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CaneLos said:
Sir, this is an Arbys.
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These are the facts and/or extremely reasonable truths about what is going on from an objective POV (i.e. not a mope or homer).

You want to attract top talent, you have to compete with top teams (albeit on the field or those who have established bag networks beyond NIL). Mario has gotten us into the game with a lot of kids who under previous regimes may not have considered us. When would we have ever had multiple five-stars visit in one weekend in the past decade? Because of that, fans who don't consider context, have gotten overly excited.

What is also fact is that the staff has falsely portrayed confidence in cases, which has then amplified fans false sense of getting EVERYONE!! (the favorite CIS GIF). My guess would be that confidence comes from the fact that Mario is an A+ recruiter and kids genuinely have a great time on their visit so coaches get good feedback. Reality is though these are more so visit highs that are extended by Mario's recruiting but not strong enough to put us over the hump.

Then consider we don't compete on track record and results in the last decade, AND we have coaches with light resumes. So with solid NIL information in hand, other schools swoop in and convince the kid about development, winning, equal NIL, etc. Texas has $$$ and is a legacy program. OU has recent success (whether Riley or Venebles / Lebby at previous stops) and is a legacy program. And then going up against OSU, Bama, and UGA, well that is just uphill all the way. If this is your comp vs. lower P5 teams you automatically will have a lower hit rate.

When considering all these factors, the current results match what one could reasonably expect. Sure we want better. But it could be worse (We could have Manure).

The phrase winning cures all is the answer (as @Cribby and @DMoney have shared but some choose to ignore). And that takes patience. But why should we expect that...after all we pay Mario $8M so this should be a quick flip right....

If you want to be the best you have to beat the best, so expect to take a couple lumps on the climb up.
 
shwarma5 said:
These are the facts and/or extremely reasonable truths about what is going on from an objective POV (i.e. not a mope or homer).

You want to attract top talent, you have to compete with top teams (albeit on the field or those who have established bag networks beyond NIL). Mario has gotten us into the game with a lot of kids who under previous regimes may not have considered us. When would we have ever had multiple five-stars visit in one weekend in the past decade? Because of that, fans who don't consider context, have gotten overly excited.

What is also fact is that the staff has falsely portrayed confidence in cases, which has then amplified fans false sense of getting EVERYONE!! (the favorite CIS GIF). My guess would be that confidence comes from the fact that Mario is an A+ recruiter and kids genuinely have a great time on their visit so coaches get good feedback. Reality is though these are more so visit highs that are extended by Mario's recruiting but not strong enough to put us over the hump.

Then consider we don't compete on track record and results in the last decade, AND we have coaches with light resumes. So with solid NIL information in hand, other schools swoop in and convince the kid about development, winning, equal NIL, etc. Texas has $$$ and is a legacy program. OU has recent success (whether Riley or Venebles / Lebby at previous stops) and is a legacy program. And then going up against OSU, Bama, and UGA, well that is just uphill all the way. If this is your comp vs. lower P5 teams you automatically will have a lower hit rate.

When considering all these factors, the current results match what one could reasonably expect. Sure we want better. But it could be worse (We could have Manure).

The phrase winning cures all is the answer (as @Cribby and @DMoney have shared but some choose to ignore). And that takes patience. But why should we expect that...after all we pay Mario $8M so this should be a quick flip right....

If you want to be the best you have to beat the best, so expect to take a couple lumps on the climb up.
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Winning matters but when you suck you must also pay the suck tax to get the best guys. Trademarked by @Da Jumbo Mutombo Inc
 
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Wario Cristobum said:
So having more 5 stars taking all- expenses paid vacations to S Fl on UMs dime and then committing elsewhere is now praiseworthy?
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I didn't offer praise. The next sentence, "Because of that, fans who don't consider context, have gotten overly excited." hits on our current state of mopery here.
 
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Cribby said:
Winning matters but when you suck you must also pay the suck tax to get the best guys. Trademarked by @Da Jumbo Mutombo IncO
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There you have it!!!! Thats the issue! We paid the 20 year "suck tax" last year but this year is an even bigger tax after 5-7 and MTSU. And we don't have the money to pay the extra "suck tax" this year. The Gators are paying it now and stuffing Mario in the locker. When Mario had the paper behind him last year he stuffed Billy and now Bill has the bank and crushing Mario. "Money talks and bull**** runs the marathon," Nino Brown.
 
Cane26 said:
There you have it!!!! Thats the issue! We paid the 20 year "suck tax" last year but this year is an even bigger tax after 5-7 and MTSU. And we don't have the money to pay the extra "suck tax" this year. The Gators are paying it now and stuffing Mario in the locker. When Mario had the paper behind him last year he stuffed Billy and now Bill has the bank and crushing Mario. "Money talks and bull**** runs the marathon," Nino Brown.
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They’ve never over paid right up to this very second. Last year we had the whole new coach vibe going then face planted. I’ve been clear since the NIL started we were a tier two program with spending and will not over pay. Good or bad , that’s the deal. Kids need to see the program perform on Saturdays for the sick tax to disappear. Other schools have stepped their games up and there’s still the whole “tax free“ way of doing things that’ll always be hard to beat.
 
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