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Baller AF.

It already is pure pay for play but without any controls for performance. Manning is the perfect example.

I wish the NIL deals were more performance based. Take a look at this kid’s stats. Unimpressive, less than 50 completion percentage. It would make more sense to have NIL contracts with $ for TD and yards, etc. Some kind of position-specific performance measure, perhaps with a lump sum payment for signing. Team wins and bowl bonuses like coaches get.

According to his Twitter feed, also has offers from Toledo, WKU, Temple, ArkSt, and UTsa in addition to those listed on 247.

Very big if. I would add that we need to get/stay healthy. The injury bug has bitten hard in the early season. Need to cut down on the penalties and flip the turnover ratio. We only have a couple of takeaways so far.

Belgrade, Serbia through 2027.

Sounds NIL related? If so, what a complete twat.

Also dumb. But I get it. That game is magic. I have been twice. Highly recommended.

My wife always looks great but much angrier the morning after a NT game because either I wake her up yelling at the tv or I end up sleeping the next morning away (games often start for me after 1am or later, especially early in the season - went to bed around 5am Sunday morning vs Wyoming) or most likely both.

a/s/l?

Correct. I believe someone recently pointed out that one of them could win the AAC and get selected for the playoff as the G5 rep and then lose the Army-Navy game and still go bc it’s after the selection…dumb.

Cash is no longer on the two-deep, at least this week.

They bring fans to the stands and eyes to the TV.

If so, that’s a much better optic. Obviously we don’t know who talked to who about what. But the national perception was that UTSA was a candidate and we were not. And that’s a pathetic indictment of our athletic program. That’s why I reacted strongly to our “commitment” post. Saying we were committed to the conference without any (perception of) another option would be silly.

We kind of embarrassed ourselves with this: Gives the impression we had a choice to make…

Glad I was wrong!

I look forward to seeing @aztecskinor @BillySee58 do a little breakdown of what we were seeing out there. A couple of times it looked like three down lineman with a standup edge rusher (#9). Was that that my imagination? I assume it was because most of this board was in the stands at the game?

The roster in general. I know I haven’t paid the closest attention this season (bc I have so little faith in Morris to succeed and NIL) but the amount of names that are not familiar in that roster is concerning. Down to fourth and fifth string RBs, injuries all along the line, suspended DBs, and no kicker worth a damn. Two true freshmen backup QBs (to a fragile guy) and apparently an INT machine of a starter leaves no real threat of benching Morris if this string of turnovers continues. It’s a bit of a mess.

They are likely to match that against our defense.