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Didn't Ojo drop like 40 spots on Rivals today and lose his fifth star?

Somebody got @Gerry Hamilton a real mic! Too bad he's not doing the manscape and joymode reads any longer.

You could hear his eyes light up. He's been a statewide name since he was offered as an edge in jr. high, started/starred at Grayson as a freshman at LB and had 188 tackles (compared to starting at Duncanville as a freshman) and is a certain NFL player (I think he said first round). Also said whatever happens with his commitment, UGA stays on him until Dec. ...basically, Atkinson is already something of a legend in Georgia.

Loved Brooks Austin's take on Atkinson this morning on C&F.

Assuming that's summer league ball, @Blake Munroe?

People love to lose money.

Was the "valid business purpose" language in the settlement? The logic in the "terse letter" from the House plaintiffs makes no sense. I guess the entire argument surrounds whether collectives serve a "valid business purpose" beyond recruiting enticements?

Good luck to Heze, great name that I won't forget when he sees the field in a couple of years.

The old lockers are still for sale through UT Surplus. https://swicoauctions.com/online/26/item/258726

Whatever the case, families are being misled or don't understand their deals. There is going to be a lot of movement this cycle.

For reference, here's Phil's "Individual Units" rankings for the best TEXAS team in my lifetime - 2005. QB - 2 RB - 25 WR - 21 OL - 1 DL - 2 LB - 25 DB - 5 ST - NR Hopefully, the 2025 OL and DL outperform Phil's rankings.

Mad Dog's mustache is cool again.

I'm starting to really like this guy.

No disrespect, but if you grew up in Texas you wouldn't ask this question. They're like mosquitoes. Pretty harmless, but so annoying and persistent that you grow to hate them. Plus they sometimes cause serious disease, like the time the Aggy governor filled the UT Board of Regents with a bunch of saboteurs.

Is there any player we've missed on this cycle with a bigger upside at his position than what's on campus? Maybe it's wiser to go with the bird in hand. I'd also prefer to be straight with families about the current NIL uncertainty rather than promising them bullish*t. I suspect there will be a ton of movement this fall when recruits see their contracts in writing.

There are 5M people in Alabama. There are 31M people in Texas. SEC brass needs to be reminded of this...

Maybe they can poach Trev from Aggy?

I also didn't know that Cody Campbell is not just a booster, he's on the Tech Board of Regents. Can you imagine the outrage if Kevin Eltife was the primary financial booster of Texas Athletics?

We're back, time to win. Sark is on a very similar trajectory to Mack Brown, who was in the NC discussion in his third year.

I don't really care much about Ojo's recruitment or him going to Tech. As Bobby said, it does seem we "dodged a bullet". I do care about the lack of transparency and learning more about the NIL landscape, so I find any scrap of info about these NIL deals interesting. Bobby alluded to some of this during OTF this morning, but I wanted to post a few excerpts from The Athletic's story on the Ojo deal. Basically, Tech's deal is based on a promise that the cap will increase over the next 4 years or that it won't be enforced. I feel almost bad for Ojo and his family being taken by this agent. Texas Tech’s latest recruiting coup: How big is deal for 5-star offensive tackle? ... The Red Raiders landed a commitment on Friday from five-star offensive tackle Felix Ojo, the No. 1 recruit in Texas and a top 10 national recruit in the 2026 class, after the parties agreed to a three-year, $2.3 million revenue-sharing contract, two school sources confirmed to The Athletic on Saturday. ... ESPN reported on Friday that Ojo was receiving a three-year deal worth $5.1 million, according to his agent, Derrick Shelby of Prestige Management. Shelby confirmed those figures to The Athletic on Saturday, but three Texas Tech sources refuted that number, with two confirming that Ojo is scheduled to receive an annual compensation of $775,000 per year for three years from Tech’s revenue-sharing pool. Ojo’s deal, according to a Tech source, includes a verbal agreement that can escalate the total value of the contract into the $5 million range if there were a large jump in the revenue sharing cap for schools or if there is minimal regulation of schools’ adhering to the cap, in much the way there has been minimal regulation of NIL since its institution in 2021. Shelby declined to share a copy of the contract with The Athletic but stood by the initially reported numbers. As Bobby mentioned this morning, they also outline the tentative nature of all these deals being offered by USC, Tech et al. ... The news of Ojo’s commitment and contract agreement represents the continued changing tides of college recruiting. After the approval of the House v. NCAA settlement and implementation of revenue sharing, colleges can allocate up to roughly $20.5 million to pay athletes across their sponsored sports. Schools could begin directly paying players on their current roster on July 1. They can verbally negotiate deals with future recruits and send official written scholarship offers and revenue-sharing contract offers beginning Aug. 1 of the recruit’s senior year of high school, but those contracts cannot be signed until each respective sport’s signing period begins, which is Dec. 3 for the FBS. ... Basically, any commitment given in July should be taken with a grain of salt. Let's see what these NIL deals look like in December when they're in writing. 🤘

That's the last thing needed, Rod B is OTF's biggest asset.

They had someone that covered the opponent on OTF every single week last season.

Best of luck to Kaydon, I'll always be a fan of the Finley fam.🤘

Welcome home, John! 🤘

fwiw, I agree. It's important to publicly take the Ls along with the commitments. If a kid OVs, they should at least merit a pinned post for 24 hours on their announcement day.