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Horn of Gabriel

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  1. Yep and the reason why NIL as it exists today will co-exist along side "official" university rev-share and NIL. Floor and ceiling.
  2. 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.
  3. @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.
  4. 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.
  5. Didn't you see the articles over the past few months tracing all this realignment happening today back to big mean Texas?
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. I thought that was Derka!
  10. 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.
  11. Better version, including the Whataburger logo
  12. Fun trip. I enjoyed their game day experience and keeping it simple. It felt kinda like stepping into a time machine back into the 70's or something before we got super commercial. One thing I have to give them props on: their pre-game hype reel narrated by James Earl Jones was awesome. And a pretty good flex when Darth Vader said: "No one has won as many football games as we have. No one."
  13. Texas 31 Michigan 20 UM passing yards 163
  14. I’m in Ann Arbor and had multiple Michigan fans hit me with the “Hang Ten” down [emoji1689] lol
  15. So what was the big deal w/ the new jumbotron? Looked exactly the same to me except for the cheesy donor names added to the top.
  16. Not sure if posted anywhere yet, but I just learned that the Michigan stadium does not allow ANY bags, including clear bags. Info may be relevant to the women in your life who are going.
  17. Whoever is running their social media is bitchmade just like their coach. OTOH maybe they should just lean into being the heel? It's kinda rare thou for the heel to be total ass, usually they're somewhat a threat.
  18. I also want to. But cu is such a wildcard and I can see Deion and shedur chucking it late up 7 easily
  19. Good for him? Bolden caught 54 of DJ's 180 completions last year, so a third? He was targeted a lot. Can't find any reliable YAC stats Bolden to see how many of his 750 yards were him vs. DJ. Did you watch a ton of OSU last year? I suspect we're going to find out this year that Bolden is elite at making his QB look good, which is awesome for Quinn. DJ is still an average college QB, and was very inconsistent. They pumped his completion percentage today by tossing a lot to the sidelines. He made a few clutch 4th down tosses, credit there - but also airmailed a ton that resulted in those 4th downs. Last year he only completed 57%. The FSU I saw today is 3rd - 5th place in the ACC. Couldn't stop the run, defense looked lost. Inconsistent on offense and in creating a push up front.
  20. DJU reminds me of the Mike Leach quote about how if a QB starts off inaccurate, he's never going to become accurate. That quote should have a picture of DJ next to it. FSU has a low floor, low ceiling this year because of him alone.
  21. The worst thing about Rhoback is that obnoxiously placed huge fucking dog logo on the shoulder.
  22. I like that orange hoodie Quinn has on there but don’t see it on the Rhoback site. Maybe still to come?
  23. Yes yes, but what does the daughter think about our RB situation?
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