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Park Gothic

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  1. Fair enough. Thanks to this thread I probably read more from TexAgs and Gigem247 than I do from places like Orangebloods. I honestly have no idea what posters on OB are like, other than a vague notion that they must be somewhat dumb for giving their money to Ketch.
  2. Saw this in a recruiting thread elsewhere and had a good laugh:
  3. Still, you would expect them to post screenshots. Or quotes. It's very easy to do.
  4. People are dogpiling you - and rightfully so - but I'd rather light a candle than curse your darkness. You have correctly identified a problem - that you have to outbid many schools to win an NIL auction, and if we are committed to sticking at what we perceive to be "market price" then it only takes one school who is willing to pay above market to win the recruitment. That is logical, I will give you that. But you're forgetting some factors: 1. We are setting the market in June. What happens in December when we still have money at our disposal and decide to reset the market? Will that one school who outbid us be able to do so again? Will they be able to win a bidding war once we know our financial constraints and decide to go above market? 2. We are willing to go above market. We have been for several years now. Justus Terry, Colin Simmons, Ryan Wingo...etc. etc. etc. When a guy comes along who is a "must get," we aren't getting outbid by anyone except maybe Oregon. There are some guys for whom the market price doesn't have an upper limit. 3. There are tangible and obvious benefits to forcing your competitors to commit their limit resources to winning battles. I'm sure you've heard the expression Pyrrhic victory. If they have to overpay for guys we want but don't need, they have less resources to throw at a guy we need. Picking and choosing those battles is part of an overall recruiting strategy and Sark / the staff have shown they're very good at developing strategy in addition to being good at making the tactical decisions required to win individual recruitments. Losing recruits like Edwards, Bowman, and Lott sucks. But we've only lost them for now. And if the staff thinks we need those guys then they'll back up the brinks. But they can't buy everyone and we're clearly committing resources to winning more important battles. We'll circle back around to those guys later if we can. And, as other people have readily pointed out, it's June. There's still a lot of time left to close ground. Especially if we continue to kick ass and teams like USC and A&M continue to step on rakes.
  5. I mean...ideally I don't do anything I can pay someone else to do for me. But I recently moved a 500 lbs gun safe by myself because it wasn't that hard and it was more convenient than hiring someone. Honestly, the weight of the locker doesn't bother me (provided I can find someone to help), it's the size and proportions. 750 lbs is a beast, no doubt, but if it's distributed evenly it can be manageable. But if that locker is top heavy or has some unusual sway, then it could be a job for the professionals.
  6. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ @honolulu horn - what's the verdict?
  7. "Their boards are probably having the same conversation and crying about us..."
  8. It's not as hard as you would think, if you've got a good hand truck and a couple of dollies. Plus another reasonably strong adult man. Definitely need a truck or an flat bed trailer to haul it though. Either way, it's better than winning an auction for a pool table and thinking I'd made out like a bandit, only to learn that transporting the fucking thing was going to cost 100x more than the winning bid.
  9. "RC didn't offer" type shit. Is Howell really saying that A&M decided to cancel this kid's visit because they didn't want him negative recruiting A&M / working for Texas? Sure. If he's right, this is a fucking indictment of A&M. You know what closers want? They want to be in the room. They want that kid on campus so they can sell him. They think - fuck what anyone else has already done, I'm going to win this kid over. That's 100% what Sark would do and has been doing. Did he give up on Anthony Hill? Fuck no. He went to that dude's living room and closed the deal. If Howell is right, this means that Elko basically rolled over and admitted he can't compete with Sark and Texas. That he doesn't even want to try, because trying and failing would be a net negative. Born losers. Every one.
  10. Jake Smith and Isaiah Neyor say you can be both. That movie was like trying to treat a fever dream with LSD.
  11. yada yada yada, zero-sum game
  12. I understand the logic, but think we should refuse to do anything that might benefit LSU.
  13. A fun, full weekend in Austin will do that to a lad.
  14. Maybe I’m old, but isn’t giving someone the blues a bad thing? Also, has no one told them how bizarre the goat thing is? I can understand how they don’t see it, but surely they have some third party consultants (or even just non-Aggies in the media department) to get ideas.
  15. HAHAHAHAHA. FUCK TECH.
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