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While this just tugs at the heartstrings and all, there are a few problems here: 1) they’re not “kids”. they’re in their 20’s. 2) i have been all for wealth transfer when merited during this NIL transition. when merited. this isn’t that. this is a guy saying “go find more alums to pay my mediocre brother off so he can mooch less off of me. “ Maybe you don’t contribute to NIL so it doesn’t matter to you and you get to cheer for the results of NIL’s largesse anyway. Some of us have been quite involved with NIL and are getting really sick of this end of the nonsense. So yeah, I will be rooting against these two paid professionals in adulthood. You do whatever suits you, and tuck the naive admonishments away for private time.

This update highlights the perversity of the current anarchy in the CFB realm. “Hey, my brother isn’t very good, but you guys need to overpay him as well. Don’t worry about the merit of it, pay up. By the way, don’t look at my performance versus my HS rank, as it’s trash and I’m a one trick pony. Pay me north of $1M to mostly catch a couple of screens each game and maybe score one ST touchdown next season, thanks!” I’m rooting against these guys and I hope Georgia decides to overpay for them. Do not want.

Texas has zero issues with NIL on the basketball end. Multiple benefactors happy to help there. You think Tre Johnson or some of those well-regarded transfers are in Austin solely for their love of UT? Absurd.

You make good points and thanks for your help.

Everyone should be careful about conflating overall NIL with what is run through the collective. Total numbers like those quoted include corporate and outside support like Burnt Endz for the TES. DR Pepper and myriad other corporate programs aren’t going through TOF, to be clear.

They’ll be up. I’m not sure what “way up” means here. By gross dollars? Up, yes. By percentages? I wouldn’t call it “way up”.

The simple answer is “no”. If he coulda, he woulda. Also, fade routes are nothing more than vanity play calls for an OC. Just thinking they’re creating art. It’s stupid. Sarkisian needs to never call one again. They are the lowest percentage pass plays in the book.

My bad if so. I don't follow hockey and it read like he was referencing recruiting rankings to me.

Broughton and Mukuba were solid 4 stars, ranked as such by every service. The OL of Goosby-Conner-Majors-Campbell-Williams, from a composite perspective, went 3-4-4-5-4 stars. Helm was a lowly regarded 3 star and he went 6 for 56 on Saturday and you didn't rank him. I appreciate the development narrative, but accuracy should matter.

A DE talking about development as something sacred and then going to play for a Mike Elko team is like these guys that talk about "academics" and then signing with LSU or Oklahoma. Mike Elko has been a FBS DC or HC for going on 16 years now. In those 16 years, 4 DEs have been drafted. Duke Eljifor in the 6th from Wake. Khalid Kareem in the 5th at ND. Demarvion Leal (a high 5 star) in the 3rd and Michael Clemons in the 4th at ATM. If you give Elko all of the development credit for the defensive players drafted under his watch in 15 years, meaning guys drafted within 3 years following a year of his coaching as DC or HC, he's had 24 guys drafted. Kevin Johnson, a DB at WF, was drafted the spring of 2015, roughly one year after Elko got to campus. Jerry Tillery was drafted in the 1st round 3 years after Elko's one year on ND's campus had passed. Both of those are as stretchy as you can get for credit to the coach and those are the only 2 1st round defensive players ever drafted around Elko. Elko's highest ranked 5 stars, Leal and Jaylon Jones, eventually went in the 3rd and 6th. We've done a lot of review about Elko the Developer mythology at Surly. The dude is basically an excellent X's & O's guy with an extremely checkered history as a developer of talent on defense. For comparison, Kwiatkowski has put 5 DEs into the league and 2 were 1st round picks, along with a 2nd, 3rd and 7th. Never mind the 39 total defensive players with one less year of credit as a DC.

1) Salary caps will have little impact on NIL. 2) No one can prevent an adult from earning money for their name, image and likeness. The NCAA is spineless and any effort to prevent something as banal as a booster paying a player for a signed jersey will collapse under review/in court. The NCAA can't do a damned thing about corporations being involved either. There is also nothing shady about any of it and the geezers who continue to whine about such things need to get a grip. The market sorts the rates for contributions from players and they get paid. 3) Added revenue for players will inherently dim some of the needs from collectives and will be much welcomed. 4) Larry Ellison being involved changes very little for anyone except Michigan itself. We have already been dealing with Phil Knight. There will be others. Some teams will show up occasionally and go nuts while other teams have a big backer who can swoop in whenever they want for the right target. 5) Texas, Ohio State and a few others have built a layer cake foundation for winning each cycle if the results on the field and in the draft are present.

There’s more going on here than just attitude and heart. He’s got real off the field problems and the only way they get fixed is if he eventually wants to fix them. There’s a reason other programs aren’t all over him and also why Texas told him to not let the door hit his ass on the way out.

Texas has speakers pumping noise on its sidelines.

He certainly wasn’t prioritized this week, and for good reason. You can’t drop a certain TD with comparable fighting for oxygen on be sidelines while you do that. I watched him play in the fourth. Right in front of me. He absolutely played and was perfectly healthy.

I assume there’s going to be a big OOC home and home in 2028/2029 to replace the prior set up with Georgia or Florida or whoever it was. I’m assuming a Big 10 team or Notre Dame, plus La Tech and UTSA and 9 SEC games.