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Props to Chris for finding one of Schreiber. I am ready to get out of these high numbers!!

I may be off on this but seems like Schloss and staff are now honing in on their “type of players”. The one thing that always jumped out at me with Rerick was he always played emotional. He was really fiery when doing good but when he didn’t have it his emotions were clearly keeping him from being able to get pasted the rough start. That’s not the type of player that Schloss likes. I’m spitballing here but maybe Schloss and Weiner didn’t feel like he could get passed the emotional aspect.

We are down to just 58 days before the Longhorns match up against Ohio State in the season opener. Who’s your favorite No. 58 to play at Texas? Options today include… Lance St Louis (current No. 58) And two guys I couldn’t find pictures of… Bobby Giles Adam Schreiber

More concerned about December than I am July. So, if we had hit on everyone, but they bailed prior to signing day, would you feel better?

Chris should be a sterling guest interview. 🤘🏻🤘🏼🤘🤘🏽🤘🏾🤘🏿

FWIW - in the case of the most recent losses, yes, I know both sides of the coin. Admittedly, I do not know all of those from last year. Reporting on NIL offers will become a more common thing, especially as schools can start putting their offers in writing on August 1.

Good question. Here’s why: Because the preponderance of NIL spent previously came from what the NCAA and House Settlement deem as “associated entities”, i.e. collectives and/or business specifically related to Texas. According to the House Settlement, those associated entities are now regulated by NIL Go and must pass fair market value tests, of which 70-90pct would have been thrown out last year, according to Deloitte.

Always a fair question. But Sark and Brandon Harris don’t seem to panic, no matter the situation. Not in high school recruiting and not in the portal.

@Blake Munroe where are the baseball notes?

Join us for some Coffee and Football starting around 8:15 AM, as we talk Texas and answer your questions. Today’s guest is former Texas RB Chris Warren III.

Hi John, First of all, we were not tracking either Guervil or Henderson heavily yesterday because 24 hours earlier we knew they were going elsewhere and reported as much. So we weren’t all in on covering the final throes of those recruitments. To your point, we probably should have had a thread for the day regardless. We’ll do that better this week, starting with Okpala today. 10am. Thanks, Bobby

Who is always on there waiting first? Just out of curiosity… 😁

Even Hills has changed his commitment in July.

Right. Add into the fact that kids make decisions for 8,000,000 reasons, most of them tied directly to monetary gain. I have read numerous sites saying this new “cap era” is actually far worse than the previous no restriction era ever was. I’m curious to see the strategy going forward

Some people want black and white answers and thoughts but reality of college football for at least 50 years has been gray area operations and pushing rules to their limits and beyond.

As an avid fan and a sponsor, this is an honest question and slight gripe: why should my source - you guys - go radio silent when we don't get a recruit? Why not have a simple post thread created to announce the result, and then update the thread title to "BOOM" or "MISS"? As a busy business owner, I don't have the time to go hunting through pages of jawboning to try to find out the result during my day. For instance, today with Guervil, I finally slogged through tonight since when I quickly checked the threads earlier today I saw nothing, so I had no idea if he had postponed or picked another school, as I figured if he had picked us you would have at least had a BOOM type post. So tonight I first discovered in a thread that the Noon commitment time had been pushed back to 4:00pm. Then I had to go search for 4 hours laters in pages of the thread to find the answer. Seems like an easy solution is to just have Gerry or CJ create the "Guervil Commitment Decision" post thread with the scheduled time of announcement in the title. Then he simply updates it if the time gets pushed back by hours or days, and then eventually just updates it with the decision. Those who want to dive into the thread to cuss and discuss it during the day can have at it, but for those who just wanted to know what happened, it would be of great service. Seems easy enough. EXAMPLE Original Thread Title: Guervil Commitment Announcement today 7/2 at Noon CST Updated Title: Guervil Commitment Announcement today 7/2 at Noon CST - PUSHED BACK to 4:00pm CST Final Title: Guervil Commitment Announcement today 7/2 at Noon CST - PUSHED BACK to 4:00pm CST - MISS 😞 Just trying to help make it even better! Hook'em!

Have you officially crowned them as texas tech geese?

There's not a "cap," but there is a limit to viable NIL funds. I've been on record saying there is almost no chance this "clearing house" entity withstands higher judicial scrutiny. Even so, that doesn't mean that the NIL market won't become more stable. As that plays out over the next couple of years, there is good reason to be cautious about monetary risk in an unstable market. Texas will not have a talent deficiency in the next couple of years.

I think most of your premises are correct, but the problem is that we are either: a.) playing against guys who don’t treat the settlement as existing; or b.) able to throw a ton of money at a singular player since their roster does not require a significant retention rate (Tech).

The problem is we are operating like there is a salary cap, while our competitors are not.

I don’t understand all the hand wringing. Guys - this is simple. Here is Sark’s strategy: 1. Invite guys to visit unofficially to show they are interested. 2. Have guys come on official visits and show them all the amazing things UT has to offer and have them fall in love. 3. Start handing out NIL offers as a way to “choose” the guys they want. Low ball guys that are low on the list and see if you can get “value” commitments and give the guys you want a “solid competitive offer”. 4. Guys who love UT will commit with NIL offers that are on or under budget. 5. Guys who do not commit but the staff really wants - you keep recruiting through the whistle with knowledge of what the NIL market is for the player. 6. Circle back in December and match NIL offers for guys you want and since they loved everything about UT they will choose the good guys by simply matching or getting close to the NIL number. This ensures UT is never setting the market or bidding against themselves. Effective and genius!!

Yep. All posted in the newsletter.

So all the NIL packages offered by all the other schools were available to you to draw that conclusion? I'm impressed!

Our roster is full of players who took the highest NIL deal. Especially in the 25 class.