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He’s a highly recruited and ranked running back. Are you concluding from Burton’s comment that he won’t be getting a large sum?

There is still plenty of portal news before this wraps.

Everything in this post is bullshit, right down to your attempt to admonish me about NIL and my posting habits. All of it is, of course predictable, and also tedious.

You are utterly clueless. As are those whining and bitching alongside you. Has it not dawned on you dense motherfuckers that the person who wouldn’t pull the trigger on Williams is the fucking head coach? This wasn’t a result of lack of access to capital. It was a choice around long term capital deployment made by the staff and coordinated elsewhere accordingly.

I am calm as a bomb. I don’t need to relax. Your attempt at moving the goalposts here is coming up short. You stated that Texas was a player or two away from making a run this year. That implies: 1) you don’t think they’ll be making a run 2) there are better suited teams who will be doing so in UT’s stead. If you don’t understand how context clues work and want us to believe that that isn’t what you meant, okay, I guess. After that, you’d mentioned multiple guys that you claimed Texas got beat on due to money. I responded, debunking the ignorance of that statement. Then you return and posture that you were merely talking about the Williams situation. That’s weak rhetorical shit. I don’t have temper tantrums and I don’t respond to NIL commentary that is legitimate. I absolutely have made it a habit of helping people understand where NIL is whether due to their requests or due to a post like yours, which is was misleading and unhelpful.

If a program holds performance dear to its heart, they’re going to protect it. I’d be surprised if softball or gymnastics are hurt at OU due to Venables trying to sign every DT that answers his phone call. I assume the ramifications are with the 2025 cycle in recruiting for football or with opportunities in basketball and baseball. There are few schools that can work NIL for every sport, or nearly every sport. There are more who can concentrate on football and a few other programs. There are some focused on other sports and not football. Then there are those who seem to only be focused on football. Everyone is making difficult choices.

Texas will make a run this year. That initial part of your post is just fucking dumb. The roster is as solid as any in the country. Do you think there’s a flawless roster somewhere in which every spot is manned by veteran 4 and 5 stars? If so, point me to it. If not, get the fuck out with that ignorant take. Tired of seeing it on this board. Ohio State has a shit OL and Will fucking Howard at QB. Georgia has inexperienced offensive skill players and across the secondary. Oregon just lost a ton to the draft on the skill side. Are those not teams that you think could “make a run for a title”? As to the rest, Toia and Alexander had their home schools match big offers. One of those was fucked by a Texas $9.95er. Are you making an argument that Texas should have gone in with something ridiculous for either of those anyway? The original numbers are ridiculous in the first place. Texas wanted no part of Nolen, for reasons noted here repeatedly, and money played no part in that evaluation or non-offer. Honestly, from here forward, when someone laments Nolen, they’re getting auto-negged. I don’t give a fuck if he wins national defensive player of the year at Ole Miss, the Texas staff had excellent reasons to avoid the guy. “It’s not my money” and then ignorantly touting the false notion that Texas was beaten due to money with the names you reference is a solid surly move. No one has an endless spigot. If you want Texas to year in and year out get the top classes and the top guys in the portal, discipline matters. Paying $1M for a good but not great guy at one spot not called QB is the kind of stupidity we should be gleeful about witnessing from our enemy.

I’m not going to go into too much detail for what should be obvious reasons for most of you. But here are some thoughts, some humorous. Missouri put the big offer out there. They’ll be doing more of this. It’s effective and will land them some guys. It will also make other programs really think about how much they want a player. This is usually going to be good for us. They sit on fertile terrain that has often been plundered by Ohio State, OU and SEC schools. Them being good impacts other rosters. Texas will still get who they want if they’re sure they want them - see Ryan Wingo. LSU, as we have discussed on this board, is poor. Baseball-only clowns will often interject Marucci because they are myopic and uninformed. There have been interlopers on recruiting threads over the past few years insisting that LSU will do what they have to do because they did so when only 10-ish schools were playing the bag game and the numbers were a lot smaller. LSU was able to scratch together about 40% of where this allegedly finished and that was scrambling. OU’s choices here have consequences. They focus on football, softball, gymnastics, and targets of opportunity for baseball and basketball. There are knock-on effects for robbing Peter to pay Paul. We will see that impact somewhere, probably in hoops and baseball. The player wanted LSU. They’re weren’t even close. The player wasn’t super interested in OU but the handler was. Good luck inside the new Jimbo Fisher school of roster management being deployed in Norman. Venables seems to genuinely believe that Clemson won two national titles because they had the best DLine in college football. That no doubt helped, but maybe, just maybe, having two awesome QBs that were picked at the top of the NFL draft plus elite skill talent on both sides of the ball also played a role? I don’t know. Weird.

He’ll see the field. They paid him too much for that not to happen. You don’t sign big free agents to bench them. Nolen will be out there, then he’ll be doing what he does, flashing for a play, taking more plays off, then calling for a sub or faking an injury.

To this point, the handler is getting half the dough. If you’re that weak at 21+ years old, enjoy life and don’t ask me to round up in the grocery line because your little sister can’t afford book fair.

You are assuming a level of function that doesn’t actually exist for that program.

Ha. Exactly. I have a lot of tv and movie lines that I slip in for fun. That one is rarely caught.

The best way to put it is that no one should give a shit. But you guys inevitably will, so, okay. I get it.

It’s not Jonah Williams. That said, here are a few things to consider regarding Jonah Williams. 1) If David Pierce is the coach at Texas, Williams isn’t coming to Texas. There is no wiggle room. 2) He profiles as a LB but doesn’t love contact. Wants to be a safety accordingly. 3) There is a notion that he’ll be a ratings boon and never matter to whatever campus he lands on as a player. I don’t want this dude and won’t do anything but laugh if he ends up at OU. Sark is a starfucker and wants the guy. Texas will pursue him to the end.

The handler thought it was going to be one way, but it was the other. Still guessing OU but they just may not have the money. If they win on the deal, they have depleted the war chest for softball or gymnastics and they’ve discovered more competition in both arenas than originally forecast. That shit matters. This will be interesting. @Js1

If it helps, here's a little color. The $2M number being tossed out there is total bullshit. Someone on Twitter is making that shit up. The handler is asking for more money than one school wants to pay, more than two other schools probably can pay without a bunch of pain, and what another school would pay if the guy was serious about going there. Last, best offers being rounded up now. I remain of the opinion that this one doesn't go UT's way, and discipline requires that. If it does go UT's way, all of those schools are poor and full of shit. My bet remains on OU.

No clue.

Hahahhahaha!! Please name a number you’d like to bet on 7 wins and I will take the under. We’ll have a fun bet to track all season. That dipshit isn’t passing last year’s total in a worse conference.

Spider’s thoughts that you quoted kind of concern me. I was thinking that place was a perfect fit for him and he’d just naturally migrate over there, raising the IQ of both sites in the process. The poster demographics and behaviors are shocking. I think one of every three posters is posting under their own real name on there.

What they’re telling us is they know of no reason why Texas can’t win the recruitment. The NIL is there. The depth chart space is there. The academics are there. They’re not offering up their own good vibes though, and they usually do when they have a positive inkling.

Are you a Scott Conant fanboi?

OU.

Holy shit. That looks like someone at the end of their rope.

You worry too much.

Mitchell still being on this team is stunning. I think it shows us that they really, really need bodies at DT. The guy cleaned his locker out several times, supposedly.