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You keep making comments like this. Are you watching this game thinking you wish we looked more like Notre Dame or Georgia here?
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Leavitt would have torn Georgia a new asshole with the way they defend quarterbacks who can run.
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There is the James Franklin quotient to consider.
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I hate both of these teams. I guess it's too soon to hope for someone to drive a truck into the Superdome and run both teams over. Also, a hope for a meteor is probably a more politically sensible choice. And the winner plays Pedo State. There's not much for me to root for in these playoffs outside of Texas.
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This is no stomp a mudhole post. That's for sure.
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When was it not?
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Until Pearl Harbor World War II was a European war. Roosevelt won reelection in 1940 in part campaigning on the idea he kept us out of it. 90% of the population doesn't give a shit. Probably more. It's funny talking to people from other countries and trying to explain how overwhelmingly indifferent Americans are to foreign involvement. They sputter and infuriatingly point out all the activities the US has engaged in, how much the US uses its influence in foreign affairs, militarily, economically, and otherwise. The elites of this country have been responsible for all that. In my opinion, mostly for the good, and certainly for the benefit of Americans. But in the vast majority of Americans' minds, we're better off undoing all the international linkages. As a populist message it's going to sell well. As an actual foreign policy, it's a nightmare that can't be undone. The general population honestly just doesn't give a shit about Russian atrocities. That's the blunt truth.
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I feel like Elliott went all in the last three years for the national championship. It worked out two of those years as well as could possibly be hoped. I thought this team had a real shot at a three peat. The roster looked more talented than anyone in the country not named Nebraska. But they just never came together like last year's group did. After virtually ignoring a couple of classes in terms of development, outside of Halter and Singletary, and maybe Kahahawai, I'm interested to see how he handles the next two classes. He's been winning a lot of his recruiting battles the last 3 years, so he should have a lot of his first choices for the most part. I'd like to see us make a serious run at the SEC title. I believe next year is the first year for a volleyball tournament. Not a big fan of it, but I'm also not a big fan of coming in second this year to Kentucky after beating them head to head. After having so many transfers littering the lineup, that one only has Lauenstein. I'm interested to see what kind of serving lineup we put out there. Starting with Swindle, Halter, Lauenstein, and Kahahawai is pretty stout.
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Or a Navy destroyer with a phalanx system accidentally left on.
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Transfer Cycle 2024-2025 - Handjob Helobious Is the Man!
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I think the line with Bo Robinson the next year was even better. Not that Robinson was better than Giles, but all of them were improved from the previous season. A criminally underrated defense because the offense was so incredibly stupefyingly horrific. A little racist, but I don't mean it that way. I loved Giles his senior season. -
What a waste of a class. I don't blame them for transferring out. I'm a little surprised Bunton isn't on the list. Not to blame the coaching staff wholly. Not sure how anyone can be upset with 2 national championships. But with all the transfers coming in there wasn't a chance for playing time. Hopefully we get to see the incoming players develop some.
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I don't know, man. Elliott has a little Mack Brown in him. There's a few players that leave with bitterness, but there are a lot of players that stick around through their entire eligibility because they just really like it here. If I was Kahahawai's mentor I would have been telling her to transfer last year no ands, ifs, or buts. It's not for everyone, but for the players who seem to fit in with the rest of the team, they don't seem to want to go anywhere.
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I feel like Jonathon Brooks has shown that there's no risk in coming back from a rehabbed knee injury. Dunno what you guys are so worked up about regarding Baxter. He'll be fine. -
No doubt. I was thinking of it specifically as the recognition of a defeat as a day celebrating the birth of a new national identity.
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I like Gallipoli as an example.
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All I know is I watched her at Minnesota for two years and wasn't excited about her coming to Texas. Part of that isn't Wenaas's fault. I was spoiled with our outsides. Wenaas had no chance to match up with the recent history of outsides we've possessed. And she didn't. Another problem is that Nebraska beat us head to head on virtually every recruiting battle we had with them for a couple of years (and everyone else, for that matter). Thankfully that's been changed the last couple of years, plus we received some incredible additions from the portal, including 3 from Nebraska (and Ames!). But even Blackwell this past year - who we could have used as a middle a lot more than Nebraska - we lost out on. We also lost on a couple of littles that could have been difference makers for us. Maybe Wenaas was the best option. I don't know. I just know I wasn't excited about her commitment out of the portal. I've had frustrations watching her the last couple of years. Again, it's not all on her. We won a national championship with her for goodness sakes, so there has to be gratitude around her for that. She went through some rough times and in my opinion showed a lot of mental fortitude. Especially when she was getting pulled early in the 2023 season. That hug from Elliott after the national championship said a lot.
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I honestly never completely understood why we brought her in. She's easy on the eyes, I'll give her that. And she tries hard. I never had an issue with her effort.
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It's not all on her, but I will be glad to move on from Wenaas. I'd like to say it was a frustrating season, but the truth is it comes following back to back national championships and an absolute blowout of Nebraska in last year's championship game, so that makes it a whole lot less frustrating. It never felt like we took advantage of having Rutherford on the roster. Really missed having a 3rd quality little in the back like the last two years.
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I'm not talking about right or wrong here. When it comes to college sports I'm not righteous enough to feel like I know what is right or wrong. As I established with a previous post on this thread - not that I expect you to have memorized my practically incoherent ramblings - I feel like there's a cognitive dissonance we all agree to with college sports being a multibillion dollar entertainment enterprise within academic institutions that fundamentally I'm uncomfortable with. My ideal world would put the genie back in the bottle in ways that aren't practical, where there's an oppressive overarching organization that negotiates the television contract for all college teams, evenly distributes the revenue, heavily enforces no payments to athletes, NIL or otherwise, colleges have much smaller athletic budgets than they do currently, and there are professional options in each sport if athletes want to go that route. I don't think NIL propels college athletics forward in productive ways, personally. It's a mess. It's basically impossible to enforce. It further separates the haves from the have nots. But as a fan of a have, it certainly benefits my fandom. So if this is going to be how we move forward, I'm thrilled Texas is exploiting it as much as possible. I don't blame O'Bannon in any which way. It's absolutely against the Sherman Act, so it's tough to see where the Supreme Court went wrong on a 9-0 blistering unanimous decision. We can blame the NCAA, but I'm not sure what they were supposed to do to get ahead of something I don't think there's any way to implement in a way that wouldn't be tossed out. Congress hasn't been in a position to act on college athletics for at least a decade, if not longer. Maybe work harder to get something passed in 1984 after the Supreme Court ruled against the NCAA negotiating television contracts? But I don't think that would have resulted in anything the average fan wanted to see whether it would have been good for my personal model of college sports or not. But I'm not thankful for O'Bannon, that's for sure. And it could have been a comment you were making to a general audience, but you made it as a reply to me, and so I responded in kind. I'm not mad at you, O'Bannon, the Supreme Court, the NCAA, or any of the individual actors who have led us down this path. I'm just an old man who doesn't like the direction things are going in and see it as unsustainable, but I'm too busy railing at kids to get off my front lawn to do anything about it.
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Did you catch the part where I'm not a big fan of NIL? Not that I consider this O'Bannon's fault. But no, no thank you or holiday gift basket from me.
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I guess. I'm not completely sure who deserves what. There's a lot of people who deserve a whole lot of things that are doing more benevolent things than playing college sports, and they're never going to get it. It's not a compelling argument for me. Regardless, they're getting it now, and it's not going away. It's going to get bigger. But if I had my way - which I don't and won't - college sports would have much smaller budgets, there would be a professional option in all sports, the players in college would only be paid with a scholarship and a small stipend, and anyone who was caught paying them more than that would be punished severely, SMU death penalty style. And television revenues would be spread in an egalitarian way among participants, a la NFL. I don't understand your argument in italics. Paying players in college is not a direct competition with the professional leagues. It's a direct competition with a minor league. If the NFL developed a minor league the same way baseball has and the NBA has done, college games would still outdraw in attendance and television ratings any product they put out there because the identifications for the college teams are so much stronger. I'm not sure how that's debatable, regardless of whether college football came before the NFL or not.
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I can't get enough of this, Longhornfrenzy. Thank you for posting these. -
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One of my favorite arguments from people regarding NIL is that prices will stabilize at some point. Prices aren't going to stabilize until there's some kind of transparency and enforcement mechanism limiting payouts, or the whole system comes crashing down in some kind of existential way. This is how markets work. Especially markets that aren't exclusively tied to monetary incentives. There's a lot of emotion around our favorite school doing well that goes beyond return on financial investment. Just ask Phil Knight for one. What else is he going to spend his billions on that will bring him more satisfaction than Oregon's first national championship before he dies? How does that work with fiscal responsibility? People talk about how a more reasonable sentiment will prevail when money is spent on players that don't pan out, but that's not how it works. It especially doesn't work that way when the teams that dominate the sport have the highest payrolls. That says if you want to compete you better be spending the money. We're like Rorschach in Watchmen that's been put in the SEC, and is now letting all the inmates know we're not locked in here with you. You're locked in here with me. -
You could stick late era Fred Akers, David McWilliams, John Mackovic, late era Mack Brown, Charlie Strong, and Tom Herman in there, too. We've had quite the run. Thankfully we got peak Mack Brown in there for 10 years or it would truly be depressing.
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There's a cognitive dissonance I willingly create with college sports. I personally do not believe a multibillion dollar entertainment enterprise should be housed within the confines of academic institutions. In my ideal world the NCAA or a similar institution would have overly repressive powers. They would negotiate a single television contract and then evenly spread out the proceeds, the way they did prior to the 1984 Supreme Court case. There would be no NIL allowed for athletes, simply because it's impossible to truly determine legitimate NILs from pay for plays. It's not a legitimate argument that can be applied across all cases "well, I'll know it when I see it." But that's not the world we live in, and it's not ever going to be. In this world college sports is a multibillion dollar enterprise, and it's built in large part on the shared identification we have with our favorite schools. People talk about how the players deserve the money because they're the ones doing the work, and that's certainly true to a degree. But we've seen how college sports can attract an audience in the way professional minor leagues can't. On some level it's not the athletes, as much as we love (or hate, lol) to follow them. It really is the brand. And there's a symbiotic relationship. College sports builds an identity with a school long after departing the campus in a way no other vehicle provides with the same effectiveness. It brings many alumni back on a regular basis. It builds a mutual tie and brand loyalty that goes beyond just getting an education there. In any case, in this world if we're going to compete in a sport. I'd like for us to win. And that's exactly what we're doing. We're no longer an administration who wants to see the football team succeed so the athletic department can make more money. We truly see it as we want to make more money so we can win more games. That's an important distinction and I'm glad it finally exists.
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