Bobby Burton

The presidential commission surrounding college sports issued its first form of potential guidelines yesterday. You can read them in the tweet I linked below. It’s a comprehensive list of reforms. As should be expected, there’s some good, some bad and a whole lot of work to be done. But at least someone is attempting to move things forward. Perhaps the biggest news? They are suggesting an entirely new form of governance, one largely outside of the NCAA or perhaps without the NCAA altogether. Other major line items of note: - A phased pooling of rights if 75-percent of colleges agree to it. (They don’t say which 75-percent have to comply). The ACC is called out here because some of their rights don’t renew until the mid-2030s while other conferences renew sooner. - Absolute minimums for women’s sports. - Caps on player compensation with the intention of strict adherence. - The potential of tiered media compensation. So Texas might make more than SMU, Houston, etc. - The creation of a managing board and an executive director. ** My general take is that this is a major overreach. Rather than simply allow all schools to spend what they want and how they want, they suggest allowing the 75-percent to dictate and force what the 25-percent can do. Here’s the problem with that. In college sports, at least from an advertising/money perspective, the dollars are very much about the top 25-percent not the remaining 75. Some of these ideas are a starting point for sure. But it’s definitely not an ending point. As currently considered, it cedes way too much to the schools that actually don’t generate much revenue. It’s cloaked as helping maintain funding for women’s sports, but it’s really just a redistribution of wealth. This proposal, as currently constructed, would not be good for the University of Texas. It would be good for Texas Tech though. And therein lies the problem. **

Bowl game. Rewatched this week. People underestimate how good Arch played in that game. Throwing and running and leading. A couple of games this year, I felt like he had that “wasn’t going to be denied” gene in him. Michigan was one.

Felt like that was happening.

If you think they're special...

If he gambled on his team, and somehow gets a judge to allow him to play, then Tech needs to be kicked out of the NCAA for allowing him to play. It really is that preposterous.

I like this!

Let's do this!

I wrote about my personal experience with Kessler this morning. I don’t know if he’ll be able to do anything but I wouldn’t put it past him.

Thx for the explanation.

Texas leads in four of the five matches against Loyola Marymount.

An update from Rick Vavro who is there…

Hard to have a real problem with that list. I'd probably put SMU above A&M. 😉

Interestingly, the Big 10 tiers its revenue distribution unevenly. Ohio State made more than everyone else, including Indiana who won the national championship.

Tell your friends about OTF. 😉

Patience.

Just saying.

Completely agree. Great chapter up there.

Recruiting. It hasn’t been front of mind for many given spring training just closed, but it is really starting to heat up behind the scenes. Texas sits at nine commitments. That’s a solid amount. Yet with the month of April coming to an end, we will likely see that number at least double in the next 60 days. So naturally, recruiting is a primary focus inside the building. A few recruits will make decisions in the next 15-30 days, while most are targeting a June decision. A few others will take it into the football season. For Texas over the next month, it will be about closing out a couple of those major recruitments while getting ready for the large recruiting weekends in June. It’s all about setting things up right and then getting it all to the end. As of now, I like where Texas sits with this recruiting class. And more importantly, they like where they sit. ** Many of you have asked about the new indoor facility and the timing of its opening. The current plan is to have the indoor facility ready for football’s regular season. A grand opening is tentatively planned for the week before the football season opener. That means the Horns will use the Denius practice fields in August before rotating into the indoor facility come late August, early September. Texas will be able to show off parts of the new facility during recruiting weekends. View full news story

So there will be 10 first round picks in the 2027 NFL draft on the field at the same time on Sept. 12. Gotta be some sort of record for a single draft.

It is not Kennedy Brown.

York is short-armed and can't run well. He's why the Texas outside zone and the cutback off of it worked so well against the Aggies IMO.

I’ll check on the code itself. Meanwhile, my only thought is that maybe you already used another code within the time frame allowed.

That’s billion with a B.