Ketch's 10 Thoughts From The Weekend (Sark is here to save the day)
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@Ketchum - I like the TV/Movie Dad bit, made me think of a couple of others.
where would you rank;
Thornton Melon from Back to School?
George Henderson from Harry and the Hendersons
Chet Ripley and Roman Craig from The Great Outdoors
Vito Corleone and Michael Corleone from the Goodfather Movies
Anthony Soprano from the Sopranos
The QB efficiency analysis was pretty good stuff. I was a little surprised the GD years didn't generate more above 150+ ratings
where would you rank;
Thornton Melon from Back to School?
George Henderson from Harry and the Hendersons
Chet Ripley and Roman Craig from The Great Outdoors
Vito Corleone and Michael Corleone from the Goodfather Movies
Anthony Soprano from the Sopranos
The QB efficiency analysis was pretty good stuff. I was a little surprised the GD years didn't generate more above 150+ ratings
Re the question on whether Aggie with "play in the SEC" will be more effective than Texas with its NIL.
At least Texas will have something distinctive and positive to say about playing for Texas.
And I think Texas will be able to construct a pretty plausible story about why Texas' NIL program will be more valuable than A&M's. People are not going to follow each of the 1020 scholarship football players from the SEC on Twitter or Instagram just because these guys are in the SEC. People will follow players from the particular teams they love, not the conference they play in. Texas is going to have a much wider audience than A&M even though both schools have large alumni bases, because Texas has a much larger fan base outside of just the alumni. Most fans (and people in general) who did NOT go to A&M tend to think of Aggies are weird. But Texas has a lot of fans who did not go to Texas. I think the relative merchandise sales for the two schools is indicative of this and I believe Texas is perennially tops in this measure.
At least Texas will have something distinctive and positive to say about playing for Texas.
And I think Texas will be able to construct a pretty plausible story about why Texas' NIL program will be more valuable than A&M's. People are not going to follow each of the 1020 scholarship football players from the SEC on Twitter or Instagram just because these guys are in the SEC. People will follow players from the particular teams they love, not the conference they play in. Texas is going to have a much wider audience than A&M even though both schools have large alumni bases, because Texas has a much larger fan base outside of just the alumni. Most fans (and people in general) who did NOT go to A&M tend to think of Aggies are weird. But Texas has a lot of fans who did not go to Texas. I think the relative merchandise sales for the two schools is indicative of this and I believe Texas is perennially tops in this measure.
Ketch, I am holding out hope that Texas can have a quicker turnaround than you seem to think. The hope is based on the accuracy of recruiting rankings as a predictor of athletic success, a truth for which you have provided ample evidence in many analyses. My logic is as follows:
Based on cumulative recruiting rankings, Texas should have better athletes than almost all the teams they have been losing to in the last several years, certainly better than Maryland, TCU, Kansas State, etc.
If we are losing to teams that have worse athletes, surely poor coaching is a big factor, either in lack of player development or inferior strategy/play calling.
We will still have better athletes based on cumulative recruiting rankings this year than all of our scheduled opponents except for OU.
Therefore, if we get better coaching we should do better on the field, this year, against this schedule.
Based on cumulative recruiting rankings, Texas should have better athletes than almost all the teams they have been losing to in the last several years, certainly better than Maryland, TCU, Kansas State, etc.
If we are losing to teams that have worse athletes, surely poor coaching is a big factor, either in lack of player development or inferior strategy/play calling.
We will still have better athletes based on cumulative recruiting rankings this year than all of our scheduled opponents except for OU.
Therefore, if we get better coaching we should do better on the field, this year, against this schedule.
It's a crazy market right now but you should never take an offer off market offer until you let your agent or whoever is representing you even if it's yourself open it up to all buyers to get into a bidding war to maximize your value.
We ended up getting more than all recent sales of similar homes have been getting.
Came from a family that went by our terms. No headaches.
I'm content.
I get it and I get it
The market right now is one that's never been present in the state of Texas or other parts of the south. My point was Austin and Dallas right now
The market right now is one that's never been present in the state of Texas or other parts of the south. My point was Austin and Dallas right now
