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19 hours ago, Satchel said:

Tech just out recruited OU again by securing a commitment from 5* OT, Cooper Hackett. They were on him early and it seems to have paid off. The GM Is earning his money.

Dude committed DURING his OV to pig aggy, too. That must have been awkward.

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9 minutes ago, TrashMaster G said:

Given the complete dearth of details offered, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess what he wants to do is really stupid.

I feel good about my chances of being right.

Cody Campbell is an asshole who wants to leverage political influence into forcing the government to do for TT what it can’t do for itself. He wants schools with more media revenue than TT to collectively share with TT. He doesn’t want TT to collectively share revenue with schools that have less than TT. 

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1 hour ago, statsman said:

Cody Campbell is an asshole who wants to leverage political influence into forcing the government to do for TT what it can’t do for itself. He wants schools with more media revenue than TT to collectively share with TT. He doesn’t want TT to collectively share revenue with schools that have less than TT. 

Link? I'm not calling you a liar, I have a fair number of differences with Mr. Campbell. But I'm interested to know what his position is on that, I haven't seen anything that I cared to pay attention to.

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1 hour ago, statsman said:

Cody Campbell is an asshole who wants to leverage political influence into forcing the government to do for TT what it can’t do for itself. He wants schools with more media revenue than TT to collectively share with TT. He doesn’t want TT to collectively share revenue with schools that have less than TT. 

link?

Edit: others already beat me to it.

I've disagreed with Campbell plenty.  I respect that he puts his money where his mouth is.  Haven't seen any of this reported or quoted to Cody Campbell.  Share the link or STFU.

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3 hours ago, Iceman said:

Share the link or STFU.

“STFU”? In the thread devoted to mocking and putting down TT? Ha-ha-ha-ha!

How about this for Mr. Campbell? TT worries about TT and Texas worries about Texas. Texas is doing fine in Olympic sports, and there is nothing to stop TT from fully funding theirs. They don’t need help from UT; they just need to manage their own resources. 

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Cody Campbell Asks Congress to Allow National College Sports TV Package

The ad will run during both ESPN and Fox college football pregame shows this weekend, the billionaire booster tells FOS, as well as “pretty much all of the games on Saturday.”

Aug 29, 2025 | 11:54 am
Saving College Sports

Billionaire Texas Tech booster and college sports lobbyist Cody Campbell has bought airtime for a new ad making the case that Congress can “save college sports” by changing the law and allowing one national college sports television package, rather than the piecemeal conference-specific deals of today.

In the ad, Campbell says the goal is to earn more revenue in order to fund women’s and Olympic sports. He told Front Office Sports that it will air during college football games this weekend on the very networks targeted by his pitch: ESPN and Fox. (The two networks have shelled out billions in media rights for the SEC and the Big Ten, as well as the ACC, Big 12, and others.)

 

Campbell purchased spots to air the ad during both Fox’s Big Noon Kickoff and ESPN’s College GameDay, as well as “pretty much all of the games on Saturday,” he told FOS. 

Campbell, a former Texas Tech football player who made his fortune in the oil and natural gas industry, previously told FOS took an interest in college sports policy after his involvement in The Matador Club, Texas Tech’s powerhouse NIL (name, image, and likeness) collective. Campbell is also close to President Donald Trump through the America First Policy Institute and has been advising the administration on college sports policy issues.

 

Campbell launched a 501(c)(4) organization called “Saving College Sports” earlier this year. Self-funded by Campbell, Saving College Sports paid for the ad and has already spent six figures in congressional lobbying. The organization has a full-time staff, led by executive director David Polyansky, a Republican strategist and former chief of staff for Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) who chairs the Senate Commerce Committee and has been heavily involved in Senate debates on college sports.

The new ad opens with Campbell walking on a field holding a football. “Dramatic changes are causing nearly every athletic department to operate in the red, forcing cuts, putting women’s sports and Olympic dreams in immediate danger,” he says.

The ad says that the solution is for Congress to change the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961. The law gave professional sports leagues an antitrust exemption to pool their media rights and sell them as one bundle, rather than piecemeal by team or division. 

 

An amendment to the Sports Broadcasting Act would overrule a 1984 Supreme Court decision that found NCAA had an illegal monopoly over television rights, effectively giving schools and conferences the power that has led them to sell  billion-dollar packages and constantly realign conferences. (The NCAA now only owns championship media rights, like men’s and women’s March Madness.)

Campbell believes that the money generated by one football TV deal—illegal under current law—would be worth even more than the billions of all the conference deals put together. In his ideal world, the deals would be struck with a new organization called the United States Collegiate Athletics Corporation, which would then send money back to schools to fund sports purportedly endangered by the costs of modern college sports. 

There is currently one bill ready to be introduced to the House floor for a vote, but the SCORE ACT is mostly concerned with NCAA priorities like blocking athletes from becoming employees. Though Campbell supports that goal, his changes to the Sports Broadcasting Act are not included in the bill—yet.

 

As for whether he intends to run more ads on college football Saturdays this season, Campbell says: “We definitely will.”

 

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Cody Campbell is an ex Tech player, chairman of the BoR, main financer of Tech NIL. He says he wants to save college sports and his big idea is that media revenue should be pooled and shared. 
 
Im sure he thinks that. Without his donations, Tech is another Iowa State. Making that $20.5M nut is a lot easier if you’re getting that sweet B1G or SEC revenue. Sharing media revenue ales it harder for the big ‘uns and easier for the small ‘uns. 
 
Unsurprisingly, as a Texas fan, I think that’s a shitty idea. 

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I suppose I'm mostly going to reserve judgment until I see some details. Neither the ad nor the website seems to offer anything substantive beyond mere platitudes.

Not going to go CR here, but...while I like what Campbell has done for Tech, specifically (with regard to NIL etc.), I'm skeptical of his ability to do anything meaningful or good in the political arena. Given what I personally know about all the stupid fucking shit he believes and stuff like the dipshit he's pushing for Tech chancellor right now, I would be very hesitant to support any legislation he is pushing.

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