Cody Campbell op-ed

[THookem]

 

[JMarquette]

9 minutes ago, THookem said:

 

“College sports is broken because of rich people, so to fix it, I will pay a softball player $1,000,000 a year, and pay a left tackle who can’t block $750,000 per year”

[Bunk Moreland]

“A flagrant power grab by the most powerful names and entities in college sports”

does this dude have any self-awareness whatsoever, or is he really just that brazenly cynical?

[Bunk Moreland]

“College athletics are a public trust” “college sports has never been a private fiefdom”

*proceeds to pump millions of private dollars into his own little fiefdom*

[Bunk Moreland]

“Universities claim they have to follow the money out of self-preservation but their decisions are creating a financial monopoly”

*proceeds to follow the money to buy all the best recruits, thereby creating at Tech something approaching a financial monopoly*

[Bunk Moreland]

Interesting that he spends so much time appealing to patriotism, the constitution, the importance of college athletics as a fundamentally American institution and then proceeds to describe college sports as a public good that should be effectively owned by the state. And his solution is collectivized pooling of media rights. I’m not commenting on the legitimacy of his proposed solution (which is stupid), but the hypocrisy is just stunning. College sports is a business that generates billions of dollars in revenues. To suggest that it is a public good is one of the most bizarre things I think I’ve ever seen someone posit on X, and that is saying something.

Edited 23 hours ago by Bunk Moreland

[JMarquette]

2 hours ago, Bunk Moreland said:

Interesting that he spends so much time appealing to patriotism, the constitution, the importance of college athletics as a fundamentally American institution and then proceeds to describe college sports as a public good that should be effectively owned by the state. And his solution is collectivized pooling of media rights. I’m not commenting on the legitimacy of his proposed solution (which is stupid), but the hypocrisy is just stunning. College sports is a business that generates billions of dollars in revenues. To suggest that it is a public good is one of the most bizarre things I think I’ve ever seen someone posit on X, and that is saying something.

Bingo - everyone wants the state out of their business UNLESS it personally benefits them. 

[MBHORNSFAN]

Cody Campbell sucks. 

[General Grant]

I want Texas to share media rights revenue with my school that no one gives a crap about. 

[Jordan91]

He’s part of the problem. 

[.45s]

There is something about him I don't like or trust.

[Burnt Orange Horn]

3 hours ago, MBHORNSFAN said:

Cody Campbell sucks. 

Dead bears!!

🤘🏻🤘🏼🤘🤘🏽🤘🏾🤘🏿

Edited 17 hours ago by Burnt Orange Horn

[Leveller]

This is 100% a ploy to allow Texas Tech get the same media payout as Alabama, when Alabama generates 4 times the viewership. And if the media payout is going to be equal for every school then why should football and basketball be the main recipients of revenue sharing? I’m sure that isn’t something Campbell wants to change. The justification now is because they generate the media revenue.  Well…. Don’t the conferences that generate the most in media revenue deserve more of the pie?  

[SueVide]

21 hours ago, JMarquette said:

“College sports is broken because of rich people, so to fix it, I will pay a softball player $1,000,000 a year, and pay a left tackle who can’t block $750,000 per year”

 I didn't even read the article and this was my exact thought on what he said. "I am the problem but I won't stop doing what I'm doing."

[liveattheoasis]

"I can't fund Texas Tech forever"

[Steamboat Willie]

Calling college sports a “public asset” that Congress needs to manage just doesn’t make sense. This isn’t taxpayer-funded, it’s schools competing in a market that’s finally showing what things are actually worth. Yeah, it’s messy right now, but that’s what happens when you take away years of artificial limits. Making it a federal issue just brings in politics and slows everything down.

The real point isn’t being said out loud. This is about pushing back on SEC and Big Ten dominance and trying to even out the money. If Texas Tech were in the SEC or Big Ten with those same payouts, this argument probably never gets made. That’s the tell. It’s less about protecting the system and more about where your program stands in it. Those leagues are ahead because that’s where the demand is. You don’t fix that by forcing balance from the top down, you just protect teams that can’t keep up. Let it play out, clean up the rules, and it’ll settle on its own.