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  1. I have a couple of theories/suppositions… 1. Last year, NIL was all booster-funded. We focus on Texas, Buckeyes, etc., but those well funded schools are the exception. There were several dozen programs that probably barely scraped $10M, if that, for NIL. Now, with the House settlement, they are required to pay $20M from their AD. They have to spend that. That doubles the player pay for programs like Baylor (and the rest of the B12 and ACC). Frankly, I’m surprised we don’t see more pissant programs win a recruitment like this. 2. just because the pissant programs have to spend $20M, they don’t necessarily have an extra $20M to spend. They have to get it from somewhere- booster donations, budget cuts, university payments. We will see the B12 and ACC schools seek new ways to whore out for media payments.
  2. That’s ridiculous. Albanese is just a hardworking impartial mediator, calling them as she sees them. Oops. Hey, maybe she is just a St. Francis of Assisi type, with a caring heart for all life. Oh, but hey, she’s not an anti-Semite. It’s not like she goes around repeating hackneyed anti-Semitic tropes like Jews are solely motivated by greed …or that there is some kind of shadowy Jewish conspiracy… So, she’s just your innocent moral crusader supporting murderous terrorists in their quest to kill Jews, in support of the larger goal to suppress a Jewish conspiracy to make money by controlling the world. (Note- the spoiled quotes are just a sample. There are a lot more). There are accusations of financial impropriety, but that looks like penny ante stuff compared to what is out there and available (Sinwar was worth $3B when he died). I have to assume she is a true believer.
  3. https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2025/07/08/cody-campbell-college-sports-texas-tech-donald-trump/84408951007/ Campbell wants to “fix” college football by having the SEC and B1G share revenue from TV. And Matt Hayes is as much of a dumbass now as he was 20 years ago, when he wrote that Reggie McNeal was a better QB than Vince.
  4. Matt Hayes is still a shithead https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2025/07/08/cody-campbell-college-sports-texas-tech-donald-trump/84408951007/ Campbell’s “plan” is that the B1G and SEC share TV revenue with the B12 and ACC
  5. I expect Texas to assess it resources, the field, the rules, and see if out Ground Rules and Assumptions still make sense. I expect Texas to adapt the strategy, making sure to not make any changes that will upset the current or future locker dynamic. I won’t be surprised if Texas gets more aggressive on third party NIL; I would be surprised if Texas starts dropping bags of cash, pays agents directly or starts paying HSers before they enroll. I expect that Texas will be very upfront about what a player should expect, and when, and who bears risk at different points. That will not appeal to a certain player (the kind letting their “uncle” handle everything) and will appeal to another type (getting good counsel). You miss out on some great ones that way, but that’s part of what makes a player a “Texas guy”, in my opinion.
  6. I chose Micah Hudson for a reason- a high cost HS recruitment, who showed in his freshman year that he was not going to produce right out of the box. In my opinion, Tech doesn’t sue for the right to overpay. They decide, instead, to not throw good money after bad. The inevitable Clearinghouse lawsuit will be over a player the school wants to continue to pay.
  7. If Micah Hudson, out of HS, had signed a big third party NIL deal, and DeLoitte didn’t get around to reviewing it until November, say, and it got turned down- how do you think Tech responds? I bet they shrug and say, “Micah, we’ll resubmit, but the clearinghouse is telling us it needs to be low five figures, not high six figures”.
  8. Did you catch the bit in one of the write ups where he mentions his conversation with Brent Venables? I think that’s where the optimistic OU talk comes from. OU can be terrific, if Mateer levels up and turns out to be as durable as Tebow or Ehlinger, if Ott is fully back, if Burks plays as well as the Sooners claimed he did in Spring 2024 drills, if they have good luck with health. That’s a lot of heads that have to come up in a row. Last year, I didn’t see it in any grocery stores or Walmart, even. B&N was the only place I saw it.
  9. Is JV Joey going to get Tech to the B12 CG next year?
  10. If he’s Kelvin Banks 2.0, he is worth it. If he isn’t, there are a bunch of ways this deals screws up their team.
  11. If the market calls for a HS recruit to get paid really high, more than some starters, you better be damned sure he’s going to work out. For comparison, I remember in 2001 (damn, that was a long time ago), Texas signed an OL “Class of Beef”. This was to lay a foundation for a NC OL. These guys were all studs, all offered by several top programs. They were Jonathan Scott (All American, high draft pick, had multi year NFL career that would have been a lot better without a horrific rookie injury), Will Allen (starting G on NC team, no real desire to pursue NFL), Mike Garcia (regular depth piece), Roman Reeves, Terrance Young (backup), William Winston. Texas really wanted to Sign Jami Hightower, but he signed with the Ags, where he was a multi year starter that never made the NFL. What’s the point? It’s that if you paid market value for a class like that, you would be having uncomfortable conversations with over half of them after one year. This is a crazy market now.
  12. Please. You have the Cloak Room, the Daily Texan and Business and Markets. Can you keep CR comments out of the sports boards?
  13. William Cunningham was UT president from 1985-1992. He was a good president and he is a good guy, but he was awful for UT football. He wanted the most complying program possible, and he got it. Texas was 50-41 over those years, the 45th best win percentage in the nation. Texas went 4-4 against OU, 1-7 vs the Ags, 3-5 against Baylor, 4-4 vs UH, and 6-10 against every major conference non-conference opponent. William Cunningham hasn’t been president in over 30 years.
  14. That is a great point. Deloitte is in the business of selling services (accounting, consulting). I have a hard time imagining them pissing off business leaders everywhere. As a matter of fact, I bet they took this gig with the idea that it would expand their business as institutions contract with them for other services, in hope of currying favor for their favorite college programs.
  15. I have great ideas for team names: Shrews Harpies Banshees
  16. Oh, those bitches hate her. Seriously, if any of you ever meet a WNBA player, you have to ask them, “Do you know Caitlin Clark? Is she as awesome as she seems?”
  17. It’s called “doe-eyed” and it has been used to describe a feminine trait that men consider hot for centuries
  18. You have just described why Marcus DuPree committed to Texas. He wanted to be able to tell dozens of other schools to buzz off while he entertained bids from the real suitors- OU, Mississippi State, Southern Miss and Pittsburgh (Sherrill was the coach). Texas was the stalking horse. Texas finally figured it out and started recruiting Anthony Byerly a couple of weeks before signing day.
  19. If, by November, it appears there are no guardrails enforcing the new “rules”, Texas can adapt.
  20. The TexasOne announcement (going for-profit, not rolling into AD, maintaining flexibility while seeing how the system develops) is encouraging
  21. I know shit about fuck, but I can speculate. -The House settlement: for 10-20 programs, this limits what they will pay players. For the rest of FBS, it requires them to pay their players more than they had been. (Note- this money comes from the AD and I’ll bet every AD, not just OU’s, has to sweat to varying degrees to come up with it). -The surprising thing to me is how rarely we are seeing pissant programs, now required to budget $15-17M for players, sign blue chips. -I suspect Texas is being outbid by programs ready to challenge the limits of the NIL Clearinghouse. Such challenges are a solid bet. -I think the Texas program doesn’t want to back from competition. I don’t think the Tower is likely to force them to do so, as happened under Cunningham. If the Tower does, we will know when we see Sark take another job. (Not saying that is the only reason he would leave, but there is no way he is going to allow himself to become David MacWilliams or late term Akers) -If these recruitments are about NIL, then it’s smart to wait until the end for your final bid. All the other cards are laid down, you know the cost, you know the other player options, you know more about the recruit, and you have a sense of where regulation of rules is.
  22. I don’t know- Royal never had much of a coaching tree (Pittman? MacWilliams, Bellard, Akers), and Bryant’s is definitely better (Schnellenberger, Stallings, Perkins, fuck Sherrill, Bum Phillips). They both had long term security blankets as DC- Campbell at Texas and Donahue at Bama. I collect old game programs and I’m amazed at some staffs that teams can put together. Examples: 1966 Oklahoma- HC MacKenzie, assistants Fairbanks, Switzer, Rice, Hall, Lacewell 1984 Iowa- HC Fry, assistants Snyder, Stoops, Ferentz, Alvarez I don’t know that Texas ever had a staff like that.
  23. In the2019 playoffs,KD (his mind made up that he was leaving) was determined to go off, and until his injury, was giving the NBA a clinic on what was possible. Then, he came back in the finals, was putting on another “man among boys” exhibition, and tore his Achilles. Oh, to have seen what he would have done e healthy.
  24. This looks so much like an AI picture
  25. There were three prior: book 1973 movie Bruce Willis movie and this one. In the priors,…
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