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  1. The Sec obsession with the future of Lane Kiffin should be studied by a sports psychologist.
  2. Texas Tech considers not signing House Enforcement Agreement https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6829627/2025/11/22/house-settlement-enforcement-signing-texas-tech/# The general counsel for Texas Tech, whose athletic department has thrived thus far in the name, image and likeness era, has advised the school that it should not sign a College Sports Commission agreement requiring schools to comply with its new enforcement model. On Wednesday, the Power 4 conferences sent an 11-page University Participation Agreement to their schools that requires them to cooperate with investigations, abide by enforcement decisions and not file lawsuits regarding athlete compensation rules that arose from this summer’s House settlement. The general counsel for Texas Tech, whose athletic department has thrived thus far in the name, image and likeness era, has advised the school that it should not sign a College Sports Commission agreement requiring schools to comply with its new enforcement model. On Wednesday, the Power 4 conferences sent an 11-page University Participation Agreement to their schools that requires them to cooperate with investigations, abide by enforcement decisions and not file lawsuits regarding athlete compensation rules that arose from this summer’s House settlement. In a memo to Texas Tech board chairman Cody Campbell obtained by The Athletic, Texas Tech University System general counsel Eric D. Bentley cites 16 sections of the agreement as rationale for why the school should not sign the agreement. Front Office Sports first reported the memo. “(The agreement) requires the University, its representatives (which is defined too broadly), student-athletes and associated entities and individuals to comply with not only the current rules, policies, and procedures, but the University must also agree to comply with ‘any other policies and procedures that the CSC may from time to time adopt,’” he wrote. “Under this agreement, the CSC could adopt a rule or penalty that would apply retroactively to the University or its student athletes, impose severe penalties against the University or its student athletes, and the University would have contractually agreed to not take any action against CSC.” He also raised concerns about a clause that could hold a school responsible if external parties, including state officials, take action against the CSC over an unfavorable decision. “This clause attempts to penalize the University for appropriate actions taken by the Attorney General to protect state agencies and its citizens, which is obviously unacceptable,” he wrote. In addition to his role as Board chairman, Campbell is a billionaire Texas Tech booster who has helped raise tens of millions of dollars for NIL deals for Red Raiders athletes. Texas Tech reportedly spent $25 million on its 10-1 football team, which is in line to earn the school’s first-ever Big 12 championship game berth. He has said athletes across all teams are receiving $55 million this school year. The bulk of those deals came from Campbell’s since-disbanded NIL collective, Matador Club, which front-loaded its 2025-26 payments before July 1, to avoid being subject to CSC’s new NIL Go clearinghouse.
  3. Okay, so you are getting a new fancy football facility after all?
  4. At the very least, Cheney convinced himself that his misguided actions were based on his love of country. Trump suffers no such delusions/
  5. Didn’t y’all announce a new , fancy 325 million dollar center for football operations, including offices, locker rooms, and training facilities?
  6. How long will OSU be the only B12 school without one of these new fancy football facilities?
  7. Well.. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/18/texas-congressional-redistricting-maps New maps that added five Republican districts in Texas hit a legal roadblock on Tuesday, with a federal judge saying the state cannot use the 2025 maps because they are probably “racially gerrymandered”. The decision is likely to be appealed, given the push for more Republican-friendly congressional maps nationwide and Donald Trump’s full-court press on his party to make them. Some states have followed suit, and some Democratic states have retaliated, pushing to add more blue seats to counteract Republicans. A panel of three federal judges in Texas said in a decision that the state must use previously approved 2021 maps for next year’s midterms rather than the ones that kickstarted a wave of mid-decade redistricting. The plaintiffs, including the League of United Latin American Citizens, are “likely to prove at trial that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 map”, so the court approved a preliminary injunction to stop the map’s use for next year’s elections. Texas Republicans, under pressure from the Trump administration, redrew the state’s congressional maps earlier this year to make them more favorable to Republicans. But, Judge Jeffrey Brown wrote, the district changes were not purely partisan. “The public perception of this case is that it’s about politics,” Brown wrote. “To be sure, politics played a role in drawing the 2025 map. But it was much more than just politics. Substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 map.”
  8. It can’t be said enough. These people are completely out of control. This is no longer a free country: https://therealnews.com/charlotte-residents-horrified-after-border-patrol-arrests-women Residents in Charlotte, North Carolina are expressing outrage after two local women were arrested for honking their car horn to alert others that US Border Patrol was in the area. Local news station WCNC reported on Monday that the two women, who are US citizens, were taken into custody in the city’s Plaza Midwood neighborhood after Border Patrol agents pulled them over and accused them of interfering in operations by honking their horn. Video of the incident shows masked federal agents yelling at the women and demanding that they roll down their car windows. When the women do not comply, one officer smashes through the window and then he and other officers pull them out of the vehicle
  9. I’d you hire Eric Morris there will be two Tech grads coaching the big boys in LA.
  10. Quiet piggy! https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c70j210g4e7o
  11. Sadly, this craziness is coming to every state university in Texas, thanks to Texas grad and Texas Tech chancellor who went on a years long jihad against DEI: Because of his legislative successes against rights, “Creighton and others like him can now “ dictate what is prohibited in the classroom, control what is taught and create a campus environment that nurtures and supports only some students.”
  12. Why is capitalism losing favor in Trump’s America? https://www.axios.com/2025/09/08/americans-capitalism-social-big-business-gallup-poll The lowest share of Americans ever view capitalism positively and big business rates even worse in new Gallup data released Monday. Why it matters: Americans' souring attitudes toward capitalism and corporations reflects a growing unease with the economy, rising inflation and a stagnating job market. In another recent poll, 70% of U.S. adults said they had no faith in the American dream of hard work paying off. By the numbers: A slim majority of Americans — 54% — said they have positive ratings of capitalism, down from 60% in 2021. Perceptions of socialism — currently 39% positive — have not changed significantly since polling began in 2010. State of play: For the first time, fewer than half of Democrats view capitalism positively. They're also the only political group to view socialism more positively than capitalism. Ratings of "big business" have dropped significantly, especially among Democrats. However, Americans remain overwhelmingly supportive of small business and free enterprise despite their skepticism of larger market forces.
  13. At Trump’s direction. Bondi. Patel and company would destroy everything that could bring him down, knowing that he will pardon them. They’d better hope he doesn’t die suddenly.
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