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The annual Liucci Sunshine on the offense . Can we have someone, maybe the Rogue Shop can do this, point out to me when my hair gets that little rat tail coming out, like I had during the entire Bucky McMillan interview? My hair was coming out of the back of the hat, and it was a tuft of hair popping out. Marcel Reed has come a long way. He looks so comfortable. He's getting it out quick and getting into less trouble. Only the games will tell, but I still want to see deadly accuracy down the field. I like a guy who can run and create so many problems, and you can give up a little bit in terms of being a passer. Some guys can't throw as accurately as others, but because they can run so well, they're still weapons. Jalen Hurts is like that. Sometimes, Josh Allen is like that. My issue with Reed last year was he was spraying it around beyond 10-15 yards, and it was hit or miss. You have to square that away because you have to have the consistent big-play element. The throw from Reed to Noah Thomas against Auburn, it’s about if he can do that consistently with A&M's running game, Reed's ability to run and with Collin Klein drawing things up to get rid of the ball quickly. A&M is going to miss Thomas, by the way. Watching these receivers, it's a better receiving corps. If Thomas' decision doesn't work out for him at Georgia, it's going to be a disastrous one for him and A&M. I didn't like that move after his best year here. A&M will try to go get somebody else, potentially in this upcoming portal window. Jerome Myles is an interesting guy. Looking at this receiver unit, I see a lot of speed, but I don't see much size. They're going to be little at receiver. KC Concepcion is muscled up, but he's not tall. Mario Craver is small, but he's very fast. Ashton Bethel-Roman is slight and skinny, but he's very, very fast. Concepcion is explosive as hell. Terry Bussey has missed some practices. You'll have Bussey, Concepcion and Craver, who has a different gear. Bethel-Roman is the same way. Izaiah Williams has made some catches lately. I would throw in Amari Niblack because he's a weapon that is called a tight end, but he's going to be a hybrid tight end-receiver. Damn, he looks good physically and catching the ball, getting upfield. I don't know what was going on at Texas other than him being behind Gunnar Helm, who was one of the best tight ends in the country. Maybe it's that Holmon Wiggins is his guy. That group of pass-catchers will be a big step up in terms of speed, quickness and play-making ability. The only matchup problem I see is potentially Niblack. However, their speed is scary. Maybe Myles can be a matchup problem when he gets here. He's got good size and runs a 4.10 40-yard dash. He's coming off an ACL injury suffered in October, but he should come in running and playing. You trust true freshmen when they're here in the spring, and you would've loved to have him here in January. This is going to be a fast group of receivers. As a unit, the tight ends might be the most improved group on the roster this year. Just the depth and physicality of the group. If you count Niblack, you have a true hybrid receiver. You've got a guy who can make big catches up the seem in Theo Melin Öhrström. You’ve got Nate Boerkircher, Micah Riley, and Eric Karner is here. I like that room, and you have a true freshman who, if you just looked at Kiotti Armstrong, you'd go, "What round is he going in?" It's a nice group of tight ends, and there's a lot of physicality there. Boerkircher could be a sleeper portal pickup that benefits you a lot more than people realize just from what he might do for you in the running game. Offensively, we've talked a lot about this offensive line. We know what they have coming back. We know what they have with the experience. They've been good this spring. The defense had a really nice scrimmage last week. I did a write-up. It was the offense. We'll do defense later. We'll talk defense maybe next week. I think the offensive line is going to be strong. I think the running game is going to be potent. I think they're better at receiver, but I wish they had size. That concerns me. They don't have this big outside threat, and that's where losing Thomas hurts. So much of this is going to be Reed's development and his leap. He has to. He did some nice things last year, but he wasn't close to good enough for A&M to win 10 games, or even nine, on that schedule. To get to 10 and in the playoff or nine and show noteworthy improvement, Reed has to make a big leap. That's understandable. I believe he can. I believe he will, but he has to do it. When you see the great plays, the running ability and the instincts, you realize what that could look like when he puts it all together. It's a lot on him, but shame on you for letting everyone get a glimpse of how good you can play because now you have to do it consistently. It's a high bar, but you're not winning in this league unless you have a top-five quarterback in this conference -
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Billy!! Now that Oklahoma and Texas are in the SEC, I want the SEC to be the best conference in every sport. Things like the playoff berths, those final spots in the field and the benefit of seeding, I want the SEC to be thought of as the best conference. I no longer care how any of them fare in the postseason for that carryover effect. The SEC is going to be fine in baseball forever. I think it's going to be the SEC and the Big Ten for perpetuity in football. In basketball, as long as they have the caliber of coaching they have now, and NIL is where it's at, and with conference realignment, I don't think they'll typically get as many in the NCAA Tournament as they did this year. For me, as an Aggie, it was way less about SEC pride. I want the SEC to dominate the bowl games. I want them to dominate the non-conference matchups in the regular season. I want them to be lightyears ahead of the Big 12 in baseball so that when it comes down to whether or not Texas A&M or Texas were going to host a super regional, playing in that league would give them that little bit of extra in terms of perception. Being in the SEC was a massive recruiting advantage over Texas and Oklahoma. Did Texas A&M capitalize on that advantage? No. Clearly, they did not. It is an awful failure that in that amount of time when Texas was going through the end of Mack Brown, Charlie Strong and Tom Herman, and the first couple of years of Steve Sarkisian, which were not good. Texas went 5-7 with a six-game losing streak, and then I think they went 7-6 in Sarkisian’s first two years. A couple of years of Sarkisian, a whole tenure of Herman, a whole tenure of Strong and the last couple of years of Mack, and the Aggies couldn't capitalize. A&M was in the SEC in 2012. They couldn't build on it in 2013. Once or twice, they had a chance to be special. Texas is your arch-rival in recruiting. Always has been. Always will be. They were down, and you were almost over the mountain top after that first year in the conference. The beatdown you put on Bob Stoops and Oklahoma. We could talk all day about how close they were and why they didn't get there. With Kyler Murray and all these different things right up until what you thought Conner Weigman could be. You hired Jimbo Fisher and went all in. It felt like he almost got it there. A&M finished No. 4 in the country and followed that up with the No. 1 class of all time. Fisher was almost there. Kevin Sumlin was almost there. They couldn't follow up the great year with another great one. They were both 8-4, but Fisher's felt closer because you had that win over Alabama, and then you beat Auburn. The point is you couldn't capitalize, and now here we are. You had your foot on the neck of your biggest rival. You had a massive advantage in terms of recruiting. It played out that way, but you couldn't capitalize on it, and that's killer. It was a missed opportunity. You can't do anything about that now. You can just go forward with it. When you look at Georgia, Texas and Ole Miss and what they lost, it's fair to ask how do they replace that and still go forward? Texas with Arch Manning, everyone in Austin is going to tell me, "He promised to stay four years." I don't know about that. I know he'll make enough money, but if he has the year you think he's going to have, he's going to be the No. 1 pick in the NFL Draft. Money is not the deal for him or that family, is what I've been told. If they have him for maybe one year, they want Longhorn football to take a step forward. That step forward means winning the SEC and playing for a national title. That's it. Anything else is a big step back. If you go 9-3, it's a big step back. If you go 10-2, don't play in Atlanta and lose the first round of the playoffs, that's a big step back. A&M's step forward has to be 9-3. Play truly meaningful games in November. We got away from realizing it was year one because of how good they started. They lost in the final two minutes to a team that played for the national title. You played the national title game loser to the last two minutes. Nobody wants an award for that, but that was your only loss in the first eight games. SEC Mike texted me, and he had Bobby Burton on. He asked him, "How much money did Texas spend on its football roster last season?" Bobby was quoted by SEC Mike as saying, "A lot. Definitely north of $25 million." We've heard the same thing about Ohio State. I'll be safe and say A&M was operating at probably $10 million-ish below those teams. You know we can throw Oregon in there. I'm sure a lot of teams would have loved to be operating where A&M was last year. Most of college football would love to be there. This year, a lot more will be there because of this athletic department having the house settlement, which will force the athletic departments to pay. If you can do the collective and that thing, a lot of these schools are going to jump up even further. Regardless of that gap, A&M is between that five and 10 range in terms of the amount on the roster. North of $25 million has to be eye-opening. There is nothing wrong with it. When I am ranking coaches, and I don't have Steve Sarkisian, he's just on the fringe of the top five. Everyone tells me Ryan Day is not a good coach. He's got the best roster money can buy. So does Texas. So does Oregon. Texas A&M is trying to, and they have one of the best. You still have to hit on your evaluations, and you still have to develop. Sarkisian can go 5-7, and go sign guys like Quinn Ewers, CJ Baxter, Kelvin Banks Jr. and all of these NFL guys because you had the level of unlimited checkbook that no one else had. That's legal. You're not doing anything wrong, but I don't think he does any of this without having the best roster money can buy. If you don't think Elko is actively trying to get the best roster money can buy, it's not an insult. It's a reality. I think Elko and the group right now have done a tremendous job of taking NIL from here to here. Ohio State and Texas have the best roster money can buy, but they're also homegrown teams for the most part. That's what Elko wants to do here in College Station. There's no better way to get guys in your program at a high level than to figure out who can do what and make sure you keep the guys who are worth keeping. That's what they did this year. That's the most important thing in the portal in Elko's mind, and I think that's the most important thing when you look at the teams who made deep runs in the playoffs this year. I like Elko's approach. I like where A&M's NIL is going, but that $25 million number is what it is. It's no secret. That's why Burton had no problem saying it. In the SEC, I think you have to have both. You have to be able to go out and pay for and get the best players and pay and keep your really good players because everyone is trying to poach them. You have to be able to develop. That's actually the part I feel best about with Elko. I think he's laser-focused on developing, keeping the guys so they can develop and keeping the guys from leaving, who are proven -
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Liucci is creaming in his shorts Segment 1 (00:00:00 - 13:59:15) First of all, that was a lot of work. That was Trev Alberts, and you like to see the results. There it is right there. That is a lot of work that went into that, and it is not only is it an incredible deal in terms of it bursting through whenever people perceived the ceiling to be on this thing. Texas A&M now has the largest and most lucrative, fully guaranteed media rights deal in college athletics. Think about that statement and then think about how difficult that was of a spur. Trev Alberts and anyone else involved at A&M pulled that off. You did something that has yet to be done in college sports. I said the words “game changer” because it is going to change the game. It's just like building the best facilities, the best stadium, having the best NIL. People are going to see this and say, “OK. They did this.” For A&M to be the one to burst through that ceiling, it's completely going to change the game and how it's played with these multimedia companies. A&M went from Learfield to Playfly. They essentially opened it up to bidding. We look at the wins and losses and look seriously. We are going to talk even today about basketball, baseball and football. The wins have to come. When you say stuff like this, though, they are separate. You don't have to caveat that with, “Oh, we got all this, but the wins don't.” No. Two things: The A&M-Playfly deal will help you continue to try to get there on the field. And we all know how difficult a climb it has been for A&M to “get there.” What I'm talking about is getting to a national title. It's the ability to keep a coach if you want to. It's the ability to, if you lose a coach, go make that splash hire because all of that is about money, stability and leadership. This deal indicates all three. It guarantees the money. You go from $18 million a year to $34 million a year. It shows leadership and vision in this changing era. This is what people have a hard time wrapping their heads around, and they need to start realizing it: People outside the A&M bubble need to start realizing it, and they will with things like this. And people inside the bubble need to realize that “Yes.” This is a powerful, powerful, big brand. That's why their deal with Playfly is bigger than Penn State's. It's bigger than LSU's even. These are schools that are with Playfly. It's a statement deal in terms of what it says about the Texas A&M brand and what people view as what's coming for Aggie Athletics. Again, we know how difficult it is. We know. We watch it, and we live through it. The last week or two has everyone questioning: “Will we ever see it?” Yes, you will. And part of it is because of commitments like these and the power of that brand. This is really a massive day. Alberts is probably going to come on with us pretty soon, and this deal is looking two or three steps ahead in terms of where college athletics is headed. We've been talking for a long time here about where it was headed in terms of having that $20-plus million draw because it is going to be an expense added without the added revenue. OK, you're paying $20 million a year to athletes via NIL out of your athletic department. You heard Chris Del Conte this week that they want to fully fund all sports and not lose any sports. That is also the goal at A&M and everywhere else because there are problems coming up ahead when you add that type of expense without revenue. Well, guess what? A&M just went from $18 to $34 million a year in a snap of a finger. It wasn't that easy but you know, once that deal inked in, for us, it’s a snap of a finger. That's the type of deal that schools are going to have to do. Otherwise, and even then, sports are in jeopardy, as is the ability of athletic departments to survive. I'm sure there will be people in college sports who are pissed off about recently signed deals. I don't know if Texas recently agreed to one or Oklahoma or Alabama or whoever. They are looking up today and going, “Wait a second. We did maybe a $20 million deal. How the hell did Texas A&M pop up and drop a $34 million deal a month, two months, six months later when they are locked into these long-term deals?” There are going to be a lot of unhappy athletic directors and athletic departments today, but at the same time, there are also probably going to be a lot of happy ones because, as I said, A&M just set a new bar that is far and above anything that's out there. It's significant on a lot of fronts, particularly for what it means for Texas A&M, but also it's going to send a ripple affect through college athletics. That's how big a deal this is, and I know we see it. If I wasn't privy to how long and just woke up and read that today, a lot of Aggies are probably reading that going, “Oh cool. Oh, that's good.” Unfortunately, some just sit there and go, “Well, more money.” No. It's the money that you need right now. If you care about Aggie sports, which you do, whether you're a glass half full or a glass half empty... Whatever. You have to because if you care, and if you are going to the SEC Indoor Track & Field Championships today, and you like watching Aggie softball climb the national rankings. You like what Jamie Morrison is doing with the volleyball program, and you're hopeful at what Mike Elko is building at football and to construct a roster in 2025 and what it takes. All of those things. You should be really fired up and go, “Damn. That makes me feel so much more comfortable and secure in where things are going with A&M Athletics.” There is a very small group of schools in college athletics right now that feel really comfortable and really secure. I'm not even saying A&M feels that way after today, but they just took a massive step towards it. This thing is getting crazy, and we don't know where it’s going to go. We feel better than ever today that we are amongst the haves and not the have-nots because there are a lot of programs you never think have been a “have not” that could be in this changing phase. A&M just basically established themselves and took up residence in the “haves” and said we're not going anywhere for a while in terms of financial security, stability and the ability to continue on in this college athletic world. I think it's a huge deal. I think Alberts and everyone involved at A&M ought to be proud of themselves today, and they accomplished something pretty significant -
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