2022 Texas Portal News

[TB14]

Seems like CDC needs to quit fund raising for facility donations and funnel everything into a NIL fund. Seems like we could raise $50 million a year. Give the top players $1 million+ and the lower level guys $100k. USC, UGA, aggy, etc have figured out how, why can't we? Ask permission later. We know the NCAA won't do anything about it. 

 

[Eastexhorn]

When they go to NFL they will take a cut in pay.

 

[texbound]

Whoa there T. Didn't Riley just say a day ago that there needs to be some guidelines? This type of system abuse could not possibly be the work of such a man/coach of integrity.

I never wish ill will to anyone, but I gotta say that if anyone deserves to have a run of awful luck it is absolutely LR. I hope he has major turmoil in that locker room and they can't get things right. I wish we could just isolate LR from the players so they don't have the bad luck, but we can't.  He is quickly becoming a despicable human being. 

 

[dssl]

I was thinking about the Impacts of NIL and free agency have on college football.

I think for big time programs like TX that will mostly benefit the fan's will voice displeasure at where things are at, but mostly hold their noses and continue to watch.

Smaller schools will find it much harder to compete causing some fan's to lose interest. This will cause smaller schools to be at an even bigger disadvantage. Considering football is already a financial drain on smaller schools it seems inevitable that some will have to drop down to a lower division. 

 

[DBut82]

14 hours ago, TFloss32 said:

This was supposedly USC.

When did it become ok for coaches of a program to contact players at another program? Hasn't that always been a violation?  The fact that it's happening and no one seem to even want to do anything about it is low key disturbing.  Hell that's considered tampering at the NFL level.  It absolutely should not happen at the college level.  Even with NIL in place...

 

[North Texas Golfer]

When did it become ok for coaches of a program to contact players at another program? Hasn't that always been a violation?  The fact that it's happening and no one seem to even want to do anything about it is low key disturbing.  Hell that's considered tampering at the NFL level.  It absolutely should not happen at the college level.  Even with NIL in place...

I'm guessing it's not direct contact from coaches. More likely 3rd party contact acting on behalf of coaches. 

 

[dssl]

I'm guessing it's not direct contact from coaches. More likely 3rd party contact acting on behalf of coaches. 

I agree. The net is the same, so unless there is a significant penalty this will only get worse. 

 

[TFloss32]

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[TFloss32]

Whoa there T. Didn't Riley just say a day ago that there needs to be some guidelines? This type of system abuse could not possibly be the work of such a man/coach of integrity.

Hearing guys like Riley, Saban and Dabo complain about the current landscape is rich.

 

[TFloss32]

I didn't want to post anything until one of the other sites did, but I noticed WR Agiye Hall took down his Texas commitment tweet a few days after saying he was going to Texas.

IT reporting this morning things may be a little shaky there, but they checked on it this morning and he's still on track to enroll with Sark and staff staying on top of things with his family and former high school coach.

One positive sign on the staff's confidence here is their lack of effort to retain WR Marcus Washington.

 

[Sirhornsalot]

Hearing guys like Riley, Saban and Dabo complain about the current landscape is rich.

Except that they're right (except Riley, who is as dishonest as they come). At this current trajectory, college football will be ruined in short order. 

When you have to recruit your own players to stay because other teams are trying to pry them away from you – the system is broken.

USC laid out a 6-figure deal for Xavier Worthy. USC does this because the NCAA is toothless.

It is clear to me that whoever dreamed this stuff up didn't think it through very well and we'll be lucky if they act quick enough to save this American past time.

 

[TFloss32]

Except that they're right (except Riley, who is as dishonest as they come). At this current trajectory, college football will be ruined in short order. 

When you have to recruit your own players to stay because other teams are trying to pry them away from you – the system is broken.

USC laid out a 6-figure deal for Xavier Worthy. USC does this because the NCAA is toothless.

It is clear to me that whoever dreamed this stuff up didn't think it through very well and we'll be lucky if they act quick enough to save this American past time.

Saban's real problem revolves around the idea that he's been paying players for years allowing him to assemble elite rosters that never miss the playoffs, and now that's being disrupted in the Wild West of recruiting.

It's like him complaining about high-powered spread offenses that wore out his defense, and how that was bad for college football too.

He doesn't want any single advantage he has over the competition to be taken away.

Saban isn't wrong here, but his statements aren't genuine as it's analogous to a politician throwing a fit over someone else doing something he's been doing for years.

 

[Sirhornsalot]

Saban's real problem revolves around the idea that he's been paying players for years allowing him to assemble elite rosters that never miss the playoffs, and now that's being disrupted in the Wild West of recruiting.

It's like him complaining about high-powered spread offenses that wore out his defense, and how that was bad for college football too.

He doesn't want any single advantage he has over the competition to be taken away.

Saban isn't wrong here, but his statements aren't genuine as it's analogous to a politician throwing a fit over someone else doing something he's been doing for years.

Agree, but this is about way more than Saban. The NCAA should have been given the power to do something about it. But they really don't. Thats a different story though.

Riley has already shown how this gets ugly. He's recruiting other teams' players. Unethical is a nice way of putting it. I've heard Saban has done some of that, too.

But this is utter chaos. No rules. No enforcement. Dog and pony show. Start carving the headstone now.

 

[TFloss32]

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[Sirhornsalot]

4 minutes ago, TFloss32 said:

Would we take him if he wanted to come? At the expense of possible OL or LB help?

 

[TFloss32]

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[TFloss32]

Would we take him if he wanted to come? At the expense of possible OL or LB help?

I think Sark would have to, but I haven't seen anything yet other than that one article saying Texas will be in it.

Texas may be trying to pursue quietly since USC has been accused of tampering.

 

[North Texas Golfer]

Here's what a poster on another site says about Worthy and Barron. Poster claims to have a son on the team who he says is not good enough to get NIL money. 

Hall, the Bama WR transfer got paid 150-250k with 50k up front. Worthy's family threatened to enter the portal if they didn’t get a new deal in writing. Even submitted paperwork. Texas tried to give a vague commitment but eventually gave X’s family want they wanted so they rescinded their transfer request.

Barron submitted his info to the portal for the same reason. He has been offered multiple 6 figure NIL deals through 3rd parties. He asked Texas to match but they are slow playing it asking him to rescind his portal request first.Barron’s family has reluctantly decided to move forward with entering the portal. A couple of Big 12 schools have multiple 6 figure packages waiting for him along with some PAC 12 and SEC schools.

 

[Steelhammer]

Would we take him if he wanted to come? At the expense of possible OL or LB help?

We need big uglies

 

[RickyFlair]

I can’t help but believe the NCAA is trying to prove a point to various State legislative bodies. If you will recall the states basically forced the NCAA’s hand on NIL. What better way to prove it was a bad idea than to roll it out with very little, if any, guidance or parameters. They know programs skirt well defined rules so obviously you would be opening Pandora’s box 
or maybe the NCAA is just that stupid