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If you aren’t prepared to change your handle and lay low for awhile, I would rethink whatever you are about to do next. There are some very, very serious bbq twits on this board, and they’ll come at you with everything they’ve got if you attempt to back Dickey’s.

I’m not saying this won’t happen in some instances but that’s not the way it’s mostly been working. Take Collin Simmons for instance, or Derek Williams the year before. There were amounts agreed to and that is what both sides stayed with to the end. The Wingo’s tried to renegotiate, with Missouri gladly trying to fuck things up, and Texas held firm. The dad wanted their word to mean something in the end, and it was never fully believed that Missouri was ultimately going to be able to come up with the money. There is plenty of skepticism around several NIL allotments right now - LSU and USC being the usual idiots potentially just faking it until they make it. We’ll see. No one should have any doubt about Oregon, Ohio State, FSU, Miami, Georgia - those schools have the money to back up their offers, even if each school is working with varying pooled amounts for each cycle.

Baseball recruiting is hard to follow due to limited visibility and draft uncertainty. Rankings include commitments from players who will never step on campus. There aren’t enough CBB recruiting dorks to offer enough data for most of us to figure out what we truly believe. That said, yeah, seems like things are going well. The sands are shifting a bit regarding draft behaviors and NIL for HS recruits, and interest in CBB is allegedly on a significant rise, so maybe there’s better coverage and clarity in the future.

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Well, of course I was being ridiculous. It would have been better if my dumbass had actually quoted the correct idiot.

Maybe. Someone quoted me on to here, but I don’t mind the discussion.

I don’t mind Chuy’s via Doordash every couple of months. My kids are fine with the choices, I like the chuychanga, and I get to reload on the jalapeno ranch for $8. Every idiot on these threads attends chains and I likely visit or order from them less than most. You are a broke and hopeless dipshit, and no one needs to hear your lame “I eat at better restaurants than you” smack. I was in Manhattan last weekend and spent more than you make in a year on 4 dinners with my wife.

I thought it was really well done as a summer blockbuster. Better than the original. I went with my wife and 6 kids (some friends of the kids) and everyone had a good time today.

What in the hell do I have to do with Chuy’s, dufus?

Oh, bill. Hillstone is Houston’s. Never looked up the corporate story, but it’s the same place run by the same people and part of the same chain. Maybe there was an ownership fork at some point prompting the name change, but that was it. I also think the same is true of J Alexander’s.

One thing that amazes me with the know-nothings showing up here to shit talk NIL for Texas is that they have to be actively choosing to ignore that Texas has signed two top 5 recruiting classes in a row, and will be signing another one around that range this cycle. There's no way to logically address that reality and still claim that NIL isn't something working in Texas' favor. It takes effort to be that stupid yet entitled. That motherfucker needs to be crowdsourced. He's either completely deceitful or really, really stupid given the way he's been attempting to move goalposts in his arguments while fucking up this thread. He's worthless and I'm negging every post of his that pops up going forward.

There hasn't been a fucking moment in time, not one, in which I've argued here or elsewhere that Oregon didn't moneywhip Sharma. Going back to the original posts on NIL, when everyone everywhere was proclaiming that none of us knew anything and that it was all unpredictable, I have stated that Oregon can and likely will standalone in NIL recruiting. I've been a fucking wizard in looking into the future on NIL. There are receipts for all of this on this very forum. Feel free to go find them if you think I'm wrong or making shit up. So with that all said, go take some classes on reading comprehension. I'm betting you can access some free ones online that might help both you and us, as you dealing with your idiocy on this board, coupled with your indignance within your ignorance, is very fucking tedious. You are one dumb motherfucker and it's beyond tiresome. I am putting you on ignore and moving on, since it's exhausting and unentertaining watching you show up regularly and fire an onslaught of abject stupidity all over these threads. What many of you guys seem to think is that only NIL matters, and when something goes some school's way, it's got to solely be about NIL. And then following that, whether the recruit is a target or not, somehow Texas NIL must really suck.

Wheeler looked like a grown ass man when he was like 15. #45 Vernon Broughton? Not so much.

For normal NIL, Texas and Ohio State aren’t really any different from one another. Oregon is its own thing.

They need a patron to pull this off if the numbers are north of $250k. There's a fund for softball, but it doesn't have millions rattling around in it. OU has patrons. Arkansas has patrons. I don't know if Texas does or not. I hope so, and I guess we'll see here. Not posting this to say it can't happen, just telling it like it is.

Bobby has some great sources on NIL. The aggregate is correct. Corporate and TOF are both significant drivers. TOF does not have $20M in the coffers and Bobby knows that, so I don’t think that’s what he would have said. But yeah, the football payroll to meet is above that number. The QB room is almost a third of the real number and a majority of the QB NIL is corporate. We can probably all both expect and hope that that continues and it should. A few QB positions nationally are worth a fuckton in corporate NIL - whoever is really winning at that point in time and like 5 blue bloods with massive brands. That considered, there is always a need for more, across all sports, but things continue to be headed in the right direction on a cycle by cycle basis.

Some of it is accurate. The Alabama number is deceiving and also wrong. They’re basing that on corporate NIL assumptions that were driven by a prior period and not 2023. Bama is poor and unless they have a Heisman QB, they’re not within $8M of that number. The Ohio State number is grossly understated.

One of my favorite quotes ever, and used when I can, is "Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light" from Paradise Lost. Satan says it as a snake when he's seducing Eve to eat the apple, if memory serves. Has seemed apropos many times, including for us at the dawn of NIL, the portal, and the hopeful 30 year reign of terror for Steve Sarkisian and The Empire.

Not on the same level.

Yeah, I’m with you on WRs usually, but my friends more directly involved with the landscape are swearing on a stack of bibles that Moore is a better version of Waddle and the best WR recruit in Texas since him. Still wouldn’t surprise me if he busts though.

Outside of Moore or Fasusi, maybe so. Hell, he might not even wind up playing offense. I’ll be happy if he picks Texas today, for sure.

I’m like Fletch. At least 6’8” with the manbun.

Some interesting things to me: -I’ve stood next to Ewers. I’m 6’2”. That one is a little stretchy, I think. -Wingo is bigger than most of the backs. He’s going to be a fucking beast. -Niblack seems way bigger than I remember him while watching Bama in person and on tv last year. -I think there is some serious height inflation going on but that is probably true everywhere. -Kobe Black didn’t come to Texas in CFB shape, which isn’t a surprise or big deal, but he’s allegedly taken like a duck to water with the S&C program. -Michael Kern is a big dude at P. His coiffure may represent 20% of his body weight. -Max Merrill is still just a junior. Dude is big and rich. I guess he’s going nowhere because he’s going to be pussy slaying on that roster for two more years. Christ. -Man, if Mitchell has everything sorted health-wise and is getting his weight under control, that would be big.

I’m not interested in getting political, but your description of circumstances can get immediately fucked. Negged for attempting to absurdly minimize the assassination attempt on a presidential candidate. I get that this site is a left leaning shithole, but I’m negging if this was about either side.

I started as horndfl on Hornfans. I was never banned and simply liked my new handle idea better. Used it from like 2002 forward and never felt a need to change.