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Professor Chesney

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  1. If you have to piggyback off of someone’s early evaluations, Matt Rhule is a pretty good choice. Still, 255lbs is far lighter than the other prospects we’ve been looking at. Would be interested to see the DL board after all of these offers.
  2. But for real, is it possible or do I have to log into a pc browser to do it? This Spyder2Y spam is unbearable
  3. If anyone else was curious, these are indeed true freshmen and true sophomores. Not a great recipe for success, but they did beat out more senior backups.
  4. Maybe Miami can use some of that NIL to pay more fans to attend their games.
  5. This will be interesting because each of the LSU, A&M and Texas sites frame themselves in the top two, if not the slight outright favorite (with A&M $9.95ers being the most egregious). I think the LSU and A&M sites have a habit of this in general—LSU out of arrogance born from historical success and A&M for some unknown reason, maybe fear of letting down their masses? But for Williams it seems like each group legitimately believes they will win out. I wonder if the family is telling each camp what they want to hear.
  6. What’s more important: (A) giving the Tuscaloosa Times reporter one of the best seats in the stadium, or (B) generating tens of millions of new dollars that help fund scholarships for outstanding academic students, pay professor salaries, and IMPROVE THE ACTUAL FOOTBALL PROGRAM YOU ARE WATCHING? Come on man.
  7. I’m optimistically taking this to mean that Guillette is developing nicely at LB and they don’t want to stunt that development unless they truly have to.
  8. Is it possible to put posters on ignore from a mobile? Can’t for the life of me figure out how
  9. I think you picked up on something but might be reaching the wrong conclusion. It looks to be more of a 50/50 than last month, but Gerry might not think that is ultimately a good thing for Texas. Reading between the lines, it sounds like there are some concerns about Fasusi’s work ethic/mindset that Gerry cannot come out and say in the open because (a) his business requires maintaining positive relationships and (b) it would look really bad if he does indeed commit to Texas. He compared Fasusi to Laremy Tunsil, but followed with something along the lines of “without the same can’t miss frame and athletic ability.” Which makes it an interesting comparison. or I could be reading into it too much.
  10. Everything seems to be going in A&M’s favor to get the rollercoaster started with a win over Notre Dame. Early in the season so the team is healthy and Weigman is concussion-free. Home game advantage. Notre Dame overrated at 6th in the coaches poll, as is tradition at this point. Curious what folks think about the matchup because it looks to me like advantage aggy. I don’t have the same faith in A&M’s OL that the media does, but don’t think that ND has the front seven to take advantage, and the entire team will be healthy and bought in this early in the season. Maybe it boils down to whether you believe Riley Leonard will be a first round pick, but Elko knows exactly how to attack him and A&M has the DL talent to make it happen.
  11. Yeah, not exactly a surprise. Wouldn’t feel too bad for him, he’s going to be fine.
  12. Baker will eventually be fine if given adequate NIL support and time to build relationships. While undoubtedly a questionable hire, early returns on the most important part of his job—coaching and development—have been positive. What is truly inexcusable is hiring a 28-year old with minimal experience to be the general manager of a program more valuable than several professional sports franchises. Apologies to any gen z reading this thread, but I can barely trust my juniors not to accidentally choke themselves to death with a laptop cord if left unsupervised. I can’t imagine letting one be responsible for overseeing all aspects of a professional organization and going head-to-head with grown men at rival institutions. I really like Sark. But he has made several “wtf” decisions off the field where it is easy to question whether he actually considers the full scope of potential consequences.
  13. This insipid take got buried during the OV weekend news, so I wanted to bump to emphasize how disingenuous this really is. I had thought the emergence of NIL would finally loosen up the media and let them acknowledge the rampant bag game behavior of the last 15 years. Clearly that is not the case for whatever reason. To oversimplify, NIL is an expanded, sanitized evolution of the under-the-table player compensation that a handful of shady programs utilized for years with impunity. Case in point, I unearthed this legendary post detailing what Alabama football players drove over the years during their time in Tuscaloosa. Anyone with half a brain cell can see what is going on here, and it is impossible to credibly how this is different from the status quo, much less that it is a better/fairer practice. https://247sports.com/college/usc/board/29/contents/alabamas-recruiting-dominance-continues-wow-50860219/ It is impossible for someone with as much industry insight as Terry to argue in good faith that the pre-NIL days were a nobler, cleaner time that was better for the players and the spirit of competition. They’re just mad that Lambos > Dodge Challengers.
  14. I wonder if these developments permitting direct school-athlete monetary payments will let us revisit the policy of the school rewarding loyalty points in exchange for TOF donations.
  15. While this is nice, it is peak off season so only the die-hard degenerates like us are still loosely paying attention. All of the filthy casuals have lost interest in asking about Micah Hudson for the twentieth time and have wandered off somewhere else to complain about baseball or politics. They’ll be back in the fall.
  16. If Texas can soft fire Blake Gideon with a “reassignment”, this board’s reaction would be orgasmic.
  17. If it gives anyone comfort, I recently caught up with someone who would generally know that feels positively about Kenny Baker purely as a coach based on this spring. He isn’t some “rah rah just give more effort” charlatan. The techniques he is teaching and his methodology seem to be legit. Didn’t get into if he was better or worse than Bo Davis. Forgot where I posted it last year but the same person in spring/summer last year insisted Byron Murphy would be a revelation.
  18. Right when I had already reached the acceptance stage, they go and do this…
  19. Purely based on limited observation, it seems like the teams that coax a player into the portal are usually the ones that win out since they have already done a lot of the legwork making their pitch through intermediaries. Big example that come to mind is Drew Sanders with Arkansas. Curious if anyone feels differently.
  20. This is a very interesting topic, appreciate the spreadsheet work. Noticing how none of the 1st round WRs were 5 stars, I wonder how “valuable” a 5 star at one position will likely be versus another position. For example, is a 5-star WR more likely to be a first round pick than a 5-star DL? I am too busy (lazy) at the moment to do a deep dive, but a cursory look back at the 5 star WR rankings is kind of shocking. In 2021, for example, the industry ranked WRs in the top-40 were: Emeka Egbuka (OSU), JaCorey Brooks (Bama), Mario Williams (lol), and Agiye Hall (lolol). In 2020: Julian Fleming (OSU), Demond Demas (lol), J Smith-Njigba (OSU), Kayshon Boutte (LSU), Rakim Jarrett (Maryland) and Jordan Johnson (ND). Draft status isn’t the be-all-end-all of player productivity, but only JSN was a first round pick and arguably a ++ player.
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