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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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Yesterday two House committees (Energy and Commerce Committee, Education and Workforce) advanced the Student Compensation and Opportunity through Rights and Endorsements Act (SCORE). Here's an article from this morning's Inside Higher Education that gives the best summary I've seen so far of major aspects of the bill. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/students/athletics/2025/07/24/republicans-rethink-structure-college-athletics Some key points: pre-empts existing state-level NIL rules prohibits student athletes from being recognized as university employees exempts NCAA from certain antitrust laws ties athlete compensation to how much TV revenue the team generates codifies the right to retain an agent caps compensation level at 5 percent [not sure of what -- article unclear] and outlines regulations for revenue sharing requires most colleges to maintain at least 16 sports programs prohibits colleges from using student fees to support the athletic department. Party-line vote in committee, although there was initially bipartisan support The student fee bit is a big one, as so many (see UW-Milwaukee report above) rely on that model. Others mentioned in the article as having recently raised student fees: Minnesota, Clemson, Fresno State. Article concludes there's a long way to go before it reaches the presidential desk. My guess: if this passes and keeps most of its form, non-revenue intercollegiate sports don't have much longer to live at most schools (by that I mean the vast majority of the 4,000 colleges and universities in the U.S., many or even most of which don't have them already). NCAA has a little more than 1,100 members and the NAIA about 250. I also think Title IX as it applies to sports would be dead. SCORE and Title IX are pretty antithetical to each other, as Title IX is absolutely revenue-blind and SCORE is all about the revenue. There's some nice coverage and good quotes from various parties in this piece. Worth a read if you're following this kind of stuff.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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You laugh, but as manager of this fund, I can tell you that several Surly posters have contributed to the "Gun & Alcohol Money for Every Out-of-state NIL Bag Recipient Organization," also known as GAME ON BRO. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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No, it's "attorney articulation ain't ambling away." -
Interesting. If I'm interpreting all this correctly, it means Bond could be feeling the accommodation would go in his favor -- meaning Roe perhaps drops her complaint? Or, alternatively, he knows this is a failed gambit, a frivolous and flaming piece of shit, on his part? And I'm guessing the opposition to sealing the summons could only come from the defendant? Can it come from a third party? I'm obviously not an attorney, but I have been spending too much time figuring out how the law works, especially in context of your observation that government is "at its most powerful against the individual." Also glad that site you linked is pay. Would have gone down the rabbit hole of reading those PDFs.
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Right. Why I wrote "optional." Few schools are going to be able to do that. When you look at a school like James Madison, it stands to reason that if any of those $53 million in segregated student fees -- which are called that because they go to specific expenditures -- are used to pay athletes directly, there will be questions and blowback. JMU might have enough athletic revenue overall to let bookkeeping magic take broadcast/conference revenue and non-student ticket revenue to pay the athletes. But its bookkeeping expenses will probably go up, too.
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Sounds like you haven't had to go shopping for an attorney, especially on a complex matter that maybe they don't quite grasp and takes a lot of time to explain. And that's a good thing for you. My experience is that it's as hard to find one to give you the time of day as it is to get a plumber or electrician when you need one. The good ones are already plenty busy, and so are the lesser practitioners. With "against the plaintiff's wishes" meaning "not looking to be in Bond's favor," I take it? What are some of the possibilities you see here, @Lidig8r?
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Ran across an interesting and detailed report on UW-Milwaukee athletics yesterday and am highlighting parts to illustrate how vulnerable most departments are for optional distribution of $20 million in revenue to ALL their athletes, especially as the revenue-sharing cap escalates. Helps put both revenue sharing and NIL in perspective. I've supplemented my notes with outside information. Some things to keep in mind: UWM has no football team, but is D1 and its men's basketball has made two Sweet 16s in its history (the last in 2005). It has three consecutive 20-win seasons under third-year coach Bart Lundy. Last time they did that (four consecutive) was also when they made the Sweet 16. UWM has 22K students, about the size of Iowa and slightly more than Baylor. Has 15 D1 teams (eight men's, seven women's). Note that half of the $10 million budget is salaries and fringe benefits. But only two athletics officials (Lundy, at $430K, and AD Amanda Braun, around $250K) are making much to speak of. About three dozen folks are listed on the athletics pages as being salaried, if I recall correctly -- many not making much, like part-time academic advisors. By far the biggest revenue source is student segregated fees ($7.1 million). Looked this up separately, and each student pays $700 a semester for this. Pretty standard stuff -- pays for rec centers and gets students game tickets. Note also that game operation expenses are more than double ticket-sales revenue. "Athletic student aid" is roughly $2,000 per athlete (about 300 total). This figure does not include room and board provision for athletes and a few other provisions that come out of other campus budgets. Bottom line is that most D1 schools with football are much closer to UW-Milwaukee in budgeting than they are to Texas and Ohio State at north of $250 million. I posted elsewhere that once you get past the 60 or so top schools, revenues are starting to top out around $65-70 million for football schools. But there are 261 D1 schools who play football (about half of them in FCS). Quick AI searches: James Madison, for instance, had about $68 million in revenue, with a whopping $53 million from student fees. Think about the implications of that: I'm a JMU student and I pay mandatory money to keep football players at their training table and getting a salary? And then they portal out? Somewhere, there's a student government association president wondering why the SGA doesn't have the primary voice in running the athletic program, since it's the primary funder. FCS football power South Dakota State had a $20 million athletic budget overall. How is it going to give $20 million in revenue to athletes? Here's a screenshot from the 81-page report (which was given to the Wisconsin Board of Regents if you want to see it -- it's at the end of the audit committee report).
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Tarmac talk totally not taking off.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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Hell, everybody knows pedantry is the sausage in Surly's klobasnek. Especially in the offseason, it's a primary filling. There's only so many recruiting announcements, media days and arrests to keep everybody fed. -
No idea. Had never heard of the guy and your question made me curious, but it's hard to find much info, especially as the Butler County football roster appears to have been taken down from the school web site. He is from Powder Springs, GA, which is about 20 miles from Atlanta and which apparently was founded on land owned by a couple of Cherokee leaders, around the time of the Trail of Tears. Powder Springs also produced NFLers Kenyan Drake, Evan Engram and Chuma Edoga (not to mention Mark Day, guitarist for the Christian rock band Third Day ... never heard of him/them, either). All of those names are from Wikipedia, and that's about as far as I want to research.
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https://www.butlercountytimesgazette.com/2025/07/seven-cloud-facing-domestic-battery-charges/ Huh ... whaddaya know. A Georgia commit, JUCO AA defensive tackle Seven Cloud, is in legal trouble.
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Agreed. One of the great things about hiking is most folks are respectful of privacy but happy to meet new people. Got a couple of hiking buddies who are always really good at that part of it and because we pretty much always find a nearby bar afterward, we get a lot of conversation both on and off-trail. Met a bar owner off the Ice Age Trail not too long ago who had been in Sheriff Joe Arpaio's jail and her stories were a riot, including the pink underwear Arpaio made everybody wear. Not on a trail, but I met the author of the trail book I screenshotted on the other post when I heard her and her husband talking German as they stopped for coffee while passing through town. So now I've got two more hiking buddies, a good book and the German amnesty offer to boot.
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FIFY. (*and live in constant fear of you finding one of my typos 😁)
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You just gave a serious jolt to my Camino planning process, @tomahawk dunk. Thanks for posting those.
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I'm still looking for a place that will sell singles of all three of the OMs in @Al_4_ISU's uncle's beer fridge to try at happy hour. I could go to Milwaukee, I guess, or just buy a sixer of each -- likely not to cost much more than three decent craft singles. But then we'd have to drink 'em all, because we don't even throw out frozen beer.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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To be fair, there was probably a short period when it actually was. Thankfully, it was a relatively short time when Texas was a job that relied on potential as a sales point. Historically, of course, there's no question. -
I, for one, am in favor of Manziel living for a long time, because that probably means he'll keep doing stuff to keep us entertained between games. He dies and then we've got nothing but memories to rehash.
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Most (or all) of those big labels with "ice" on them aren't ice beers, are they, @utee94? I figured that one isn't and looked it up, but that's going to be the extent of my looking or I won't get anything done today that's deserving of an evening beer.
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Definitely not hardcore. Maybe middle -- a section-hiker and the biking equivalent, but mostly hiking. Going to do more European stuff at some point -- did a little there in my 20s and ready to go back. Have an acquaintance who wrote a book about walking the former border between East and West Germany. Not gonna take them up on their recent offer of helping me seek asylum in Germany, but would like to visit them and do some hiking. The wife, a journalist, appears to have taken up hiking/biking various trails as a near full-time gig and is apparently biking in Estonia today. (Title of the book is roughly "Without Borders: Encounters on the Green Band."
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That's been mostly my thought, partly because I'm wary of the readiness of each potential participant. My wife is very Catholic and so are some of our mutual friends (mostly her friends, really), and they're all from Latin America. Their motivations for the trail are more spiritual. My friends who are interested in this are gringos and the husband, at least, is with me when I say, "I'm going for the beer and wine." We're going to leave it up to the serious folks to decide how much of a spiritual pilgrimage it will be.
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Can negatively affect carbonation and flavor, but not necessarily and sounds like it probably didn't have enough time in this case to cause issues. Some beers are purposefully ice-distilled to concentrate flavor, just as wines can be fermented from the must of frozen grapes (which I was a lot more familiar with). Our weekly happy hour started just before the pandemic, with a short hiatus during the initial stages and then our wives' strictly-enforced six-foot summer spacing on the patio. We drank in the garage during that full Wisconsin winter of 2020-21, which was relatively mild, and had a couple of doors open for air exchange. We usually kept some beer in the fridge (which was really insulation against freezing the beer at that point -- we researched freezing points of various styles and kept a close eye on the stuff in the fridge, which basically didn't run for a few months). We've had a few that froze, but usually from getting pressed up against the back of the fridge in summer or other bad fridge monitoring. It's less waste than just throwing it away, but not especially good. Even when we were looking into freeze points, I don't remember reading about ice beers, which I was first exposed to during a trip this May to Leinie's Lodge in Chippewa Falls. They had an ice beer, but it's already off their web page and I'm wondering if they'll do it again. I thought it was pretty solid.
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Are you posting elsewhere on Surly about this? Wife and a couple of our friends are wanting to do this, and we're just starting to explore the idea. Here would be a good place, too, I think, but the Camino probably has or deserves its own thread.
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Having a single-state trail in a place with as rich a heritage as Texas is pretty appealing, which is why I'm surprised to find no earlier references to this trail on Surly. But you're right -- this isn't like most of the famed national trails with logical paths across lots of public land (and which could rely on eminent domain like around 16 percent of the Appalachian Trail did). Most of them also avoid large urban/suburban areas, which xTx will have a harder time doing. I live about 10 miles from the closest spot to me on Ice Age Trail, which is entirely in Wisconsin. That particular stretch has been both road walk and tread through private land in the time I've been here. It's gone back and forth because the tread portion had no formal easement agreement and the landowner had a beef with the state's Department of Natural Resources after getting fined for deer baiting. Unfortunate, because that piece of land has some of the best glacial drumlins anywhere on the trail (with those geological features being the organizing theme for the entire trail). Other beautiful stretches, like one on the Fox River that used to be a Boy Scout camp but then got bought privately and also had no easement, have also been taken out. Others are still being added, because about 500 miles of the trail are still road walking. A lot of nice country roads, but some aren't. Both easements and the problem of water in the western stretches of this trail are going to be massive logistical issues. That will be a mess, but some folks will do it. The appeal of finishing a big challenge like this always grabs a few. And if it's well planned, the trail will get some good bike traffic out of those same urban areas into the surrounding country -- assuming there's enough of it that's relatively easy to get to. Agreed -- love the idea and he deserves huge credit. But it looks like the Trans American Trail is not at all intended for hiking. I hadn't really heard about this trail, but I'm starting to think about doing stretches of some of American bike routes in retirement. I'm wondering if some of the western xTx stretches could even be hiked (and if other stretches could be biked). Not sure that any other national trail has a combination of that little water and public access for such a long stretch. Will be incredible to pull this off. (BTW, @Bevo&Pevo, thanks for bringing this up -- enjoyed reading about the TAT and its similarly named precursor, which was also unfamiliar to me.)
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