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Texas Basketball 2026-2027
That article seems like such a blinding glimpse of the obvious to me, but it's still a well written and important article to get out there. It's also a key to why this is a bubble market with no real ceiling other than collapse. People think the numbers are absurd now. Just wait until next year.
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Texas Basketball 2026-2027
A 3 seed is a top ten team.
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Texas Basketball 2026-2027
I feel like Goosby is going to be a starter. I think it's a fun exercise. I like your breakdown. I do feel like the bench shrinks in postseason play, but what that means in terms of who plays and how much I have no idea.
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Texas Basketball 2026-2027
The only real relief will come from legislation passed by Congress that gives some kind of enforcement teeth with an antitrust waiver. And it's not even clear to me that's the right way to go. If people want to pay athletes a ton of money to play for their favorite school, what right does someone have to tell them they can't do that? Which is why I was always in favor of the no NIL rule in the first place. Once you allow it, it becomes almost impossible to come up with a system that creates something other than what we have right now.
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Texas Basketball 2026-2027
There's a lot of time between now and when any actual news comes up. Gerry has to put out filler between now and then. He's excited about the season, and he wants fans to be excited about it as well. That's not a bad thing. There's not going to be a whole lot of breathtaking takes for a while now. The alternative is that he doesn't post about hoops at all. Compare the filler Gerry puts out about basketball to how much is produced around the football program. The truth is this team has a legitimate chance to win a national championship. At least on paper. I don't know that that's my expectation, but it certainly seems realistic. BTW, thanks for the link for the interview, @dogbreath . That was fun to listen to.
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Calipari's Recruiting at Arkansas ... He's putting together a monster
I didn't say it was a good thing. In this specific context I just meant it was probably a little challenging to get across the message the players were disrespected by everyone.
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Calipari's Recruiting at Arkansas ... He's putting together a monster
I hate Calipari more than any other coach ever in sports. More than Barry Switzer. But one thing he does really well, is that he convinces his players they're completely disrespected. Nobody believes in them other than the people in the locker room. It's his chief way of bonding all the thugs he loves to bring into his programs, because it's a message that readily resonates with them. I think that was part of the issue at Kentucky. He convinced many of those teams, too, but it's just harder there, It's going to be much easier to play the disrespect card at Arkansas. Not that Arkansas doesn't support their teams. They can be fanatical about their support. But there's only one Kentucky. They're just on another level when it comes to basketball.
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2026 Transfer Portal Thread
The only people who have a real say in how this ultimately gets implemented are the lawyers. It's cute the coaches think they should be considered. If they want to foot the bill on the inevitable lawsuit that results from the change in eligibility rules, by all means, the NCAA can do it their way. Otherwise everything takes a backseat to legal priorities.
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Texas Basketball 2026-2027
What is a balanced center, and is Matas one? It seems like he would be.
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Texas Basketball 2026-2027
Well, especially if they're employees and we do away with the farce the point is to try to earn a degree. Which is kind of the fundamental illusion that college sports is based on. It's paradoxical at the root of it, which is why the Ivys got out of offering scholarships. Even though they find workarounds to that, too. When the NCAA could act as an oppressive overlord, control all the broadcasting money, dictate how often each program could appear on television, dictate student movement and eligibility, it worked in the sense that we could all pretend the student athletes were there to earn a degree. There was more competitive balance. But that wasn't right, either. So the NCAA's authority got whittled down, to now where it's a toothless tiger. Because really its authority was based on all the schools and athletes ceding authority to it. It didn't have a leg to stand on legally. What we should have are professional leagues for these sports that are able to pay a living wage, so players can choose whether to go pro or go to college, and there would be no compensation allowed other than the scholarship in colleges. But that's not even remotely possible. So instead we have a multi billion dollar business operating within the confines of academia, and the contradictions with that are extremely difficult to reconcile. Practically impossible. The truth is professional leagues in these sports for all the players participating in college sports won't make nearly as much money, because the fan support is for the school, not the players. People talk about how the players weren't getting paid what they deserve, and that was always true to an extent, but the market only existed because it was the colleges forming the market. Outside of that context the support wasn't ever there.
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Texas Basketball 2026-2027
There have been multi year contracts. Georgia sued a player for violating the terms of contract, but he didn't sign a contract. He signed a term sheet. The bottom line is that they'll have to take the student athlete to court if there's a breach of contract, and programs have been hesitant so far to do that.
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Texas Basketball 2026-2027
I get that. But here we are with them still not classified as employees and getting paid through NIL. So when you say there's no way, I'd point at our current circumstances.
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Texas Basketball 2026-2027
How do you rein it in? Why shouldn't players be able to transfer from one school to another? Why is there a limit on student athletes, and not regular college students? Or coaches and administrators? How do you get around antitrust legislation to make rules around it? To be honest, unless Congress passes legislation, I don't think the portal windows are going to last indefinitely. It's ridiculous for coaches, administrators, and fans, but why should that be the priority?
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Texas Basketball 2026-2027
I don't agree that that's a solution. But I understand there are a lot of people who share your mentality. That's where the Democrats will go if they can regain enough power to push through their version of the legislation. I don't mean that to get political, or anti Democrat. That's simply the position they've taken for quite a while now and it's the Republicans who have disagreed with that position. And the NCAA and its members, of course. Regardless if it's the Democrats or the Republicans arguing college athletes should be made employees and collective bargaining established, I think it's a terrible idea. The athletes will never have control over the process. Whoever takes control of the organization responsible for collectively bargaining for the athletes will have all the control, and there won't be a good way to ever remove them other than death or retirement. People from the age of 18 to 22 will need to collectively bargain. There won't be a good consensus for whose needs take priority. Men or women? Revenue sports or non revenue sports? The biggest earners will leave the soonest. It's not like professional athletics where you have grown adults in the union, and the ones with the biggest voices are the multi year veterans with the most talent. There's way too much inherent turnover in college athletics. Basically people will be bargaining for agreements they're barely going to work under. And if someone starts abusing their power at the head of the organization - which they almost certainly will in some way shape or form - the athletes will be dependent on them for their expertise and the support staff around them to navigate the landscape. Even if there's widespread discontent, organizationally there will be ways to suppress it to maintain power. I'll also point out that it will be difficult for a union to collectively bargain away their ability to earn an unlimited amount of NIL, or agree to disclose where the NIL payments come from. So you're still going to have NIL out there to provide a competitive advantage.
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Texas Basketball 2026-2027
Or trying to claw back some of the money paid because the player decides to transfer again. The whole thing has hair all over it, and everyone knows it. But a solution can only really come from Congress, so we're going to continue to have the courts whipsaw college sports around as they determine what the law says on a case by case basis. I mean, I'm so draconian I think it was a misstep to take away the ability of the NCAA to negotiate college football television contracts, and I was always in favor of no NIL to college athletes, as unfair as that is. It's not like I'm a fan of the NCAA, but I'm even less of a fan of where college sports has gone. Once pandora's box is opened, it can't be shut again. On the plus side, there's never been a better time to be a college athlete. And I mean it sincerely when I say I'm glad for those who are able to take advantage of it. But yeah, it's the wild west. There's going to be abuse all over the place. That's just how it works. In the meantime, we have what I consider our best roster we've ever had, so it's not like we're hurting because of the new landscape. Which I also always argued. If there was any school that was going to benefit from NIL it was going to be Texas. And thanks to a lot of very generous people, that's been true.
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