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This isn't a thing.

The transfer thing isn't that extreme. It's the normal transfer period for any college student. Now some schools could get clever and have 6-8 week periods throughout the year. Or a 12 week semester style.

That's the plan. Always has been, otherwise it's just pay for play, which I do think fits under Title IX and questions whether universities need to have professional sports teams.

Put it everywhere. Fuck these idiots.

I'm also not mad because this adversely effects Texas. It doesn't. It's just stupid, and it's time for this kind of stupid shit to go in NCAA.

No, you are just as stupid as these administrators. Does the school have to pay actors in their commercials the same? Does the school have to pay anyone who foes commercial brand work or promotion the same based on gender? No. Because it's a fucking commercial activity, it's not education related and it's related directly to their brand value and revenue generation. It has nothing to do with their athletic scholarship and they don't just get the money because they are enrolled and playing a sport. They are going to have to do shit for the money. It's not just a salary cux you are good at sports. I'm so tired of stupid people being involved in this and obfuscating it in new and dumb ways.

Now you have to contingency plan and figure shit out that was not the general plan. These aren't small budgets and simple things.

Well for one thing you won't have the bullshit deals that we've been seeing where guys do shit that's of no value or not public at all and get paid 300k+. You can't go hang out with sick kids 5 times for 60k a pop. That's some horseshit. You also can't go do a 5 minute podcast for 100k. These things all have real market value and they've been using the "hurr durr market is what people are willing to pay". Appearances will be more closely aligned to what people in pros or in the open market as celebrities command. What delloite is going to do is say hey we've never seen a deal for doing X that pays Y. Why does this pay that? And if they can't answer it then that deal gets tossed or if they do it anyway will get reported. The amounts aren't the problem, the quid pro quo for what they were doing for the amount is the problem. Burnt Ends is an aggressive, but fair market rate for what we get from these players and it has the highest visibility of any NIL outside of the commercials on tv and things like bijan mustardson.

This is the dumbest thing I've read related to Burnt Ends, ever. This guy took a lot more money than we do for BE and didn't play much.

The opposite of this is going to happen (and/or has already happened), the fact that you think this is going to happen means you are truly completely disconnected from reality. This is why the ruling is disruptive, even to Texas. There were decisions made regarding how things were going to work based on the university being able to provide the $$ as defined in the original settlement. This horseshit decision that makes no fucking sense whatsoever effectively makes NIL from a university completely ridiculous and more like a baseline salary that can be divvied up like the stipend was. NIL isn't a fucking stipend and it's not assistance, there is a quid pro quo exchange that has nothing to do with "just doing your sport". They weren't gonna sign these players to big ass fucking NIL deals and then not have them do a bunch of brand work, that's not how businesses operate and that's not how the AD was planning to operate. The AD can farm out all kinds of Arch Manning the QB of the Longhorns to whatever sponsor or big ass media outlet it wants to in turn drive businesses, sponsorships, real revenue for all it's various streams and/or participants in the brand pool. This ignores that entirely and treats it like scholarship++. It's completely wrong because it's not PAY FOR PLAY, it's NAME IMAGE AND LIKENESS, if it was pay for play then sure they could claim title IX. Instead of just moving on and letting things get to a new normal, this rulling effectively restarts everything - there's no tenable way forward for the NCAA to operate with this level of stupidity and the amount of money it is taking to field competitive D1 high revenue sports teams.

The lack of outgoing portals and especially the lone portal out being a portal in should tell you something about the buy in, culture and NIL structure in place to build a long term roster like Georgia and Alabama and Florida and Ohio State had during their dynasty-like runs. It's all about infrastructure, a system and a continuity factor regardless of personnel that gets you into a situation of long term sustained success.

Juan was wide open for a TD on the tipped ball in the Cotton Bowl. He's not as worthless as you guys project and he was out there for a reason. I'm very surprised he didn't get the call on the 2nd down that was the worst playcall in history though, I really was expecting that to be a Juan is unaccounted for easy curl into the ez play or even a Juan power run formation. I'm obviously bias because Juan is also one of my favorite people and I've known him for 4 years now, but the dude did what he was asked and did it as well as you could hope for. I think the issue with Niblack is that he just wasn't really a fit for what Sark's TE do - sure physically he's more like JT than he was Gunnar, but with all the WR weapons on offense there wasn't really a need for a dude who is inline that can motion to empty set and run routes and catch and/or be downfield to block after a catch from other receivers and/or keep up in front of an RB in space. That's just not what Niblack was, he was a glorified receiver who wasn't good enough to be either a receiver or a TE

This is kinda how it went down. Never said he was a bad teammate, but stupid is pretty easy to spot in the wild. Shannon and Washington are two guys who are going to be stepping up as well as the incoming class. I wouldn't sleep on what's already here.

this changes quite a bit for everyone, Texas just happens to have infrastructure in place where this is not that big of an issue. Donor fatigue is real, collectives have been folding left and right etc. What's good for Texas or a non-issue isn't necessarily the same thing as saying it's something that overall makes the sport healthier. This clearly isn't a violation of Title IX by the spirit or letter of the law and they stretched revenue sharing to be assistance. It is overall good for everyone if they can charge $5 per ticket for NIL and then just pay the players out of that fund, it's not bad for anyone. It allows for a healthy revenue distribution model that comes from the people that pay for the whole thing anyway, the fans. Eventually it becomes impossible to justify 30M a year without a return, the return is obvious for an AD, they have revenues. Donors get nothing but warm and fuzzies for donating, and donating to a collective while it gets you LHF points, doesn't do much else in the way of "returns". This title xi ruling effectively makes it unsustainable for any schools except those with billionaires who have just endowed the NIL fund to succeed. It also makes collective bargaining extremely difficult, because you can just go do whatever you want with 3rd parties. There's no way that UT is going to spend 10M on fb and mbb and then another 10M on womens sports NIL, it's a terrible use of funds and effectively makes the 20M settlement completely stupid. There's so much wrong with this ruling it's hard to even get started, but it does ruin a ton of plans for 2025 and it throws an enormous wrench in getting NCAAF into a well regulated state where you don't just have the NY Yankees effect.

lol, coulda told you that was coming at the beginning of last season when he just didn't even want to join burnt ends for no reason and ghosted and the response from the rest of the guys was "yeah, not worth talking to him about"

I have one. I'll upload it later.

This is the dumbest shit I've ever read in my life. These people are completely disconnected from reality.

Yeah, this is the worst ruling ever. The NCAA may actually fail because of this.

I feel great about where we are from a TE perspective. We've gotta figure out the burnt ends dinner. Does someone in Austin have any access to the austonian? I would like to use their event space for it, but it only makes sense if we get the resident sponsored rate. If not we can do it at San Jac Saloon again.

NIL checks bounced?

I mean the sky fell yesterday IDK how today could possibly be any worse....

Do we change the thread title?

Actually sounds great right about now.

Also, this thread isn't the catch all bitch about the season thread like the Quinn thread became. I'm gonna make another 2025 season catchall thread and just aggressively split posts that are unrelated to Arch out of this one.

Bro, Sam Ehlinger has entered the chat.