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  1. He’s a volume recruiter that can land 5 stars as well as anyone. These people negging his coaching skills are also idiots. There isn’t another coach for that position that anyone here can confidently state would be an upgrade. Also, @Codaxx saying the RB “lacks star power” is fucking dumb. Baxter was a budding star and the number 1 RB recruit in the country. His loss was discussed nationally from the day it happened through the end of the year. Gibson was also highly rated and Wisner is now a known asset with anyone covering the sport or watching games. Just a fucking dumb take.
  2. Their decline in relevance predates NIL. The rise of the street agent in the mid 00’s drove HS coaching relevance decline. NIL just iced it.
  3. That KenPom is full of shit, man.
  4. I count 15 out of 29. Where is the 31 coming from? Clearly, Gerry thinks Mater Dei is loaded and Texas can feast.
  5. No one should expect anything from him this year other than garbage time and/or special teams. He’s a true freshman on a stacked roster and then there’s the baseball. Only true mouthbreathers should be expecting else.
  6. You’re too humble. I get it. I, too, often shrink from the limelight of center stage in an effort to give others their moment. I can’t allow it here though, so I’ll let everyone see your true Longhorn patriotic commitment to the cause with the text of your last DM: “I only regret, that I have but one mouth to give for my team’s roster. “
  7. Texas didn’t have a DL coach for a big part of the cycle last year. That played a role. Oregon took the UH guy with fuck you money and then Venables went nuts for Damonic Williams. That guy needs DTs the way Catholic priests need Jesus. He’s like SuperHelobious. Texas also had signals from people around both Michigan DTs that they were thinking about entering the portal. All of that led to activity in the second window that felt sort of “meh” to everyone. Of course, just like the cycle for the 2023 season, there were a few crybabies on here who bitched about NIL letting the program down at DT and predicting the program’s near term demise accordingly. Kickers need more finesse than anything that, allegedly, Helobious can provide. @BurntOrange&White has DM’d me multiple times that he’s happy to be on deck for the team if a gentle ball gargler is needed. It might be time to call him up.
  8. Yeah, that happened after he signed with Georgia. She got the promotion shortly thereafter. Super strange.
  9. The problem with the recruiting projections is that too many idiots, paid or otherwise, incorporate their NFL projection into what a program should want as a college player.
  10. Read through Kanu's commitment thread and you'll know all you need to know. Not a fact, btw.
  11. 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.
  12. Allegedly Keys is legitimately interested.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.”
  18. This dovetails with what the kid and dad have told folks who cover things both nationally and for Texas.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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?
  22. To further this, every school recruiting him will be able to find a way to get him in for the spring.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
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