Here is TxTech billionaire walking through blueprint for how they bought their way into the national spotlight. This is the new college football.

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Goldmember said:
Not everyone wants to break the rules and break the law too. Now they don’t need to worry about that.
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I think you’re right in addition to the already-mentioned social media ego factor. It’s the rare bird who donates significant sums without needing recognition of some kind.
 


Pompous Elitist said:
I fought for amateurism (metaphorically) for years but now that it’s over and dead I’m all in on letting the free market do its thing. The revenue sharing limits, transfer rules need to be ripped out as horrendous antitrust violations to help force the eventual formation of a regulated league with real enforcement teeth. Only need to find attorneys and/or players willing to find a lucrative angle. I’d guess it won’t be long.
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Is this inevitably moving towards pro style contracts? Seems like the only way to somewhat even the playing field. As for nil, there are professions like stock brokers that sign a release to their Financials as part of on boarding docs. With AI, enforcement of a system like this may make it difficult to go under the table. The tech and power grab from those in power scares the hell out of me, but it doesn't change the fact it exists.
 

upnorthkid said:
they ran an espn article on this guy well before his video released. and again yesterday. and he's been featured earlier this year. he's all over the news pitching reform in college football (the saving college sports thing that he's the one featured in the commercials). so yes, he's gotten a ton of notoriety. Further articles about him in the NYT, USAToday, Pro Football Network. He's become TTUs chair of their board of regents. The field is named after him. he's on trumps commission to look into college sports.

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TTU pays off spending spree with first Big 12 title

Texas Tech won the Big 12 championship game, and almost certainly locked up a first-round bye in the College Football Playoff, with a resounding victory over BYU.
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Looking at this guy’s background and the Save website it’s a thinly veiled scheme to pool media rights via a new governance entity that will (trust me bro) democratize all of college football and generate windfalls for athletic departments while preserving student athlete status and banning the types of NIL he has spent islized in the last several years…

It’s mind-bending stuff, but pretty simple to say no to. This is not the guy to trust.
 

MaxyJR1 said:
Teaching a generation that rules don't matter and we will find a way around the rules seems like a poor take.
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I would agree with you if the NCAA had not proved time and time again to be a completely feckless institution. Why follow their rules? They don't seem that interested in enforcing them. Will they be able to Reggie Bush-style revoke a championship trophy for a tournament they don't sanction?
 


Pompous Elitist said:
Looking at this guy’s background and the Save website it’s a thinly veiled scheme to pool media rights via a new governance entity that will (trust me bro) capitalize all of college football and generate windfalls for athletic departments while preserving student athlete status and banning the types of NIL he has spent islized in the last several years…

It’s mind-bending stuff, but pretty simple to say no to. This is not the guy to trust.
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FIFY.

Yeah its not hard to see what the end goal is, especially if you get to be the shark who gets to skim on it
 



GreasyGopher said:
Which laws were broken or are being broken?
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With bag men? Massive tax fraud.
They’d all be in jail if the IRS had cared at all back in the 70’s-mid 2010’s. Did any of them ever file a 1099 for those bags of cash?

It is telling that as soon as the IRS started sniffing around pay-for-play in college athletics in about 2015 when they realized they were missing many millions in revenue, the concept of NIL was suddenly cooked up (by wealthy donors’ tax attorneys no-doubt).

A lot of “bag men” at the time were anonymously quoted as saying things like “if people are going to start getting subpoenas from the IRS, I can’t be do this anymore). Voila! NIL was born to legally circumvent the rules prohibiting pay-for-play.

Once prison time for tax fraud is off the table, “donors” can be more brazen about breaking the rules (that the NCAA is powerless to enforce).

There’s just no getting over the fact that the 2019 season was the last real “college football” season. Everything since has been something very different.
 



Goldmember said:
With bag men? Massive tax fraud.
They’d all be in jail if the IRS had cared at all back in the 70’s-mid 2010’s. Did any of them ever file a 1099 for those bags of cash?

It is telling that as soon as the IRS started sniffing around pay-for-play in college athletics in about 2015 when they realized they were missing many millions in revenue, the concept of NIL was suddenly cooked up (by wealthy donors’ tax attorneys no-doubt).

A lot of “bag men” at the time were anonymously quoted as saying things like “if people are going to start getting subpoenas from the IRS, I can’t be do this anymore). Voila! NIL was born to legally circumvent the rules prohibiting pay-for-play.

Once prison time for tax fraud is off the table, “donors” can be more brazen about breaking the rules (that the NCAA is powerless to enforce).

There’s just no getting over the fact that the 2019 season was the last real “college football” season. Everything since has been something very different.
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My apologies. I misunderstood your previous point (or didn’t read the entire conversation for context). I thought you were saying what Tech and Campbell are doing is illegal. Carry on.
 

GooningGopher said:
I would agree with you if the NCAA had not proved time and time again to be a completely feckless institution. Why follow their rules? They don't seem that interested in enforcing them. Will they be able to Reggie Bush-style revoke a championship trophy for a tournament they don't sanction?
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The NCAA absolutely does enforce rules for non-blue bloods. They are selective.
 

I think we found our villain for the tourney. One of JMU/Oregon/Bama/A&M need to blow up this devious little weasel’s mercenary squad.
 

Pompous Elitist said:
I think we found our villain for the tourney. One of JMU/Oregon/Bama/A&M need to blow up this devious little weasel’s mercenary squad.
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I would describe 3 out of the 4 teams you named as mercenary squads as well. Tech is doing exactly what the rest of the P4 teams in the CFP are doing but are getting attention because they’re Tech.
 



GreasyGopher said:
I would describe 3 out of the 4 teams you named as mercenary squads as well. Tech is doing exactly what the rest of the P4 teams in the CFP are doing but are getting attention because they’re Tech.
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I’m just saying I don’t like the guy, or his approach re: the SavingCollegeSports scheme. It’s a personal thing. So, I don’t want to see him succeed. I want his team to be embarrassed and run off the field. Petty? You bet. I realize Phil Knight is a booster, but I don’t see him trying to directly **** the players or their rights via a deceptive legislation lobby/PE takeover of the sport.. Maybe he is, I don’t know. I’ll be happy to eat my shoe.

 

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