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LCHorn

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  1. Try the first few seasons of Arrow. They burn through plot in a way that a lot of serialized shows are afraid to do and don’t start repeating themselves until season 4 or so. Also, this will be a little weird at first but I also recommend Avatar The Last Airbender. It’s kids programming but I think a masterpiece in creating something that has depth well beyond what a kid will pick up on.
  2. I have to imagine the four teams left in the playoffs are rubber necking the current carnage and thanking God they have game prep to take priority/attention away.
  3. I think what you said was "as high as 25" and I'm guilty as charged in doubting it--I would have gone further and said I was skeptical of any top 10, top 15 team that didn't lose/fire a head coach would lose 20-25 just out of institutional means along with mature NIL donor groups. And you're right, we're watching a big business get re-made in real time. Lots of opportunity for a smart org to take advantage. Unfortunately that doesn't appear to be us this cycle. Bobby didn't say it outright (maybe a good question for the super chat!) but I don't think you can put any limitations on graduate transfers. Whether it's correct or not is secondary to my point (and yours) that roster construction isn't going to be the same where you hope to stack talent and replace from within and look to the portal for improvements on the margins or to replace attrition.
  4. Except it's not because we're still playing in the confines of a regulated calendar, school matriculation rules and considerations, amid a myriad other problems with labor accumulation and retention. There's a non-zero chance that a team that loses 20-30 players can only replace half of those. Maybe that's not a big deal (obviously the NFL makes it work) but it's going to make team performance really high beta because injuries at key positions will have the potential to be absolutely decimating. Some school is going to adapt (which I would hope to see signs it's us) and will be handling roster construction differently. Bobby hinted at this yesterday, but graduate transfers in the spring may become the equivalent of a new portal window, or maybe you have a rotating group of pure depth players (this isn't a great analogy, but let's say the starters are AAA players and the depth is A-ball level) that are fungible.
  5. Let's be fair, this thread is moving fast and is mostly brutal news for anyone that loves Texas football recruiting. I'm not blaming anyone for skimming or just going to the most recent page.
  6. Apparently asking for a raise and being told yes is no guarantee of anything, fwiw.
  7. Look, you and @RGBIII could very easily be correct, and my skepticism is more for the OTF guys who I think are more apt to repeat what the SID wants them to say than to admit either ignorance or poor performance by the Texas coaches selling opportunity here. That said, we're talking about Michigan and OSU, and I just have a hard time imagining a school like Michigan saying to two starters that they've developed and want to keep "we know Texas has a lot of money on the table--what do you think about staying here for 60% of it?" Why would you take that chance? And on that note, if that is in fact true, I want Sarkisian to hire whoever it is that is pitching it successfully to run point on our negotiations.
  8. Do you imagine our communications conclude with "you're going to take less money to stay with Michigan? Okay then." Again, it might be they did, but having this occur across multiple prospects at different schools in a 48-72 hour period? I've been in a sales for 20 years, and I lose or win deals from time to time that aren't about money, but it's the exception. I have a hard time believing there isn't some opacity with what's being offered by the other schools.
  9. I don't prefer that, either, but I'd rather use the tax code to favor owner-occupancy for SFR as a solution (which it does, but you can further and it's reasonably easy to implement on a local level).
  10. I don't know why this keeps getting repeated without a healthy dose of skepticism. It seems far more likely those two schools, in particular, had the ability to match whatever we put on the table and the players got the financial commitment they wanted at their top choice. This whole "they took less money elsewhere" excuse repeated by OTF smells like something Liucci would say.
  11. I’m not listening until I exercise later but I’m primed for Bobby to henpeck listeners for complaining in spite of Brown’s commitment. “They are all-in, see?!?! They got the back they really wanted after their top three, err.. four, uh, maybe five choices stayed with their teams. Why do you guys keep sending in questions about the O-line? We got 8 line man on scholarship and that doesn’t include walk-ons, how many do you think we need?” Gerry “Yep.”
  12. This has been a really challenging week for Bobby to come up with narratives that don’t call into question the performance of the coaching and scouting staff. “I don’t know why all of you keep asking us super chat questions on whether Texas has a plan. Of course they have a plan! It’s a plan, and they have a back-up plan to that plan, and, what? No, I can’t tell you about it. When I asked Brandon Harris what I was allowed to say this morning he just winked at me and then John Bianco texted surveillance photos of my kids.”
  13. I don't think Flood sucks in a world in which Derek Warehime is still employed, but he needs a PIP and one wonders what Sarkisian is actually doing to try to get better performance, because it doesn't appear to be working.
  14. I'm not a big fan of telling sellers they can't sell to whoever offers them the most money just on principle.
  15. Me, too--there's zero reason our scouting program shouldn't be the best funded, most talented group in the country, with the result that our hit rate should be the class of college football. I think it's further evidence that you've got to recruit high school for some kind of home court advantage.
  16. Total meltdown based on a TE is a straw man argument. Washington was the starting Y TE according to the Michigan depth chart and that's with everyone healthy. A favorable read is that our coaching staff just devoted 4 semesters of development on someone that will contribute elsewhere in 2026. I get that's a running theme in this portal season and it's hitting everyone, but that doesn't mean it's not a bad way historically to run a program OR a business and/or that Sarkisian/Harris/CDC deserve a pass because it's chaos everywhere. They are getting paid the big bucks to outsmart the system and the other teams.
  17. I guess…it appears they are losing plenty to the incumbent school against the “let’s see what I’m worth?” prospect that maybe offers an upgrade. We’re getting hollowed out on depth prospects that would certainly contribute in 2026 and aren’t going to be replaced in the portal. In the era of 105 scholarship it’s pretty clear we need numbers and can afford to roll the dice on some guys instead of simply big game hunting.
  18. It is a little funny listening to Bobby blame Texas fans for being unhappy with O-line recruiting and totally unwilling to question Flood’s performance. “Yeah, I get it” is about as far as he will go.
  19. I'm getting flashbacks to this guy... "The Iraqi people will welcome US troops."
  20. LCHorn replied to RPM's topic in Cloak Room
    This-I like him a lot but my time in Arizona was a single weekend in Scottsdale for an annual meeting. Why I am asked to donate money to him is beyond me.
  21. I think the fact this isn’t happening is fair evidence there isn’t the value in it on either side. #1, the athletes don’t want to do anything that requires work when they see their peers getting paid for nothing and #2, most of the players lack the kind of fame that would justify a legitimately made agreement. Where there are exceptions to this, imo, it’s mostly in women’s sports. Someone like Madisen Skinner with HEB, for example.
  22. Which one of you wrote Shaune’s IMDB bio?
  23. Fwiw, Banks does a lot of communication directly with NIL stakeholders and it might have been easier to line up financial commitments on his dudes before the season ended. Some of this is “you want $300k? Let me put something together.”
  24. I’ll be very interested to see where he’s drafted because he checked a lot of the Kyle Flood boxes, wasn’t prioritized by Texas, and was presumed by pretty much everyone here to be wildly overrated at the time of his commitment. Obviously anyone voluntarily going to A&M, particularly a non-Legacy unsteeped in their weird rituals is of questionable character, so maybe he wasn’t a personality fit…
  25. I mean, come on, it’s been clearly headed this way. Not even the eternally optimistic and current whipping boys at OnTexas have been suggesting otherwise.
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