OTF Premium Couple of afternoon recruiting notes (3:19 CT)

[Gerry Hamilton]

1 minute ago, Burnt Orange Horn said:

So you our advocating on entering a bidding war for talent?   🤔

Or just a temporary adjustment?

Who works the loop holes the best and quickest around the house settlement have an advantage IMO.

[Burnt Orange Horn]

2 minutes ago, Gerry Hamilton said:

Who works the loop holes the best and quickest around the house settlement have an advantage IMO.

So bring in UT Law???  I hear they are pretty good.

[Hashtag]

13 hours ago, Assistant Regional Manager said:

I get what you are trying to say but Texas is spending $30+ million on their roster this year. People trying to question if they are “willing to play ball” is tiring.

You can’t say you understand not wanting to overpay then turnaround and say but I kind of want them to overpay.

Markets are ever evolving, look at basketball. Last years 5-6 million dollar rostes are now 8-10 million dollar rosters. 

[Hashtag]

3 hours ago, Gerry Hamilton said:

Who works the loop holes the best and quickest around the house settlement have an advantage IMO.

Is it even loop holes? It seems more like swiss cheese full of holes. FMV is the most unprovable thing in all this NIL. Deloitte trying to limit NIL value arbitrarily is going to be met with law suits from the jump. SCOTUS already warned NCAA that they cannot limit NIL. 

[KelvinMuhammad]

18 hours ago, TexasDeathStar said:

Same old song and dance, right @Gerry Hamilton? The OG’s around here oughta know by now, not to get their panties in a wad, kick the feet up, and relax until November. Same vibe last year, and I believe the 24’ cycle as well. Slow and steady, and by the time conference play starts, the class really starts to take shape. Hell, I thought last year Gerry might be a weed guy with his weekly “path to the #1 class” posts 😂 but obviously he knew way more than the rest of us

True we have to wait until the season starts to see which teams will struggle and doubt sets in for some recruits. I think culture fit is 1A with Sark right below high-level athlete. Those are the ones he'll go big on NIL days before NSD. I don's see Texas falling out of the top 5 this recruiting cycle

[Paul Jespersen]

13 hours ago, Hashtag said:

Is it even loop holes? It seems more like swiss cheese full of holes. FMV is the most unprovable thing in all this NIL. Deloitte trying to limit NIL value arbitrarily is going to be met with law suits from the jump. SCOTUS already warned NCAA that they cannot limit NIL. 

This. I think some schools are betting on the fact that nothing is enforceable or defensible. You can pretty much do anything right now, the landscape is moving too quickly for any kind of normalcy to settle in. And with effectively no governing body, no actionable enforcement, who's going to object or block any school's strategy at this point? Even if they do, it will take longer to play out in the courts than the repercussions of the original action. So playing by the rules is effectively self-handicapping at this point... its kind of a joke, sadly...

🤘

[TezInDallas]

On 6/17/2025 at 8:05 PM, Gerry Hamilton said:

Chris Jackson did a great job with the visit.

So Gerry are you implying that the rest of the staff may have ruffled some feathers or that the track side of things went left? 👀👀👀

[Gerald Nash]

On 6/17/2025 at 3:41 PM, Quinncent McManning, Jr. said:

Sark and co need to adapt just like they have every year. We have giant nil offers to contend with now. Not sure why it is necessary to say that its relationships with Chad Scott or whatever.  Kj Edwards doesn’t cancel his ov without incentive.
Jalen Lott would be coached in an elite offense with an elite qb at Texas. there is no reason Texas should lose to USC with this legacy recruitment. USC is just throwing money at the elite kids and it’s producing commitments. Texas is doing great with some rooms but not well at others.  They’ll end up with a great class I’m sure. 

Money talks.