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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.

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.