[Mudhead]

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Bailey to Texas Tech.

Wonder how much they paid him…..

Wonder how the budget for paying players at TTech compares to TA&M and Texas?

The guy running the NIL program for Texas Tech sold his oil and gas company for $4Billion last year.  Since then, his primary focus has been TT athletics (he is also on the school’s Board of Regents).  Match his assets with an athletic dept that carefully developed a strategic plan to become the best transfer program in college football and you have the reasons for why they have accomplished their goal*. 

* At this point of the off-season, 247Sports has them listed as the #1 ranked team in the transfer portal.

and his wife was a softball player at TT which probably at least partially explains the deal for Canady

I think you are right about that. They brought in a new Softball coach and eight or ten players via transfer.
All that suggests a new reality that is painful to accept but we may as well deal with it. Texas has become the economic center of the US particularly in the creation of new wealth… and its new money that typically gets excited about big change . Combine that with the much greater love of competitive athletics in 
Texas than in California and I’m not sure we can compete.


But sports have never been very important to Stanford .  Big money goes to environmental issues rather than college sports.  Not arguing whether that’s good or bad just suggesting that we cannot compete with Texas Tech, much less UT or A&M or even SMU.  The world of college sports will change a lot in ten years, maybe even five but for now we are going to have to compete with less talent than many other schools.

Five years ago the college world was fearful that Stanford would do what Texas Tech and SMU have done and dominate college sports with Silicon Valley money . It didn’t happen. And i don’t see any sign that it will. To beat a dead horse, I just saw that SMU has hired
Adia Barnes to be head women’s basketball coach. It would have take a lot of money to get her away from her beloved Arizona.

[Mudhead]

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Bailey to Texas Tech.

Wonder how much they paid him…..

Wonder how the budget for paying players at TTech compares to TA&M and Texas?

The guy running the NIL program for Texas Tech sold his oil and gas company for $4Billion last year.  Since then, his primary focus has been TT athletics (he is also on the school’s Board of Regents).  Match his assets with an athletic dept that carefully developed a strategic plan to become the best transfer program in college football and you have the reasons for why they have accomplished their goal*. 

* At this point of the off-season, 247Sports has them listed as the #1 ranked team in the transfer portal.

and his wife was a softball player at TT which probably at least partially explains the deal for Canady

I think you are right about that. They brought in a new Softball coach and eight or ten players via transfer.
All that suggests a new reality that is painful to accept but we may as well deal with it. Texas has become the economic center of the US particularly in the creation of new wealth… and its new money that typically gets excited about big change . Combine that with the much greater love of competitive athletics in 
Texas than in California and I’m not sure we can compete.


But sports have never been very important to Stanford .  Big money goes to environmental issues rather than college sports.  Not arguing whether that’s good or bad just suggesting that we cannot compete with Texas Tech, much less UT or A&M or even SMU.  The world of college sports will change a lot in ten years, maybe even five but for now we are going to have to compete with less talent than many other schools.

Five years ago the college world was fearful that Stanford would do what Texas Tech and SMU have done and dominate college sports with Silicon Valley money . It didn’t happen. And i don’t see any sign that it will. To beat a dead horse, I just saw that SMU has hired
Adia Barnes to be head women’s basketball coach. It would have take a lot of money to get her away from her beloved Arizona.