Recruiting Football Talk VIII

[Type Orange+]

Potato Cakes, onions or no onions ?

No.
Onions on the side, tho.

 

[BigOrangeTrain]

I mean Stayley has butter fingers, MM is still unproven. What are we going to do for 4 wideout sets as well, and wb when someone inevitably gets hurt

Staley has butter fingers? lol how so?

 

[tnhunter 10]

 

[Volunteer821]

Potato Cakes, onions or no onions ?

Always onions.

 

[MockingVol]

Potato Cakes, onions or no onions ?

One of the simple truths in life is that anytime you are having potatoes, adding onions improves the experience.

 

[Devo182]

Potato Cakes, onions or no onions ?

Onions only belong in Onion Cake.

 

[Devo182]

One of the simple truths in life is that anytime you are having potatoes, adding onions improves the experience.

Salt n butter.

Stop spreading disinformation from Big Onion.

 

[Vol423]

Onions only belong in Onion Cake.

Blasphemy.

 

[Jimmy Football]

Salt n butter.

Stop spreading disinformation from Big Onion.

Big Onion:

 

[MarcoVol]

Not intended to be a belligerent answer, but you would have to ask them that.
There is no longer a governing body in college athletics. The NCAA is now a toothless tiger and it has left a void.

Yeah I get that, just not sure what it has to do with the gov’t.

Not even trying to a smartazz, legit don’t understand the reasoning.

 

[Devo182]

Blasphemy.

I don't trust any food that is translucent when cooked. It has no soul. Must be the food of the devil.

 

[Jimmy Football]

I don't trust any food that is translucent when cooked. It has no soul. Must be the food of the devil.

What about food that goes from translucent to opaque when cooked?

 

[JCVol00]

You’ve seen Staley in a lot of practices?

Unproven does not mean bad.

I hear you on the depth. So what do you want? A guy that will push either MM or Staley to the portal or a depth piece from the portal that doesn’t exist?

And that’s where the issues lie, because it’s a double edged sword with getting a wr for depth vs a wr that may push mm/stayley out. Personally, I would look for a 1-2 year guy that could be a 4th or someone to roll with Brazzell/mm, then get an extra wr or two in the ‘26 to build the depth and then we can keep the guys we have because of seniority

 

[gunner]

Why would the government need to be involved?

To govern.

 

[JCVol00]

Staley has butter fingers? lol how so?

He dropped a lot of passes in 7on7 at the spring game, didnt have a pass thrown his way in rhe scrimmaging portion

 

[Volunteer821]

My onions, they can't wait for tater cakes.

 

[MarcoVol]

To govern.

To what end?

The market is working itself out - see Nico.

 

[JCVol00]

Who besides TB?

If I remember correctly, that mrpeabody that ppl claim is an insider said something along that lines, as did people on twitter who supposedly, ik it’s a tifwiw source, have connections, said similar as well. Ik those aren’t reliable sources, but it does make sense. If ur an upperclassman who already has the chemistry with the team, you wouldn’t want to go to a team that returns 444 receiving yards in total, it could damage said qb’s career. So I do understand it, and on the small chance that one of Nico’s terms was help at wr, I could also see that. Although im not sure how reliable those rumors were

 

[Jackcrevol]

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My onions, they can't wait for tater cakes.

Nice.

You have a sharp curve in your garden, btw.

 

[Weezer]

Sure the Nico party is using it as an excuse, but so did several qb’s who turned us down. It’s obvious we have problems at ol and especially wr

We have questions at OL and WR. Until they actually play together, it's a stretch to say "problem".

 

[SSVol]

To what end?

The market is working itself out - see Nico.

Until college players can be paid to play, rather than being paid for their NIL, this will continue to be the goat rodeo it currently is. When it is legal to pay them to play, binding contracts and commitments related to their play at a specific school can happen. NIL (real NIL) will then drop to a fraction of what it is now, and with it the silliness diminishes. I assume this is possible now, but prohibited by the NCAA, so congress may be getting involved to pry the NCAA's dying hands off of it.

 

[butchna]

 

[Weezer]

The WR's and O-line was not the problem last year. It wasn't the WR's or the line that killed these drives.
Whomever the next QB is he will be completely set up for success.

To be fair, the OL was great at run blocking, bad at pass blocking. The WRs did leave a lot to be desired. But Nico made plenty of mistakes as well. It wasn't all on his shoulders, tho.

 

[Orange.]

To what end?

The market is working itself out - see Nico.

The government angle is the idea that Congress could be persuaded or bribed to pass an exemption from US antitrust law for college football. The NCAA and university presidents, etc., haven't been able to make a deal with Congress. Pate yesterday (I think) said that the TV networks are accustomed to getting what they want from the government and are entities much bigger (wealthier) than college sports, as big as that is, and networks would be the ones who could obtain exemption from the law for the schools.

The second (competing) idea is to make all the players employees and then they could engage in a collective bargaining agreement. I guess they would need a players union, idk.

The third idea is that the markets correct. The holders of this view see vivid evidence of the beginnings of a market correction in: (1) Nico taking a big pay cut for trying to game the system dishonestly; (2) no buyers (except UCLA) showing interest in Nico after Nico's walkout, ghosting, and backstabbing Tennessee and Heupel became public; and (3) Madden not unlikely to be sued to enforce payment of his contractual buyout.

 

[tnvols72]