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8 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

No, you misunderstood that in the decade or two leading up to NIL, there were no rules and restrictions and that it wasn't arleady open season. You make it sounds like we had this wonderful system, and NIL shit all over it, and then more rules will come back it a feasible system. 

There were no rules or restrictions being enforced leading up to NIL, except those a school placed on themselves. The FBI having tapes of LSU robbing a fucking charity hospital out front should have told ya'. So yeah, I disagree with your police work making it sounding like there were prosecutions and punishmets for any rules violations by anyone the fucking 10-15 years before NIL. 

I see what you mean. 

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Nahlin insinuating that Texas' penchant for rule-following could hamper their recruiting efforts if it comes to pass: https://www.on3.com/teams/texas-longhorns/news/a-macro-look-at-the-recruiting-landscape-as-it-pertains-to-texas-and-the-2026-cycle/

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Texas has the chance to go back to back with the No. 1 class, however there is a major new variable to account for. Seemingly every cycle comes with a new variable to account for but we don’t always know what that is until it presents itself. Last cycle (2025), a number of kids received bags to simply publicly commit. This was independent of whatever NIL negotiations they had going on. They would accept knowing full well they weren’t going to that school. That has continued in the 2026 cycle in at least a couple of instances. 

In this cycle, the variable is more public — collectives being rolled into athletic departments. I need to further investigate the intended and unintended consequences of this for Texas but we know Texas is much more likely to adhere to the letter of the law than other schools. A lot of schools won’t follow a hard cap. I’m not going to worry about that until I have reason to but it is something to be aware of. NIL has benefitted Texas specifically because of transparency. More transparency always benefits good-faith actors, especially when they’re as resource-rich as Texas.

 

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40 minutes ago, skipmcgee said:

Deleted tweet. Who is it?

Fake UT (Tennessee). From reading the comments, it doesn't sound like there's much there. The Twitter comments make it seem like a former UTN player with an axe to grind more than any real scandal - but I have no way of knowing one way or the other

 

edit: I kept going and it sounds like someone's being accused of skimming off the top of their collective. No idea of the veracity but it does seem like the kind of thing your average CFB parasite (everyone's uncles, Willie Lyles, Loochi and his 15% or whatever, etc.) would get up to

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9 hours ago, campcrunk said:

Fake UT (Tennessee). From reading the comments, it doesn't sound like there's much there. The Twitter comments make it seem like a former UTN player with an axe to grind more than any real scandal - but I have no way of knowing one way or the other

 

edit: I kept going and it sounds like someone's being accused of skimming off the top of their collective. No idea of the veracity but it does seem like the kind of thing your average CFB parasite (everyone's uncles, Willie Lyles, Loochi and his 15% or whatever, etc.) would get up to

It was related to Spyre Sports at Tennessee having shady shit in their NIL contracts.

The athlete said that they were offering NIL deals with fine print that subtracts the value of other NIL deals from the contract (so if they give you a $100k deal and you sign a $25k deal with a car dealership - they will only pay out $75k), and that they regularly brokered deals where Spyre would take 80% or more of the deal, and then they would assess management fees on top of that before calculating the athlete's percentage, so that the athlete was getting even less.

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