VaHorn

It is hard to believe that the Aggy roller coaster is coming on a decade. But still as fresh as ever.

Duty Calls 🤣

I would be thrilled with either one, but how can you not like this guy?

For the sake of argument, let’s just pretend he thinks that he will have better opportunities and will be developed better at OU. He would still say the exact same thing. He truly values the plan and development of Kyle Flood. When did anyone enjoy Norman more than Austin?

The Sooners keep focusing on the modest raise to Venable’s salary. The key provision is the buyout clause. Unlike Sark’s original contract (and presumably the extension, I haven’t seen the terms) it is a fully guaranteed contract. So that adds another $16,000,000 or so to the buyout. At least it has a mitigation clause. Jimbo‘s contract was unique in that it was fully guaranteed with no mitigation provision.

Emaree Winston seems more shaky than Brandon Brown, unfortunately.

Darn. There goes my fun afternoon.

I must be doing something wrong. I could only report and share. I saw no way to edit to give a shout out to VaHorn.

Sark got off to a slow start, but he is on track to have 13 players drafted during his tenure at Texas. It took Mack Brown five years to match that (7 drafted after 3 years).

He posts as Robert Behrens on Twitter.

I only signed up for the OG thing. Is there another subscription tier where I can get CTJ scoop? I’m game.

He said they felt they were promised that [Texas] would never come in, and then he quickly added they WERE promised that Texas would never come in.

Sorry, Gerry. I guess you just have to deal with people that don’t like this sort of behavior. I’m sure Baylor mods would’ve said the same thing when people criticized Art Briles. Give me a break with this BS. Art has done nothing wrong.

You don’t need to be promoted him all over Twitter. Why don’t you ask some hard-hitting questions to Sark like why are they still pursuing him? What do you think of Byron Murphy, Xavier and Jonathan Brooks promoting the story of Gus knowingly trying to poison him? You know, kind of like a reporter would?

If he is still pursuing, I’m out. That’s the same blind loyalty that got Baylor where it is now. Adrift.

And why is On Texas promoting him on Twitter? This is really a bad look.

Why are you listing this as a visit? Texas is not this dumb but now we are held out to every other fan base whose school has backed away as being so.

I remember when Mack Brown wouldn’t extend offers for the next class until the February signing day. It would always seem like everyone was going to LSU, until they didn’t. Hopefully, we can pry Moore more away. His mother is the biggest UT fan ever.

This is the thread I didn’t know I needed, but desperately do. Every time a new class rolls around it’s hard to keep track of the new names. This is perfect.

I think that is definitely true. My main question, however, is what he could have achieved without his self imposed constraints on recruiting. At times, he was more interested in being genteel than successful.

This is amazing. Well done! Much appreciated.

Sark seems to be the first real competitor to Mack Brown when it comes to recruiting. I recognize that this is a different era with NIL, but both coaches excelled at roster building over multiple recruiting cycles. I’m interested in everyone’s thoughts on the two when it comes to recruiting. From my perspective, Mack changed the recruiting landscape with his emphasis on early recruiting, and locking down the state of Texas. People sometimes point to A&M joining the SEC as opening the floodgates to out of state schools, but if you look at the old Austin statesman rankings, the floodgates were open in the 1990s also. But I always wonder what might have been if Mack didn’t handcuff himself. Once a player a recruited to another school, he stopped recruiting, at least in the early years. He didn’t like JUCOs. He was also focused on building recruiting momentum, and the percentage of offers extended to offers accepted. So we often ended up with a lot of commitments from the early camps and seemed to cast our net too narrowly. Just looking at Gerry’s post on the recent nationwide DL offers demonstrates the difference in approach. I like recruiting to the whistle but it can be nerveracking at times. We desperately needed OL in the 2022 class and at times it look like we would fall far short.

He got a lot of heat from the Alabama fans when he posted a video of himself smiling and dancing after the Texas loss. The next time Texas plays Alabama he will be able to post a video without being accused of celebrating after a loss. Just saying…

None of these tweets support anything you are saying. They are speculating that the plaintiff may be successful in the litigation. If they are, then you will have a final verdict which might be appealed. Until that happens, you have nothing. Obviously, the temporary injunction applies to the entire country. But that’s all it is. A temporary injunction staying any enforcement action during the pendency of litigation. Full stop. I think you are either overreading or not understanding what they are saying. I do agree that Bobby may be similarly misunderstanding the entire situation.

If that is the case, then all of the so-called “experts” are sports writers and not lawyers. Of course, it is possible that the NCAA may lose this court case, and the verdict may be sustained on appeal. I certainly wouldn’t bet against that. But until that happens, it’s not a “done deal.“ I suspect that is why Texas is not charging ahead to violate these rules when all that has happened is that the NCAA has been temporarily been enjoined against enforcing said rules. If you think a district court judge in the eastern district of Tennessee is going to have the final say on this matter, I’m not sure what to tell you. If I had to bet, I would think it’s more likely that Congress will wade into this matter, regardless of how this case is finally decided, and preempt the judiciary.