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He did. Producer whispered in his ear and he corrected it. Who really believes Klein drove to Lincoln to recruit Martinez? Sheesh.

Oldest played HS lacrosse and we went through a handful of the recruiting roundups when he was a senior. One was managed/hosted by Gerry Byrne, who was a Notre Dame assistant at the time. During the recruiting info session, he said exactly that. In fact, a very good portion of the UND team that year was paying near full freight to go to Notre Dame and be a D1 athlete. Only 1 guy was on full scholarship - and he got it for being a football player. He did not directly say it, but the implication was that you are better off spending money on SAT prep than lacrosse prep if your primary objective is scholarships. I've mentioned before, but same son played MCLA (fairly competitive club) lacrosse at UT. You had to pay to play (need to pay the coaches, travel, etc.) and the team was chock full of players from all over the state, California, and the occasional D1 transfer. Most years, they were quite competitive, as were OU, Texas State, and Aggy. One year, they played BYU and Utah. Utah was 1 year away from being D1 and thrashed them. That team was the epitome of lacrosse - undersized, athletic, skilled, rich white guys. Back to @Codaxx point.... My son was one of the larger players (not as big as Burke, though) and he could really take advantage of weaker competition with his size. He'd camp out on the crease and an attack or middie would wait for a double-team and pass it off. Many a goal were scored using that tactic. You get the shit knocked out of you a lot, though, with that tactic. And against more skilled competition, you'd revert to a decent offense.

In Austin, Henna Chevrolet will pay $500 over Carmax offers. Aggy is taking the same approach: we want you and will pay you $X or Y% over the highest offer. They let everyone else do the hard work of assessing market value - then outbid.

Yeah - screw Brian Davis. Unwilling to give his own opinion on Marion - a clear positive addition, but will give an opinion if it is negative on Texas. All he had to do on this is remove the word "considered" and he creates a positive spin - and it is from his perspective. Lest we believe this is a headline writer's fault, here is the 2nd paragraph: It's an overall shitty sentence that is capped w/ zero ownership of anything. "considered" and "what he calls" are ways of deflecting ownership. I'm no professional writer, but this reads a bit better: More succinct. Active voice.

Just received an email that Disney and YTTV have settled. The suffering is over - for now.

If ESPN were not a subsidiary of Disney, I could have seen them going to a sub-only option years ago. For many customers, ESPN is the only reason they have cable. A streaming subscription only option would definitely change the dynamics - if such a thing were to ever exist. Most of the cable providers are the "rails" for broadband delivery. The prices/costs of broadband delivery are somewhat balanced by the revenue going into cable. The back-room conversations between Disney and Google are not necessarily as important as the backroom discussions between Disney and the large broadband and cable providers. Streaming ESPN to me over YTTV is provided by Spectrum - and I am only paying for broadband. I suspect these guys are pressing Disney to put the screws to the major streaming providers. Guys who "own the rails" here are the ones with the real power - for now.

It might take about 50 years for that plan to take effect. Anyone over 10 years old knows to type disney.com or espn.com to figure this out. I might try the free 30 days HULU sub.

Thanks. Mis understood your statement....

What is his major, then? Seriously curious.

I should have added, "Yeah @Fondren & Main was correct."

2002 was Mack's best class. 26 players. https://247sports.com/college/texas/Season/2002-Football/Commits/ Young, Wright, Blalock, Harris, Pittman, S. Young, Dibbles, Ross, Thomas, Studdard, Sendlein, Robison By my count, 12 of them were "hits" in that they had significant/notable playing time. What is exceptional is that 10 of them played in the NFL. Perhaps interesting to only me: Brian Pickryl, 5* DE ended up graduating with a BS in biomedical engineering.

Not exactly a ringing endorsement of Urbs by either Griffin or Lawrence. Without saying he's a bipolar asshole, they are saying he's a bipolar asshole. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/32884789/jacksonville-jaguars-qb-trevor-lawrence-says-coaching-change-gives-locker-room-focus After 11 months of missteps, mistakes, embarrassing moments, anonymous reports of strife within the coaching staff and between head coach Urban Meyer and players, the Jacksonville Jaguars just want a little peace and quiet for the rest of the year. That's why quarterback Trevor Lawrence and cornerback Shaq Griffin are happy that the team named offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell as the interim head coach after firing Meyer early Thursday morning. Bevell is the perfect antidote to the chaos that has gripped the franchise almost since the moment Meyer was hired in January. "He's very even keel," Lawrence said of Bevell, who also served as the Detroit Lions' interim head coach for the final five games of the 2020 season. "Always the same person never gets too high or too low. That's something that I respect and that I can level with. "So I'd say that's the biggest thing that we need right now. Someone that's consistent and just to move forward and push past it."

In the same post, he says Tom Herman is certifiable and certified. SlidellCajun might need to review his position.

I agree w/ you about his skills vs. the competition. Texas, A&M and others in that division would consistently get former D1 guys to join the team. That said, the lax coaches would likely allow him to play, but I cannot see why he would risk injury. There are a lot of freaking meatheads that play on some of those teams.

My oldest played lax for Texas's club team (there is no NCAA team at Texas) and has done some youth coaching in the Austin area. He helped with Westlake on occasion and told me about Burke when he was in 8th or 9th grade. Ethan Burke is a legitimate lacrosse player for Westlake. His father is the varsity coach there, fwiw. As a freshman in 2019, he played on their top varsity team and was an all-state player with 32 goals and 12 assists. https://www.facebook.com/WestlakeLacrosse/photos/congratulations-to-ethan-burke-all-state-selection-at-midfield-/2313725372055397/ After his sophomore year 2020, he committed to Maryland lacrosse, a legit program. He has since decommitted. https://lacrossebucket.com/2020/09/15/maryland-adds-lone-star-state-attackman-in-2022-class/ He was all-state in 2021, too. There is almost zero chance he is a 2-sport player at Texas If I recall, there are 11 scholarships for lacrosse, typically shared among the 40-50 players on the roster. Football is definitely a more lucrative path.

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Agree re: Kiffin. He's a really good coach, but not necessarily worth the risk, esp. at a school with a reasonable reputation. And I typo-d in the earlier message. They lost to Iowa St.

I think we will all agree that Mullen needed to be fired. There was really zero chance of salvaging him. Aside from Napier, who would have taken the job? Folks like Fickell, Cristobal, Kiffin, Aranda, and Mark Stoops were named, but who would have taken on the rebuild? AND, many of those folks got extensions/raises at the beginning of the carousel. UF invested heavily in this. Over the next 7 years: $51mm for Napier, $53mm for assistants, $35mm for additional staff. If they fire Napier early, he will get 85% of his remaining contract with zero offsets. Napier had only 1 signature win against a top-25 team (2020 Iowa) and did not have any bad losses in his final three years. Most of the other G5 up-and-comers have a few stinkers in there. Who should they have gotten that might have been better? And would it have been better?

I have visited Columbus 2 times for 2 of my daughters' college visits (no pics, you animals). I agree that Columbus had the Austin 80s/90s feel. However, I want to be clear that I did not tour the entire footprint of Columbus. I visited the parts of Columbus with brew pubs and recently renovated restaurants (High St, etc.). Also, there were very few times (none?) where I reflected that my son should have attended (because of all the attractive womens). Everyone we met was pleasant enough and I was convinced that the assholes I met at tosu/Purdue in 2004 and tosu/Texas in 2005/2006 were t-shirt fans or just assholes. That all said, Columbus has the feel of 80s/90s Austin without the pleasant and attractive people. And with shitty weather.

I think this is her: https://crossfitaggieland.com/wod/get-know-trainer-kori/

And there will be a whole new slate of co-eds and boosters' wives to pursue.

Here are the DFEI rankings for Clemson and OU since 2008. Note that Venables' final season at OU was 2011. Advantage: Venables.

One good way to do this is review NFL draft information. It is the best way to assess talent level at the schools. It's not clear if it is recruiting, development, or both. Moreover, there is almost no way to determine the root cause of the effectiveness of talent acquisition: bag game, charismatic head coaches (Swinney > Stoops), etc. Venables' final year at OU was 2011, so he had considerable contribution to folks drafted through the 2014 draft. Here are the OU defensive players drafted from 2008-2014: 2008 - Curtis Loftin (LB, 2); Reggie Smith (CB, 3) 2009 - Nic Harrs (s, 5) 2010 - Gerald McCoy (DT, 1); Keenan Clayton (LB, 4); Dominique Franks (CB, 5) 2011 - Quinton Carter (S, 4); Jonathon Nelson (CB, 7); Jeremy Beal (LB, 7) 2012 - Jamell Fleming (CB, 3); Frank Alexander (DE, 4); Ronnell Lewis (LB, 4); Travis Lewis (OLB, 7) 2013 - Stacy McGee (DT, 6); David King (DE, 7) 2014 - Aaron Colvin (CB, 4); Corey Nelson (LB, 7) The defense was good, but not stocked with NFL talent. I'l leave the deep dive into Clemson NFL draftees to someone else (or I'll look at it later), but here are some highlights 2016 - DE in 1st; LB, 2 CB in 2nd; LB in 4th; DT in 5th; S in 7th 2017 - CB in 3rd; DT in 4th 2018 - 2 defensive players drafted 2019 - 3 DL drafted in 1st round, 1 CB in 2nd round; 2 more from defense drafted later 2020 - LB, CB in 1st round, LB in 3rd round; S in 4th; 2021 - zero players from defense drafted Again, I have no idea the root cause ($$, recruiting, development). However, I see the players at Clemson as being far superior to what he had at OU.

This needs to be reinforced. In 2019-2020, Texas football generated $146mm in revenue. Of that, $44.1mm was from ticket revenue, $33.6mm from football donations, and $26.6mm through licensing and sponsorships. Dropping 2 games likely means dropping an average of 1-1.5 home games per year (some of those out-of-conference games are home-only; some are home-and-home). That would impact each of the above numbers by 15-20%. Moreover, most conferences split the Champ Game revenue. Most P5 schools would prefer an additional home game and the revenue from the conference championship game over the paltry income generated by 2 weekends narrowing down from 12 to 4. Matchups of Baylor/Oregon or Cincy/Pitt are largely uninteresting to the masses. They'd get horrid ratings in most of the country - and imagine that Oregon home game starting at 8P PST. Ugh.