Is Texas Tech #1 among all D1 Schools in total planned payout this year in excess of $55m?

[Bevo92]

https://apple.news/A2oQpQQiVSBeEJRZPD6l3ww
 

The pressure is on Joey McGuire to deliver results finally.   No excuses with the amount the Red Raiders have invested.   They should be clear favorite in Big12.   Odd they didn’t upgrade QB as Gerry and Bobby have noted. 

Edited Tuesday at 01:50 AM by Bevo92

[CHorn427]

Rumor has it Tech is spending their full $20.5 million allotment from the House settlement on Micah Hudson’s chauffeur service

[Gerry Hamilton]

Not sure I buy that one

[Bobby Burton]

I think they’re all in across almost every sport.

We’ll see how it all works out for them. Not quite enough in softball. 

[Glass Joe]

This is where the new “legitimate” NIL will have its focus and impact.  Paying the $20.5M in revenue sharing per the House settlement is pretty straightforward for all schools.  

In the case of Tech, the other $34M is largely just pay-for-play under the guise of bogus NIL deals.  I’m confident in saying there aren’t businesses in Lubbock (or the entire West Texas region) willing to spend $34m annually to have Tech athletes sponsor / represent their products…which is the definition of legitimate NIL. 

If we assume the $55M figure is accurate, it means that the $34M is largely just a big donor or two paying athletes to play for Tech.  That is pay-for-play (not NIL). 

It doesn’t take too much of a leap to guess the rubber will meet the road when the newly created CSC (College Sports Committee) assesses the legitimacy of these $34m deals…and the Tech boosters will be required to defend the deals.  A wild guess here is you’ll see lawsuits from Tech challenging the ability of the CSC to disallow payments to their athletes based “pay for play” standard as opposed to “name/image/likeness” standard.

[Bevo92]

14 minutes ago, Glass Joe said:

This is where the new “legitimate” NIL will have its focus and impact.  Paying the $20.5M in revenue sharing per the House settlement is pretty straightforward for all schools.  

In the case of Tech, the other $34M is largely just pay-for-play under the guise of bogus NIL deals.  I’m confident in saying there aren’t businesses in Lubbock (or the entire West Texas region) willing to spend $34m annually to have Tech athletes sponsor / represent their products…which is the definition of legitimate NIL. 

If we assume the $55M figure is accurate, it means that the $34M is largely just a big donor or two paying athletes to play for Tech.  That is pay-for-play (not NIL). 

It doesn’t take too much of a leap to guess the rubber will meet the road when the newly created CSC (College Sports Committee) assesses the legitimacy of these $34m deals…and the Tech boosters will be required to defend the deals.  A wild guess here is you’ll see lawsuits from Tech challenging the ability of the CSC to disallow payments to their athletes based “pay for play” standard as opposed to “name/image/likeness” standard.

Agree.   Will be interesting to see how Tech performs in 2025/2026 across all sports, but especially football, given their supposed #1 class from the transfer portal.   For all of Joey McGuire’s big talk over the past several years about championships running through west Texas, he’s yet to do anything on the field where it matters/.  
 

In softball, their strategy almost worked till it imploded in the first inning of game 3 and ran out of gas.   

[NotGerryHamilton]

3 hours ago, Bobby Burton said:

I think they’re all in across almost every sport.

We’ll see how it all works out for them. Not quite enough in softball. 

Spending all that money to for no titles. Yikes 

[Bunk Moreland]

All that just to fail to make the Big 12 championship game. Sad!

[Bevo92]

Even the Texas Tech beat writers are laughing at $55m being spent on college athletics out in Lubbock, not much to show for it.  Lol.  😂

[Hashtag]

They're trying to portray themselves as a NIL powerhouse because they have nothing else to sale. 

[Bevo92]

4 minutes ago, Hashtag said:

They're trying to portray themselves as a NIL powerhouse because they have nothing else to sale. 

Agree that it's the only thing they can brag about, it seems.  Says alot about their coaches and culture if they spend all this money and don't have any championships to show for it.  Will be interesting to see where the chips all fall by end of this next year.    Bottom line, this seems very short-sighted as they can't continue at this pace of spending it would seem, given the end of 'pay for play' through the collectives should theoretically end with new oversight being put in place by Deloitte and commissioners office.  

Edited Tuesday at 08:19 PM by Bevo92

[CHorn427]

After ensuring Micah Hudson is the highest paid WR in CFB, Tech’s next priority is to use the rest of their money to construct a state of the art Potemkin Village to convince recruits they actually won’t be spending any of their life in Lubbock, Texas. 

[Drunk randoke]

Who?   Never heard of them. 

[Tuco Ramirez]

41 minutes ago, CHorn427 said:

After ensuring Micah Hudson is the highest paid WR in CFB, Tech’s next priority is to use the rest of their money to construct a state of the art Potemkin Village to convince recruits they actually won’t be spending any of their life in Lubbock, Texas. 

Either that or tear down all the roads leading out of town so no oos athletes can escape.