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Problems with roster management in year 8 is inexcusable.

I sort of knew this implicitly, but Kurt Warner said something recently about trying to project college QBs - the college game doesn't even use the same football as NFL.

Who is the pitching coach again? 🤔 After that good start against the early schedule fodder, I hope that staff was humbled by this weekend.

That’s a great story, thanks for sharing🤘 Platforms like OTF and 3rd & Longhorn that are actually interviewing players are helping to finally humanize players.

Excited to see what they can do this year as a #2 seed without Rory.

Boooooooooooooo!

Games start at 11am today, full schedule here - College Classic Schedule (because Blake apparently can’t type ASTROS)😎

Thanks for the info, Blake! …and GO STROS!

I hadn’t seen that. Did that happen before game? Hilarious.

ACC: FSU B1G: Depends, how soon does Ohio State bench Will Howard? Big 12: remind me, who is even in that conference? SEC: TEXAS

Yup. We're still the program that single handedly somehow drove Nebraska to the Big 10 (I do think a case can be made for Mack killing NU's football program), drove Texas A&M to the SEC and inadvertently torpedoed the the Pac 12 and the NCAA. Everything is breaking UT's way, other institutions are fighting these battles for us.

Great news. It wasn't that long ago that his injury was a deal-breaker. (actually, it was 30 years ago, but doesn't seem that long in my old head)

Given Friday's news concerning the Tennessee case, I have very few concerns about landing a NT in the portal. My only concern is can they get up to speed in PK's defense in 4 months and can they catch TD passes from the FB position on offense.

I think Bobby said he was playing with an injury most of this year?

Interesting article in Forbes yesterday, apologies if already posted - NCAA head warns that 95% of student athletes face extinction if colleges actually have to pay them as employees “You’re talking about 95 percent of colleges that probably spend somewhere between … $40 million and $5 million on college sports, and they lose money,” Baker said. “They don’t have TV contracts and nobody can look at their income statements or balance sheets and conclude there would be a way for them to make money.” Even if it's only 50% of schools that might drop scholarship sports, think of what that would do to college athletics. How do fewer athletic scholarships affect participation in high school sports? What does it do to the coaching profession, could there suddenly be a glut of jobless coaches? The questions and unintended consequences of these decisions are endless.

I read, I think in the Athletic, that many NIL contracts are for a player's NIL rights and not necessarily just at that school. What does that mean for the future of transfers? Collectives may have way more leverage than we realize. Does a kid that wants to transfer now have to get another school's collective to negotiate to regain rights to his NIL? Could a kid transfer and have his previous school's collective refuse to negotiate any further NIL deals, effectively squeezing him out of any future NIL deals? In a lot of ways, NIL reminds me of the recording industry, where bands sign with labels for a big advance but then no longer control their product. As for crooks in NIL, I was surprised to hear Nick Shuley mention on 3rd and Longhorn that CJ Baxter had already been through a NIL fiasco with a handler. From that interview, it seemed Baxter was very savvy about the whole process, but still got screwed over by someone representing him. I'm sure there dozens and dozens of other examples out there.

He's got a lot of time to develop and Edge is no longer a position with paper thin depth.

I think it's in principle. If the NCAA can't regulate NIL, they can't inhibit athletes' movement for better financial deals. Everyone seems sort of giddy, and I know Texas is going to benefit from this temporary ruling, but I'm sort of bummed about the future of college sports. Dodds glibly says "college athletics hasn't blown up yet", but it almost certainly will. I have a degree from UT and a degree from Rice, so it's sad to see on the horizon a day where Rice can't field a competitive team in any sport (yeah, yeah, some are going to say Rice doesn't field competitive teams now, but I heard the the nervous groans at DKR in September). Most will laugh it off, but Rice has almost a 100 years of athletic history and that's going to end soon. ...and that very well may be the case for all but the 20 or so athletic departments in the country that actually make money. Just another perspective.🤘

Is Harris + Gilbert a net gain after losing Glasscock? I have no idea, but the timing is interesting.

Good find. I guess it helps for staffs not preparing for a conference championship game?

Statesman reporting that players that opt in will get $600 and a copy of the game. Doesn't sound like much, but if all 130-something teams have rosters that opt in, that's a $7M payout by EA. I'm sure it's only a matter of time before the big names are negotiating for larger cuts. It's naive in retrospect, I thought this is what NIL would look like when it took off four years ago.

Thirteen years ago, I would have said "OU". I knew not a single person that went to OU and about 20, including family, that went to A&M. I have family now that go to OU (long sad story for another day). Still, nobody is going to talk sh*t to me if we lose to OU. If we lost to A&M, I'd hear about it even here in Austin.

The Athletic has run some good reporting on these meetings. Apparently the elephant in the room is the SEC/BIG10 "working group". 🧱(paywall)🧱 CFP Expansion from the Athletic

Late to thread, but 10 wins, however those might come.

Then take the Sooners and +10.5 😉