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Very well. It'll be Texas or Georgia.

Great article Jeff as always 🤘🏼

You are correct, sir, but we all know that the only Fongbombs that are fairly accurate are the ones he drops the day of the recruit's commitment.

Soph tape: https://www.hudl.com/video/3/24087915/68bde9696f07174de3091034

It's a shame he was not used more to create more havoc the last two years

Havoc, you say?

Gerry's right. This is pure BS. Don't pay if you don't want.

Fong bomb for him today along with a few other put in RPM to Texas.

She gone

Basketball NIL also taking off. Article in today's Athletic titled "Want your men’s college basketball team to contend next year? It might take $10 million" (paywall). Top guy in this year's portal, Flory Bidunga (C), supposedly was asking for $5 million. Four years ago Nijel Pack, an All-Big 12 player at K-State but not considered a really big fish, signed with Miami for $800K over 2 years. In the current cycle a potential all-conference player could expect $3 million and above yearly (see screen grab below). Interesting article with a discussion about how the money is available but it's tricky to get it past the NIL Go clearinghouse auditors. Also, no evidence yet that the Big East will dominate given they don't need to spend most of the $20 million cap on football. Another tidbit - "Last July, when The Athletic polled 35 coaches, the average estimate to build a roster in the SEC was $9.7 million, and the other four high-major leagues were in the $8 million range." The part about how opaque the system is was interesting too, with too many poorly prepared 'agents' asking for outlandish numbers. Article mentions a blog by Evan Miya which "has data from 30 teams that input player salaries in his front office tool." He says NIL is up 65% for basketball this year over last year. This site is not behind a paywall, here's the link for those interested (I'm interested but haven't read it carefully yet, just skimmed it). Here's a screen grab from Athletic.

For the All Sports Trophy, sports with a true regular season - like baseball and softball - it is the regular season finish that counts. sports without a conference regular season - like track and field - it’s the sec championship finish that counts.

Georgia was ahead earlier this spring for Brock. Hopefully we can land one of these two.

Im going to guess based on this news, they are doing very well with Brock.

How is Texas doing with Brock Williams?

I think Gerry said that Vic is trying to operate under the radar and not have a bunch of media hype around it (a la CDC). If this is true, while it sucks for us information fiends, it's probably better for the program overall.

I will take things that wont happen for $700. I am even skeptical about $60 million rosters. Look at the way top rosters churned out dead money last year

When the GMs and agents are the ones shaping the direction of the sport, it’s clear that the incentives have become horribly misaligned.

Collective Bargaining coming soon.

This defense could make the offense amazing

if Vic messes up this transfer portal, he needs to bench himself. Feels like we have no plan right now. What are we doing????

Texas is not after any of these players. Kymora Johnson is likely staying at Virginia. Brown is visiting Vanderbilt and UCLA this week.

Really good stuff Jeff. The havoc drop‑off really showed up in the losses - when this defense wasn’t creating negative plays, everything bogged down. Muschamp’s more aggressive man‑coverage approach should give the DBs way more chances to attack routes, and if the front can pair that with more consistent pressure, Texas can get back to that 2024 level of disruption

CJ wrote about Rasheem Biles yesterday, but his havoc résumé is exactly what Texas was looking for in the portal. In 10 games, Biles had 17 tackles for loss, two forced fumbles, four pass breakups and two interceptions. That's 25 havoc plays on the season. By comparison, Anthony Hill had 13 (seven tackles for loss, three forced fumbles, one PBU and two interceptions) in 10 games.