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Texas Football 2024 - We Suppose To Be SEC Texas Football 2024 - Holding Our Nose In The SEC Texas Football 2024 - They Hate Us Because They Ain’t Us I don’t know. Need to think about it.

I simultaneously believe you and know that he did indeed feed a bunch of really negative shit to media in order to frame up the situation for Casey Thompson in the best possible light. That included attempted to layer staff and organizational racism into the mix. He'd probably rather not talk about all of that, which was all bullshit. This is hilarious and what makes the Internet great. You guys should have met up. FWIW, I find what he's doing hilarious and informative. I hate OU as much as anyone, but watching statsman lose it made me laugh out loud.

I think I posted this in one of the baseball threads but never here. Brauninger is involved with a select baseball organization called, shockingly, "Twelve", and they're based, shockingly, out of Katy. After the Schlossnagle Maneuver, they announced to the parents of their organization that no players on their rosters were allowed to visit or talk to Texas. They're not a good enough organization to make that demand, but they are clearly insecure enough and dumb enough. When you see their teams, you know who they are before you can read the names on the jerseys. The coaches are all either swole fat or just fat, all with beards and many mullets, sunglasses with the connectors, usually in crocs. The dads fit the same profile, all wearing maroon at least partly. The moms are as stereotypical as you could imagine as well, jorts and bedazzled tops, "BASEBALL MOM" on either hat, shirt, or both. Baseball earrings as gaudy as a Mardi Gras float.

If you keep this kind of thing up, I'm going to start convincing myself that he might actually show up to bust somewhere in college.

He allegedly had a great camp in Atlanta this summer against top tier competition. If true, that's a driver for OTF. All 4 of their guys, GH, BB, CJV, and BM have connections to both the scouting world for MLB and to the college baseball world.

OTF talked to the player and family and their takeaway was that he'd be committing to Georgia soon and that him actually taking the OV in the fall to Texas was unlikely. Then today he comes out and says he's about to announce. Hold out hope if you'd like.

Okay, I follow. I thought that was debunked as a known NFL scam artist under police investigation already?

Can you explain in plain English what you're referring to in that last paragraph?

To be clear, if Elliott finds someone at a key point in the cycle that he has to have, and that recruit or transfer is interested in Texas, Nebraska nor anyone else is relevant at that point. He’s not allowed to just say that about anyone though.

I had a nice roast duck breast with a plum compote at a Ffrench restaurant in The Bahamas last night. I thought, as I ate it, “fuck those sorry motherfuckers”. I feel like I willed this into existence.

I read your posts and often assume that there is a high probability that you are just batshit crazy. That said, there’s another part of me where I read stuff like this and I think “well, fuck, I’m never going to that stadium again. “

To be clear, Gerry has not heard from the family that the recruit made a commitment too quickly. When I read what he wrote earlier, I read it as Gerry speak that different gurus were spouting off about that but he’d talked to the mom and she didn’t say anything like that to him. I could be wrong, but my batting average interpreting Gerry’s comments is pretty high. The bigger thing the Sharma visit indicates is that Texas came back to the table on the NIL side. Not certain of that, but it fits the puzzle nicely.

We’re all starting to understand as well as anyone that the batshit crazy recruitment can scare up some weird levels of money. Obviously this could be one of those recruitments. That said, OU has focused on football, gymnastics, and softball. They’ve overspent in football for the 2024 cycle and had to pull back a few times in heated recruitments in order to win some others. If Chavez is a $500k recruit, the first of her kind in WBB, and they’re paying that, they will be robbing peter to pay Aaliyah. As the numbers go higher, it makes their squeeze elsewhere more acute. LSU is currently making ridiculous promises to football recruits, setting the market in baseball, paying for gymnastics and WBB. There is significant doubt that they’re going to be able to live up to their promises in football and their own $9.95ers have admitted on multiple occasions that they can’t match the big boys. Kelly also admitted as much with his “we don’t get involved in bidding wars” nonsense. Does Mulkey have someone backing her that can make all of that irrelevant? I don’t know. Texas has serious money interested in ensuring that WBB is a priority in NIL. There’s also work being done to line up a strong corporate sponsorship component. My view is that Texas can win this recruitment even though Texas might not be the choice without NIL. They need to get an OV and lay it all out.

I went to CS many times while my daughter was going there a decade ago. It really did always feel like you drove 30-45 minutes through the countryside to drive right into a boring suburb of Houston with some of the saddest architecture and landscaping around. A true nothing of a place.

Yeah, it’s just something we’re going to see across all sports. Every cycle, someone, somewhere is going to go crazy for a player or two in most sports. I am assuming Chavez is going to cost a ton. I’m interesting in seeing how committed Texas is to getting her if the money is the deciding factor. WBB has a lot more support at the moment.

The rankings should for sure trend more like On3 and not at all like the shit heap that 247 puts out. Net gain/loss values plus fit for need could be pretty cool.

Texas has “nutty” benefactors in multiple sports. The football payroll for the 2024 cycle (recruiting and roster management getting us to this season) was met at a number close to the fucking Tampa Devil Rays payroll. Basketball, WBB, baseball, volleyball, fucking golf. You want to land the likes of Canady in softball, go find someone who just loves Texas and loves softball who also happens to be worth billions. $1M for a softball player is like paying a football player $10M/year out of your own pocket.

I read this on the beach today. It was well done. Multiple spots were humorous but the ULM write-up was legit hilarious.

The only risk with Terry is that Oregon decides they have to have him and make any objections moot. So the only risk is all of the risk. I’m waiting for the moment when Texas decides it’s tired of losing guys it wants in this cycle. That’s happened every cycle since Sarkisian got here. That will play a role with what you mentioned. Also, Jonah Williams sounds more and more like he’s MLB bound. Texas has as much interest in signing him for the hype and keeping that hype away from ATM or OU as they do in ever seeing him on campus.

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.