Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread

[Longhornfrenzy 5591]

[lilMAC25 3778]

Let me get this straight, aggy is now claiming that getting a big recruit to commit before a visit to another school is “questionable” and “probably cheating”? 
 

But the dude they got last year who committed to a school he never visited and never was on the radar was totally above board?

[Hiphopopotamos 20865]

[Elmer_Fudd 22108]

This thread is going to deliver today and into next week.

Edited July 13, 2022 by Elmer_Fudd

[texifornia 56512]

Let's begin

[WBT 20418]

How long before they drop the article and start calling it Pool Party?  What a bunch of rubes.

[texifornia 56512]

[texifornia 56512]

[MontereyMX 848]

always, always, always finger pointing mutha fuckas when shit doesn't go their way 

[texifornia 56512]

[texifornia 56512]

[texifornia 56512]

[closetojumping 62230]

It’s pretty awesome that they think people are paying recruits to avoid their pool party. 

 

[SomeoneYouKnow2 235]

My favorite part is where a few of them aren't sure if he can back out of his OV or if he has to attend the pool party no matter what

[texifornia 56512]

"Give the reputation of our Pool Party..."

Edited July 13, 2022 by texifornia

[BabaYaga 15210]

34 minutes ago, WBT said:

How long before they drop the article and start calling it Pool Party?  What a bunch of rubes.

I'm sure it will be a smashing success

[Hiphopopotamos 20865]

At least one of them has it figured out.  That 2022 class was historic - but it doesn't mean a whole hell of a lot if you can't stack classes.  Especially in the age of the portal.

[Dr. Teeth 5832]

The idea that Bobby Taylor was some sort recruit ringleader/flag bearer should have been the first red flag that they were paying a lot to get kids into the class. 

[RollLeft 5040]

Am i correct that their "premiere" recruiting event is a pool party, popularized by Charlie, and they don't even have an outdoor pool?  Where do they have it? Their natatorium or apartment complex down the way? I suppose the ace up Jumbo's sleeve are some awesome cookie cakes. 🤣😂

[texifornia 56512]

[Viper 12028]

25 minutes ago, texifornia said:

"Give the reputation of our Pool Party..."

Just to note, Bobby Burton asked Gerry Hamilton about this (Toviano and Muhammad) yesterday and Gerry said he's never heard anything like that. 

[SydneyCarton 47873]

10 minutes ago, RollLeft said:

Am i correct that their "premiere" recruiting event is a pool party, popularized by Charlie, and they don't even have an outdoor pool?  Where do they have it? Their natatorium or apartment complex down the way? I suppose the ace up Jumbo's sleeve are some awesome cookie cakes. 🤣😂

It's at an apartment complex that is popular with aggie football players. 

[texifornia 56512]

[6th Street 6357]

Those guys make it sound like the pool party is being held at the Playboy Mansion 

[texifornia 56512]

Bama

[ATXhorn17 1610]

25 minutes ago, texifornia said:

"Give the reputation of our Pool Party..."

That’s an astounding lack of self-awareness… Jimbo’s recruiting pitch is literally still “it was my fourth year and we’re building”.

Well, that plus some Bitcoin, a homoerotic pool party, and a few coupons to the Dixie Chicken.

[RomaVicta 29781]

1 hour ago, lilMAC25 said:

Let me get this straight, aggy is now claiming that getting a big recruit to commit before a visit to another school is “questionable” and “probably cheating”? 
 

But the dude they got last year who committed to a school he never visited and never was on the radar was totally above board?

That guy had heard of the legendary Aggie Pool Party. That was enough. But let's go back to the beginning.

He knew in his heart that he wanted to be a straight shooter at a school that has an honor code. He grew up wanting to say howdy and whoop. In the wasteland of his life, a cool fresh breeze carried the whisper of Texas A&M University. Pool Party. No money used to recruit.

He saw a man in an ATM hat, We Beat Bama Shirt, and flashing a sparkling ring. This man told him of Fish Camp, the fabled fabulousness of College Station apartment swimming pools, and the great tradition of putting a penny at the foot of the Sul Ross statue for good luck.

"Good bull!" said the maroon hatted man.

Weeping, the young recruit asked, "Where do I sign? You'll make sure that this deal isn't sullied by any payments to me, right?"

It was good bull indeed my friends. The manly fellow in the maroon hat then guided the disoriented young man back to his home where the recruit's parents showered them with flowers and chocolates.

 

 

[texifornia 56512]

[SydneyCarton 47873]

9 minutes ago, texifornia said:

Trendiest Schools dropping  off in recruiting this cycle, eh? That would be news to Ohio State, Alabama, Notre Dame, Clemson, Miami, Texas, Georgia, Tennessee and Penn State, all which are in the on3 top 10. Followed by USC, Oregon, OU, Lousville (lol), Florida, Michigan State...need I on? Let me put it another way, exactly who are these OTHER trendy schools that have fallen off? Michigan at 30 maybe?

[texifornia 56512]

[Rickylovesweed 14155]

The best part is everyone predicted what was going to happen here. 

A&M would desperately offer under the table deals for 1 cycle instead of focusing on NIL and then get lapped once other schools had a fully functioning NIL system in place. 

 

 

[texifornia 56512]

[SydneyCarton 47873]

God I love the fucking Bijan and Ewers super car shit. It's their big smoking gun that something untoward is happening. We must be cheating, because they have quarter million dollar cars. 

Nevermind that those cars are almost certainly a lease and, wait for it...there are zero of those kinds of dealerships in College Station. So who the fuck is going to sign their players to a fucking deal? What's actually more amazing to me is that half those motherfuckers don't have leases for trucks with whatever dealerships ARE there. The car lease is easily the most straightforward NIL deal out there, and these guys are shitting themselves that its proof the moon landing was fake. Meanwhile it's LITERALLY the easiest deal for a player and a business to make. 

You'll be shocked to hear this, but when we were doing research on Texas NIL capabilities, we looked into car dealership saturation. Austin has 50 of them. College Station had 8. Tuscaloosa area had like 10. This isn't some kind of fucking Randy Marsh Cock Magic at play. It's Austin. 

Edited July 13, 2022 by SydneyCarton

[Hank Chinaski 6310]

Holy shit. This is hysterical.

The incessant discussion, among mostly/presumably grown men, about this pool party (what the actual fuck happens at this party anyway?) is marvelous. The seemingly earnest confusion about what’s different between last cycle and this cycle, and the panic that this confusion is creating, is fantastic (I mean, I don’t even really follow recruiting very closely and it seems fairly obvious what has changed).

But the best part is still just the complete lack of self-awareness that the ags have turned into an art form. I used to think they were just intellectually dishonest or were masters of cognitive dissonance, but alas, I’ve come to accept that…they aren’t. It’s sincere, and that is really something.

[Vertigo 20266]

This notion that these kids are going to visit an apartment complex pool in college fucking station and completely fall in love with all things aggy has to be the weirdest piece of hope to cling to that I can remember. "Get em to the pool party!" should seem like a screaming red flag to anybody with a brain. One of two things were going on last year there, and maybe both. Either "NIL" deals were being struck at plastic tables over dry BBQ on paper plates, or womenz were "enticing" recruits. To suddenly come out of a mundane and basic event with incredible momentum with all of the top prospects in the country should seem about as natural as Candi's tits. 

[texifornia 56512]

[closetojumping 62230]

10 minutes ago, texifornia said:

These guys are acting like using NIL for players on campus is some sort of problem or conspiracy. There's being flatfooted and then there's just having your head shoved all the way up your own asshole. It's awesome to witness.

[MonkeyDoughnut 10145]

7 minutes ago, Rickylovesweed said:

The best part is everyone predicted what was going to happen here. 

A&M would desperately offer under the table deals for 1 cycle instead of focusing on NIL and then get lapped once other schools had a fully functioning NIL system in place. 

 

 

Yep... this forum is going to be really fun when everyone starts poaching their 2022 class next off season with legit NIL deals.

[texifornia 56512]

Wait, they're about to lose Bisontis to LSU? That dude has been the imagined cornerstone of their OL class for months. Steve Addazio hard at work.

[AP101S 1480]

15 minutes ago, texifornia said:

 

 

[RGBIII 22798]

12 hours ago, JesusSweatDuck said:

C + no actual legal NIL. They're fucked until they can get real NIL deals rolling 

It’s this and trying to back track their other shit and trying to make it legit after the fact

[derpyhorndog 2554]

This thread continues to deliver. Who needs coffee in the morning when you can just mainline this? Me, every morning, before reading the first new screenshot:

[WBT 20418]

18 minutes ago, Rickylovesweed said:

The best part is everyone predicted what was going to happen here. 

A&M would desperately offer under the table deals for 1 cycle instead of focusing on NIL and then get lapped once other schools had a fully functioning NIL system in place. 

Not everyone.  There were plenty of hot takes about how we would never compete with aggy again until we matched their bag game, regardless of NIL advantages.

[Michael Knight 12891]

On 7/12/2022 at 8:48 AM, texifornia said:

Was that posted by Fletch's friend

[texifornia 56512]

[RollLeft 5040]

 

[Soccer Dudes Dad 91]

19 hours ago, closetojumping said:

It's crazy how unintelligent and noncritical these guys are about what has transpired and what is transpiring. They were begging, BEGGING, for their money guys to get aggressive with the bags. Then, those guys did get aggressive. I mean, they won some bidding wars ahead of last year, such as McKinley Jackson, and they had a tactic that worked with Leal, Robertson, Wright, Demas, JJones and a few others, but last year, they went aaaaallll the way in. The fans on the forums got what they wanted. 

Now? It was all clean. They're the victim. Everyone else is now apparently "cheating" by using the freshly available above-board approach of NIL with on-campus players that obviously translates to visiting recruits and families, and ATM is the virtuous idiot, standing to the side, tsk-tsking everyone else for ... not breaking any rules and using their competitive advantages where available. 

It's just fucking bizarre. 

For the ATM regime as a whole, it looks like someone pointed out to them at some point that FOIA was a problem for claiming any NIL work with the past guys. Inventing NIL programs after the fact is a lot harder than expected.

So then they sprint out there and claim just good ol'hard work leading to the greatest class of all time without a fucking DC on staff as numerous 4 and 5 stars committed late. That doesn't sit well with guys like Kiffin, Day, and Saban, who know they fucking cheated in bigger ways than they were supposed to in the "handshake agreement" environment of bag game recruiting. So they start talking about it.

ATM can't handle someone implying they're dishonorable in some way, while they've been brazenly dishonorable, and so Ritz Bitz scampers out and goes nuts on the most respected and powerful entity in CFB at the moment - Darth Saban.

The fallout from there has been thorough, and the rock and the hard place that the program has put itself in has made staying aggressive with the bags a non-starter and diving into real NIL a game of starting from behind, by multiple laps, and with less major resources on the up and up for the process. 

Meanwhile, the insecure aggie fans, needing a white knight and a fairy tale, love the little cracker getting after it and love the notion of their program being the lone wolf of righteousness. They think they're William Wallace. They're looking more like George Custer.

Damn CTJ...this is Pulitzer Prize level stuff.  In less than a 1000 words, you have summed up Aggie's "little man/inferiority complex" with more aplomb than AOC going after her next tweet/photo-op.

Well done sir, well done.

[texifornia 56512]

[TotallyLegit 3050]

11 hours ago, Humble Beast said:

Wait til the pool party comes around. Jimbo’s REALLY gonna show these kids how bad he wants them!1!1

[Viper 12028]

37 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

God I love the fucking Bijan and Ewers super car shit. It's their big smoking gun that something untoward is happening. We must be cheating, because they have quarter million dollar cars. 

Nevermind that those cars are almost certainly a lease and, wait for it...there are zero of those kinds of dealerships in College Station. So who the fuck is going to sign their players to a fucking deal? What's actually more amazing to me is that half those motherfuckers don't have leases for trucks with whatever dealerships ARE there. The car lease is easily the most straightforward NIL deal out there, and these guys are shitting themselves that its proof the moon landing was fake. Meanwhile it's LITERALLY the easiest deal for a player and a business to make. 

You'll be shocked to hear this, but when we were doing research on Texas NIL capabilities, we looked into car dealership saturation. Austin has 50 of them. College Station had 8. Tuscaloosa area had like 10. This isn't some kind of fucking Randy Marsh Cock Magic at play. It's Austin. 

Lawrence Marshall dealership shuts down