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Happy Father’s day I met Gerry and one of his sons in front of dKR last year with my son !!

I would point out that it is not to UT’s advantage for folks to be saying what price UT will go up to, etc. If you know it, good for you, but keep it to yourself. Let’s keep the opacity in the market to Texas’ advantage. Philosophically, UT does not want to get into pure NIL bidding wars. It buys kids who often detract from the culture. Leave those for Tech, Miami, Florida, whoever. A team can handle a few takers, but a team full of givers and transactional personalities are much easier to build a culture on. According to every source I have spoken to, NIL bidding wars tend to center around takers. Most kids want something fair and near their market value. It’s not top dollar. The truth is that we could use a couple of more million dollars of NIL. What Arkansas is doing is amazing. I wish we had the money to do that, but I am not 100% sure how sustainable that is, as I hear it’s coming from one or two guys. UT has done a nice job of making TexasOne more broad based. Right now, I am sure Tech and TCU are saying that they beat us….Let them say that. Let them have their victory.

It’s incredible the number of controversies that a school like Florida gets itself into. It’s incredibly sleazy, but that is just one side of the story. I will say, if the allegations are true, I would love to see those guys personally liable. I don’t know how the law works, but he didnt sue Florida. He sued personally. This is exhibit A on doing things right

This wont matter long-term. A frazzled player (who can kinda do no wrong/harm) running into a frazzled cop with an ego. Neither dreamed it would come to this in escalating actions. Frankly, a player that weekend does deserve special treatment. And plenty of cops believe nobody deserves special treatment (besides other cops). so, you kinda have an unstoppable force hitting an immovable object.

I saw Alfred Collins walk. Same school as my youngest. Good times.

I hope he finishes out the semester at least and gets those hours.

It would give us all the greatest happiness, if John Mill committed soon, so we can jumpstart our IOL recruiting.