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Couldn't we play 17 games, like we almost did last year? 12 regular season + 1 conference championship game ... if we are outside the top 4, say 5-12 like last year, we could play 4 more games to reach the championship round. Right? Or did I miss something?

CLICKBAIT !!

As long as Paul Finebaum doesn't go out on a limb with some outrageous clickbait the world will keep spinning ... Oh wait ...

Competition is with Oregon funded by Phil Knight, and Michigan supported by Larry Ellison, the 2nd richest man in the world. Gonna need a semi to carry enough bags for Texas. Here's a pic of Larry's 288 ft yacht - in the world of "the haves and the have yachts" Larry has got a big yacht

This is a good article on this topic (link at bottom, free) - the writer predicted this all along and seems certain the next weakened attempts at controlling the collectives will also fail - [quote] Oh, sure, the CSC will supposedly be able to deny these booster deals if they don’t fall within a specific range of fair market value – whatever that means. And guess what, they’re going to get sued for that too. Because who can really determine what fair market value is for an NIL deal from a collective? Unlike, say, a traditional ad campaign, collectives only exist within the realm of college sports. The only established value is what someone’s willing to pay. So good luck to all of the conference officials trying to argue that one at their next court date. [/quote] "Attempts to curb payments to college athletes keep failing. There's only one way forward."

So they spent years litigating this, paying an estimated $750,000,000 in lawyer fees, and the CSC / NIL Go part of the settlement lasted 22 days. Told ya this would get overturned (or modified enough to be emasculated) with the first wave of Collective lawsuits. Good day for the rich schools with fat cat alumni, like Texas.

Surprised they published names of 17 year olds ... in Arizona I think you have to be 18 before they name you in an article like this. Puts a new spin on the phrase "we dodged a bullet" missing on this kid.

No problem - I just changed mine to a bear photo I took while fishing in Alaska at Brooks Camp in Katmai, just to see how it works (the bear came to within 15 feet before I convinced him to swerve). Had to resize because the file was too big, then was pleasantly surprised you have a cropping box, which I wasn't expected. I see you got a new one too 🙂

Haven't actually done it but I clicked on my user name icon and in the bottom left corner of my 'avatar' (just the default letter A) there's an icon for "Profile Photo" (see first image below). Click "Profile Photo" and it gives you the option to download a file off your disk or to drag/drop a file (see 2nd image below). Size max is 0.49 MB per the screen grab. Hope this helps!

11 press in attendance, 8-4 posts complaining on TexAgs Though TexAgs posters were positively giddy about the War Hymn being played during Sark's walk-up - "yeah, we trolled them 'sips"

For all the Paul Finebaum fans out there (all three of you?) ... at least he didn't ask for an autograph

Roosevelt Leaks was a great player, # 3 in the Heisman voting his junior season and favored to win it his senior season before injuring his knee. Another old timer here - I arrived at UT in 1973 (Leaks' junior year) as a grad student and watched him play a couple of times. Ossai and Jefferson were excellent players for the Horns but Leaks was on a whole 'nother level of excellence.

Tried to link to the trailer on Twitter but I think you can't link in an opening post so I'll try it here https://x.com/netflix/status/1944819180722630983

From the producers who gave us the F1 series "Drive to Survive" and the PGA series "Full Swing" -

Dia Bell was ranked # 8 QB and # 59 overall after their June 2 re-rankings. No one does a worse job than Rivals of ranking players - they had TJ Shanahan the # 1 player in Texas and a 5* nationally a few years back, far higher than any other service, and that's about the time that 247 and On3 quit assigning Rivals a 25% slice of their Composites. I think 247 now weights them 10% or something. Here's a screen grab from their site this morning re: Dia. I think they play 'follow the leaders' when it comes to reranking their mistakes late in the cycle.

Yeah, when Quinn played so well he was listed as one of the Heisman favorites ... those were the days

Bill Wyman - not only an excellent football player but bass player for the Rolling Stones for 30 years!

I was going to post something similar from an article New NIL enforcement targets collectives, deals must serve ‘valid business purpose’ in The Athletic (paywall) - the NIL Go dudes are turning down almost all the collective proposed deals. Lawyers, who supposedly were paid $750,000,000 litigating the original House settlement, are already drawing up battle lines for the next round of lawsuits - Plaintiffs’ lawyers in House v. NCAA settlement to get roughly $750 million in fees (paywall). One question I had was what are the consequences if agents simply ignore the NIL Go rules? Supposedly the payments would be banned but what happens to the player and the school if they simply do it anyway? Or pay the parents instead of the recruit? I couldn't find any enforcement mechanisms or clear cut rules for penalties. Without subpoena power (the fatal flaw of the NCAA Compliance team) to check banking records it's hard to see how this might be enforced. some quotes: [quote] The goal is to prevent schools from utilizing booster-driven entities to funnel payments to recruits and transfers as a workaround to the $20.5 million revenue-sharing cap. Guidance issued Thursday by the College Sports Commission said that “an entity with a business purpose of providing payments or benefits to student-athletes or institutions, rather than providing goods or services to the general public for profit, does not satisfy the valid business purpose requirement set forth in NCAA Rule 22.1.3.” It then cited as an example a collective that “reach(es) a deal with a student-athlete to make an appearance on behalf of the collective at an event, even if that event is open to the general public, and the collective charges an admission fee (e.g., a golf tournament).” And, “The same collective’s deal with a student-athlete to promote the collective’s sale of merchandise to the public would not satisfy the valid business purpose requirement for the same reason.” ... In a series of posts on X on Thursday, Dalton K. Forsythe, director of Utah State’s Blue A Collective, criticized NIL Go for technical issues, then said, “We’re hearing from peers across the country: nearly 100 percent of collective-backed NIL deals are being denied, regardless of size or structure.” He continued, “The College Sports Commission has taken the position that collectives cannot serve a ‘valid business purpose’ — a standard that was never clearly communicated before implementation.” ... (the Collectives have joined forces to fight this. Here's a statement they issued): “Today’s commentary from the College Sports Commission regarding ‘true NIL’ and ‘valid business purposes’ is not only misguided, but deeply dismissive of the collective organizations and the tens of thousands of fans and donors who fuel them,” The Collective Association said in a statement. “Any attempt to delegitimize the role collectives play in today’s collegiate athletics landscape ignores both legal precedent and economic reality.” [/quote] Lawsuits, I smell lawsuits.

Thanks for posting! "Git your ass down dude"

My two thoughts are 1) he's probably going to OU according to the recruiting sites and 2) Texas is mentioned mainly so he can show off his "Horns Down" skills at the announcement ceremony to hear the roar of the crowd.

Basically a three year $775,000 per year guarantee from Tech's revenue sharing pool, with a verbal agreement to possibly more than double it if things break right. Anyone have a good guess as to what Texas might offer in this situation? I'd guess $500,000 - $600,000 annually (could be higher but a lot of NIL contracts to feed with just $15 million) and for how long? One year, maybe two? I doubt Texas offers a three year guarantee. Anyone know or have an informed guess? You can see why an agent would urge Ojo to take the long term guarantee. Saw this tidbit on how the NIL Go team is looking at third party contracts when the ACC asked Deloitte to look at current NIL deals involving ACC athletes: Deloitte told ACC officials that 90% of existing NIL contracts with public companies would have been approved. More than 70% of deals with booster collectives would have been denied. So basically deals like Quinn had with Dr. Pepper or Arch has with Red Bull or the self driving guys (forgot which one) would pass the test, but those "$50,000 for visiting a children's hospital" deals likely would not. I'm guessing there will be tons of $599 deals (maybe for daily social media posts like the Miami booster required?) to glide below the threshold. Here's what Jaden Rashada had to do to earn $13.85 million over 4 years with Florida (the Gator collective backed out of the deal and the agent sent the contract to media). Good work if you can find it.

What? Pat Mahomes was selected # 10 by the Chiefs in the first round of the 2017 draft. Tyree Wilson was selected # 7 overall by the Raiders just two years ago. Maybe one more, I don't really follow the Red Raiders, but surely you knew about Mahomes?

Hey I just posted the info from PFF, I don't have a doggie in the fight. Looking at the QB position it seems to me PFF puts a lot of emphasis on depth and recruiting ranking. Bama, OSU and us all are similar at QB in that we all have 5* newbies we have high hopes for, so why are Bama and OSU ranked slightly ahead of us? In their write up of QB units PFF mentions Bama has TWO 5* guys (even though Russell is a frosh and Simpson hasn't shown much) plus a 4*, and OSU also has two 5's and a 4. Texas? Just one 5* (even though he has played a lot more snaps than the other returning guys and has a higher PFF rating) and two 4's. So I'm interpreting it like PFF puts emphasis on depth (even if unproven), and perhaps too much emphasis on recruiting ranks. For sure I'd rather have Arch over Sayin and Simpson. At RB what PFF sees is a returning thousand yard rusher, a former 5* # 1 RB, two top 10 four stars (Simon and Gibson) and another 4*. Pretty impressive group on paper. What you (and most Texas fans probably) see is Wisner, then a former 5* with a serious injury who may not contribute for months, a 4* (Clark) who is also coming off a serious injury, Gibson who had fumbling issues last year plus two freshmen. You see it as the worst unit on the team; PFF sees it as the third best on the team and the nation ... we'll see. Personally I think our OL has the most unknowns, and I understand why it's PFF's lowest rated unit, after losing four starters.

Rivals lost a lot of credibility a few years back when TJ Shanahan was their # 1 player in Texas, I think # 1 IOL player in the nation and a borderline 5* while ALL the other services had him much lower. Went to A&M, not sure if he started but transferred out. I think not long after this much ridiculed assessment On3 and 247 changed their Composite rankings to lower the % given to Rivals. Hard to take them seriously.