Recruiting Football Talk VIII

[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]

 

[JCVol00]

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

Fair point

 

[screenthis]

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.

I'm not completely against it.

New bill looks to replace NCAA with new college sports organization

A federal bill filed in the House of Representatives seeks to replace the NCAA while transforming the college athletics landscape, including NIL, the transfer p

www.si.com

 

[JCVol00]

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.

How much of the running game success was because of our splits and/or 2 te sets though? We did a lot of trap run block sets that helped there be large holes in the dl as well.

 

[gunner]

To what end?

The market is working itself out - see Nico.

Not really, it’s still out of control, especially in college basketball.

 

[DarthVol1]

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.

The thinking is the NCAA needs at least a partial anti trust exemption to be able to have some ability to enforce rules. Ted Cruz is leading the politicians that are involved.

 

[TheRain]

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.

My point is there is a lot of mud slinging at Heupels offense. The WR's and OL has been called out for being substandard and are the reasons for the lack of big plays. That somehow, Heupel's offense failed Nico. That's all BS.

 

[Orange.]

The universities doing business as the NCAA have been massively corrupt and appeared (judging by the facts and not the speeches) to have had as their primary and abiding objective to run coverups for "friends" and to persecute the rivals of "friends" or other minor parties to show that they are "doing something." I don't see how the NCAA changing its name alters this history. There is simply no evidence that universities can justly administrate sports. With or without anti-trust exemption.

Adding the power to approve or reject each and every NIL deal in the country seems like providing massive and unprecedented power to the known corrupt NCAA (under whatever new name).

I see no good options. It's really a manner of which option is least worst.

 

[Type Orange+]

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.

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Draft NIL Legislation Aims to ‘Save College Sports as We Know It’​

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Draft NIL bill aims to "save college sports as we know it"

The question of whether college athletes should be employees looms over the conversation about setting a national standard on name, image and likeness rights. “People should be careful what they wish for,” a softball player testified Thursday.

www.insidehighered.com

 

[highspeed]

wrong Waltons bro..

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I’m too young to remember this show, but when I was about 11, we were staying in a hotel on vacation, and when we turned out the light to sleep, we were all saying good night to each other. Then my dad says, “Good night, John Boy.” 11-year-old me thought he was saying good night to his umm…member. I died laughing. Couldn’t breathe, tears streaming down my face laughing. My parents were totally confused. I know, cool story bro.

 

[Cosmo Kramer]

Who's TB? Tom Barnhardt?

 

[knoxvol52]

wrong Waltons bro..

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Mary Ellen was hot....

 

[Volunteer821]

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[SugarCC]

 

[TN-POSSUM]

Apparently koi fish travel in groups of three with one fake fish.

That way if they get attacked Koi A, B and C can go one direction and the other fish can go the opposite direction. You know, the D koi.