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Did not refute any of my points about A&M's fraudulent 2020 team.

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It only lasts as long as the billionaire's do. I hope people don't stop liking Chicken with extra Cain sauce.

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Fan collectives, which are largely funded by wealthy donors, are just one part of NIL. A whole lot of the numbers you see reported for players like Arch Manning or Cam Coleman aren’t from Texas’ collective or rev share. But from legit marketing deals that Texas can tap that few others can. Because Texas has both one of the biggest brands in college football and Austin is a big town with a lot of big companies and it doesn’t have a pro sports team for those companies to spend money one.

It’s an advantage because Texas also has a large collective. It’s also important if and when the clearinghouse starts reviewing deals. Fan collective deals are subject to scrutiny. Deals with Vuorii, Warby Parker, Uber or Red Bull aren’t.

Three buckets.

1. Rev share — no scrutiny. Everyone has $20 million they can spend across all sports. Most put 75 percent into football.

2. Fan collectives. Subject to clearinghouse scrutiny. Can be less reliable due to donor fatigue. Big donors and $50 a month guys chip in for this.

3. Third party deals. This is where Texas has the advantage. Austin businesses. Texas is a top 3 national brand. Can Coleman knows he’s going there a lot more money from legit NIL marketing deals at Texas than he would at some podunk SEC town that might get him a car dealership or sunflower seed sponsorship. That isn’t going to cost Texas or its boosters a penny. Bet he does some commercials with Manning.

Texas lost recruits for years due to schools like Alabama, Auburn, LSU, etc dropping bags. We said we didn’t and the proof was the recruits we lost that would not happen if we were paying like others were. Ain’t so much fun when the rabbit has the gun, is it?

Some of you miss the good old days when a sack of cash to an uncle and a Dodge Charger could buy you a 5 star.

Pre NIL, when a top 5 Texas player had strong interest in Oregon, LSU, Ohio State, Alabama, Fisher's FSU, Fisher's A&M and Auburn, every Texas fan that knew anything knew we had zero shot.

I hate OU more than any team on that list and it is not close and Texas has not had a bigger nemesis than Bob Stoops. After Big Red Motors in 2005 -- which was pretty tame, just no show jobs -- OU was clean. I hate A&M second most. A&M under Sumlin and Sherman were very clean, they only started cheating like crazy when Jimbo and his staff of awful assistants whose only benefit were being bag men arrived.

The teams bitching the most about NIL are the poor former bag droppers. Rich former bag droppers like Oregon and Ohio State do not care.

Every team's alumni dropped the proverbial $100 hand shake. But dropping $100k or more bags for 5 stars, it was a select group.

Texas pre NIL could recruit pretty well. It could not assemble talented rosters like it has since NIL started. And the proof is in the pudding.

Texas NFL draft picks by year:

2025 - 12
2024 - 11
2023 - 5
2022 - 5
2021 - 5
2020 - 3
2019 - 2
2018 - 4
2017 - 1
2016 - 1
2015 - 1
2014 - 0
2013 - 3
2012 - 2
2011 - 4
2010 - 6
2009 - 4
2008 - 5
2007 - 7
2006 - 6
2005 - 3
2004 - 4
2003 - 4
2002 - 2
2001 - 3
2000 - 1

I think he is a lot better than Nussmeier.

Does any Ole Miss fan think that, on the merits, Chambliss deserves a 6th year? Do they think he was really injured and missed a season due to tonsilitis? Or are they just hoping for a favorable ruling from a hometown judge?

The pie goes to women sports and men's Olympic sports. That is where the money really goes. And to coaches.

A&M hasn’t played for a conference title since 1998 or a national title since 1939. Nice return on all that money you spend.

Aggy paid a ton for shitty OLmen off horrible O lines. I don’t get it. And your coach is a morbidly obese disgusting fatbody that mainlines gravy

How much did A&M pay for rhose gif awful OL men from S Car, LSU and Alabama? I hope nothing. They all suck.

We have three rivals. SEc means we get to play all three every year. That’s what college football is about. Don’t love NIL combined with portal even though it helps us. But getting rivals back is huge for me. So glad about the move.

Clemson is going to boat race LSU this weekend.

And in games against FBS opponents, he threw for 23 touchdowns and 12 interceptions. Y'all are excited to run him back out? Why? He's inaccurate and turns the ball over too much. He also is a statue who was 10th out of 16th in pass rating for SEC quarterbacks last year (sandwiched between guys like Pavia and Reed who can actually run the football). I just do not get it. Seems like a very pedestrian QB who racks up some yardage because LSU throws a lot.

I've seen really good LSU QBs. He ain't one of them.