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Hope he plays well. Really hope he stays healthy. He was playing at a very high level before that injury. A good article on the Longhorn from Arp and his comeback on ESPN: How Cowboys' DeMarvion Overshown returned from knee injury

The key things to look at are first, how many deals are being turned down for not meeting the FMV threshold and second, how many lawsuits are filed regarding deals not accepted. The NCAA has a recent history of caving at the mere mention of lawsuits, given their history of losing so many court cases the past few years. I just checked and the updated stats seem to indicate the agents have figured out ways to make most deals 'legal'. From Associated Press article More than $87 million in NIL deals have been approved in college sports since June (updated Nov 9 so pretty recent): (quote) The College Sports Commission released statistics Thursday saying it has approved 12,175 third-party name, image, likeness deals for athletes worth $87.5 million while rejecting fewer than 400. The latest snapshot, which includes data from June 11 through Nov. 1, also provided an update on turnaround time. It said 53% of deals submitted to NIL Go were resolved within 24 hours and 74% of deals that reached resolution did so within seven days following submission of all required information. Third-party deals, often with organizations with close ties to the schools called collectives, are a way for athletic departments to go beyond the $20.5 million they’re allowed to pay players directly this academic year as part of the court-approved House settlement. ... The overall value of the rejected deals was $10.01 million, with an average of $25,400. Common reasons for rejecting deals include them not fitting the CSC definition of having a “valid business purpose,” a requirement designed to prevent collectives from simply paying athletes to play at the school. Also, a practice called “warehousing” athletes’ NIL rights is against the rules; that happens when a company locks up a player’s NIL rights with no immediate plan to use them. Athletes must also be receiving a fair “range of compensation” for what they’re doing, a metric being determined by Deloitte, the accounting firm hired by the CSC to create NIL Go. The 394 rejected deals does not include deals that were not cleared at first but have been sent back for further review. The CSC said no cases have been sent to arbitration. (/quote) This will be an ongoing story but so far it looks like the 3rd party deals are going through relatively unscathed. Would be nice to know if the really big ones like Felix Ojo's $5 million+ deal are getting approved.

Unless those two college assistants are named Kyle Flood and Peter Kwiatkowski I ain't too worried ...

Jerry Tarkanian explained it well many years ago when Kentucky basketball was being investigated for things like FedEx envelopes and shoeboxes full of cash were sent to recruits, yet Kentucky always seemed to escape serious penalty: "The NCAA is so mad at Kentucky they're going to give Cleveland State another year of probation"

This one with QB Walker Howard is possibly worse better ...

That's exactly what we did last time we played them, running for 302 yards in a 57-7 blowout less than two years ago. They need to make the semifinals of the CFP to justify all the talk, I feel. Good luck!

Interesting stat ... only two teams in the Top 10 have lost a game to a team with a losing record. Alabama lost to Florida State (4-5) and Texas lost to Florida (3-6). Put another way we have arguably the worst loss of all the Top 10 teams. So no complaining about our ranking or chances for the CFP please. We still have a chance, let's take it.

She seems nice !

Me too

Or, good catch Larry is Arizona Cardinals' best player ever, and a really nice guy off the field.

I used to think like this too but that win at Oregon was very impressive ... We'll know a lot more when they play Ohio State in the conference championship game (if OSU doesn't screw up against Michigan again) but Indiana looks pretty solid right now.

I don't want to get too deep into this swamp like I did last year, but I think "head to head" in a 3 way tie only applies if all the teams played each other, and we didn't play Ole Miss so this tiebreaker gets skipped and on to the next one ...

Now now, just because he played for three high schools and is on his third college team ... nothing wrong with six schools in seven years, is there? (just noticed, all three of his college teams might make the playoffs this year if Lincoln Riley can pull it off LOL)

Lane Kiffen - Jimbo Fisher - Collin Klein - Ed Orgeron - Lincoln Riley That was wildly imaginative and very entertaining LOL Thanks for posting the link

Look at the published details of the Felix Ojo 'contract' where it said "this much if we are capped, THIS MUCH more if things stay the same". Would be very interesting to see how their deals are structured and if the NIL Go and Deloitte people are OKing these third party deals. Haven't heard many details about the % of deals blocked by NIL Go since early September.