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  1. Yep. I think we all have stories like that. At least those of us who have been paying attention. I used to argue with sooners on Hornfans accusing Texas of the ol' "everyone does it" stunt. "If Texas ever decides it has a payroll to meet, you guys and the entire college football landscape are going to know it." Now they all know it.
  2. Ouch, baby. Very ouch. Too soon. Taaaaaffffeee is allegedly viewed as a middle round guy. He’s had a great season. I’d love to see his measurables at the combine. He’s been paid better than a practice squad guy this year. If he doesn’t have a grade above 7th, something could be done.
  3. It isn’t like Longstreet isn’t going to make a bunch of money at USC. The guy didn’t want to go to ATM if his home favorite was willing to take him.
  4. They’re “hearing” that they’re more likely to flip Fasusi because the agent is telling them that. He’s also the reason they thought they were getting him earlier this spring/summer. All they have to do is convince him that College Station is the place to be, that the NIL deal blows everyone else’s away and that he will be an immediate starter at LT.
  5. Unless you were born a Texas fan, I doubt you probably remember the Texas vs Hawaii cancellation debacle of 2000-ish either. That shit was completely embarrassing. I think Dodds blamed canceling it in part due to jet fuel costs or some shit. They just kept digging the hole deeper and deeper. Also, I think Texas should schedule a home and home with Hawaii. Also also, they should do that with Tulane too.
  6. Well, there we go. All of those buyouts are shameful, including UT’s. The Fisher buyout was a horrifically bitter pill to swallow for the force behind it, and what ATM traded to get that done may be something they wind up regretting for decades. If LSU actually found someone willing to front the $61M buyout of Kelly, the cost on the other side for the program would also likely be that above rubies. These deals don’t just happen due to school spirit. All of the lamenting at the media level of the notion of boosters at Texas meddling, which was largely dumb outside the Jamal/Brown bullshit, will look remedial compared to what will start happening at some of these places. That said, I don’t even think LSU could put together a cabal of folks willing to post that kind of capital. They could be dealing with Kelly on the sidelines for years.
  7. Just thinking out loud here, but it would be cool to have some sort reference area in which one of the things we house is a tracker of coaching salaries, buyouts, assistant buyouts, etc. We have the one dude with a weird handle name that does a great job of tracking eligibility for the UT football roster, @AP101S I think?, and that would go there too. I don't know, could add depth to the site that outpaces other places. Wondering what the actual size is of Kelly's contract, plus his assistants, made me think about it. I'm not lazy enough to not type this out here, but I am lazy enough to avoid going elsewhere and trying to decipher what in the fuck is real versus some coonass spitballing over it.
  8. Ha. ctj’s law #1 of the sports Internet: the longer a college football coaching discussion carries on, the likelihood of Nick Saban being invoked approaches 1.
  9. @TheContractor is a dumb motherfucker who has been wrong the whole way regarding LSU’s wherewithal in the NIL era.
  10. Maybe. Some schools will have to because they are up shit creek trying to stay competitive for players otherwise. One casualty that I expect to see quickly is the Sexton Fisher Maneuver in which horrendously lopsided buyouts in favor of the coaches are woven into their contracts. No coach is so important that they deserve a full buyout when they’re putting dogshit on the field. That idiot Woodward is hilariously the one that started that and now LSU is trapped for years with that asshole Kelly.
  11. Remember that guy who was on this forum declaratively telling us that LSU had plenty of NIL support and was always going to get theirs? I can’t really remember his handle but he was hilariously wrong and if he is still posting, he needs to be mocked for being an absolute clown. LSU has been beaten since NIL like a borrowed mule. I guess Kelly’s gambit of paying a bunch of guys for commitments early and then hanging on for dear life might be a little flawed. Who could have predicted that?
  12. Hey man, get a fucking grip.
  13. At least we’re in agreement that Die Hard, is, in fact, a Christmas movie. Now, Die Hard 2 is a different story.
  14. This is their Perrilloux. Fuck those cheating asswipes. I hope they cry themselves to sleep tonight and every night through signing day. Dirty cajun clowns.
  15. I like reading cookbooks and I use a lot of the recipes. My wife buys me a new and interesting one every Christmas and some of them are from decades ago. Or hell, Julia Childs’ stuff is something many of us have read and used. One common thread? All of them include at least one, and often, many, horrific recipes. One of The Art of French Cooking books includes multiple recipes for trapping meats and veggies in gelatinous molds. But yeah, the NYT buttermilk pancake recipe is delicious if you also use bacon grease and add vanilla.
  16. Texas had Georgia and Florida scheduled for OOC home & aways from 2028-2031. To your point, there isn't a fucking program in this country that operates more clearly in the OOC scheduling with the attitude of "we will play anyone, any time, anywhere" than Texas. Anyone claiming someone else as close to this is full of shit. No FCS teams, usually competitive "cupcakes" that go bowling, sometimes 2 P4 teams. Notre Dame, USC and Maryland concurrently, LSU, Arkansas, Bama, Michigan, Ohio State, Notre Dame (previously UGA), vacant and likely major program to replace UF, then ASU. All of these pundits can go get fucked whining about UT's schedule.
  17. ctj's law #12 of the Internet: The longer an opponent discussion thread goes on, the likelihood of it ultimately digressing into the most inane shit imaginable approaches 1.
  18. Yes, we discussed upthread why this is a dumb take and you should feel bad. Read page 1 if it helps.
  19. That all makes sense. My FIL is proudly British (as well as a proud American citizen) and grew up lower middle class and sent off to sea at 15. He still carries dreams and beliefs of the kind in which you reference. After he'd made a pile of money in Houston in the petrochemical space, he decided he was going to get himself a Jaguar, whether his wife wanted him to or not. So he goes down to a Houston dealership and gets them to let him test one out for the weekend. He's a tall, big dude. The climbing in and climbing out, along with the shifting/transmission being really jankity was enough for him to disavow any illusions he'd had of wanting to own a Jag, returning it to the dealer on Monday. Got a Cadillac instead. I hear that story every 6 months when the in-laws fly in. My uncle got rich in tech in Austin when I was a kid. Did the same thing - went out and got himself a badass Jaguar. He had it for less than a year and said it spent more time in the shop than on the road. He's long since passed away, so add another tally to your notion that that demo has mostly died off or will be doing so within the next decade.
  20. You don't have to assume anything or manufacture cause. I already told you what was happening. Don't make it harder than it has to be.
  21. I've dealt with branding and advertising and marketing, and agencies associated to all, so I cannot say that this kind of rebranding silliness is all that surprising, but I do have to admit, I also cannot figure out who in the fuck they are attempting to address here? It looks like a total repudiation of what I've always assumed was their core demographic - macho, or aspiringly macho, well to do men. What am I missing? That shit looks absurd and it is baffling that it made its way into the public eye.
  22. Generally, she's a good journalist who puts in the work to verify claims and sources and facts and wild shit like that. She's even won awards for it. Legacy media and even much of sports media could learn from her on those fronts. As a commentator on XM 84 and elsewhere, she's not normally taking a position as a journalist, and she's a Michigan alum, so for sure she's going to be far less redeeming in that context for us as Texas fans.
  23. All recruitments are equal, but some recruitments are more equal than others. There is often chicanery towards the end of a cycle, as we're seeing now. Should said chicanery involve a "must-have", a final and best offer scenario might play out. See Wingo, Ryan, in the 2024 cycle. To all others, the original agreement will stand and the prospect can make choices accordingly. Reminder that none of this is applicable to recruits who haven't agreed to anything or committed anywhere. Those guys get to do whatever they want and the schools pursuing them understand that. Also a reminder that other programs have their owns codes that they follow in how this is all handled, with nuances, of course. Regarding contracts, those would only be signed by players showing up to campus. If you take Robinson last year, he basically decided he didn't want to come to Texas due to Davis leaving. He dug his feet in, and Texas let him loose even though he'd signed documents. Not exactly NIL related, but similar. Holding someone's feet to the flames due to an NIL agreement is unseemly and likely to wind up in the media somehow. Mostly, if a guy wants to quit and go elsewhere, the player just stops performing their duties under the agreement and stop getting paid. Again, this only applies to people on a campus. Offering and signing NIL contracts ahead of a recruit becoming a player, I believe, is still subject to penalty with the NCAA and schools like Texas will adhere to that requirement.
  24. I don't disagree about anything associated to the points here except that the situation at UNC is different. The UNC boards feel an element of trapped, but they're not actively demanding an alternative. As long as he keeps winning and going to bowls, which he mostly does, they're likely to let him putt around the facilities and bitch and whine as the insecure bitch that we know he is.
  25. Travis Hunter isn't the best CB or the best WR in this cycle. Why would anyone draft him in the top 10 with his frail frame and overuse heading into the league?
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