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  On 7/24/2024 at 8:40 PM, LonghornSean said:

 

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  On 7/24/2024 at 8:53 PM, Hornsbay22 said:

They will be a legit threat at the championship.    That offense is 10x better than Stanford with all the transfers.  I bet her numbers go down some though, the ball flys out of that park.

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  On 7/24/2024 at 9:54 PM, chiu1040 said:

I didn’t know who they were before today, but I had heard of the company name. John and Tracy Sellers are contributing money. Tracy played softball at Tech. John is the CEO of Double Eagle Energy. That company sold parts of their company for over 9 billion dollars.

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Somebody missed the most epic thread on this entire website…and, now I want CFS.

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  On 7/25/2024 at 1:55 AM, SamMan said:
Somebody missed the most epic thread on this entire website…and, now I want CFS.

Our family moved overseas for a while, and I wasn’t able to folllow the Horns as closely. What did I miss?
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  On 7/25/2024 at 12:58 AM, BurntOrange&White said:

I wish we had some donors who were nuts 

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Texas has “nutty” benefactors in multiple sports. The football payroll for the 2024 cycle (recruiting and roster management getting us to this season) was met at a number close to the fucking Tampa Devil Rays payroll. Basketball, WBB, baseball, volleyball, fucking golf. 

You want to land the likes of Canady in softball, go find someone who just loves Texas and loves softball who also happens to be worth billions. $1M for a softball player is like paying a football player $10M/year out of your own pocket. 

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  On 7/25/2024 at 1:08 PM, closetojumping said:

Texas has “nutty” benefactors in multiple sports. The football payroll for the 2024 cycle (recruiting and roster management getting us to this season) was met at a number close to the fucking Tampa Devil Rays payroll. Basketball, WBB, baseball, volleyball, fucking golf. 

You want to land the likes of Canady in softball, go find someone who just loves Texas and loves softball who also happens to be worth billions. $1M for a softball player is like paying a football player $10M/year out of your own pocket. 

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If the Love's lady was not willing to match for OU, considering their history and the best coach in the game, I find it hard to believe any other school was/could match this offer.

This was a former player and her booster husband going hog wild. 

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  On 7/25/2024 at 1:38 PM, Js1 said:

If the Love's lady was not willing to match for OU, considering their history and the best coach in the game, I find it hard to believe any other school was/could match this offer.

This was a former player and her booster husband going hog wild. 

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Yeah, it’s just something we’re going to see across all sports. Every cycle, someone, somewhere is going to go crazy for a player or two in most sports. 

I am assuming Chavez is going to cost a ton. I’m interesting in seeing how committed Texas is to getting her if the money is the deciding factor. WBB has a lot more support at the moment. 

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  On 7/25/2024 at 1:53 PM, closetojumping said:

Yeah, it’s just something we’re going to see across all sports. Every cycle, someone, somewhere is going to go crazy for a player or two in most sports. 

I am assuming Chavez is going to cost a ton. I’m interesting in seeing how committed Texas is to getting her if the money is the deciding factor. WBB has a lot more support at the moment. 

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All for that. WBB is a powerhouse in the making. No reason they can't be a UCONN or USCe. Getting Chavez puts a national title in grasp.

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  On 7/25/2024 at 1:53 PM, closetojumping said:

Yeah, it’s just something we’re going to see across all sports. Every cycle, someone, somewhere is going to go crazy for a player or two in most sports. 

I am assuming Chavez is going to cost a ton. I’m interesting in seeing how committed Texas is to getting her if the money is the deciding factor. WBB has a lot more support at the moment. 

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Yeah, I was saying this yesterday. 

It's pretty obvious they have some "nutty benefactors" in WBB with the way they are recruiting (HS and portal). I think the same can be said of volleyball. We pretty much bought a championship 2 years ago via the portal in volleyball. 

 

 

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  On 7/25/2024 at 4:42 PM, Rickylovesweed said:

Yeah, I was saying this yesterday. 

It's pretty obvious they have some "nutty benefactors" in WBB with the way they are recruiting (HS and portal). I think the same can be said of volleyball. We pretty much bought a championship 2 years ago via the portal in volleyball. 

 

 

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People are just going to keep upping the ante. I’m just waiting for the day that a school pays a rapper to put a recruit in a song. It’ll happen, cheap way to buy a recruit. 

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  On 7/25/2024 at 8:05 PM, perfectchaos007 said:

Is this how Texas landed Mo Bamba?

 

(kidding)

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I know he wasn’t bought that way but you don’t think a recruit wouldn’t sign for that? You don’t think dakorien Moore would sign here if he rhymed with “pour/more/lore” in a Travis Scott song. Or softball player in a Morgan wallen song. There will be more than just cars and $$$. 

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  On 7/25/2024 at 10:18 PM, bschoolprof said:

so with OU not getting Canady, are we #1 to start the year?

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Most likely! Hard to see otherwise 

Likely also favorites to win the SEC 

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  On 7/25/2024 at 4:42 PM, Rickylovesweed said:

Yeah, I was saying this yesterday. 

It's pretty obvious they have some "nutty benefactors" in WBB with the way they are recruiting (HS and portal). I think the same can be said of volleyball. We pretty much bought a championship 2 years ago via the portal in volleyball. 

 

 

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Pennies on the dollar. The biggest NIL payday in that portal class was Kaitlyn Hord, who was paid about $100,000 for a year at Nebraska. We lost that one after having her on campus. Skinner and Fleck were the big names brought in, and neither of them were paid above the low tens of thousands of dollars. Both of them are hustlers who leveraged a lot of their own NIL deals. Fleck runs a series of libero camps she tours nationwide with. Caffey was done dirty by Nebraska, but was paid bare minimum NIL dollars by Texas (which is still more than anyone in the country that year outside of Nebraska). Akana wanted a scholarship and John Cook said no, while Texas said yes. Bergmark was hardly a high dollar transfer. Both her and Ewert simply wanted to go somewhere to compete at the highest level. Your post insinuates Texas volleyball paid top dollar for that championship, when nothing could be further from the truth. They had a bunch of unhappy people transfer out, including Cabello and Williams to NC State, Fields to USC, Iosia to Michigan State, and Peterson to play her Covid year with her sister and her head coach Mom at Northern Iowa. 

It LOOKS like an NIL extravaganza, but it was more about timing and no one else having any NIL resources devoted to volleyball. Even now Texas is ahead of the curve versus everyone other than Nebraska, who has lapped the field with their NIL riches in volleyball. 

I know this is the softball thread, but I didn't want to let that throwaway comment pass without a response. 

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  On 7/25/2024 at 11:48 PM, SL Xpress said:

Skinner and Fleck were the big names brought in, and neither of them were paid above the low tens of thousands of dollars. 

 

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I'm not going to put this out in the open but you couldn't be more wrong about Skinner. 

Lol there are really people that think Skinner and her family went from despising Texas to then picking Texas. Let me tell you, her father wanted nothing to do with Texas. 

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  On 7/26/2024 at 12:57 AM, Rickylovesweed said:

I'm not going to put this out in the open but you couldn't be more wrong about Skinner. 

Lol there are really people that think Skinner and her family went from despising Texas to then picking Texas. Let me tell you, her father wanted nothing to do with Texas. 

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How much do you think she was paid to come to Texas after her sophomore season at Kentucky?

Brian Davis did a FOIA request of UT athletics for all reported NIL deals. The highest compensated player on the volleyball team was at $50k, which was Logan Eggleston due to her appearance in the national ad for Champion's sports apparel. But if you feel like you have better information regarding her compensation level, by all means share it. 

The difference is Texas showed Skinner a path where she could earn more through NIL through her own efforts. Same thing happened with Ayden Ames, who had more guaranteed NIL money from Nebraska but preferred the opportunities at Texas. Also, Texas wasn't competing with Nebraska for Skinner, and no one else had any real organized NIL money for their volleyball program. There's still a huge gap out there, frankly.

What you're insinuating is Texas basically bidding against itself. It simply didn't take much NIL money to help convince Skinner to come to Texas, because no one else out there really had anything. 

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  On 7/25/2024 at 1:53 PM, closetojumping said:

Yeah, it’s just something we’re going to see across all sports. Every cycle, someone, somewhere is going to go crazy for a player or two in most sports. 

I am assuming Chavez is going to cost a ton. I’m interesting in seeing how committed Texas is to getting her if the money is the deciding factor. WBB has a lot more support at the moment. 

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It’s like going to a Christie's or Sotheby's auction, only to find a bidder who sees an item (player) that they are in awe of and dead set on bidding on, regardless of the price…..they will be the winning bidder….the end!

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  On 7/26/2024 at 2:26 AM, SL Xpress said:

What you're insinuating is Texas basically bidding against itself. It simply didn't take much NIL money to help convince Skinner to come to Texas, because no one else out there really had anything. 

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Skinner's entire family hated Texas. It took a week for Texas to even get her family to answer a phone call. They had to pay above market price for Skinner because she wanted to literally go anywhere else. 

You can call it "hustling on her own" or whatever bullshit you want to call it but she was paid more than the low tens of thousands. Do you honestly think a family that despises Texas just all of a sudden did a 180?

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  On 7/25/2024 at 11:48 PM, SL Xpress said:

It LOOKS like an NIL extravaganza, but it was more about timing and no one else having any NIL resources devoted to volleyball. Even now Texas is ahead of the curve versus everyone other than Nebraska, who has lapped the field with their NIL riches in volleyball.

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What happens if, say Nebraska, lays out…say $100K on a stud VB player, and it doesn’t help them get to the top….and then it happens again…donors will possibly back off in giving that kind of $$$$ without results in the future….I know there are injuries, coaching and other variables that can produce championship teams…so, I guess donors are betting on getting in the best players and hoping it pays dividends.  Interesting on how this NIL stuff pans out.

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  On 7/26/2024 at 2:35 AM, Rickylovesweed said:

Skinner's entire family hated Texas. It took a week for Texas to even get her family to answer a phone call. They had to pay above market price for Skinner because she wanted to literally go anywhere else. 

You can call it "hustling on her own" or whatever bullshit you want to call it but she was paid more than the low tens of thousands. 

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What was Skinner’s/family’s beef with Texas?

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According to the boards, Glasco went to the Louisiana admin and said he needed $500k in NIL budget just to compete with P4 and they didn't follow through.  Tech lured him with a decent NIL budget (everyone on the roster gets $10K) and he was told he could hire whoever he wanted as assistants. So he hired his daughter as his #1 assistant / pitching coach after 5 years as HC of Eastern Illinois, 3 years as pitching coach at Eastern Illinois and 3 years as an assistant coach at Georgia with her dad.

Boy, can't imagine why 65 year old Glasco would hire his daughter as his #1 assistant.  Trying to do a Gasso and hand it off to his kid when he retires thing. 

It's obvious Canady (and her father) took the bag over anything else if she decided to go be coached by Glasco's daughter instead of 2 of the best pitching coaches in the country (Rocha and Mike White). Florida just hired Chelsea Dobbins from UNC and Alabama has Lance McMahon entering his 3rd year at Bama, which aren't quite as big names as Rocha and White. 

Other than the Louisiana transfers, Tech's offensive roster isn't booming with big hitters.  And those Louisiana players did it in the Sun Belt, not a Power conference.  You never know if those numbers will translate when they are facing Arizona, OKST, Utah pitching and not Troy, ULM, App State, JMU, South Alabama.  The best pitcher they faced all conference season was Mullins. 

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  On 7/25/2024 at 7:48 AM, chiu1040 said:


Our family moved overseas for a while, and I wasn’t able to folllow the Horns as closely. What did I miss?

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It was just a reference to the Ewers thread on the recruiting board. Those guys were discussed when Tech emerged as a serious contender for Quinn.

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I live in the OKC metro now.  Some contractors that came over were discussing Canady and slightly peeved, saying that she didn't want to play for championships.  They implied there was a Gasso discount, similar to the Saban discount at Alabama.

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  On 7/26/2024 at 4:11 PM, chiu1040 said:

I live in the OKC metro now.  Some contractors that came over were discussing Canady and slightly peeved, saying that she didn't want to play for championships.  They implied there was a Gasso discount, similar to the Saban discount at Alabama.

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I mean, I don’t think she does if she chose Tech. She’s not going to drag that roster in 2025 to a title. Maybe 2026 depending on the portal and if Glasco finds a bunch of players who want to play with Canady in her final year. But they won’t be getting $1m NIL offers.

The NCAA also basically opened up for unlimited transfers. So she could just decide to bounce after a year with a $1m check to a title contender lol

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  On 7/26/2024 at 4:36 PM, Js1 said:

 

The NCAA also basically opened up for unlimited transfers. So she could just decide to bounce after a year with a $1m check to a title contender lol

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Yep, that's why the current regime we have now in college sports of unrestricted free agency with 1 year contracts is a terrible idea.  No pro league would ever be stupid enough to set this up.  

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  On 7/26/2024 at 5:05 PM, bschoolprof said:

Yep, that's why the current regime we have now in college sports of unrestricted free agency with 1 year contracts is a terrible idea.  No pro league would ever be stupid enough to set this up.  

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If I'm Jordy Bahl, I'm like "what the fuck" because her NIL is like half that and she was 44-2 with a 0.97 ERA and 2 titles. 

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The Athletic with some more details on Canady's decision and how it went down

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  On 7/29/2024 at 3:38 PM, Hookem2147 said:

Canady’s family first approached Stanford’s NIL collective, Lifetime Cardinal, in the spring of her freshman season in 2023. The family was seeking a seven-figure offer.

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It was always about the money 

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I can't blame a college softball player for taking the major payday.  After college there is no future for them to make money through athletics.  This is very likely the most money Canady will ever make.  

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  On 7/29/2024 at 9:15 PM, txhorns said:

I can't blame a college softball player for taking the major payday.  After college there is no future for them to make money through athletics.  This is very likely the most money Canady will ever make.  

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Oh I don’t mind athlete getting the bag one bit. I DO have issues with athletes and their parents that act like academics is of any importance when making their final decision. Just take the bag and go, don’t try to take the moral high ground with education is important bullshit 

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  On 7/29/2024 at 9:22 PM, perfectchaos007 said:

Oh I don’t mind athlete getting the bag one bit. I DO have issues with athletes and their parents that act like academics is of any importance when making their final decision. Just take the bag and go, don’t try to take the moral high ground with education is important bullshit 

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Eh. Negotiations require leverage. 

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The contract is for one year and $1,050,024

 

Wonder if 1 year vs 2 years was negotiated ?    What will she ask for next year ?    Tech is in a desperado mode.

And likely guaranteed vs injury ?   Canady threw 230 IP last year,  vs Kavan (130) and Maxwell (155) for Texas and OU.

 

 

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  On 7/29/2024 at 10:49 PM, torre said:

The contract is for one year and $1,050,024

 

Wonder if 1 year vs 2 years was negotiated ?    What will she ask for next year ?    Tech is in a desperado mode.

And likely guaranteed vs injury ?   Canady threw 230 IP last year,  vs Kavan (130) and Maxwell (155) for Texas and OU.

 

 

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We should start passing the hat around for her final year

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  On 7/30/2024 at 12:12 AM, Spider2YBanana said:

What an absolute fail on Candy's part. She could have gone anywhere and she goes to a mediocre at best program that's going nowhere. 

Have fun in Lubbutt, loser. 

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Wouldn't you spend a year in Lubbock for $1 mil?  I would.  

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softball is interesting in that it is probably the only sport in the NCAA where one player can likely guarantee you a final four type shot at a championship.  Women's basketball might be next but still isn't close to softball because the pitcher can play almost every game.

Tech just has to make the tournament and pitch Canady every game.  even in basketball you can work to take away a player.

I'm not advocating for it but softball might be more interesting if there was a series/weekend pitch count or NCAA pitch count.  

 

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