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re: Fastest dude ever at NFL combine, Texas of course
Posted on 3/3/24 at 10:38 am to Sooner1984
Posted on 3/3/24 at 10:38 am to Sooner1984
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I find it interesting that Texas goes from unable to supply anyone to the combine for virtually 5 years to the top RB back-to-back, two 1st round D-linemen, and multiple 1st-2nd round WR's in the same draft class -
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It became legal to pay for players.
Yes, Texas will be better now. It is no longer just schools like Bama, UGA and Okie paying players. Texas suffered on the field because we didn't cheat. Now, you get to see if you can outspend us year after year after year. Good luck.
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Posted on 3/3/24 at 10:43 am to charliethehun
And Tx still couldn’t get 1 yard vs OU in 4 tries.
Posted on 3/3/24 at 10:45 am to SneezyBeltranIsHere
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Yes, Texas will be better now. It is no longer just schools like Bama, UGA and Okie paying players. Texas suffered on the field because we didn't cheat. Now, you get to see if you can outspend us year after year after year. Good luck.
You always got players thats never been the problem. Its your booster interference and hiring bad coaches after you fired your best one (Mack, better known as ole yeller teef).
Posted on 3/3/24 at 10:54 am to charliethehun
And a weak pac 12 team beat yall senseless in a NY6 bowl
Posted on 3/3/24 at 11:14 am to SneezyBeltranIsHere
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Yes, Texas will be better now. It is no longer just schools like Bama, UGA and Okie paying players. Texas suffered on the field because we didn't cheat. Now, you get to see if you can outspend us year after year after year. Good luck.
Yeah, tx just now started cheating, lol.
Posted on 3/3/24 at 11:35 am to WoodyOrnamental
Laura Miller Copyright 1986, The Dallas Morning News The Dallas Morning News (DAL) + _____
Published: March 26, 1986
AUSTIN -- University of Texas boosters and sports agents have given Longhorn football players cash, liquor, meals, free dental and legal services, and discounts at apartments and bars -- all violations of the National Collegiate Athletic Association extra-benefit rules.
During a two-month investigation of the Texas football program by The Dallas Morning News, former players said that boosters and agents, whom they usually met through coaches, routinely approached players with offers of cash and favors from the day they first walked onto the practice field. In interviews with 28 former Texas players, whose careers spanned the period from 1978 to 1985, 11 said they accepted cash payments -- in some cases amounting to more than $10,000 -- while they were playing football at Texas.
"My senior year it just got hotter and hotter,' said Tony Degrate, a standout defensive tackle from 1982 to 1984 and winner of the 1984 Vince Lombardi Award as the nation's outstanding college lineman.
"From alumni walking up to me in the locker room, to my room, shaking my hand and giving me a bill (money). Then at the end of the year, they'd call me -- guys in business suits with briefcases -- and I'd say meet me in a restaurant. At 11 o'clock at night. In a restaurant. Not in my room.'
Head football Coach Fred Akers, interviewed Friday in his Austin office, said he was not aware that his players had received any benefits beyond the tuition, room, board and books provided by their athletic scholarships.
Never mind Lam Jones scalping tickets in the '70s and Ramonce Taylor's new SUV and Chris Simms hundred dollar hand shakes.
Published: March 26, 1986
AUSTIN -- University of Texas boosters and sports agents have given Longhorn football players cash, liquor, meals, free dental and legal services, and discounts at apartments and bars -- all violations of the National Collegiate Athletic Association extra-benefit rules.
During a two-month investigation of the Texas football program by The Dallas Morning News, former players said that boosters and agents, whom they usually met through coaches, routinely approached players with offers of cash and favors from the day they first walked onto the practice field. In interviews with 28 former Texas players, whose careers spanned the period from 1978 to 1985, 11 said they accepted cash payments -- in some cases amounting to more than $10,000 -- while they were playing football at Texas.
"My senior year it just got hotter and hotter,' said Tony Degrate, a standout defensive tackle from 1982 to 1984 and winner of the 1984 Vince Lombardi Award as the nation's outstanding college lineman.
"From alumni walking up to me in the locker room, to my room, shaking my hand and giving me a bill (money). Then at the end of the year, they'd call me -- guys in business suits with briefcases -- and I'd say meet me in a restaurant. At 11 o'clock at night. In a restaurant. Not in my room.'
Head football Coach Fred Akers, interviewed Friday in his Austin office, said he was not aware that his players had received any benefits beyond the tuition, room, board and books provided by their athletic scholarships.
Never mind Lam Jones scalping tickets in the '70s and Ramonce Taylor's new SUV and Chris Simms hundred dollar hand shakes.
This post was edited on 3/3/24 at 11:38 am
Posted on 3/3/24 at 2:08 pm to Sooner1984
quote:Just proves we didn't play in the mud (or not as deep) as other programs. I remember multiple recruitments we lost simply because a dad, uncle, mom or all 3 wanted to start a bidding war..those guys usually ended up at Bama, LSU, Chokelahoma and inexplicably...sometimes aggy.
I find it interesting that Texas goes from unable to supply anyone to the combine for virtually 5 years to the top RB back-to-back, two 1st round D-linemen, and multiple 1st-2nd round WR's in the same draft class -
when -
It became legal to pay for players.
Posted on 3/3/24 at 2:10 pm to 49 to nada
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Just proves we didn't play in the mud (or not as deep) as other programs. I remember multiple recruitments we lost simply because a dad, uncle, mom or all 3 wanted to start a bidding war..those guys usually ended up at Bama, LSU, Chokelahoma and inexplicably...sometimes aggy.
Every fanbase has a few delusional fans who believe these types of things about their program.
It never fails.
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