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Wasn't Taylor Pannell the player who went to Tech and falsely accused her former Tennessee coach of smart mouthing in the handshake line? Or are there two players with the same name? EDIT: oops, looked it up and you are right, there are TWO players named Taylor Pannell playing college softball, this one transferring from Missouri to A&M.

Two ESPN writers, Matt Miller and Jordan Reid, project their top 5 picks at each position in the '27 draft. Meaningless but kind of interesting, just to see where our guys rank. A couple of surprises. We have players projected # 1 or # 2 at the following positions - QB, WR, OT, OG, EDGE, LB Players projected at 3-5 at these positions: RB, WR2, S No one in Top 5 at these positions: TE, C, DT, CB Article link

Yeah, Jerry Sandusky has been in prison for the past 14 years (where he belongs) and is first eligible for parole when he is 98 years old. You sure you want to compare your situation to theirs?

Roughly 80% hit rate, maybe a little higher? Kids change their mind all the time. No problem.

This series is starting to have that 1977 feel for me, when Bill Walton's Portland Trailblazers dropped the first two games against a powerful 76ers team (Julius Irving, George McGinnis, Daryl Dawkins), then swept the next four games to win the championship. Not saying the Spurs will win four in a row, but they could certainly win a seven game series. Spurs are really young and they came off a very emotional and physically draining seven-game series against OKC, so it looked like they just weren't quite ready for those first two games. But if they get it rolling they could definitely beat the Knicks. Not predicting anything, but I find it funny how the national media overreacts, like saying the Knicks were going to sweep after game 2.

I think the winner of the Big 12 gets a bid, so that won't work. NCAA should lay down the gauntlet - something like "OK, the judge says you can play him but our NCAA rules that you agreed to say he is clearly ineligible for his admitted gambling, so Tech will forfeit every game in which he plays". Probably illegal to ignore the injunction but would Tech call their bluff? Probably but at least the NCAA would be taking a stand. They always cave.

I read it differently, but could be wrong. Take my major at Texas, Electrical Engineering. You need 120 credits to get the BSEE. If you are say a generic junior at another school taking 30 credits per year you would typically have 90 credits (+/- a few) by the end of your junior year. Texas will accept up to 60 of them towards a Texas degree (is the way I read it) since you must do 50% at UT or 60. So basically you would lose a year's worth of credits in this example. To take it to the extreme like Sark's Ole Miss basket weaving faux pas, if you had 117 credits you would lose 57 of them in the sense they would not apply towards your Texas degree, while a school like Ole Miss might take all of them and require you to take just one more class to 'earn' your Ole Miss degree (an extreme example but Sark was making a point about why it's difficult for us to recruit juniors out of the portal). Basically any credits from other schools beyond 60 (in this engineering degree example) do indeed get "thrown away" in the sense that you aren't able to apply them towards a Texas degree, is the way I read it.

Nope, he actually committed to us. A Hamiltonian "Hi" signals a silent commit.

Ah, thanks, she's listed as a Junior on the ASU roster site I looked at, but good news for us that she's a graduate.

How does the Texas requirement that you complete 50% of your coursework at UT to earn a degree affect our ability to recruit juniors? I see Sam Swan is listed as a junior at ASU so if she would lose say 1/3 of her credits transferring to UT she would probably need two more years to graduate, but at other schools more accepting of transfer hours she could graduate in a year. (This was what Sark was referring to when he said you could take just one class at Ole Miss and earn a degree). So seniors could portal in as grad transfers while portal frosh or sophs would potentially keep all or most of their credit hours, but juniors would take a hit, right?

For those complaining about the NIL costs of Camara-like linemen who may not play for a while, take a look at the tackles in the 2023 class and where they were taken in Round 1 of the recent NFL draft, the earliest they could go pro. At least five of the top 13 were first round picks - Proctor, Mauigoa, Freeling, Fano and Lomu. Maybe a couple others were taken later or will be high picks next year. These are the Kelvin Banks type guys, a couple were three year starters and all were worth the NIL price. The trick of course is to get the right guys - the first four mentioned were in the top 7 rated OT coming out of high school but what happened to the other three? (Honestly I don't know, maybe they went later, maybe they'll go high next year or maybe they washed out ... just checked, two transferred down from LSU -> Kentucky and Penn State -> UNC-Charlotte, the third swung down to OG). The point is if you have an open spot ((I think we do with both OTs leaving after next year) AND the guy looks like an early contributor then go for it. But yeah, no guarantees. As for the "get 'em in the portal" argument, those guys are rare and extremely expensive. A lot of IOL we had our sights on stayed with their school or transferred elsewhere. And Seaton was not without baggage. In Flood we trust, right guys?

Sydney Sweeney did it better - in every way. Of course the Sox were so distracted they lost 28-5.

True, but we really REALLY would like to kick their butts in the WCWS tonight and tomorrow, am I right? Eternal scoreboard reads 57-7 (last meeting) and 55-18 (all time record in the sport that matters)

Uh oh - guessing Stephanie, Michelle and Sarah are not going to like this lol

Part of the "five to play five" proposal includes an age limit. Clock starts at 19 or when the player graduates high school, so likely 24 would be the AARP marker. Exceptions for religious missions, pregnancy and military service (I think I got them all)