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Transfer Cycle 2024-2025 - Handjob Helobious Is the Man!
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
More concise response that I was writing but deleted. Everyone regularly on this board should know this and understand it is part of how those involved with NIL and roster management (Sarkisian, Harris, scouts, major donors, etc.) have to think about things. -
Transfer Cycle 2024-2025 - Handjob Helobious Is the Man!
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Derek Williams is buddies with Cook and Muhammad. He's scheduled to make less this next cycle than he did as a freshman.- 8061 replies
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Transfer Cycle 2024-2025 - Handjob Helobious Is the Man!
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Unless a program and collective is run by a band of imbeciles, the money is distributed over the course of a 9 or 12 month period. One season rentals can gets as low as 4 months. Nothing is beyond a year, usually. -
Transfer Cycle 2024-2025 - Handjob Helobious Is the Man!
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I've played the role of Darth Vader/JR Ewing in some folks' mind over the year in various circumstances. The peace I've always made with it comes in two parts: 1) rationalizing how I am in the right and they're the clowns and then 2) fuck'em if they can't take a joke. It's worked out well and I see that as the right approach for us as a fanbase with how the collegiate landscape views and discusses Texas. Just fucking run amok and do what we want because we're going to hear all of the whining anyway. Regarding Niblack, they're fighting to keep him, for whatever that is worth. What has occurred that has spurred you to believe he was way off base? One guy leaving for outsized pay versus performance? Who has left that you wanted to keep besides Muhammad? Do you think Texas is finished adding players, also? ************** One thing yet to be discussed, btw, is what happens with the allocation tied to MM. I'm guessing that gets put to good use. -
Transfer Cycle 2024-2025 - Handjob Helobious Is the Man!
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It's Robert Killebrew for me. He immediately comes to mind as someone who frequently infuriated me with his asinine penalties and terrible mechanics. The thing about recruiting is that there's a lot more history supporting how programs perceive value. A 5 star can command $1M because of what they can do if they're playing the right position. Dakorian Moore picked up $1.3M from Oregon. That's the most I've heard of outside of QB, but that's also Oregon. Generally, though, by position a 5 star will go from $100k to $1M. Falloff is gradual but accelerates downward to $0 for many recruits. There are so many risks in terms of the HS recruit profile. Can they handle pussy in college? Learning and not playing much early? Getting hit or hitting others of the same talent level and size? Can they sort a playbook? Handle 100,000 people and that noise in a stadium? Classwork? Etc. So many of those perceived risks are canceled by college production. Yet, there's almost no history of paying for CFB production. What is a multiyear starting CB for a repeating CFP team worth to someone? Apparently $2M, allegedly. How about a proven Edge like the guy at SCar? $1.5M per year. Betting Simmons is now going to be in that range, probably a little higher. The list goes on, but that shit is going to continue to change and develop in each cycle. There's no proven equilibrium yet. If someone's team is one All American WR from a title, how much is that guy worth? Probably a lot more than $1.3M.- 8061 replies
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Transfer Cycle 2024-2025 - Handjob Helobious Is the Man!
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
It's kind of comical that the SEC decided to block in-conference transfers in the second window period later this spring. This isn't 2015 any more. The teams spending the ridiculous amounts on players are no longer located anywhere within that conference except for the state of Texas. The giant schools within the Big 10 are the actual threat now, dummies. It's also interesting that the volume of money allocated in acquisition has gone in a lopsided manner towards the portal versus high school for many schools. 5 stars will still paid, but the real money is set up for producers at the CFB level. That will probably accelerate. We all speculated on this premise and now it is coming to fruition. -
Transfer Cycle 2024-2025 - Handjob Helobious Is the Man!
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My view is that those guys are a lost cause. Hildebrandt came up with 20 reasons why he wouldn't participate and it was obvious from the beginning that guys putting in effort with him, God bless them, were working a dry well. I don't think Dell's ever even returned a call or taken a meeting. Could be wrong, but I don't think he's done anything whatsoever. It's often been discussed that, one day in the future, Texas will be decimated by tampering in the portal because not enough of the big money has offered to help and the big money that has is fully fatigued. The theory goes that once that happens, a number of non-participants will call in and try to bitch about this stuff, because that's what a lot of the old guys with money do when it comes to things they cannot put their name on at Texas. When those calls come in, someone is going to be able to better illustrate at that point that this day of reckoning happened because of their insouciance. Good luck with it if today is that day. I'm dubious about the viability of that theory, in any event. The price of poker continues to go up. If you're a top program, and Texas clearly is, then the war for roster acquisition and retention isn't solely with the other titans. The war exists on that front, no doubt. However, there's a second front to this thing and it's going against the Lilliputians. Any school can go crazy for one player of need, whether Colorado State, Michigan State, UCLA, Kentucky, whatever. If your program produces an inordinate amount of well-developed talent, your program is targeted more often. That means ponying up crazier and crazier totals. Texas had the biggest payroll in the sport this past cycle, along with Ohio State. Forget whatever else you read if it is counter to that. These are facts. Ohio State goes now to $30M from $25M and they have less they're trying to retain. In order for Texas to fully counter that in the arms race, it needs more than $30M in this cycle. Fuck me and fuck you in terms of expecting that to happen without serious pain and anguish from numerous corners of the ecosystem.- 8061 replies
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Transfer Cycle 2024-2025 - Handjob Helobious Is the Man!
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
I guess I'm not sure I understand what needs "rethinking" in this landscape. Texas is a have, not a have-not, but it isn't the only one and a few are bigger. If Oregon or Michigan or Ohio State wants to turn everyone else, including Texas, into a developmental school, then there's no recourse on our end. Dell, Hildebrandt and others with 11 figures are not participating with Texas. Guys like them or with even more money than them are playing roles for other groups. We cannot crowdsource our way out of that problem. He sucked in the playoffs, and that directly follows the beginning of shit talking in social media. He's been paid really, really well. If someone wants to pay something absurd for him, and he's checked out, so be it. The guy has made close to $2M since stepping on campus two years ago. We can and will get angry at whoever is buying him, but I also don't begrudge anyone who has a problem with the player here also. -
Transfer Cycle 2024-2025 - Handjob Helobious Is the Man!
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Muhammad has been talking shit about leaving and "not shorting himself again" for more than a month. I'm assuming he's gone. I assume others include Wingo and Hill with the way everyone is acting. -
Transfer Cycle 2024-2025 - Handjob Helobious Is the Man!
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Texas just signed the #1 class in the country. NIL and those aiding it aren't an issue. There's not really anything that can be done if a billionaire comes in over the top for someone or if an aggressive collective offers a ridiculous pile of cash to someone. An entire roster has to be managed. -
Transfer Cycle 2024-2025 - Handjob Helobious Is the Man!
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Sounds like everyone needs to prepare their anus and some things are about to get ugly.- 8061 replies
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Transfer Cycle 2024-2025 - Handjob Helobious Is the Man!
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I think I wrote this elsewhere, but with unlimited coaching roles available for hire, Sarkisian could easily create an "Offensive Red Zone Coordinator" position and hire someone with a proven background as a playcaller/designer in the red zone and short yardage situations. That person would collaborate with Sarkisian and have those circumstances as their main focus. The red zone and short yardage situations have been a problem from day one for Sarkisian. He's fucking inept with those concepts. If he doesn't put in the work to fix it, which is not just film study but actually needed outside thinking and influence, then Texas will never win the whole thing with him at the helm. He doesn't just need to polish up. He's incompetent and needs someone else managing the work in this regard.- 8061 replies
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: They Can't Keep Getting Away With This
closetojumping replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
Gerry's posted an in-state top targets by position for the 2026 and an OOS version as well. I've spoilered the OOS version in this post and will do the same in the next post for in-state. For the multiple posters with the attention span of a gnat and the reading comprehension skills of a dead marmot, these are lists of the very best target, in Gerry's view, for each position. Accordingly, these lists inherently exclude other players at each position that will also be targeted. Also, I like the formatting and I don't give a shit about people using dark mode or apps to read this and you're welcome. In-state tops:- 2674 replies
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Transfer Cycle 2024-2025 - Handjob Helobious Is the Man!
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Gerry’s actually reading this kind of copy? hahahahahahha -
Happy for this dude. He cared about academics and so did his mother. He got his degree. He turned out to be more of a project than early help, but he ended up being dominant at times and will likely be a top 60 pick. Now he can go get paid.
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Transfer Cycle 2024-2025 - Handjob Helobious Is the Man!
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Burton is saying that Sarkisian likes where they're at with the WR room at this point. Evans would be a speed guy for returns. I've heard similar thoughts on the WR room and most of the roster. That's a change from this fall when the word was that they wanted to find a speedster to add to the WR room. If all of that is true, it tells us that the mix of Wingo, Moore, Niblett, Butler, Jaggerstone, Lockett, Ffrench, Terry, Dubose and McCutcheon is revving the staff's engine, for better or worse. I agree with all of this. I don't want draft eligible guys with the hope of getting drafted heading elsewhere in CFB. That said, don't be completely blown away if Blue does somehow join the portal as well in the next two days. Allegedly his NIL ask is absurd, but that's not coming from usual places so take it with a grain of salt. I would love to see Golden go early and as many longhorns get drafted as possible. Golden is the 4th highest rated WR on their Big Board, behind only McMillan, Burden, and Egbuka. Bond is the 11th highest rated WR and number 79 overall. They view Hunter (#1 overall) as a CB. I haven't read up on how this WR class is regarded by the scouts and such, but it looks like a really weak class to me. Burden looks like he's straight out of central casting as an early 1st round bust. I watched him many times this season and he's the worst kind of bitchass prima donna WR. That's an easy guy to root against. -
Transfer Cycle 2024-2025 - Handjob Helobious Is the Man!
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I don't know how often PFF updates their big board, but they do update it regularly. Currently, they have Golden as 23rd on the board for all of draft eligible CFB players. For RBs, they have 29 players ranked in their top 300. Blue is still not listed as one of those top 29 RBs for the draft. Trevonte Citizen, formerly of LSU and currently at McNeese State, is the 282nd ranked player and last TB listed. There are names up and down the list that we'd all recognize, and plenty of them are also very fucking fast. Not saying it can't happen for Blue, but he better hurry up and get on that grind, cousin. What other site? Your handle is new, albeit your posting behavior familiar, and we don't know what to trust coming from a post like this. You could be citing any idiot. -
Transfer Cycle 2024-2025 - Handjob Helobious Is the Man!
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Transfer Cycle 2024-2025 - Handjob Helobious Is the Man!
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The guy wasn't writing with the notion that victory is certain. We all can concede that winning a national title, especially now with the playoff, is very fucking hard and will require either: 1) a confluence of luck, skill, and schedule or 2) a loaded roster, the likes of which come along every 4-5 years for one team, and in today's era of the portal and NIL, we've yet to see evidence that that can continue to happen. -
Transfer Cycle 2024-2025 - Handjob Helobious Is the Man!
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You're also expecting David Aaron's big breakout game to be next week against a slow secondary for Iowa State. Just send that speedster deep! Gerald Hansen is about to use that elite speed to streak past the Oklahoma State secondary and propel us to glory! If speed were all that mattered, sure, he's drafted late. Maybe the Raiders go for it. -
Transfer Cycle 2024-2025 - Handjob Helobious Is the Man!
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
Go ahead. Let’s have a neg off. Your whining here about something that is readily part of the miasma of discussion in this thread is as much of a drag as us discussing a guy’s draft prospects who may still also declare himself to the portal. That’s an over the top reaction due to your own personal preferences. -
Transfer Cycle 2024-2025 - Handjob Helobious Is the Man!
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I will bet you any amount of money that you’d like to risk on this premise. Just tell me the amount and I’ll take the other side of it. -
Texas Women’s Basketball 2024-2025 - We SEC Ready
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It’s not like I’m writing an AA off or something, but Booker has yet to have a big game against a title contending opponent. She needs to show up against one of those before she proves herself to be Jeff Bagwell. -
Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
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WTF are you doing, man? -
Transfer Cycle 2024-2025 - Handjob Helobious Is the Man!
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I’m still not in a spot where I can be my usual nice and polished self, so I’m just going to be brief and say that this is a terrible fucking take. You clearly haven’t looked at the RB list for this draft. The fucking stud RB from UNC is ranked as low as the late teens by some services. There are known hosses all over the top 30 this year. Blue ain’t one of them. He will need to run a low 4.2 to get into the top 20 and he’s not Xavier Worthy.
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