Emmanuel Acho

[texifornia 56522]

50 minutes ago, MORRISSEY said:

yes yes yes

 

everyone loves acho when he is given pub but now he is dead to them

 

acho is very good on TV but part of that is keeping it real

 

good on him, I am sure the university will survive

 

just stops all the holier then thou shit

Nobody's brainless enough to think that essentially meaningless amounts of money aren't changing hands around this kind of stuff.

Look at what people in this thread are annoyed about - it's Acho's attention whoring, not the act itself.

[Bill Lumbergh 7170]

 

I don't know if I've ever love-hated a tweet this much.

[Goo Punch 4275]

i thought we all knew this already. i actually posted about this exact specific instance back on TOS. It was a certain former Thorpe Award winner who made the deal with the DBs and then paid up in the locker room. been going on at UT for ages. same as any other major program. i remember posting at the time about guys i knew getting envelopes of cash after we beat OU in 2009. i remember posting about how our entire starting secondary all had $3,000 worth of tattoos by their junior year despite not having jobs. I thought everyone everywhere knew all of this already.

[Tex Pete 20179]

56 minutes ago, MORRISSEY said:

yes yes yes

 

everyone loves acho when he is given pub but now he is dead to them

Most of us don't. The guy has said plenty of stupid shit.

[StruggleBus 3922]

Nm

Edited January 16, 2020 by StruggleBus

[Tex Pete 20179]

Just now, StruggleBus said:

It happens everywhere, including here. I just hope we're paying more than the competition. 

Yes, we're clearly getting our money's worth.

[Bevo Num1 1004]

i thought we all knew this already. i actually posted about this exact specific instance back on TOS. It was a certain former Thorpe Award winner who made the deal with the DBs and then paid up in the locker room. been going on at UT for ages. same as any other major program. i remember posting at the time about guys i knew getting envelopes of cash after we beat OU in 2009. i remember posting about how our entire starting secondary all had $3,000 worth of tattoos by their junior year despite not having jobs. I thought everyone everywhere knew all of this already.

It's one thing to post the shit on a message board as second hand information, but another to go on a national broadcast and say it as a former player who was there.

[B00M 6280]

Did we have a reward for forced fumbles? We needed all the incentive we could get to try to tackle Ingram and Richardson

[SwanderedTalent 5761]

3 minutes ago, Goo Punch said:

i thought we all knew this already. i actually posted about this exact specific instance back on TOS. It was a certain former Thorpe Award winner who made the deal with the DBs and then paid up in the locker room. been going on at UT for ages. same as any other major program. i remember posting at the time about guys i knew getting envelopes of cash after we beat OU in 2009. i remember posting about how our entire starting secondary all had $3,000 worth of tattoos by their junior year despite not having jobs. I thought everyone everywhere knew all of this already.

yeah I'm trying to imagine this:

a senior and sophomore both starting at corner

the senior graduates and goes on to the NFL

he's back in town for a big game the next fall

the now-junior cornerback has a great game, intercepts a pass

in the locker room afterwards the graduated player is like "well, how very nice for you, I hope you can afford a Whataburger to celebrate, I would give you $50 because we're friends and college kids are mostly cash poor while I'm a highly paid professional athlete but you know the NCAA doesn't like that so..."

[TheBryMan81 2502]

30 minutes ago, Js1 said:

 

Hurts to remember, but this made me laugh.

[Goo Punch 4275]

Just now, Bevo Num1 said:

3 minutes ago, Goo Punch said:

i thought we all knew this already. i actually posted about this exact specific instance back on TOS. It was a certain former Thorpe Award winner who made the deal with the DBs and then paid up in the locker room. been going on at UT for ages. same as any other major program. i remember posting at the time about guys i knew getting envelopes of cash after we beat OU in 2009. i remember posting about how our entire starting secondary all had $3,000 worth of tattoos by their junior year despite not having jobs. I thought everyone everywhere knew all of this already.

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It's one thing to post the shit on a message board as second hand information, but another to go on a national broadcast and say it as a former player who was there.

fair enough. i just don't care, and in fact i encourage Acho and more like him to keep coming forward with stuff like this. the timing is right. nobody cares about this stuff anymore, and everyone (with half a brain) agrees that the players should be compensated. i have zero outrage for former players using their platform to say, "well someone needs to compensate these guys."

[Vito Andolini 9109]

He thinks being a provocateur will get him a career, and he may be right. Skip, Stephen A., Max, Cowherd, the list is long. The networks want people with opinions. Reasoned takes don’t move the meter. The only guy I can think of who still has a job and is contemplative in his answers is Steve Young, and if you watch Steve Young, he’s boring and slow to answer: it’s because he’s actually trying to be honest and answer properly. His status has kept him on the air.

But poking the bear can come with consequences, and it could mean a lack of access, which is career suicide for someone who needs to be on the inside, like a journalist or analyst. Even the LHN association won’t help Acho if everyone thinks he’s an asshat. He may be in the meetings, but he won’t get the inside stuff if he can’t be trusted to keep his damned mouth shut. I’ve been a college football network producer, and have sat in the meetings with the head coach, coordinators and key players on Friday. I’ve heard a lot of shit, shit I’ll never reveal, because it’s just not done. Players should probably also keep their mouths shut. 

I’ve long been sick of his act, because it is an act. I want honesty in a commentator, but don’t need a grandstander. 

[wood 11153]

3 minutes ago, Goo Punch said:

fair enough. i just don't care, and in fact i encourage Acho and more like him to keep coming forward with stuff like this. the timing is right. nobody cares about this stuff anymore, and everyone (with half a brain) agrees that the players should be compensated. i have zero outrage for former players using their platform to say, "well someone needs to compensate these guys."

Is that what he was doing? I could be wrong, but it doesn't seem like that's what he was doing.

[DFW Horn 6118]

That's it...walk it back, EMAN

 

[Tex Pete 20179]

2 minutes ago, DFW Horn said:

That's it...walk it back, EMAN

 

Acho obviously pissed a lot of people off. Think about what you say in public, dumbass.

[Rockethorn1978 6061]

4 minutes ago, DFW Horn said:

That's it...walk it back, EMAN

 

He's such a bitch. "those were locker room convo's that I just made public". Keep in the locker room with your team you fuckface.

[NowThis 931]

lots of Texas guys on the national level -- Simms, Brian Jones, Acho, sometimes Ahmad Brooks and some whom I can't remember (not counting LHN)

[DFW Horn 6118]

1 minute ago, Rockethorn1978 said:

He's such a bitch. "those were locker room convo's that I just made public". Keep in the locker room with your team you fuckface.

No shit.

I don't think he'll be getting any insider "scoops" at UT anytime soon. What a dumbass.

[Goo Punch 4275]

6 minutes ago, DFW Horn said:

That's it...walk it back, EMAN

 

 don't walk that shit back now bro. take a stand. i thought the homie Acho was getting on his Jay Bilas and just plainly stating how players currently get compensated, with a tacit understanding of how patently stupid it is that the kids make millions for their schools and get nothing in return. but now he's walking it back? weeeaaakkkkkkk af Acho. weak af.

[Steamboat1874 4032]

24 minutes ago, SwanderedTalent said:

yeah I'm trying to imagine this:

a senior and sophomore both starting at corner

the senior graduates and goes on to the NFL

he's back in town for a big game the next fall

the now-junior cornerback has a great game, intercepts a pass

in the locker room afterwards the graduated player is like "well, how very nice for you, I hope you can afford a Whataburger to celebrate, I would give you $50 because we're friends and college kids are mostly cash poor while I'm a highly paid professional athlete but you know the NCAA doesn't like that so..."

NFL players rarely can go back to see their college team play since they have to, you know, work the next day.

Maybe once a year on an off week or if they play a Thursday night game. 

[SwanderedTalent 5761]

2 minutes ago, Steamboat1874 said:

Maybe once a year on an off week 

like in my imaginary scenario

[Rockethorn1978 6061]

14 minutes ago, Goo Punch said:

 don't walk that shit back now bro. take a stand. i thought the homie Acho was getting on his Jay Bilas and just plainly stating how players currently get compensated, with a tacit understanding of how patently stupid it is that the kids make millions for their schools and get nothing in return. but now he's walking it back? weeeaaakkkkkkk af Acho. weak af.

Was he even telling the story to "take a stand"? 

[GotThatFire 166]

Guys, guys. It was just his way of reminding the public that Texas was playing for it all a mere 10 years ago.We should be thanking him for this attention. 

[Quasimofo 406]

Before the bowl game, I'd have donated $20 to anyone who could field a damn punt.

 

 

[Zavala 1384]

Mistakes were made

[THEHORN5561 2583]

 

[Neonmoon 38127]

Acho is a fucking idiot. full stop

Everyone in college football knows that $1,000 handshakes happen from Alumni. You literally can't police this because every single occurrence other than 1 isn't telivised on national TV. 

I hope Acho's career careens off into a bridge embankment. He's too stupid to exist. 

[TwiceHorn 31279]

Acho may be a lot of things, but he isn't stupid.

I suspect that he's trying to out the payment of athletes in order to normalize it so that player compensation schemes become acceptable.

Then there's the whole "look at me" thing that's probably part and parcel of a broadcasting career.  Or can be.

[SwanderedTalent 5761]

6 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

I suspect that he's trying to out the payment of athletes in order to normalize it so that player compensation schemes become acceptable.

I think you're giving him way too much credit, on this point

[THEHORN5561 2583]

 

[Neonmoon 38127]

10 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Acho may be a lot of things, but he isn't stupid.

I suspect that he's trying to out the payment of athletes in order to normalize it so that player compensation schemes become acceptable.

Then there's the whole "look at me" thing that's probably part and parcel of a broadcasting career.  Or can be.

There is a different between book smart and street smart. In street smarts, Acho is retarded. 

[satyanash 14281]

Now he's getting into it with Wescott Eberts.

 

[Walden Ponderer 12639]

As a media personality, I've never liked Acho pretty much ever. But the substance of what he's said here is somewhat overshadowed by the douchey sequined suit manner in which he presented it.

I never understood the angst over Chris Simms' "revelations" either. In neither case did the ex-player say the Texas program was paying players, just that they were getting cash under-the-counter from hangers-on. That has always happened, and always will, even if players were given full salaries instead of just stipends.

Duh.

It does raise an interesting question, though. Are there Longhorn media folk who are actually likable?  I mean, I am in a clear minority saying I like Simms as an analyst. I dig Brian Jones' schtick, too. He's mildly funny, and never over-the-top obnoxious. But Acho? 

[Ricky's one-hitter 9084]

 

 

[Cajun 11675]

More Brian Jones, less Acho.

kthxbai

[Junior Miller 1502]

I don't care what the dude says. Nothing will come of it and every successful program is paying out the ass anyway. We are too we just don't have the coaching yet to be successful. 

[THEHORN5561 2583]

 

 

[SwanderedTalent 5761]

I said something critical about UT and now a bunch of people in Austin are criticizing me MAN WHATS UP WIT DAT

[Cajun 11675]

9 minutes ago, SwanderedTalent said:

I said something bitchass about UT and now a bunch of people in Austin are criticizing me MAN WHATS UP WIT DAT

fify

[jimmyjazz 45558]

Wait, I need details.  Was he wearing an ugly suit, a flashy but cheap watch, holding a pen and waving it about, all the while checking his notepad? 

[Cajun 11675]

3 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Wait, I need details.  Was he wearing an ugly suit, a flashy but cheap watch, holding a pen and waving it about, all the while checking his notepad? 

How the fuck did you know that????

Whoa!!!!!!!

[Rockethorn1978 6061]

1 hour ago, satyanash said:

Now he's getting into it with Wescott Eberts.

 

THIS is why he is a bitch. You run your mouth on national television, get called out and wanna settle it on private email. Lol. Don’t run your mouth about something from 10 years ago that was meant to be left in the locker room. Fucking bitch. I hope he reads this. Be a man and take the heat if you’re gonna run your fucking mouth for laughs and attention. 

[Cajun 11675]

Yeah, his whole schtick here is pure, uncut bitchass.

[Fondren & Main 6670]

Wait...so we’ve been cheating this whole time and have also been sucking...?

Wow, so we are incompetent.  Thanks Acho!

[Lhorn 4885]

Look at me!  Look at me!

 

Regarding this tweet by Acho: so not wanting you (Acho)to take a steaming dump on your alma mater is being a hater?! Good to know.

 

So damn stupid. You’d have to be an idiot to think you could say something like that and not open up a shit storm.

 

[Leeroy Jenkins 2393]

Emmanuel Acho, 1/3rd Life Longhorn.  

 

[Capn81 372]

I blocked him a long time ago on Twitter. The world does not need another hot take artist.

[BigSwingingD 719]

2 hours ago, satyanash said:

Now he's getting into it with Wescott Eberts.

 

Wescott not being a total bitch is rich. The voice of reason, he is not.

Hook'em 

[THEHORN5561 2583]

Diggs getting in on the action. 
 

 

 

Edited January 16, 2020 by THEHORN5561

[SwanderedTalent 5761]

all his dumb ass had to say was, "I played college football, and I heard about stuff like this. There's not a guy alive who played college football that hasn't heard of this kind of thing happening."

that establishes the credibility of "I played" without saying "and I saw firsthand my teammates breaking NCAA rules".