Texas Tech a true "buy your championship"
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My impression of all the Texas schools
Those oilmen are going all in on winning a national championship. They paid the pitcher $1MM. For softball!
I would not want us to do something like that to win games!*
But seriously, these are the teams you love to see go home.
But seriously, these are the teams you love to see go home.
More power to them. That’s the name of the game now. (Though I think they were all-conference in their previous conferences, all-American would be pretty unbelievable)
I honestly don't know how to think about this new era.
It's definitely very different from the old days of college athletics when teams were made up mostly of players from the region the school was in.
It's definitely very different from the old days of college athletics when teams were made up mostly of players from the region the school was in.
Wonder how much Brendan Sorsby won on this game?
Too soon?
Too soon?
It's really just a few. From @Rick Cleveland's article yesterday:
So I got curious about this and wanted to find out who these Sellers were. Well, well, he's the guy who sold a company along with Cody Campbell the football donor:
Billion, with a capital B: former Texas Tech football players sell company for $2.8B
Seven years ago, Canyon High School alumni and former Texas Tech football players Cody Campbell and John Sellers were fledgling 28-year-old oilmen whose company survived lease to lease. “For the fi…
www.lubbockonline.com
So, it really is a small group of people funding this stuff. Without these super rich, it's back to the collectives just trying to get by.
Even then, you still have to have a recruiting pitch. Tech was willing to allow Canady to hit and pitch, which Stanford did not do.
Doesn't matter. We won the right to play in the WCWS, not the 'Highest paid players in the nation WCWS'. They are who we thought they were.
OG GOAT Holder "So, it really is a small group of people funding this stuff. Without these super rich, it's back to the collectives just trying to get by."
It really is, So until one of you guys sells your business and/or all of your farmland for at least 5Bil, we may as well join conference USA.
or just pack it in.
It really is, So until one of you guys sells your business and/or all of your farmland for at least 5Bil, we may as well join conference USA.
or just pack it in.
Mississippi State sent me a thank you letter for not donating to NIL because they know all funds are being invested back into my multibillion dollar startup. They are appreciative that I’m playing the long game
As a lesson in how life works I set my grandson up this summer in a lawn business and am taking a cut of his earnings in return. Part of the deal is he has to do my yard for free as repayment plus some cash. I financed a mower, weedeater, blower, gas cans, and some miscellaneous small hand tools and supplies. Anybody want to buy me out?
The contracts he has picked up so far will cost you extra though, and BIG!
How are they only the 11 seed is my question. There are 10 teams better than this one? Surely not.
Texas Tech softball All Americans
2026: Four (new record)
2025 portal: Five signed and picked up
Signed the most expensive softball NIL deal ever, pitcher for $1.2M NIL (who we took back to back to the warning track and subsequently she exited the game)
2026: Four (new record)
2025 portal: Five signed and picked up
Signed the most expensive softball NIL deal ever, pitcher for $1.2M NIL (who we took back to back to the warning track and subsequently she exited the game)
Yeah, how'd you like you like to be Florida? Earn a Top 8 seed and then have that come to town for your Super Regional.
Apparently a weaker SOS screwed them on the RPI but they’d been ranked Top 5 in the human polls all year.
NO!Wonder how much Brendan Sorsby won on this game?
Too soon?
Not too soon! 17-him and his idiotic self.
He knew that his betting on games was wrong/illegal but then he doubled down and bet on his own team!
He’s done - As he should be!
Think about it. Red raiders are toast in football and men's basketball. WCWS is just to the north, and the women's final four is typically nearby and often in Dallas. (Except Oregon in 2030). Build their brand regionally with succuss in the lesser sports, focusing on top women's sports. It's a strategy, who knows how effective it'll be.