too soon on this one for anyone indirectly involved to know anything. It sounds like NIL was irrelevant here due to the guy not wanting to lose his visa and such. Beyond, the sausage-making is usually pretty fucking boring. Or just take comfort in that notion being somewhat true. There are plenty of reasons to avoid getting into details on NIL. One big reason is that we do not fully understand the ramifications in the future for the work and fights happening today.
  3. Allegedly Keys is legitimately interested.
  4. Ketchum is allegedly telling people that his NIL deal is $750k-$1M. Yet another example of Ketchum not only just spewing nonsense from his fat fucking mouth, but hurting Texas in doing so. Other boards have run with it. I’m sure it will come up in the locker room asap as well.
  5. Thanks for the education on how to read $9.95er scouting reports. I’m new at this. I’m not going to die on the Vasek hill. He’s not a tweener at 6’5”, 225 for Edge in college, though. And that’s also not causing the guy to be made of glass. He may not work out at Texas, but that shit is comical.
  6. I think it would take a lot of times in a row for the lazy math to stop working when none of those guys know. Even Ketchum and Chip Brown get fed info from random NIL participants sometimes. It’s a good get, in any event. I’m sure some of the numbers dorks will still hand wring about DT.
  7. I know Tennessee is only like 7 or 8 deep, and I watch plenty of basketball, but it just feels like they’re a first weekend special this season. Whoever they’re playing in the round of 32, I’m taking the other team in my bracket. Unless it’s Texas or ATM, of course.
  8. Lance Jackson is a ride or die guy. He’s like Arch Manning or JT Sanders. If he doesn’t think he’s getting fucked, he wants to be a star at Texas as much as anything. He could have tried to twist Texas during his recruiting cycle and didn’t do so. He’s not a schmuck, but he’s not a mercenary. While it is a good idea not to take anything for granted, it’s okay to take comfort in terms of where Texas is in every way regarding NIL compared to the field. That doesn’t guarantee any single player, but I’d rather be us than “them.”
  9. This dovetails with what the kid and dad have told folks who cover things both nationally and for Texas.
  10. I’m lazy as it pertains to Rick Barnes, but it seems like this is typical shit with his team. I know they went to the Elite 8 last year, but it just seems like they mostly wind up being better in early January than any time in March. Watching the ATM/OU game, does anyone know why the aggies are in pink in January? I thought the pink shit was for Mother’s Day weekend and October. I know it’s related to breast cancer, just seems like an odd time.
  11. Without going into details and I’ve avoided this being a discussion, but if we’re all around in about 5 years, maybe I will tell the tale of landing Simmons. In the meantime, folks had to be convinced that Texas could not lose this recruitment. “Sure thing” recruits are extremely rare. People put their names on it is with him and thankfully Texas was able to make it all happen. This year, he’s going to be one of the highest paid non-QBs in CFB.
  12. I wonder if Burden doesn’t continue to slip. There’s film, which has holes in it. Then there is the reality that his staff doesn’t love him and he’s not a great character guy. Does that all dampen the upside of how he’s going to test and measure?
  13. To further this, every school recruiting him will be able to find a way to get him in for the spring.
  14. Vasek was highly rated out of HS and coveted by big time programs. When healthy, he has put in quality snaps. Jackson is going to be great, but the whole thing where people on the football board compare the guy to Simmons is already getting old. Simmons was billed as a generational talent as a pass rusher. Jackson looks great, but generational talent isn’t his projection.
  15. Vasek won’t have much of a role because a true freshman is going to cast him aside even if Vasek is healthy, huh? Okay, then.
  16. Isn't this guy an actor? Or a player on the PGA?
  17. I wouldn't have seen his post without your pasting, so he was actually right. I find his shit worthless and he isn't worth the bullets. He's on ignore and I forget he exists until he uber-threadbombs this forum and I fail to notice until clicking on a thread with "unread" posts. I go through these periods sometimes where, if I see an ignored poster's posts popping up in pastes and they actually seem improved, I'll take them off of ignore. Some never go back, some do. There are many, however, who truly just deserve to be ignored. Chief among those is spider2ydummy. There's another high volume dipshit with just the worst fucking takes around here who is right down there with him, but he's rarely on the $9.95 board so I'll just leave it at that. Sometimes it is cathartic. The fucking spider2ybuffoon posts so much that he masks whether there's real new content or not. This site isn't always the fastest or I'm not always in the greatest areas, so it is a bummer to take the time to click on a new thread and discover that I've wasted energy on the insipid activity of a doofus. I asked a guy at the Dick's on Post Oak about the complete lack of Longhorn gear when I was shopping there during the holidays. The place had plenty of aggie and Texans gear. "Texas stuff gets sold out and it is hard to get back in stock." Made sense. The Woodlands Academy is no doubt a different thing, but in most places, folks are seeing more aggie gear because they chose poorly when buying for that cycle.
  18. Texas is recruiting him at wherever he wants to play but projects him as a CB. There's some thought that he wants to get looks at both positions once on campus.
  19. Somebody occasionally does the two button choices for the cartoon character meme in which the options are "click to catch up on new info" and "spyder2y is the only new post". I often think of that when I land in this forum.
  20. They have Christen Miller coming back, but he's also coming back off of shoulder surgery. Jordan Hall had an okay season while apparently playing through the injury. The next guys up are freshmen. Georgia recruited Kanu hard out of high school. He's spending several nights there and their mods think he's heading their way. Texas can clearly offer more PT and can match NIL. No one has a read on it from the UT moderator end, which often means Texas won't be the pick.
  21. Beard was getting whatever he wanted. Terry’s not getting shorted when it comes to chasing 5 stars from HS. He has a supportive but concerned group of patrons watching things. He’s a terrible fundraiser. In any event, Arkansas has a shit ton of NIL backing Caipari and they flat out suck.
  22. Do you think actually hazarding a guess was my point?
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