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Post by wahhappen on Mar 17, 2024 16:29:52 GMT -5
My understanding about NIL is that it is intended to literally compensate players for the use of their name, image and likeness in advertising and merchandise sales (jerseys, covers of and presence in video games, television and print advertising, etc.). In effect, it is none of these. Players are being signed to paid contracts to play for certain schools, which is not my impression of what it is supposed to be. Yes, I don’t understand (Well, I understand, but it is stupid) how it has become what it is. It should be as simple as them making a percentage based off of revenue on their name. E.g. you appear on a video game, your merchandise sells, they put you on a billboard, etc. and you get a percentage of those profits. Maybe do a small flat percentage across the board for ticket sales (some will show up regardless of which 6th year senior returns to play). Isn’t that where NIL originated? A small minority was making billions off of college athletes, and they couldn’t even accept a free meal without being suspended. That is what I thought we were getting into… didn’t they do a short period of a stipend or something first? I can’t remember, but it went from nothing to stupid in a hurry.
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Post by wahhappen on Mar 16, 2024 17:04:28 GMT -5
In all fairness I would also require $100K minimum to play for Mike Locksley.
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Post by wahhappen on Mar 15, 2024 20:15:16 GMT -5
.. and puts a cherry on top for assistant coaching salaries. We need some more assistant coaches so that’s nice. The sad reality is we do need some assistant coaches, but he’ll never hire one. We’re working on a 1:1 analyst to player model.
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Post by wahhappen on Mar 15, 2024 13:32:18 GMT -5
Aww, yeah. This is EXACTLY what it was like in 2006 with Chris Leak and Tebow, except Mertz had a chance to go into the NFL draft. So in many ways it is even a bigger mentorship. Mertz is definitely dedicated to bringing the Gators back - almost as dedicated as he is to the hesher mullet life.
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Post by wahhappen on Mar 15, 2024 12:52:02 GMT -5
I think Austin wears the visor because he likes to dress up as Spurrier for Halloween.
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Post by wahhappen on Mar 15, 2024 8:11:51 GMT -5
Mertz to Dike. Probably sometimes Dike back to Mertz. All in a 5-7 yard radius. How can they fight us in a phone booth when we have Desmond Watson? They can't. Because Desmond doesn't fit in phone booths. Don't sleep on Tyler the Tattooed Dipping Intern and GM Mike Robinson either. Those dudes are a power couple. Montrell has been spotted taking shotgun snaps through the legs of Mertz on the sidelines in between offensive reps. This sets up for an ironic Johnson to Dike connection at some point during the season. It will be bigger than the jump pass.
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Post by wahhappen on Mar 14, 2024 13:42:01 GMT -5
Between that Mertz quote and Tyler the Intern's press conference that nobody asked for, I'm starting to wonder if part of the process isn't public speaking in a completely incoherent way. That's why Mertz is back. #
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Post by wahhappen on Mar 13, 2024 17:11:57 GMT -5
Obviously this list was published before Chimere Dike decided to return for his 2nd senior season instead of opting to the NFL draft.
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Post by wahhappen on Mar 13, 2024 15:20:41 GMT -5
Check this out. My source left a recording device at CWT's poker game the other night, and here is the transcript of the recording:
Random Dude: "Yo, Billae Boiye. Man, what the hell ya'll doin' up that fancy sports complex ya got? Things seem to be crazy AF!! They really still payin' you?" Napier: "Yeah, man. It's fuckin' nuts. At this point I am just makin' shit up and everything I do they just lap up like a dog on shit. I honestly don't know what else I can do to rock the boat." Other Random Dude: "Is it true you hired a head coach of the defense to oversee your DC, promoted a co-OC, and are still calling all of the offensive plays and overseeing the offensive scheme? Man, that takes some serious balls. Napier: Yeah, and get this... I also told the fans and media right to their face that I was going to address the special teams situation. And did you see what I did? I brought on another off-field analyst! Never laughed so hard in all my life when they had to announce that. And nobody cared! But that's nothing compared to what I am about to unleash this week. I just promoted our intern, Tyler, to strength and conditioning director or manager, coach -- hell, I can't remember what titles are left. Anyway, he is the guy we are saying is running that department. I'm going to have him talk to the media. Dude has tattoos down his arms, dips like a maniac, and has never spoken in public ever. He will be completely out of his element and will in no way look like he belongs in that position. Random Dude #1: But, he isn't required to meet with the press, is he? Napier: "Shit no, but guess what he is about to do? Meet with the press because fuck it. Seven million dollars, bro! Who wants to go to the strip club?"
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Post by wahhappen on Mar 13, 2024 8:40:18 GMT -5
This is the second thing I've seen that has hailed the "size up front" as a good thing. I guess maybe when we had even mediocre football coaches the media seemed less stupid? I feel like the entire culture from the fanbase to the media has become about as uninformed and delusional as any in the country. It's 20 year old men crying and holding each other during a loss, YouTubers saying "stop being so mean," and writers alternately not following up when he spits garbage or flat false statements and then trying to spin news as a positive. It's an alternate reality. "Florida certainly has plenty of bulk at defensive tackle, as Des Watson weighed in at 464 pounds in camp, while Cam Jackson weighed in at 374 pounds. That mass could come into handy stopping the run, though it's questionable whether both are suitable playing weights in the SEC dealing with mobile quarterbacks. It will be up to new strength coach Tyler Miles and nutritionist Jake Sankal to determine suitable playing weights for both going forward." Wow. Just wow. I think the media is so incredibly desperate to keep things positive heading into the Orange and Blue game. Surely (stop calling me Shirley) they will run out of ways to spin things and create make believe stories. It has become an embarrassment. Luckily for us we are only nationally relevant when there is a scandal.
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Post by wahhappen on Mar 13, 2024 8:34:09 GMT -5
He's dumber than Zook, more stubborn than Mullen, and worse with the media than McGoober. He's a perfect storm. Of bullshit. You can add that he has also adopted Muschamp's offense, which works just as well now as it did then. When we aren't running up the middle, we're throwing five yard sideline patterns. I said this then, and it is just as true today: A defensive coordinator could put all 11 guys within 5-7 yards of the line of scrimmage and stop 95 percent of what we run. In other words, he possesses the exact opposite of the qualities that are representative of the Gators' brand of football. It is the classic conservative approach that keeps you in just enough games that people start to believe in the facade that you were only a couple plays away from winning big. While, in reality, we never really had a chance.
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Post by wahhappen on Mar 12, 2024 14:25:43 GMT -5
Will Harris is letting people tackle him and Chatman has a loud voice. Tyler the intern learned a lot in not only his year under Hockey who is pursuing his dream to move out of strength and conditioning and into Xs and Os but also his month with Fitz who is a super duper guy who we should be grateful we only had for a month because tis better to have loved and lost than never loved at all. Callaway could easily be the next Austin Armstrong. We're looking good. At least someone is getting tackled, and that is improvement right there. Most likely this is due to the powerful impression Fitz left on this program after 5 solid weeks of dedication. We should make "Fitz" patches for our jerseys this season and dedicate each of our 3 wins to his spirit.
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Post by wahhappen on Mar 12, 2024 12:28:58 GMT -5
I'm absolutely thrilled Mertz is back to help groom Lagway for this upcoming transfer portal.
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Post by wahhappen on Mar 12, 2024 12:27:08 GMT -5
Nice. Yet another advantage to not playing in a championship game, bowl game, or playoff is that you can make your decision to stay much earlier and get back to work with the new strength and conditioning coach ASAP.
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Post by wahhappen on Mar 11, 2024 21:43:58 GMT -5
Yeah, you see a lot of first time SEC coaches make the mistake of already having a proven system in place before they get hired. That leaves no room for evaluating and adjusting.
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Post by wahhappen on Mar 10, 2024 14:51:04 GMT -5
Normally I would say, yes, he can. But considering he is fully “bought in,” I believe it is possible for him to hit the 500 mark when he reports in August of 2024.
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Post by wahhappen on Mar 8, 2024 13:21:58 GMT -5
And he is wearing #1, not a number reserved for a non-starter (unless you count special teams where we will have multiple wearing #1). No way he doesn’t start. Naw, he's not wearing number 1, I had a buddy say that but it's Justus Boone who is one of CWT's favorite players of ever because he's very transparent and of course Montrell Johnson because he's Montrell Johnson. The 1 in the article just means it's the most notable, and I guess I'll give them that. There was nothing about him in any of the Spring Practice Day 1 reports I've seen, just lots about how Graham Mertz is back and on a mission and serving as a great mentor for Lagway. I don't know if that means he didn't practice or they just don't want to talk about it. Either way it's comical that they allow him to continue being on the roster and taking up 1 scholarship and 3 seats on the plane. Oh, my bad. I totally misread the article and thought they were reporting jersey number changes as well. You have to hand it to him, though. He was motivated to becoming the heaviest player in the country after being surpassed last season by that TCU freshman. If I am not mistaken, this makes him the heaviest to ever play college football, correct? The heaviest NFL player was Gibson at 410, so there's another goal Des could set his sites on if he doesn't die on the field.
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Post by wahhappen on Mar 8, 2024 13:08:07 GMT -5
What is the difference between this list and just a list of potential recruits that I print off of my home printer and say, “man, would be great to have these guys”? Nothing as long as you have some "sources" and then dive into analysis of what those sources "Sources say that he knows Scott Sricklin does ritualistic fellatio on farm animals, so UF has some ground to make up here" That sort of thing. Note to self: Get "sources"
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Post by wahhappen on Mar 7, 2024 18:00:06 GMT -5
What is the difference between this list and just a list of potential recruits that I print off of my home printer and say, “man, would be great to have these guys”?
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Post by wahhappen on Mar 7, 2024 17:54:06 GMT -5
And he is wearing #1, not a number reserved for a non-starter (unless you count special teams where we will have multiple wearing #1). No way he doesn’t start.
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Post by wahhappen on Mar 7, 2024 11:24:14 GMT -5
His completion percentage dropped to 40% on passes of 20+ yards with Florida in 2023, compared to 63.2% between 10-19 yards, 84.7% between 0-9 yards and 89.8% behind the line of scrimmage, per PFF. UF limited Mertz to 40 deep passing attempts on the year, of his 358 total throws. Source: www.si.com/college/florida/football/florida-gators-2024-positional-outlook-quarterback-graham-mertz-dj-lagwayLook, he seems like a good guy (can't really call him a kid at this point) and he has a hot girlfriend. Cajun Willie is very ingenuous and has great hair. Starkville Scotty is an asshat of the first order, but they can't all be real deals with steady hair. All the usual qualifiers. You cannot win games playing offense like this in 2024, and I don't know what games Cajun Willie thinks proved the offenses explosiveness, but throwing underneath a prevent played by LSU, South Carolina, and Arkansas is not fucking impressive and there's no need to run it back. Wait, so are they defining a deep pass attempt as a throw of 20+ yards? And if so, he only attempted 40 all season? In 12 games - in most of which we were playing from behind? Attempts? Not completions? As in trying to throw the ball 20 yards down the field? This can be any pass - a post, deep in or out, deep hitch/curl, play action, fade, corner, go route? And we attempted just over 3 per game? My memory isn't that great, but maybe we spent most of 2023 running out the clock because we were blowing out our opponents with our amazing rushing attack and defensive touchdowns. Otherwise this is an absurd stat. And can we talk about how it is possible we limited Richardson to just 64 deep attempts in 2022? That is almost even more preposterous considering his skillset being the exact opposite of Mertz.
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Post by wahhappen on Mar 7, 2024 11:07:18 GMT -5
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by wahhappen on Mar 5, 2024 9:16:44 GMT -5
Let’s calm down. This is all being evaluated. We have done a thorough job whereas the guys coming in, we have that are the right fit, high-character guys, not only in the field but as individuals themselves and also each other. We’re in the middle of the process, right? We are kind of in the middle of grooming some people to be explosive. We are still evaluating and figuring out exactly what that looks like in terms of who can throw, catch, and run. We went out and got a veteran Wisconsin receiver in the portal. Not only is Wisconsin known for explosive WR output, but he played with Graham Mertz back when they were tearing up BiG10 secondaries, so they have that - you know - connection of saying we’ve been there and done it before in the big moments. That experience will be more valuable than anything that happens in our players’ careers.
This is exactly where we wanted to be going into year three in this system. All part of the process, adjusting, and evolving to where we will ultimately end up. All will be revealed when it is revealed.
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Post by wahhappen on Mar 4, 2024 22:46:16 GMT -5
Here's a question for the room: Could Cajun Willie bring home a Sunbelt Conference Title with this roster and staff? His staff is considerably worse than it was at Louisiana and the guys who are clearly SEC level stars that he inherited or recruited are all gone or have fallen off a cliff. Wilson could be a star but is anybody betting on that after seeing what Ricky Pearsall did with what turn out to be elite tools? Lagway is a slightly less physically gifted and more experienced Anthony Richardson, and we've got him firmly second string, he hired an independent NIL advisor, and the guy who he has said was "huge" in his recruitment just made a lateral move to a school that is 90% closer to his house and has unlimited NIL money. At least DJ is a good enough kid to congratulate him publicly. No red flags here. Alright let's get back on that down elevator, this rabbit hole ain't gonna dig itself. Go Gators. I think we would be in the lower top half of offenses and a bottom-tier defense in the Sun Belt. Our special teams would be just special enough to not win a Sum Belt Championship.
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Post by wahhappen on Mar 3, 2024 22:45:01 GMT -5
The last sentence in the article that Spurrier said really sums it up Hidden (but not hidden) in that sentence is the phrase “our best running back”. They probably took that quote out of context while he was in the middle of praising Montrell and our loaded running back room.
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Post by wahhappen on Mar 3, 2024 15:23:30 GMT -5
He left because he was no good at pass blocking and never would be. I'm shocked that Georgia even wanted him, like they haven't seen all the tape of him being terrible at pass blocking It seems they have an entire unit dedicated to blocking and in fact were looking for a running back that could do running back stuff. Like running and catching passes and scoring touchdowns etc.. Maybe, but they have an antiquated one-coach system, so will only be half as good.
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Post by wahhappen on Mar 2, 2024 15:49:48 GMT -5
Spurrier has always had the ability to call someone a dumb, incompetent, mf’er without actually saying it.
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Post by wahhappen on Mar 2, 2024 15:43:44 GMT -5
I thought he left because of the money and NIL was killing college football? I am stunned by these quotes.
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Dan Enos
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Post by wahhappen on Mar 1, 2024 20:41:22 GMT -5
It’s almost as if the schedule gets tougher the worse you get. The loser’s mentality is running rampant among Gator nation.
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Post by wahhappen on Feb 29, 2024 15:10:10 GMT -5
Oh, come on. I'm sure all of the other top QB prospects send out congratulatory tweets to their coaches when they leave for another job.
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