TXLawnghorn

Thanks for the clarity. He definitely wasn’t forced out—and frankly that seems like a pretty fair offer. He had a solid redshirt freshman season, but also left some meat on the bone. I get playing time may have been harder next year, but injuries always happen. It seems like a shortsighted move on his part, but it’s his decision to make. He easily could’ve been a starter his redshirt Junior year. I hate that we are going to start having way less of these career Horns that have a chance to develop to be great and become fan favourites (but aren’t necessarily NFL players). I hope we start signing our recruits and NIL transfers to multi-year deals.

Was Livingstone forced out, did they take away his NIL offer, or did he make a big NIL ask that UT rejected? CJ and Bobby both repost Parker’s twitter post, which says he was forced out. My initial impression is he made a big NIL ask and we didn’t want to give him a big NIL raise. He maybe wouldn’t have had a big role next year, but probably yes over the next 3. I’m sure it was discussed somewhere, but I can’t listen to every stream and couldn’t find the answer easily in the huge threads.