Not sure that's a great use of your budget spending that amount on a high schooler.
Texas Tech 10 Million Dollar Portal Season
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And this…is what’s wrong with college sports
There are no college sports. This isn’t even semi-pro sports. This is full on professional football. So why would consumers watch professional CFB rather than just watching the NFL?
I’m to the point that I hope the NFL gets their waivers to be allowed to play Saturdays. If there’s multiple professional leagues now, there’s no reason for anittrust exemption laws that prevent the NFL from competing with CFB.
Taco Tech trying their hardest to literally buy a Big 12 championship and playoff spot.
I can remember sitting in meetings with compliance and discussing whether the NCAA allowed us to have four-color recruitment brochures.
My head is spinning. I'll never get used to this wild West environment.
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I think this might be Joey McGuire’s last season as head coach. He will be under immense pressure to win big and I don’t think he is a good enough coach. I think he has to win double digit games to survive.
So, if I understand the tech deal correctly, that’s 1.7m per a year? That’s still quite a bit to considering you still have to consider another 85-105 scholarship players on the football team to pay. In addition to men’s basketball and baseball. I’m going on the assumption that all other men’s and women sports will get nothing.
I guess at this point I’m indifferent. On one hand players should get every penny they can get. Very few will ever go pro. On the other hand college football is no longer my Saturday. I used to watch morning to night. Didn’t matter the teams or conferences. Now I’ll watch ISU but that’s about it. Even watching all of an ISU game is a challenge as a parent with young kids in activities.
Good news is that OL never play as freshman, so just like at A&M TT will pay these guys millions and then once their redshirt is done they will transfer to a power program and TT will be in 4/5th place in the conference like they always are
Wonder how that 3 year deal is spread out. Hope that TT was mart enough to backload that. If schools are able to do that as a standard, I think it’ll help to level things. To do 4 year deals with progressive payouts, it should help to keep guys around and not feel like you got screwed if they don’t.
I’d much rather have 5-6 good 3* and 4* guys for that money so there’s depth on the oline
Can't wait to hear this kid cry about fans being mean to him on social media because he's not performing at an all American level as a freshman.
What if he gets tired of Lubbock and wants to transfer after year 1 or 2?
What if a another player on their depth chart (who's being paid much less) is out performing him? Does the coach feel he has to play him anyway?
What if he has a confrontation with one of their coaches who's being paid less than he is? Will they get rid of the coach because the coach is much more easily replaced?
I could go on and on.
Taco Tech is trying to take the escalator up the mountain by buying the best players, but I think they're gonna learn this year there is no escalator.
I love TT spending all this money. It's going to be great watching TT be the usual TT while paying big money to all these guys.
Best part is even with this guy they barely have a top 25 recruiting class. We already saw this fail with A&M, gonna see a bunch of transfers from TT in the exact same way we saw there.
Another year, another Texas Tech/Joey McGuire high prediction, low results.
