As my high school coach told me when I muttered “fuck this shit” after getting run over by a senior who outweighed me by 200 lbs, “Quit bitching, someone has to hold the tackling dummy”.
Most kids want to play. I don’t see a lot of upperclassmen with experience signing on to hold down the bench (whilst also not getting paid) - even at a place like Texas - when they could play and make money at their small school.
I agree. I think smart teams once this is all figured out will be recruiting 20 or 30 upperclassmen with like Angelo State experience. Scholarship+perks of being a former Texas football player vs starting at Sul Ross? Surely some kids will take that deal and be good practice and emergency depth. Nebraska back in the day had massive rosters
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I'm not an expert on how it all works with revenue sharing. Not in the slightest. Sounds like it's more complicated that I assumed. My assumption is we could bring in a bunch of players who are essentially walk-ons and get no money, but they do get scholarships now. And another ASSumption is there are a few large humans out there who aren't good enough (yet) to get money to match their size. But, maybe they're smart enough to want a UT degree. So, they come here for exactly that... a degree and not much else. But what if one or three of them knocks it out of the park in spring camp? We've had walk-ons who have done similar. Sure, it's wishful thinking but... you never know. It was an idea.
I think I get bronco’s point? I think Texas is concerned about revenue sharing. More scholarships, more mouths to feed. There’s also the Title IV implications. If they add 20 men’s scholarships, they have to add 20 women’s scholarships. That’s a big number, and would probably require them adding another women’s sport. Incredibly expensive. Rod Babers made an extremely rare good point today. Guys that aren’t playing are dead money. Stashing developmental players sounds awesome, but it would be very costly. So costly I doubt any program approaches 105 scholarships. I doubt many schools approach 85 scholarships if there’s revenue sharing and a salary cap. I have no idea why they passed this rule in the middle of the NIL experiment. Nobody was asking for it.
i think it was more like there was a script.. but they would shoot the scenes on script and then shoot lines of improvisation.. where often the improved lines would turn out funnier and get used. that is kinda a McKay/Ferrell thing... re: Anchorman
You're not paying attention. We're putting all of our money into 50-70 scholarship kids. With the new SEC rules, we can do 100+ scholarships(?). That means you have 30+ freebies who will take up none, or hardly any of the "money share".
WTF. We have like 40 scholarships left to use. USE THEM. Go grab all the biggest retard 2* O-line FBS & nicely rated FCS guys you can find and see if any of them break out during spring training. This is our concern, dude. So, make it the thing we are unconcerned about.
Somehow it ended up on the OU 2026 thread and I was too stressed about transfers at the time to even mention it. I came here looking for it first. I think it was a good hire for them with or without his kid because they could literally do no worse than the dumpster fire they had last year. At least this guy was one of the greatest in Cowboys history. Whether he can coach or not, that will help him recruit. OU is going to mess around and be stuck with BV for over a decade. They keep doing just enough. I’m fine with it.