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17 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

 

Yeah, no plaudits over here. I’d have let the dude walk. 


I’m not sure he was good enough for that kind of effort. But still, it is nice to have a lot of starting experience return in the secondary. Depending on how they finish in the portal on DL, the defense should be excellent again. 

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1 hour ago, closetojumping said:

To be clear, I don't think any of the 3 of us deserve any direct credit for anything that has transpired with retention over the past few days. Could be wrong about the other two guys, but I've not been involved with any of it other than bullshitting with folks.

Was just a nod to those who either keep us in the loop or who have been/ are still involved in TOF. All good

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51 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

 

Yeah, no plaudits over here. I’d have let the dude walk. 

Good thing you're not handling the financial agreements. autocorrect might have accidentally added or removed a number when discussing TC.

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3 hours ago, DZX158 said:

I don’t blame MM for trying to maximize how much he makes. He’s been solid thus far and by all accounts is a student of the game. Hoping he sticks around and plays well enough to be 3 and done. 

That's fine, but do it behind the scenes like everyone else. You think every other starter hasn't been doing that too? Don't go on social media crying about being underpaid.

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4 hours ago, closetojumping said:

To confirm that he's pulled away from the ledge to the staff, team, and those out there trying to lure him away.

Vegas, posters here, neutral observers all assume Texas is a top 5 team as the floor barring injuries based on what we know now. Beyond that, Texas could be the best roster in the country, and I don't see many naysayers offering up a challenge to that here, but that isn't a credible claim until we get to May 1. 

Humans are terrible about speaking with certainty regarding the future, so you should doubt yourself plenty. We don't know shit about August right now. Sarkisian's potentially speaking to NFL teams and so are Ryan Day and Dan Lanning. Any one of those guys going pro could lead to elite roster upheaval that benefits the others or someone else swooping in. 

More teams than OSU and Texas are worthy of examination. Each portal cycle is somewhat unprecedented in its own way. The spring window last year was kind of a nothing thing nationally. Maybe that's the same this time. Or maybe OSU is sitting there with $15M to commit and they decide they're going to blow it on 7 players at key spots from the other best teams in the country. Or Michigan or Oregon do that. Maybe Auburn goes bonkers again or SoCal does. 

It's not a rebel thing to say that Texas could have the best roster in the country for 2025. It's a fan thing and that's fine. I hope that's the case as well, but there are a fuckton of variables here. 

This thread reminds me of the duck illusion and some of Taleb's writing on asymmetry of information and also the problems with the asymmetry, in some instances, of risk/reward.

Regarding the duck, everything about the little guy looks calm on the surface as he swims by you. Meanwhile, he's working his ass off underneath the surface as he's paddling by to get from point a to point b.

Taleb's written quite a bit about how a lack of shared knowledge can still critically skew the perceptions of people within the same tribe or affiliation. That leads to wild surprises and division among the ranks, so addressing it proactively is often helpful. Sometimes it is unavoidable.

Similarly but on a different problem is the lack of credit populations provide to people or organizations who prevent disasters from occurring, and therefore there's also an incentive or reward problem. How many 9/11s have been avoided? How many forest fires avoided with preventive maintenance (this example has been part of the discussion long before the Cali tragedy lately, so no CR intended)? How much future damage at a global level is being mitigated by productive climate change prevention efforts today and how much future cost of money and life is that in future terms (again no CR)? We don't really know because they're non-outcomes, and therefore we often fall into the logic trap of thinking because something didn't happen, it was never at risk of happening in the first place. 

What in the fuck does that have to do with this discussion? Well, some people have been working and donating their asses off over the past few days to prevent the collapse of the roster for 2025 for Texas. What do they get in exchange for that? Folks mocking concerns over NIL and the portal and speaking in certitude about the roster's future state against that of any college football alternative. Do not take where things sit for granted. The spring portal should be viewed as both enemy and opportunity on the horizon.

Do not forget:

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11 hours ago, closetojumping said:

We cannot do anything to prevent ignorant hubris from infecting clowns on the football board and the random morons on this board

 

8 hours ago, closetojumping said:

This thread right now has clowns implying that the richest man in the world is their intellectual inferior, overt political whining, and an outbreak of rehashing shit that happened, and that we had to live with, from the years 2010-2021. We're at the point that multiple postings of guys we don't want to lose heading to the portal would improve the spirit of this thread. We are a special form of collective stupid. 

 

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1 hour ago, SydneyCarton said:

Yeah, no plaudits over here. I’d have let the dude walk. 

“We’d really like to get your help on crafting a compelling retention package for a player of need.”

“Nah. Fuck that guy.”

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54 minutes ago, Xminus6 said:

“We’d really like to get your help on crafting a compelling retention package for a player of need.”

“Nah. Fuck that guy.”

More like “hey, are you willing to donate to keep MM?”

“Nope.”

CTJ was referring to a financial capacity, not an administrative one. 

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Just now, SydneyCarton said:

More like “hey, are you willing to donate to keep MM?”

“Nope.”

CTJ was referring to a financial capacity, not an administrative one. 

Ah. Gotcha. Well thanks for helping where and when it counts. I’m enjoying this era. 

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8 hours ago, closetojumping said:

So Frank is a lawyer. Never knew that. 

I've given three depositions as a witness in my life. The last time I did one, the opposing lawyer called me a motherfucker and a liar (I wasn't lying) after losing his shit during the session. Apparently you're not supposed to do those things and he got in trouble. I found it quite entertaining.

I love how you deny being a liar, but don't deny being a mother fucker. 

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9 hours ago, Js1 said:

Kind of like how everyone throws out Michael Dell to fund our NIL. I don’t think Dell gives one crap about sports. Didn’t he only buy a stake in a pro team for the business aspect? Ie- how does this make me money back?

He somewhat pays attention at the very least. He tweeted this after the Arizona State game 

 

 

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10 hours ago, Sgt Hulk said:

Can we please get back to the fucking weather in the Pacific Northwest.   Chicken fried steak locations.  Charleston recruits and other Gouda cheese puns 

Just ate some smoked Gouda cheezits, so cerca de la hacienda y todo eso. 

8 hours ago, Basil said:

Jesus fucking Christ there’s a lot of dumb shit to scroll over to find any portal news.

First time? Gif 

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9 hours ago, Foosters said:

Not wanting an autistic billionaire to take the reigns of the program is not a political take. Hth.

 

5 hours ago, Sgt Hulk said:

Before we got off topic. I don’t think we’ve ran this Elon musk thing far enough yet.  
rockets go to the moon 

so does doge coin 

so does our NIL

to the moon guys.   We haven’t given this enough discussion yet.  Our comparisons to Stanford academics lasted weeks 

We definitely can't stop before we address the logical end point:

Is it better to hand the program to an autistic billionaire or a billion autists?

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