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Tell us the story about getting punched at Kyle.

He doesn’t love football, he thinks he’s a safety and he isn’t, and he’s going to cost a fuckton in NIL. Let OU or ATM waste their money for the borderline 5 star ranking.

If you read their breakdown of its “success” and then how they handle transfers, the former raises eyebrows and then the latter rolls the eyes. Regarding “success” of the ratio being a forecaster of success, they include Michigan from last year, whose ratio was like .54 and one or more of the Clemson teams whose ratios were also below .60. Conveniently, for the number to be “debunked”, someone would need a number below .50. Okay then. On transfers, they basically say it hasn’t mattered and would be a lot of work to change. Then they laud all of the media services and talking heads who use the numbers as gospel. The truth is that it’s an easy story each cycle to digest and then pontificate upon and that’s what works with the idiots in sports media. I went through yesterday while listening to a conference call and did ATM’s quick and dirty real numbers and they’re like a .45 for this season. It’s wildly off from the posted numbers. That doesn’t help ATM at all, btw. If they don’t post a great w/l ratio this year, they’re going to be harshly mocked for “not developing talent” like the others with high numbers. One other thing is that I am not even sure if they use a composite system. I think they just use the 247 independent rankings because both groups are CBS subsidiaries. If my memory is correct and that is true, it makes the “data” even more flawed.

It doesn’t account for attrition and it ignores incoming transfer replacements. Half the blue chips or more that ATM, for instance, is getting credit for are now playing elsewhere, like sweet and levelheaded Chris Marshall, who is now at Boise State.

@RGBIII this has to be a relative, right? I think the guy is fine. He’s going to have his own POV but he’s fine defending it, even we’re all laughing. He’s not just on here flaming and trolling, as of now.

I wouldn't read into Texas not getting those guys because they've been moved to "maybe". Regarding Petitjohn, it looks like it comes down to whether or not Texas feels like they've flipped Faraimo. If they don't see it, they will likely make a major push to close Petitjohn. Might be wrong, but it's reading like that, and that Ohio State has made a big push for Petitjohn and that entails having to step up on NIL to get him. On Fasusi, he's the OT version of Dominick McKinley from a "does he love football" end of things. OU's hosts took him out at night and did some wild shit and that has him enamored. Texas wants the dude regardless and there is UT support in his camp. I think landing Brooks is a big fucking deal if they do that, and that would offset a Fasusi loss. You'd like to have both, no doubt. Fasusi is good enough to still wind up in the NFL even if he's got higher priorities than pancaking DEs. I think the Rogers recruitment gets really interesting if Fasusi really starts trending away from Texas.

Not many posts on here but the quality of them is high. I think you guys are looking this correctly in that: 1) At some point, too many is a risk. 2) It removes the "but can he recruit?" question for key staff. If you've got bad ass recruiters, let a nerdy coordinator, you know, coordinate. 3) For sure thinks this leads to improved special teams from the more progressive programs. 4) Many schools will have to make hard choices about paying additional staff or pushing more into NIL. Won't impact Texas or Ohio State and some others, but will many of them. I think we'll see more micro-positional focus such as IOL and OT specific coaches with one of them being the head OL coach. I could also see a micro staff of 3-4 guys for some rosters working with the 3rd and 4th string players on more specialized development. As the season hits, those guys can wind up just being ground up or ignored and this might help offset that for forward-thinking programs.

Bill Superman is one of the more hilarious, unaware, and unhinged posters they have. I love it. The funniest part about all of these takes on integrity and doing things the right way is that ATM has, repeatedly, cheated throughout its history. They just signed and destroyed the last and greatest bagman class of all time. They just did this and are reaping their just desserts from it, and yet that is lost on them as they speak indignantly about a guy taking a job for another entity for a better environment and more money - something that happens all over this country everyday.

Based on trends as of now, yes, I think Sharma picks Texas. I wouldn't bet a mortgage payment on it, however.

That brings up another point which is that some guys are legitimately looking at the depth chart and saying “I may not play for two years?” and weaker rostered teams are hammering that as well.

Pondered it a time or two, sheerly out of ennui at that given moment. However ... This. I'm not sure it would be any fun because most of the posters over there are true morons. I still remember when all of the LSU posters came over ahead of the Texas/LSU game in 2019. These were some of the dumbest people I have ever encountered on the Internet. It was a fucking beating to navigate their idiocy just to offer any kind of retort that they could understand as intended.

This was my thought. It's like there was a team of writers and PR people working up the talking points and PC outline for Schlossnagle and part of it read: "-35 minute mark: run over ATM repeatedly for 5 minutes" and then a screenshot of that was emergency-looched. From there, we have Pinhead Buchanan screeching into the parking lot at Bellmont as one of the hubcaps goes flying off of his Buick Lesabre. He'll go storming into the press conference and demanding answers, dammit! It's fucking hilarious.

1) If people are ever looking for some sort of moral inspiration or sense of congenial camaraderie with head coaches of college or professional sports, that's their fucking problem. Getting tied to a highly paid employee, expected to win at the highest of levels, in an emotional way is fan idiocy at its finest. Win or get the fuck out. 2) Texas Baseball is a place where the "win or get the fuck out" mentality should be absolute. There's history and trophies to support that. With the portal and NIL, the expectation should always be to "win now". 3) Is there some sort of time in which high expectations are not met and yet circumstances didn't get ugly? What in the fuck are you even handwringing about, grandma?

Kendall Rogers came onto Full Ride today to discuss the changes with Childers and Neuheisel. Rogers never disclosed that he's a red ass aggie and then proceeds to run down the whole thing in the most "Schloss is a friend but he's also clearly evil, as is Texas" ways, with Childers, a long time "Texas is overrated and mean" whiner, egging him on and nodding in unison. Neuheisel, who is no Texas lover but actually a pretty damned good radio and tv guy, kept pointing out that Texas had no incentive to leak the Pierce firing and that, instead, hear me out here, David Pierce did. They dismissed that and went with the "Texas is petty" notion instead. Neuheisel followed the same approach to the Hurley to Lakers drama. He eventually got one of the other national basketball writers, on air, to agree that, yes, the agenda was there for Woj/Lakers/Hurley to all gain from trumping up the entire story. He's getting fed info, clearly, that Texas wasn't the firing leak and he kept pushing back on thoughts otherwise. Eventually, because he cannot help himself, Rogers started waxing on about how ATM is a parallel baseball program to Texas in every way, and that Schlossnagle merely left in order to hang out with his besty, and who wouldn't do that? Childers couldn't wait to agree and Neuheisel just avoided the fight. So, yeah, the bluest of blue bloods in college baseball just drank its little brother's entire milk shake and sits atop all but one of the records for the history of the sport and its equal now to a program that has never won a fucking thing. Also, Rogers claimed he'd known about all of this April. Matter of fact, just lied right there on the air even though his entire posting history since April says nothing of the sort and he would have absolutely been posting about this move in an effort to prevent it if he had even an inkling of it.

I've said all along that this is likely a top 5 class. I just referenced two guys that I think Texas is about to get who help fulfill that prophecy. I've pushed and been pushed back on regarding the approach at DT, but have zero other complaints. Also, there's a really good chance that Sarkisian has actually gotten religion on NIL focus for DT. If that's so, Kenny Baker is going to look like a wizard and a bunch of folks are going to declare victory on his sheer recruiting prowess. I don't think much else needed to change. Texas is going to have to pass on a number of recruits because they like other guys better and there's only so much space. That is true this cycle with LB, DE, WR, OG, OT and TE, at least. The board should be careful how it interprets decisions of some of these guys. WR is a good example of my point. Ffrench isn't announcing soon. Johnson and Lockett are. The gamble may well be, and looks to be, to let Lockett make whatever choice he needs to make without a further push. There's also a ceiling for how far Texas will go for Johnson. They're not guaranteeing him or anyone else playing time. Texas is all in on 2 5 stars for good reason and will see where the chips fall for the 3rd guy.

SEC Rant was soaring in some rarified air last night. They were all over the map in terms of how to feel. Some gloried in the balldragging across ATM’s face, some pitied them, some felt threatened by Texas and some felt all of that. A few were just in bravo-level awe, mostly Georgia fans. LSU people were the best cross section.

Bama is doing fine so far. They don’t have what they need in NIL to manage their whole roster and the Saban discount is gone. It will be interesting to see how that plays out through the rest of this recruiting cycle. Townsend and the Levantine sandwich will validate this shortly. I can just feel it and stuff.

Pretty sure I started that. It was a lot of fun but no longer has a place unless another FB coaching search is needed. Remember like 500 times this year when people showed up to blame NIL and not how Pierce handled the roster and allocations? Super weird. That shit seems to have faded for some reason.

It really is unbelievable. The immediate stanning for the guy on the forum is one of my favorite parts of aggies being served a shit sandwich. An army of imbeciles can’t wait to brag on Liucci’s stoicism and bravery against all odds. Awesome. Again, it is crazy the speed that this is all unfolding. I knew they would get to the notion of lawyering up and demanding their day in court, but on day one? Wow. Every aggie trope has been released from the trope trap at the same time. It’s like a scene from Ghostbusters.

Problem is, we don’t really want Jonah Williams.

I knew it wouldn’t take long, but some of this is really moving at warp speed: 1) Liucci claiming to have known the whole time. 2) Aggies claiming that Schlossnagle cost them the series. 3) Aggies beginning the process of arguing that Schlossnagle is a tu spy that was sent there to sabotage their shot at a title. This keeps getting better and better.

I’m betting on Bama. All things equal, he goes to Bama. I haven’t heard of a request to make things unequal in Texas’ favor.

Again, I say take it all with a grain of salt, but allegedly there are serious talents aware of what’s about to go down and will be portaling if it is announced. Sounds too good to be true, but random people with usually good info keep saying it. It’s fun to think about, regardless. With the certitude coming from OTF, my view, which isn’t informed, just guessing, is that they have been given details for their article, which will be posted the second the UT press release drops. I don’t think they’d be talking the way they have without some concrete data to work with, as Bobby and Gerry are simply too seasoned and too experienced (ie., they’ve been burned enough) to be doing so otherwise. So, that considered, I guess a 10 year deal may damned well be real.

The numbers floated for the past 10+ days have ranged from $30-$36M and up to 10 years. Could that be the case? Maybe. Could a game of telephone have been played? I think that is more likely the case. The contract likely isn’t that long and the numbers likely include the packages for assistants and supporting staff. Commitments in facilities upgrades and NIL are not a part of these numbers but will be a part of the overall deal, supposedly. If it really is a 10 year contract, count me in the group that think that is overkill. I’m hoping the truth is a smaller period of time and the numbers include the whole team. Reset the market for each level, fine, but is there is a HC in CBB making over $2M yet? Fine, go to $2.5M and then go bonkers with the rest too. Build a moat without looking desperate or ridiculous.

I wasn’t trying to be provocative with my post. I thought it was pretty well understood that the assistants were coming.