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you guys aren't going to believe this, but i may have misjudged the potential floor here.

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Aggie - Fisher - Plan 2024 Synopsis, as I've come to hear about it: Spoilered for the tl;dr crowd that doesn't give a shit and doesn't want to scroll.  

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I have to tell you, I don't know if I can handle this if it is true. They are speculating on the aggie 247 board that, because Elijah Robinson is still an employee at Texas A&M and because he is c

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I'm sure aggy will still recruit fairly well based on $ but I think @closetojumpingput it best. A lot of people really underestimated how good of a recruiter Jimbo was. A disaster of a coach but that guy was an elite recruiter. 

Top 5 was his ceiling and top 10 was his floor. I'm far from sold that Elko's ceiling in recruiting is top 5. 

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4 minutes ago, Teryor said:

Fong reported today that they had an in-home last week. Guess that didn't move the needle

Melko apparently ate most of the coffee cake and just sat there eating and heavily breathing while whichever assistant that was with him spent the entire meeting talking shit about Florida.

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22 minutes ago, Rickylovesweed said:

I'm sure aggy will still recruit fairly well based on $ but I think @closetojumpingput it best. A lot of people really underestimated how good of a recruiter Jimbo was. A disaster of a coach but that guy was an elite recruiter. 

Top 5 was his ceiling and top 10 was his floor. I'm far from sold that Elko's ceiling in recruiting is top 5. 

Don't discount how scrappy his bunch will be.  

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Panic phase engaging.  https://texags.com/s/56135/recruiting-country-the-latest-recruiting-news-surrounding-the-maroon-white/5

Key notes from Recruiting Country

  • We don’t know how Mike Elko is as a recruiter at a place like this as a head coach. He has run the roads more now. For anybody to come up with a narrative about what kind of recruiter he is or isn't up to this point because of what you think you know, that is preemptive. It's shortsided. We don’t know yet. We have a good idea. He is organized and running the roads like crazy.
     
  • Hard working is the No. 1 attribute I can give to him right now. In terms of how effective he is, we will wait and see. The organizational structure is much different than what Jimbo Fisher had rolling. He has a portal guy, a high school guy, a general manager and directors of player personnel. It is very structured.
     
  • Getting the ball to the finish line is important. It is a mad scramble. That is the best way to describe it. 

 

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  • I cautioned everyone when I put out a DJ Lagway‍ update because I knew how it would be received. He might be the state Offensive Player of the Year this year. I had to put it out. Another service had run quotes from a family member of DJs.
     
  • Florida was aware that if this happened with A&M, this could be a real problem. Ahead of time, they were scrambling to thwart any kind of momentum with DJ Lagway. He is an option for A&M. He met with Mike Elko. He met with Collin Klein. By all accounts, those visits went extremely well, but he has been committed to Florida for a long time. They had plans in place on and off the field that was going to be tough to beat.
     
  • What kind of situation will he have in Gainesville? He may have a really nice bedroom and a house that is on fire. If things don't go well, is Billy Napier fired? I am not speculating on this. These are things that are being talked about among top Florida media members. As of this morning, I put on the site I did not have a quarterback update. I thought if Lagway visited anywhere this weekend, it would be Florida. 
     
  • From what I was told, Collin Klein was over the top impressive in terms of football knowledge and ability to explain his offense. He knew the exact percentage of what he ran when. He knew the certain effectiveness of 21 personnel, 22 personnel and five wide personnel.
     
  • You are asking Elko to push a giant snowball up a hill with the sun beating down on it. It's tough. I have not been given 1000 percent confirmation that he is visiting Florida this weekend.
     
  • You had two commitments off the visitor list. They were at positions where you needed impact players and depth. Corner and receiver. You got Will Lee, who was the highest-rated defender on the Kansas State defense. That was an important get. 
     
  • A&M has five scholarship receivers right now. They needed to add. Javon Harvey played in a really poor offense at Old Dominion. We have seen it with Jahdae Walker, guys coming from the lower level and making an impact. Harvey is a guy that staff thought, "He has been pretty productive, but he was on offense that struggled to get him the ball. Is there another level of production here?" They thought he could make an impact on the team next year. The first two commits of the Elko era are portal guys. 
     
  • With the current state of NIL and the current recruiting calendar, something has to change, probably on both fronts. This may be a hot take. I think the way NIL is currently structured is a house of cards. It is coming down. I don't know when or how. I think it will topple down soon. It cannot last.
     
  • People were upset with Deshaun Watson's contract in the NFL because it changed the market from quarterbacks. The owners of NFL teams are all working under the same financial restrictions. There is some fair play. In college football, you have 65 Power 5 teams who have no intention of working together to find common ground. You have different laws in every state.
     
  • Let's say Christain Nuño is a class of 2024 offensive lineman. There is one school that is recruiting him hard, and they want to pay him $750,000 in his first year. Now. Buck Buchanan, Olin's dog, is a class of 2025 offensive lineman from the same area as Christain Nuño. Whenever Buck goes out, he is expecting the same money. The market value for every offensive tackle who is rated near Christain Nuño, everyone thinks that is what they should get. Do that across every position. 
     
  • News flash for people going into these NIL negotiations, that certain school may have enough money to pay you, but what will they put around you?
     
  • Last year, Florida promised Jaden Rashada money they did not have. How often will that happen? When do we start seeing high school players going to college who hold out because they were promised X amount of dollars and are not happy with their compensation plan?
     
  • College football fanbases have massive numbers of people. Not many programs have massive numbers of people willing to give to NIL. Every dollar impacts NIL. The difference makers are the guys at the top writing the big checks. Who has the most of those? When do they get tired of writing the checks? As more guys jump in the portal, if the lifespan of a college football on campus is 18 months on average now, where is the incentive for these people giving money to be loyal to the program?
     
  • As a player, you can endear yourself to these fanbases. Texas A&M changed my life. I have a lot of things right now because of A&M and the connections I made there. Look at this long-term. 
     
  • The preemptive financial decision would be to come out in favor of the school that you are at as early as you can because you are building loyalty among the fan base. 
     
  • I'm sure Mike Elko would like to be doing current player evaluations while trying to hire coaches and recruit. They need to alter the portal window and move it back later. Do away with Early Signing Day. Go back to one in February or the old docu-sign theory when a guy can sign whenever he wants. 
     
  • I think Tyanthony Smith‍ is conflicted. A lot has happened. He has great ties to the A&M recruiting staff. He was very close with D.J. Durkin. It is becoming increasingly unlikely that Durkin will be here beyond the bowl game. That doubt may have allowed things to creep in.
     
  • Behind the scenes, Texas has done a good job of working that relationship and moving up the pecking order. Texas had real momentum on Sunday and Monday with Tyanthony. As it started to get out that he was planning to visit, it made him think about if he wanted all this attention. He is taking a step back and re-evaluating.
     
  • There is still a chance. I think it's a coin flip. On Early Signing Day, regardless of whether he shows up in Austin this weekend, I do anticipate him having a Letter of Intent from both schools.
     
  • Tristan Jernigan‍ is supposed to come to A&M this weekend on an official visit. If you want to keep him from signing from Alabama, you need to get him to visit A&M. Before Alabama had offered, he had called it his dream school. The coaching change at A&M made it difficult for him. Alabama has that thing rolling in their direction. If A&M gets him on campus, they have a chance to get that in their favor.
     
  • I do not think Drelon Miller‍ will change his mind. That was out of the blue. It caught me by suprise. The last conversations I had about Drelon, it sounded like Colorado had a lot of work to do. I would put that as increasingly unlikely. 
     
  • What is next Wednesday going to feel like? Who knows? Recruiting is inherently fluid. When you have a coaching change and an old staff still on campus, it adds to the fluidity.
     
  • There are guys I am very certain A&M will sign on Wednesday. Probably 12 of them. I don't know about Terry Bussey‍. I don't know about Dominick McKinley‍. I think he will wait until February. I don't know about Tristan Jernigan. I don’t know about Tyanthony Smith. Jernigan won't sign until Friday.
     
  • A&M will sign Ashton Funk‍, Isendre Ahfua‍ and Miles O'Neill‍. They have a great group of commits coming in this weekend. They have some interesting transfers and high school players visiting. Maybe some names you have not heard of before show up this weekend and sign with A&M on Wednesday. One of those is a running back out of Tampa, Florida, Anthony Carrie‍. 
     
  • I have the latest on our site about the trio from Oregon State. 

 

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57 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

Melko apparently ate most of the coffee cake and just sat there eating and heavily breathing while whichever assistant that was with him spent the entire meeting talking shit about Florida.

Please tell me this is real. I now have this vision that Elko is the equivalent of a truffle pig during in home visits. 

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23 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

Panic phase engaging.  https://texags.com/s/56135/recruiting-country-the-latest-recruiting-news-surrounding-the-maroon-white/5

Key notes from Recruiting Country

  • We don’t know how Mike Elko is as a recruiter at a place like this as a head coach. He has run the roads more now. For anybody to come up with a narrative about what kind of recruiter he is or isn't up to this point because of what you think you know, that is preemptive. It's shortsided. We don’t know yet. We have a good idea. He is organized and running the roads like crazy.

 

One thing we can be sure of about Mike Elko is that he doesn't take his pancakes short-stacked.

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  • With the current state of NIL and the current recruiting calendar, something has to change, probably on both fronts. This may be a hot take. I think the way NIL is currently structured is a house of cards. It is coming down. I don't know when or how. I think it will topple down soon. It cannot last.
     
  • People were upset with Deshaun Watson's contract in the NFL because it changed the market from quarterbacks. The owners of NFL teams are all working under the same financial restrictions. There is some fair play. In college football, you have 65 Power 5 teams who have no intention of working together to find common ground. You have different laws in every state.

This is chinpubes, right? Holy shit the balls on him to type that after what A&M did in 2022. 

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5 minutes ago, Mitch Cumsteen said:

This is chinpubes, right? Holy shit the balls on him to type that after what A&M did in 2022. 

It's pretty much him admitting aggy has a shitty NIL program and they just straight up bought players. Like everyone has said on this board. 

"Bags don't beat bankrolls" thread title is such a great name because it's proving to be 100% true. 

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Guy who earns money to write. Presumably a college graduate. Fumbles the meaning of the first hilighted word and shoots himself in his shortsided dick with the second.

The last sentence suggests lack of sleep and drug abuse.

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You gotta complete the pass, get over the hump! Buck up! Tighten your chinstrap and put on your big boy pants because it's a free-for-all on Hell's Highway! Anybody's game and it could go either way! Keep your eye on the ball and your hands out of your pants!

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1 hour ago, Hank Kingsley said:

What kind of situation will he have in Gainesville? He may have a really nice bedroom and a house that is on fire. If things don't go well, is Billy Napier fired? I am not speculating on this. These are things that are being talked about among top Florida media members. As of this morning, I put on the site I did not have a quarterback update. I thought if Lagway visited anywhere this weekend, it would be Florida. 

aggy is characterizing FLORIDA as a house on fire?!?  Look in the mirror, dumbass. 

1 hour ago, Hank Kingsley said:

With the current state of NIL and the current recruiting calendar, something has to change, probably on both fronts. This may be a hot take. I think the way NIL is currently structured is a house of cards. It is coming down. I don't know when or how. I think it will topple down soon. It cannot last.

Yep, aggy “NIL” certainly is in a state of complete collapse. 

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