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Looks like UM is playing down and VT having their best game of the season. At least I won Army last night, house money etc

This is where we need that fake Surly newspaper screenshot that people post: "Surly's Derka Makes the Perfect Call - Computer Fails to Execute! Theories abound as to why, but experts agree the most likely reason is a deep and vast wide ranging conspiracy to cheat and screw Derka! EA executives did not comment for this article, but sources say that they are preparing an apology for their lack of programming competencies and plan to present it to Derka soon!"

Put your bets here... For Friday I'm taking Miami (FL) -17.5 vs. VT. Haven't looked at Saturday yet, my tradition is to do it in the morning. Any games y'all really like this weekend spread wise?

Didn't we see data last year that the later you get in the day, the worse a game draws for TV on average? That's why we have "Big Noon" and not "Big Prime time" matchups. I'd expect the game to be 2:30p.

Yep. People who bitch about "the game is fucking me!" have definitely never watched actual humans play college football. 18-21 year olds do stupid shit and aren't robots and sometimes (gasp!) receivers don't cut off a route when the ball is mid-flight and the DB does, because the DB is facing the QB and the receiver may not be - this is not shocking behavior. You can bitch about all that, or do what I do, turn the game on Freshman mode and then every play is an actual touchdown and the game-within-the-game becomes "how much can I score?" I think my max so far on default Freshman settings is 138 or so that I put on OU. Of course that was with several pick 6's, onside kicking every time, etc. I had 3 receivers over 300 yards each and Baxter ran for 350. Trey Moore won the Heisman that season with about 70 sacks. Life is too short - why add extra frustration? Just turn off your brain and enjoy the fun of pounding OU and A&M by 17 touchdowns.

Doesn't UNLV have an actual giant slot machine on their sideline that they use for celebrations when they score or get a turnover? This ship between Vegas and college sports has sailed.

Yeah I’m officially a sicko now

Is there another sport that has as big a jump from high school to pros as the NFL? Maybe golf? Track and field?

The issue is that if he frames it that way as to why he's shutting it down it becomes pfp and basically puts a middle finger up to the NCAA. Safer for him to frame the real reason for sitting as something else. AKA lying.

No he didn't. He said "certain representations about opportunities" weren't met. He can just say that they promised him that the offense would be more pass oriented and he wasn't given the ability to showcase his talent, or whatever. If the collectives can say with a straight face that NIL isn't pfp and stand on the legalities of the contract while everyone knows the wink wink part in the background, no reason he can't too.

I don't see the issue here.

I guess if he's ready to retire from football? For a potential win of...$60K? He's good enough to go back down to FCS and play again, but that ends when you start suing the school, coaches, or university adjacent entities like the collective.

I know this was a post in jest but now re-do this in a world where the Astros and all MLB teams are not allowed to pay players directly, and the only way players can make money is via the deals they can get from businesses in the area and fans of the Astros. Then imagine Lima gets promised $xMM/yr in those deals to come to Houston and then the deals don't deliver. He should still play for "free" because the deal was just for his NIL, right? Because it's not pfp? The interesting thing in this UNLV example that belies the "not pfp" myth is here we have a player who is clearly NOT getting paid...and as a result they are choosing NOT to play. Kinda seems like he thought it was pfp...

Yep we are in “violent agreement,” and I think/hope most surly posters understand that the actual contract doesn’t have any pfp statements, or enforcement mechanisms. Posters are looking “beyond the paper of the contract” at the real drivers and seeing the wink wink part. When rev share shows up it will clean much of this up as you say.

Yep and the reason why NIL as it exists today will co-exist along side "official" university rev-share and NIL. Floor and ceiling.

Only it won't. Rev-share will establish the floor. NIL will be the ceiling, via the wink-wink "not pay for play" model we have today.

@immamac is correct that this particular NIL fail is a clown fiesta. Some of the fails here include: Coaches directly negotiating and making promises Direct inducement Never papering a deal in advance Lack of coordination between UNLV collective and team Communication fails between coaches, team, agent, and player Leaking to the media Player/agent potentially trying to renegotiate mid-season Player opting out of season to preserve his eligibility (which is his right) for "non-legit reasons" e.g. not getting paid what he thought he'd get paid via NIL - makes him look like a bitch Also imma's assertion that NIL isn't pay-for-play is strictly, formally, contractually, and legally true as TOF and any NIL-rules compliant entity is papering deals today. It's also total bullshit, because as others pointed out, it's only Texas players or those Texas wants to be players that are getting inked to NIL deals. And if those players don't feel like their commitments by TOF or others aren't met, they aren't going to hire a lawyer to sue TOF; they're going to turn to their #1 leverage: sitting or threatening to transfer, just like X. Worthy did until he got paid off. While the contract is between TOF and player, there is an unnamed 3rd party that everyone knows is actually in there: the team. Imma sitting here shouting at everyone about how stupid we are that this isn't actually PfP makes me think of this: Also if this isn't pay-for-play, why have I seen imma and ctj on threads talking about Sark's recruiting and how "yes he's a good recruiter, but really we need credit for setting up NIL/TOF/Burnt Ends because without that we wouldn't be getting/retaining the talent." ...wait a sec, I thought these were just general/random brand ambassador deals? Not anything that would induce someone to actually choose Texas? If these are just general name image likeness deals that have nothing to do with choosing Texas, why should anyone consider it having anything to do with recruiting then? Can't have it both ways.

If only Mack had listened to ctj, we could have avoided all this! I've mellowed a tiny bit on Mack, I rarely think about him aside from laughing when he does something stupid like allowing 70 points at home to JMU. But the whole "I'll guess I'll just leave then..." "oh wait what you don't want me to? ...okaayyyyy" that shit is 1) dumb and 2) PTSD triggering. He did some variation of that here, too. He's such a thin-skinned bitch, and the thing is he didn't have to be. If he had retired on-time like he said he would, he'd be venerated at Texas. Instead, he's the coach who won a title but also underachieved massively, and played a big part plunging Texas in the ditch we laid in for 10 years. A lot of that is on us for making several bad hires but the recruiting 8-ball he put us behind was significant on the way out the door.

Didn't you see the articles over the past few months tracing all this realignment happening today back to big mean Texas?

THAT is the level of pettiness we've come to love and expect from FYPM Mack. I'm sure after he stumbles his way into that in another season or two he'll crow all about it as if he and Saban are in the same league. They're not even on the same planet.

It's going to be funny when the Fever get bounced out of the playoffs Wednesday and then the WNBA viewerships drops 50%+ for the rest of the playoffs. The haters will be out in force. Wonder if the Fever can bring in some more help for CC in the off season? She's transcendent but even Steph can't carry the Warriors alone. She's also over reliant on the 3-ball and needs to be more of a driving threat to really get to GOAT mode.

Your post implies that the "old regional conferences" are better for fans. They weren't. The old regional conferences had us playing Baylor, TCU, Houston and Tech. The new arrangement has us playing Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Auburn, and Arkansas. These are much better competition, better games to watch, and will force Texas to raise their bar. Texas does best when it is challenged, and worst when we rest on our laurels and play Baylor. And all of those are benefits even before we consider the extra money that comes along with going to the SEC. The end game in the medium term is the Power 2 conferences of Big10 and SEC take more and more playoff spots and squeeze out the ACC, Big12, and G5 down to 1 spot each. That will happen either formally via guaranteed spots, or informally via the committee recognizing the strength of schedule of the P2. The end-end game in the long term is that the Big10 and SEC probably either merge or create a formal partnership of equals where they build "new" conferences that allow them to drop out the Vandy's and Purdue's, pick up the FSU and Clemsons and consolidate down to a true Power conference of 40ish teams. The playoff will already be at 16 teams by then, and they'll reserve 1-2 spots for the rest of the non Power teams to disarm the anti-trust stuff, but it will essentially be a Power conference playoff at that point. The players will be employees of the universities, and taking a cut of the TV revenues and governed by some type of CBA. The Power conference will set their own rules for paying players beyond that, for recruiting, officiating, everything to replace the NCAA governance. There will be a commissioner of the Power conference who is less powerful than the NFL commissioner but more powerful than the current conference commissioners. They'll try to adopt some type of "salary cap," but that will be resisted by Texas, Georgia, and the big players, but the smaller ones will push for it to create "balance." There will probably be some compromise on that somewhere along the way - but the cat is out of the bag and we're not going back to under-the-table money.

I thought that was Derka!

48 points is...uhhhh a lot even if we're healthy. I don't think they score more than 7 and that's a garbage time or turnover score. But are we going to score 55+ ...potentially without QE and Blue? We CAN but will we? I think once Sark gets up by 35 he starts running 3 times in a row, like we saw w/ Trey Owens, gets out of the game without more injuries. What's the use of live reps when the team you're playing is probably not as good as your 3rd string in practice? I rarely bet Texas but here I'd take ULM and the points.