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I posted this on the FB board but will post it in a few threads here too: Some of us just sorted a whole bunch of NIL stuff for the 2024 cycle for Texas football on behalf of everyone else. Texas

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USC came out in a Bear front against Michigan for a lot of the second half and Bear only played 21 snaps for the entire game.  There is a joke to be made here, but thinking of one is too much effort so I’m just going to quit halfway and enter the portal,

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1 hour ago, Teryor said:

Assuming Dykes isn't fired, TCU seems to be the home for highly ranked croots who leave the state then crash and burn

I’m still really confused why they didn’t  push for Jelani McDonald. Dykes inherited a talented senior roster and decided to capitalize on massive year one success by taking guys like Trey Sanders, Tommy Brockermeyer, and Dylan Wright!? When there’s a TCU legacy that is a senior riser with great length and athleticism!? That was a red flag that has stuck with me. 

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12 hours ago, Getafix said:

 

The good news for Bear is that he has this guy in his corner (Tony Jones - his handler, supposedly).

 

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That TONY JONES’ grammar fucking sucks!

I sure hope that he doesn’t find out about Surly. I will neg him to Bolivia!🇧🇴 

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On 12/6/2023 at 1:20 PM, HenryJames said:

He should go to USC and cry with Bear Alexander.

LOS ANGELES — Maybe they didn’t get talked off the ledge, per se. Maybe the possibility of leaving was just dangled, unspoken, in spring conversations involving USC’s Bear Alexander and Alexander’s guardian Tony Jones and Eric Henderson.

Regardless, as Alexander was feeling the transfer portal tug of returning home to be closer to family in Texas, it was his comfort level with Henderson and USC’s staff that helped keep him grounded in Southern California.

“We had to just realize or get back to a point where, like, we understand what – all the sacrifices, things that we made, and just get closer to the new family,” Jones told the Southern California News Group, early in the fall. “It’s always easier to reach back to what you’re comfortable with, but those guys are family. They’ve been treating us that way.”

But the family split on Wednesday, a suddenly growing crack in the foundation ripping Alexander and USC apart yet again. The defensive tackle, widely regarded just two short months ago as a breakout candidate and crucial piece on the Trojans’ defense, is planning to redshirt his junior season at USC, guardian Tony Jones said.

“We are going to take the shirt,” Jones wrote in a text.

Alexander still intends to practice with USC this season despite the redshirt, Jones made clear.

It could ultimately bring an end to a tumultuous year and a half for Alexander in a USC jersey, and further a tumultuous journey as a talent. It’s possible he preserves his eligibility and searches for a new program through the winter transfer portal. The one-time top Texas recruit had a difficult upbringing and played for five high schools. He spent his freshman year at Georgia before landing at USC in the spring of 2023, and very nearly dipped his toe back into unclaimed waters in the spring of ’24.

Head coach Lincoln Riley made it clear, then, that USC didn’t want to lose Alexander, and his return to Troy looked massive for a new-look defensive line under new defensive line coach Henderson. Everything looked peachy, at the start of the fall, former Rams coach Henderson singing Alexander’s praises as a kid “thirsting for knowledge” and Alexander affirming he needed to take steps in consistency to reach his potential.

“Just making sure my motor’s at the top, so other guys’ motors is just trailing as well,” Alexander said in late July.

It became progressively clear, though, that USC’s staff wasn’t quite seeing that consistency – wasn’t quite seeing something. Alexander led USC in quarterback hurries in 2023, but Riley mentioned in the fall that his “inconsistencies” had hurt the Trojans at times, despite his ability to “be an explosive player.”

Before USC’s Week 1 victory over LSU, Alexander was labeled as an “OR” starter on the team’s depth chart next to former Wyoming transfer Gavin Meyer. He’s been a backup, in three games since, to Meyer and Vanderbilt transfer Nate Clifton. USC’s defense appears to have made significant strides to overall improvement. Riley insisted that the coaching staff didn’t “need to see any more” from Alexander; but he played 20 snaps against Utah State, and 21 against Michigan, and on Monday the ball dropped.

“FREE 9-OWE,” Alexander wrote in a tweet, then.

On Tuesday, Riley brushed away the notion Alexander was earning less opportunity, pointing to the fact Alexander had still played more than a third of the game against Michigan.

“He’s doing a good job for us out here, he’s getting better,” Riley said. “There’s no story there. I mean, I know you guys are looking for one. Like, there’s, there’s no story there.”

A day later, Alexander was absent from USC’s practice.

Defensive coordinator D’Anton Lynn, speaking to reporters after practice, deferred comment on Alexander to Riley. Meyer and defensive end Jamil Muhammad largely did the same.

“Bear’s my brother,” Muhammad said. “I wish him the best.”

From a strictly on-field perspective, it leaves USC in a tricky position. The most proven interior defensive lineman on the roster, behind Meyer and Clifton, is senior Kobe Pepe, who has played 124 snaps across his career. There’s Elijah Hughes, a sophomore who showed a couple of flashes during his freshman year. There is proven 6-foot-5, 290-pound true freshman Jide Abasiri.

Clifton and Meyer’s consistency, though, was what had given Lynn confidence in starting them on the interior in the fall, he professed. And beyond them, Lynn, Meyer and Muhammad all largely expressed confidence in the program’s depth.

“We feel like that’s one of the strengths of the team,” Lynn said Wednesday.

The defensive line at USC, Riley proclaimed Tuesday, should be a place difficult to get snaps. And Muhammad and Meyer echoed their head coach Wednesday, lauding the competitiveness of their room.

“USC was a team that comes to be reckoned with when it comes to defense,” Muhammad said, asked about Riley’s comments. “So I just think that’s the culture that’s been brought back. And um, that’s across the whole defensive staff, the whole defensive team.”

“You have to be a dog day-in and day-out.”

But not a Bear, it appears.

 

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16 hours ago, RabidM said:

Apparently they hope to convince him to stay and play next season.  Seems highly unlikely. 

I wondered if Bear claiming he wanted to keep practicing had something to do with his NIL contract.  I.e., still a student athlete and part of the team despite electing to redshirt.   I have never seen an actual contract but know they can't be structured as pay to play but can be conditioned on being a student athlete. 

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14 minutes ago, Skipper said:

I wondered if Bear claiming he wanted to keep practicing had something to do with his NIL contract.  I.e., still a student athlete and part of the team despite electing to redshirt.   I have never seen an actual contract but know they can't be structured as pay to play but can be conditioned on being a student athlete. 

I don’t know the reality, but I certainly can believe this is the deal. It would fucking piss me off to be a part of that collective, if so. 

Geoff Ketchum’s fat fucking mouth likely spared us this kind of bullshit with this selfish fat ass and his handler. 

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35 minutes ago, Skipper said:

I wondered if Bear claiming he wanted to keep practicing had something to do with his NIL contract.  I.e., still a student athlete and part of the team despite electing to redshirt.   I have never seen an actual contract but know they can't be structured as pay to play but can be conditioned on being a student athlete. 

Couldn't the coaches demand he suit out and go in the next game, and when he refuses, kick him off the team for insubordination? At this point I think everyone would understand a coaching staff doing that to a player who refuses to play. Plus, why would you want to take any recruit in the future who wouldn't play for you because you didn't let a grifter player con you out of NIL? Seems like a win-win to me. 

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52 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

I don’t know the reality, but I certainly can believe this is the deal. It would fucking piss me off to be a part of that collective, if so. 

Geoff Ketchum’s fat fucking mouth likely spared us this kind of bullshit with this selfish fat ass and his handler. 

Geoff be playing chess while many on this board saying “king me”. 

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When Isaiah Bond left Tuscaloosa for Texas right around the time of Nick Saban's decision to retire, the Longhorns were the destination for one of the top playmakers in the entire portal cycle.

So far, the 5'11", 180-pound junior from Buford, Georgia, hasn't disappointed—but he hasn't wowed, either.

Even during a quarterback shuffle that saw the injured Quinn Ewers replaced by Arch Manning and Ewers returning, Bond has posted the best stats of any Texas perimeter weapon. He has 21 catches for 369 yards and three touchdowns to lead the team.

Those aren't bad numbers, but we're going to be tough in this grading system, and a deeper look shows Bond has yet to find the end zone in a game against Power Four competition. He got hurt early in the Red River Rivalry against Oklahoma and had just one catch for five yards.

Still, coach Steve Sarkisian seems confident Bond's ailment is just a minor ankle injury, and he may suit up this week for Georgia. It would be a great opportunity for him to boost his numbers in a marquee game for the nation's top-ranked team.

The 'Horns have blown out some opponents, so Bond hasn't played a bunch of complete games. But Bond has more spark in him than what he's shown so far. Could this week be a breakout performance?

Grade: B+ 

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1 hour ago, skipmcgee said:

“Leading WR on the #1 team in the country…B+” is a wild take

Through 6 games with Texas, he has already matched his TD total from last year and has 2/3 the total yards from scrimmage. I hope he and Golden go off on Saturday.

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