re: What happened to Aggy recruiting?

That’s what I’m saying

Aggy fans like Colonel Daniel are pretending that they’re only ranked outside of the Top 30 because they’re about to go on some massive commitment sweep/flip fest between now and NSD.

If Texas is doing them this dirty, while still in the Big 12, it’s safe to say we can expect a clean sweep in a few years.

From Surly Horns

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Texas and Oregon put the CFB world on tilt with their respective NIL efforts. Many alumni bases are reacting pragmatically and trying to build something competitive of their own that fits their specific goals and means. Some bases will be able to compete across all sports in an arms race with Oregon and Texas. Ohio State and Michigan. Notre Dame and Penn State. Maybe Georgia. They’ll have to want to do it, of course. There are others like Bama and LSU who will figure out how to be competitive at the top of the elite recruit list every year, but their bases have already blanched at what it is going to take to do it. The price of poker went up. Bag money is dwarfed already.

Then you have Oklahoma, USC, and Tennessee. Kansas too, bizarrely, and I’m sure we’ll hear about more, but all of these groups basically just decided to tout made up shite or vapor prospective nonsense. I guess they figure they’ll just figure it out on the fly or are equating some of it to the black market where they’ll say one thing and do another with players and get away with it. It doesn’t work that way when players, parents, handlers and agents can talk openly to whoever the frick they feel like. So yeah, Addison hadn’t seen a dime as of a few days ago. Barry Switzer just making shite up on behalf of OU might stall some momentum away from them for a bit, but the recruit-side wises up quickly and they’re going to start asking for proof and asking on-campus players for truth.

ATM is in a whole different situation. They went full big black bag, tried to mock NIL to recruits as fake shite and got away with that for a spell, and expected to establish themselves as a player in the under the table game for the foreseeable future. In one of the more ironic twists even for the aggies, it appears as though their zeal for coming over the top of accepted norms in the stealth game has caused two major reverberations against them - 1) they accelerated everyone else’s interest in NIL as a means of countering their bag behavior and 2) they have become everyone’s favorite whipping boy in negative recruiting. Fisher and the AD attempting to “I am not a crook!” all of it and pointing fingers elsewhere and making threats hasn’t helped their cause. In the most on-brand aggie maneuver of all time, ATM pulled the NIL bookshelf on top of themselves just as they thought they were getting going.

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Color me surprised that people promising NIL as enticement have not followed through at all and those who have done everything by the book have set expectations that will be met.

It's almost like the people in charge of Texas NIL may have had a plan. It's almost like, that plan was tested at a smaller scale (Surly Horns - Burnt Ends NIL for Tight Ends?) before turning it into a death star.

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Re: Jordan Addison, Biletnikoff Award Winner, transfer to USC

USC (Lincoln Riley) "enticed" Addison to enter the transfer portal from Pitt, and USC signed Addison over the efforts of Alabama & Texas. USC, fresh off their high profile admissions scandal, is scrutinizing things more than ever. Their flurry of activity right after LR left OU has hit a speed bump.

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“Addison has been pissed in recent weeks because what he was promised hadn’t been followed through on.”

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Is something amiss w/ USC's NIL program?

So, it appears having a Compliance Department stress test each component of NIL before execution is more sustainable compared to shady under the table deals. Who woulda thunk?

NIL money wasn't real. All a mirage. It was a good talking point though.

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Half that list is going to Texas

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So were Bryce Anderson, Denver Harris, Harold Perkins, Evan Stewart

Absolute bloodbath on our dear special friend.

Nope. Laughing at you made my weekend. Wrong as usual for your goofy loveable arse. You should probably take a morning after pill after this fricking you took.

Upvoting you’re own post again. What a loser.

You spent the entire weekend (not your first, or last) talking A&M.

Up at 2am.

You literally lost sleep over us.

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The ENTIRE weekend.

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...consisted of you getting smacked around like a little bitch.