Glass Joe

History of blood clot issues and the high altitude of Boulder…a perfect rationale to leave CU.

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.

Cody Campbell invests $2M just to get a better taste of Texas’ ass.

Shocker!

“Hippy” = Z. Krempin Gerry throwing out next level clues 😂

Thanks, Blake. Can you project from this season’s roster who you expect to leave for MLB (or who is just out of eligibility). I’m trying to become informed on what next season’s line-up projects to. Thank you for all you do for Texas baseball fans.

1. Alberts didn’t want to pay $3m to make his own mistake (hiring Earley) look even worse 2. Alberts knew he wouldn’t be able to hire a decent HC before the baseball portal opens on Monday, because all the good HCs are still playing right now. 3. Aggy believes keeping Earley will prevent a mass exodus of players to the portal on Monday. Just like last season when tons of aggy players entered the summer portal until to return thanks to NIL raises and Earley being hired. Aggy baseball is like a never-ending spiral of stupidity.

NIL isn’t about telling a kid what they’re worth to play football. NIL is a marketing deal whereby Company X pays a kid to represent or sponsor their product for money. Company X records a marketing expenditure on their books and taxes. There’s also the silly collective charitable functions to funnel money to players, but all now agree that’ll be going away. NIL is not the school paying a fee to play football. As with many commercial marketing agreement, a fair value criteria must be maintained - whether NIL to an athlete or paying an actor to do a commercial or pitch a product. If FMV is violated, the agreement is not valid. And, most importantly, Company X loses the tax deductibility of the marketing expense paid to the player or actor. PWC is being hired to validate the FMV of player NIL deals going forward. Just as PWC values other commercial marketing agreements for their corporate clients every day. PWC is not enforcing anything. They are expressing their professional opinion on the FMV on the agreement. PWC will the report their opinion to NCAA or SEC enforcement for THEM to determine any next steps or penalties for violations. This is what will be called in the post-House settlement landscape of college football as “legitimate NIL”. Such as Quinn Ewers with Dr.Pepper, Caleb Williams with Dr.Pepper, or Arch Manning / Livy Dunne with Vuori. Again, the reason USC is offering 3-year guaranteed contracts if agreed to before House is to avoid exactly the NIL validation process described above by grandfathering these currently INVALID (non-FMV) agreements with athletes. Nobody is denying any athlete the ability to earn as much money as possible legitimately through marketing their Name, Image, and Likeness to corporate sponsors. This is about regulating the pay-for-play schemes that are already running amok at certain schools - USC, Miami, aggy.

Pretty hilarious that Texas and OU would have the top 2 DLs in the SEC after only one season in the conference. SEC old timers must be cringing at the notion that two former Big 12 schools can come in and take over the SEC’s primary calling card (DL play). ”SEC ready”?? Apparently so.

If the SEC (or NCAA) implements a legit enforcement process - such as the proposed NIL deal valuation validation by PWC - than Texas will be just fine in the post-House settlement world. And bogus NIL deals like the garbage we’re seeing now by USC, Miami, and Aggy won’t be allowed in the future. Let’s see how the House settlement is implemented.

He’ll get a 50% payment on June 30th, and as a California resident, he can accept the payment as a high schooler (he’s still 16, IIRC). USC wanted to get this deal done before the House settlement to avoid the NIL deal review process by PWC. This deal is signed and done, there won’t be any de-commitment because the kids dad isn’t paying back millions in December. There’s a difference in USC being able to keep a recruit from California (where the kid can accept the NIL cash immediately), and US. being able to keep a recruit from Georgia (Justice Terry, E.Griffin, Xavier Griffin, etc). Texas and UGA were very smart not to pay this kid $8m-$10m as no college TE is worth that amount, and particularly one who’ll be limited by USC’s QB (J.Maiava for the next 2 years….LOL!). Bowman was a kid shopped nationally to high schools by his father (IMG, SLC, Mater Dei) so this end game is absolutely no surprise.

You should share this link with Brett Yormark. Zero Big 12 teams in the top 20 viewed games of 2024. Impressive!

The timing suggests Landon Barnes.

The key here is the word roster…as in the talent across the entire 85-man roster. LSU may have the highest scoring offense in college football this year, but their defense is well below LSU standards. Similarly, Clemson has some elite guys at key positions across the starting line-up, but what is behind any of those guys, and can the top end guys cover for the less-than-elite other starters? Oregon historically is a very barbelled roster, with some elite talent at various positions, but replacement level at other position groups. I tend to think with the NIL era beginning a few years ago, they now have more talent across their entire roster (even in the two-deep) than they’ve ever had before. That said, we saw what Ohio State’s talent did to Oregon in the Rose Bowl, so there’s still a gap there. I think for 2025, you can put Texas, Penn State, UGA, Ohio State, and Bama 85-man rosters at the top of the list, with LSU, Clemson, and Oregon having enough key talented players (if not depth of talent) to win an NC if the chips fall right for them. Notre Dame and Florida need 1-2 more recruiting classes at the level they’re currently recruiting to make this list.

Trey Metoyer is a rather notorious alum.