I hope he wins the race. He'll have been a perfect answer for solving the first riddle. I don't think that would be the case for the second riddle.
Ketch's 10 Thoughts From The Weekend (Close, but no 2024 cigar?)
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Good column. Lots of great stuff.
- Fox isn't going to budge until its made whole. Can't blame them for not giving away Texas and Oklahoma for nothing.
- Ochaun Mathis to Nebraska seems like a bad decision. That program was a mess.
- As a guy who bought Ja'Tavion Sanders stock when it was low, it is definitely paying off.
- That comment about not replacing the bubble made me laugh.
- There's no reason to root against Herman. Texas would kill for a 10-win season in 2023.
- That dunk was sick. The guy who got dunked on lost his girlfriend that night lol
- Busta Rhymes killed it on Scenario.
- Fox isn't going to budge until its made whole. Can't blame them for not giving away Texas and Oklahoma for nothing.
- Ochaun Mathis to Nebraska seems like a bad decision. That program was a mess.
- As a guy who bought Ja'Tavion Sanders stock when it was low, it is definitely paying off.
- That comment about not replacing the bubble made me laugh.
- There's no reason to root against Herman. Texas would kill for a 10-win season in 2023.
- That dunk was sick. The guy who got dunked on lost his girlfriend that night lol
- Busta Rhymes killed it on Scenario.
@Ketchum I have no idea if this has been asked already.
Is your analysis of portal players focused only on the top 50 (per The Atlantic) or are your numbers based on all portal entrants and you just shared the top 50 below? If your analysis only looked at the best 50 players, then I would expect the outcome to be as rosy as you show. Do the same analysis for the top 500 and the results would be far different, I am guessing.
Is your analysis of portal players focused only on the top 50 (per The Atlantic) or are your numbers based on all portal entrants and you just shared the top 50 below? If your analysis only looked at the best 50 players, then I would expect the outcome to be as rosy as you show. Do the same analysis for the top 500 and the results would be far different, I am guessing.
Mathis was literally one the worst producing players in the top 50.... the one guy everyone ended up focused on from around here.
That being said, it should give everyone a lot of hope about Mitchell.
Just the top 50. I don't believe a ranked top 500 exists.
No one could possibly have expected the outcome of the top 50 to be this rosy. It's unprecedented.
My apologies. I skimmed over and thought it was how you ranked them after the season. Maybe I should read next time 😄
I'll say this...
I will always take a guy on my team who challenges someone at the rim and gets posterized over someone who ducks out of the way because they are afraid of ending up on Sportscenter in a bad way.
Jarrett Allen is the best example of this. He has been dunked on a few times, but he has also rejected more than his fair share of dunk attempts at the rim, and he's never afraid to try for the block regardless of the outcome.
I think you are getting too caught up game to game. They statement about not getting past first weekend came on the heels of the rout by Tennessee. Now it “feels like an Elite 8.” This team is fun to watch but certainly has its flaws.
Honestly, if one had been paying attention they would have seen that unlike the first matchup, Nowell was struggling pretty badly in 1H. And KSU was up based more on some fools gold 3s they got in the first 20.
No, my statement came on the heels of another performance where the defense wasn't very good.
When this team gives up 80, and it was happening with some regularity until last week, it struggles.
Why is there so much effort being put into something that only moves the timeline by 1 year?? I cannot understand all of the angst people have for staying in the B12 through 2025. What exactly is the benefit of being in the SEC one year earlier? If our goal is to compete for a national championship, we have our chance with the playoff expansion to 12 teams.
Thanks
But it was mentioned that Texas and OU were on their own when it comes to compensating Fox. Wouldn’t ESPN be able to contribute to that with the LHN funds going that way in some form?
That car is shit bro, even the music couldn't save it. Lots of lonely boners in there. Makes my 1986 Ford Escort GT look baller. Except mine had one door that was a different color red than the rest of the car.
I will say buying the SL500 in 2004 helped recruit the talent better than the 89 Tracer. True story.
I mean they could do a lot of things. Clearly, it's not happening at the moment. I don't think ESPN is in the same type of rush that Texas wantsa to be in.
Lol. We’ve given up 80 4 times in 23 games. It’s ok to say, “correct, my statement regarding not surviving first weekend did come immediately after the Tennessee game” because, well, it did
Well but you still have to consider him top 50 right? That only changes the stats by one to injured (but it was a BIG one that got injured).
For sure, Darwin Nunez not exactly ready yet doesn't help, I think he'll be fine though
He’s literally never built anything from scratch as the head man that has really been successful. That’s a problem. This season is an outlier based on specific circumstances that were largely out of his control, so the data you can collect from it is skewed and limited.
The buyout number won't be calculated based on the premium advertising revenue versus zero but rather the difference in advertising revenue from selling ads for UT vs. Tech as opposed to okie state vs. Tech.
Paying that much would be very short sighted politically, I suspect. All the public and leaked information is still part of an ongoing, hard ball negotiation at this point anyway. Ketch, what is the practical deadline for the all parties to make a deal and still let Texas and OU move to the SEC for the 2024 season? I assume we are not there yet but I could be wrong.
whatever happen to the defensive back that committed to t c u and then decomitted and committed to us??
Ahem... from last week's column...
"There's no shame in going to Knoxville this season and taking an L.
There's also no shame in how the men's basketball team has started Big 12 play, as the Longhorns exit the weekend tied for first place in the Big 12 standings with two other teams not named the Kansas Jayhawks.
Honestly, given the lack of success in the program over the last decade and the circumstances of his season, it's pretty damn remarkable that the players have kept the standard as high as they have.
Still, it's hard not to watch this team and wonder the following:
a. Can Texas stop good teams from scoring when they want?
b. Can Texas outscore good teams?
It's been an issue all season and not just when Chris Beard was still in the huddle. It started with the 85 points given up to Illinois in a loss. Then there was the 116 points given up in the team's next game on the schedule against a ranked team. The team responded against TCU in the next match-up against a ranked team in beating the Horned Frogs 79-75, but gave up 78 points a week later in a loss to Iowa State.
It happened again on Saturday in giving up 82 points to the Vols.
Texas just doesn't have enough offense in most games when this team gives up something close to 80 points. It asks too much of Marcus Carr when it happens, especially with Tyrese Hunter stuck in his funk (double digits in scoring in just 3 of his last 13 games).
There's just not enough shooting. Not enough natural scorers.
If this team is going compete for a conference title or make the Sweet 16, it's either going need to play better defense or find more scoring. At the moment, I'm not sure what is the most likely to occur."
No, not if he tears his ACL and there are other really talented guys that can be put in his place.
From the Big 12 and the SEC's perspective, they'd like to have had this resolved already for 2024.
The SEC will likely release its 2024 schedule in September.
Wouldn't making Fox "whole" just be us paying them for the difference in what they would make in ad revenue versus the median Big 12 team ad revenue? The article seems to imply that we would be paying the entire ad revenue for games lost by Fox and not considering they will fill those time slots with another game. What am I missing?
Could you do a breakdown of the top 50 ranked HS recruits in their first year like you did to the portal recruits?
