ArizonaLonghorn

So you're saying he's just Tier 2 instead of Tier 1 ???

First impression was "this dude looks too skinny to play OT" ... but I see he's listed at 6'8" 270 lbs so "OK, I get it now - Trevor Goosby starter kit". Welcome to the 40 acres young man

He went to Indiana for two years, which is where he bet on his own team. Then Cincinnati for two years, where he kept on betting. Then Tech for about two months, where the 💩 hit the fan. It's not like he started at Tech and learned about gambling while there. Now that he's been called out the Tech brass is badly playing a poor hand and looking like fools in the process. But you asked why would high schools welcome Tech recruiting and I gave you the right answer - because they are willing to pay more money for recruits.

TRO - temporary restraining order TI - temporary injunction I think that's right but I'm not a lawyer either.

The agent for Jayden Rashada leaked his $13+ million contract when Florida reneged on paying him. It was more like a pro contract - signing bonus and then monthly payments with easy to hit 'requirements' for bonuses. Gotta figure Sorsby (and probably everyone else) got some money up front with the rest paid out during the fall, so just a wild guess maybe $500K - $1M at most signing bonus? And likely (hopefully) with a good conduct clause, but they seem to be making it harder to claim that with every plea for leniency in court.

Because they are willing to pay above market value in NIL for players

Just checked their roster - 11 girls, three from the USA (including the two from California mentioned in the X post) and the other eight from Thailand (3x), Australia, Colombia, Belgium, Italy and the Philippines. The proposed Cruz-Cantwell legislation to protect college sports has a provision that schools cannot drop programs even if they run low on funds caused by spending on BB and football. "Protect our Olympic sports" is mentioned. Thinking about this because I recently read Louisville is over-spending on men's BB and football and considering cutting other sports. And Arkansas announced it was dropping both men's and women's tennis - total income from those two programs was around $3,000 (including $82 from women's tennis), but the costs for coaches, tennis court access, travel and scholarships was roughly $2,300,000 annually. 61% of the women's team and 64% of the men's team were international students. (Arkansas found an angel donor to fund tennis for a while, so it backed off dropping the programs). Interesting times.

I read it as Sark's attempt to highlight strength of schedule more when the committee decides which teams get the last couple of spots in the CFP. Tech can't do much about the weakness of their conference foes but they do control who they schedule out of conference and they didn't seem eager to add any teams with a pulse when they actually had a chance to do it. The only thing I didn't like about Sark's comment was the shot about our 2's and 3's would (could? I forgot the exact quote) go undefeated playing that schedule. We have good 2's at WR and maybe RB and a young but likely talented QB but our 2nd string OL looks pretty weak to be bragging about going undefeated in the Big 12. Likewise on D we could field stout dudes at DL and EDGE and CB but I wouldn't have faith in our 2nd team LB and S units going undefeated. As Bobby B pointed out the whole dust up looks like Sark trying to be the center of attention and not Arch and his second pre-season Heisman while Joey has effectively moved the convo off of Sorsby. Both coaches did a good job changing narratives with these frivolous diversions. Well played gentlemen lol.

He'll have Felix Ojo ready to man the left tackle spot ... what could go wrong?

Ryan Day thinking "Yes please, this is a freakin' BRILLIANT idea ... chicken if you don't Sarky boy" or something like that.

I was on campus at the same time - he wasn't "Mongo" until later with the Bears, his college nickname was "Bam Bam" after the club wielding wild child in the Flintstone's show. The possibilities of tie-ins with Hanna Barbera were probably endless. Seriously he was an All America by his senior year so would have likely gotten top rate for a DL

Lot of programs are spending more on football now and going into debt, literally. So they are looking at what to cut in other sports to make up some of the difference. Arkansas dropping tennis is a good example - quote from an article "The math didn’t work for the Razorbacks anymore. They spent a combined $2.35 million on the two teams in the 2025 fiscal year; the men’s team generated $3,202 in revenue and the women $82." Yep, they backed away from doing this after the uproar, but it illustrates the problems with funding these other sports using funds mostly generated by football. $2.3 million will buy you a decent QB or a couple of transfer WRs or multiple solid linemen probably. Aside - reading about his I saw 61% of all scholarship tennis players were from other countries. Guessing golf isn't too far behind. Easier to justify cutting if so much of the benefits are going to non-Americans I guess.

Street to Peschel on 4th and 3 to put the Longhorns in position to beat Arkansas in the defacto 1969 National Championship game (Tricky Dick said so, gotta be true). For an "All Time Clutch" moment it needs to be a play that leads to a national championship, I feel. This was the best for me prior to 4th and 5. I wonder if even 5% of the readers here are old enough to remember watching on TV (or attending the game)? Fun starts at 1:40 mark with Texas trailing 14-0, then the big play a bit later. Enjoy.

If only you had a yacht you wouldn't feel this way ...

Kim Mulkey - please 😁