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#41751
2 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

Is it that fucking hard to understand that a player can put their name in the transfer portal without consulting their school or enabling the school to respond? It's apparent a ton of you guys do not understand the basics of what is a pretty basic thing. 

At which point #9 would occur

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#41752
1 minute ago, closetojumping said:

You can see my most recent post and take your weak assumptions and weak logic and shove it straight up your misinformed ass. 

 

So this causes USC to intervene with him before he enters the portal rather than after.

Okay.

#41754
1 hour ago, Katfid54 said:

There's no way he's had time to even move in yet, considering his All-Star game was on January 5th.  How can you even pack so quickly?

Traffic in LA is pretty bad. Maybe he hasn’t been able to get to campus from his domicile yet.

#41756
6 minutes ago, fellside said:

So this causes USC to intervene with him before he enters the portal rather than after.

Okay.

If you're in the portal other schools can talk to you, therefore UT can refute USC's pitches and work on Bru themselves. If you're not in the portal UT can't contact you and USC can control what Bru hears. It's not that complicated.

Edited by satyanash

#41757

Once a player signs with the new school they are transferring to, can the old school still contact them?

In other words, if you can get to that point without the current school knowing, at that point they can't try to stop you.

Edited by Yesh

#41758
21 minutes ago, TheFlyingBoat said:

This reads like a fan fic. If these clowns know others definitely knew first.

Yeah, it all seems fictional except for the parts where I cited real world examples of parts of this happening numerous times before. And the parts where rudimentary understanding of concepts like journalism, and the Transfer Portal, and the NCAA, and program/player management are all required. 

What I walked you through is a fucking blueprint of how this happens, after tons of folks this go-round and many previously have asked the question about the roles $9.95ers play and whether or not they can do damage. If you don't understand how "breaking" a story usually means something is truly being "broken", then, fuck, there's no helping you.

#41759
2 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

Can we crucify EJ yet? I brought my pitchforks and everything

Leave the pitchfork, bring the french press. 

#41760
4 minutes ago, WBT said:

At which point #9 would occur

Wrong. Also, it's very clear that you fail to understand the psychology around taking a leap versus being intervened with before you do so. Don't put anyone on a fucking pedestal or think of them as robots. We all make decisions based on emotion and then rationalize those decisions based on whatever logic we can find. That is literally what got this recruit into this problem in the first place.

4 minutes ago, fellside said:

So this causes USC to intervene with him before he enters the portal rather than after.

Okay.

Right.

#41761
1 minute ago, closetojumping said:

Yeah, it all seems fictional except for the parts where I cited real world examples of parts of this happening numerous times before. And the parts where rudimentary understanding of concepts like journalism, and the Transfer Portal, and the NCAA, and program/player management are all required. 

What I walked you through is a fucking blueprint of how this happens, after tons of folks this go-round and many previously have asked the question about the roles $9.95ers play and whether or not they can do damage. If you don't understand how "breaking" a story usually means something is truly being "broken", then, fuck, there's no helping you.

Are you inferring James Hale isn’t a journalist? How dare you sir?

#41762
39 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

 

Here's how things get fucked up by $9.95ers:

1) They all wrongly continue to operate under the impression that being first with a scoop matters. It doesn't. 

2) They all fail to understand the failures in their personality make-ups and behaviors that landed them in the position of doing this kind of work for a sad living chasing 16-20 year old boys. 

3) They then, given the blindness of their own frailty, fail to see the same flaws in $9.95ers for other schools, and project a positive image onto those other folks, and trust them frequently when they shouldn't. As a result, information is exchanged.

4) Schools use $9.95ers for info and as mouthpieces. Herman's not big into the latter, dabbles in the former. Other schools use them more aggressively. Some schools, like Oregon, literally have an agent covering their team, working for both 24/7 and a sports group. Schools like Clemson and USC have fucking bagmen working for them as $9.95ers. USC literally got busted for this with Steele this year.

5) Texas $9.95ers discover something from a parent, player or handler, calling and asking a question or texting hints, or outright laying out their thoughts. $9.95er, moron that he is, thinks "holy shit, a scoop!! it's a scoop!! I'm important and my sycophantic member base is about to love me!!!!". So they start fucking hinting around that they know something.

6) Burton and Ketchum are then woken up from late morning naps and told "hey, person at IT/TFB/wherever the fuck is talking about knowing something we don't". They shout "get on it" to the Anwars and FCBs of the world.

7) Notes are compared or hints are made.

8 ) One of these rubes calls the other school's $9.95ers to compare notes. That $9.95er, with different intentions if the issue is big, gets in contact with their program to ingratiate themselves further or get paid outright for the intel.

9) Program goes to recruit/athlete/parent/handler and actively begins a diffusion campaign from  decommitting/transferring/whatever the fuck.

10) Recruit/athlete/parent/handler gets cold feet and nothing happens further. 

11) You naive fucks and the $9.95er sycophants then declare that nothing was there in the first place and go on about your business, thinking it was all a big to-do over nothing. 

It's rare for someone, even FCB, to so overtly fuck up a recruitment the way he did with Bonnito last year. Steps 1-11 are how it normally works. 

Damage control has already begun elsewhere, so barring some real resolve tomorrow, light your cigarettes, fellas, because you've already been fucked. 

As to anyone trying to dissect validity of matters around concepts like enrollment, cause for disengaging from an LOI, signing an LOI, etc., good lawyers make good claims and an org like the NCAA is a fucking coward in the face of that. If you haven't seen enough of that to believe it, that's on you to figure out. 

thanks, arthur

#41763
4 minutes ago, GabrielsHorn said:

Leave the pitchfork, bring the french press. 

That sounds... messy.

I like it! Just as long as I don't have to clean up afterwards.

#41765

The 25th is it, correct?  Last official day to add and drop? Sounds like they all (beat writers) know what’s going on and it’s down to the nut cutting!

#41766

Guys I’m leaving the office right now I’m just a few minutes from USC campus I’m gonna cruise on over ask Bru  myself if he’s going to be at Texas in time for the spring game

#41767
Just now, Sgt Hulk said:

Guys I’m leaving the office right now I’m just a few minutes from USC campus I’m gonna cruise on over ask Bru  myself if he’s going to be at Texas in time for the spring game

Better tweet at him first to let him know you're coming.

#41769
Just now, Walden Ponderer said:

Better tweet at him first to let him know you're coming.

Alreadybdid Fam. Check my periscope 

#41770

Anyything regarding Bru seems to preposterous to hang on to.  But I've got sick kids and a wife and a bottle of Malbec so lets kick the tires and light the fires.

#41771
3 minutes ago, Sgt Hulk said:

Guys I’m leaving the office right now I’m just a few minutes from USC campus I’m gonna cruise on over ask Bru  myself if he’s going to be at Texas in time for the spring game

Could you also ask him what all the brouhaha is about?  

#41773
If we lose Javonne and add McCoy, that would put us at 285 points and #3 class behind Bama and Georgia?
Now I care for the lulz.
#41774
If we get Bru McCoy I’ll stick my dick in a Frappuccino


I think the McCafe version might be a good fit, because they have the larger hole in the plastic dome and you can use it like a fleshlight.
#41777
5 minutes ago, Casual Encounter said:

I can’t believe we got baited into this Bru shit again.

Them $9.95ers are master baiters.

#41779
Just now, Rimbo said:

Them $9.95ers are master baiters.

I'm ok with all of this no matter how it shakes out as long as no frappuccinos are harmed. 

#41781
7 minutes ago, coachkiss said:

 


I think the McCafe version might be a good fit, because they have the larger hole in the plastic dome and you can use it like a fleshlight.

 

Thanks for the suggestion but I don’t need the larger hole.

#41785
9 minutes ago, TexasEx said:

I'm ok with all of this no matter how it shakes out as long as no frappuccinos are harmed. 

One way or another, there will be fapping involved. Maybe a frap fap, maybe not. Maybe just me and a photo of Gisele. It wouldn't be the same, though.

#41787

Are you telling me the 9.95rs ruined another commit? Noooo way

I can’t wait for the Bobby Burton nothing to see here articles 

#41788

If this was true about Bru and everyone knew and had to keep it quiet, there is no doubt that the aggy “reporters” would have leaked it purposely. 

#41793

since there's nothing else to do, let's play "best case scenario" and pretend that bru wants out and wants to come to texas and there's no talking him out of it.  

now what?

what do the rules say in regards to the speed and eligibility of him enrolling/practicing/suiting up at texas?  could he be in school by the fall (when most college freshman report)?  or the summer even?  would he have to sit out a year per transfer rules, or could the kk situation get him an immediate transfer to be eligible by this fall?

i know none of this is actually happening, blah blah, but please indulge me, assuming you know the rules better than me (which should cover almost everyone).

#41794
18 minutes ago, htownjd said:

the lack of SHHHHHHH makes me think this is a dud

Texas can't do anything till he's either in the transfer portal or released from his LOI....

So probably not gonna post a Shhhhh yet....

#41795
19 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

Are you telling me the 9.95rs ruined another commit? Noooo way

I can’t wait for the Bobby Burton nothing to see here articles 

If coaches lose a recruit over this, they suck ass

#41796
1 minute ago, henrygandorf said:

since there's nothing else to do, let's play "best case scenario" and pretend that bru wants out and wants to come to texas and there's no talking him out of it.  

now what?

what do the rules say in regards to the speed and eligibility of him enrolling/practicing/suiting up at texas?  could he be in school by the fall (when most college freshman report)?  or the summer even?  would he have to sit out a year per transfer rules, or could the kk situation get him an immediate transfer to be eligible by this fall?

i know none of this is actually happening, blah blah, but please indulge me, assuming you know the rules better than me (which should cover almost everyone).

No one knows, is the short answer. The transfer portal is a brave new world of backchannels and lawyering for immediate playing time. 

#41798

My favorite part of this thread in a while is when @closetojumping completely made me rethink my very high opinion of the $9.95ers and made me realize that they are  actually selfishly motivated.  Now I can just stop thinking I should be sending them $9.95 each month (instead of reading it here for free) and this problem will not occur in the future.  I’ve realized that I’m actually part of the problem, if not the entire problem.

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