Ketch's 10 Thoughts From The Weekend ("F*** Texas and all of its money.")
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Fright Night Lights? Is this a classic 80’s vampire movie about football? Sounds awesome.
Very good movie. Just not better than Unforgiven. I've seen both in the last year and it's not close IMO.
I was about to say... CDC has raised some serious money. Just look at all the new facilities going up around campus for ALL sports, not just football. NIL is a different beast though and I think everyone is still trying to *smartly* navigate those waters. Or you can take the approach of aggy and throw money around and still go 8-5 in football and 0-6 in SEC play in baseball with the same national title runner-up team.
I feel like we're missing the point on the "absurd number of new scholarships" story. I think it's less likely that the Administration/CDC is doing this "because he can," and I don't even think it's about Title IX. To me it seems much more plausible that we're rolling this out at based on our judgment (greatly informed by UT's legal counsel) about the future of revenue sharing in college athletics. This is perhaps too simplistic, but the underlying point of the ongoing legal fight is that the NCAA and colleges are colluding (in an antitrust sense) to prevent college athletes from sharing in revenue that should properly go to them if market forces were applies fairly. Texas has a shit-ton of revenue--way more than most schools--and it may have made a judgment that it should share a certain percentage, presumably blessed by the lawyers, of its revenues with students in the form of scholarships. If that's the case it would want to distribute them more or less equitably across men's a women's sports. But we have so much freaking money and so few sports that it causes some weird effects like the 68 scholarships for women's rowing. I guess you have to stash those scholarships somewhere? And if the lawyers end up being wrong about the legal risk, or the percentage, you can just pull down those scholarships in future years. Anyway, this all feels like something the lawyers dreamed up.
Obviously. The question is what is the motive for utilizing money in that way for those sports? Directors cup...no? Enhancing the overall appeal of the athletic department as a whole... no? Texas has to be doing this in anticipation of the verdict in the NCAA settlement that will require revenue sharing with student-athletes. That is the only thing that makes sense.
I didn't see your post and just made the same point. You are right and that is the only thing that makes sense here. That is exactly why they are doing it.
Great work, Ketch. Great read. Thank you.
The scholarship news is a huge development, and I'm glad you gave it its due.
The scholarship news is a huge development, and I'm glad you gave it its due.
Kid from Poteet upset about no wrestling schollies.
I had no idea where that was going until it got there. 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
I think some respect has to be applied to the concept of this is all being made up on the fly.
I think guard is his long-term position, but open to the idea that I'm wrong.
I should add, I think the reason UT is doing this with scholarships is because scholarships are more or less "equal" for each individual student athlete. The alternative is to pay them a salary like employees, but UT doesn't want to do that for many reasons. For one thing it might enable the athletes to unionize like employees, but more importantly the administration might be resisting the inevitability of paying a market rate for labor services and making the corresponding hard choices about which individuals get paid more money. So they spray scholarships all over the place and hope that a court (or Congress, or a legislature) decides that's sufficient.
I assumed it was Joan Rivers but never looked into it. Loved the first season then kinda went meh for me.
I never thought she was laugh out loud funny, but she was great.
I would add to your adding (which I agree with) this is also a way to keep the non revenue men’s sports. I believe the other school’s FU response to Texas is because they will either need to cut their own non revenue men’s sports or increase the amount of scholarships in women’s sports which most colleges simply cannot afford. Texas is saying that not only are we not doing cut backs but we are increasing the amount of scholarships because we can. The adding of scholarships to women’s rowing and soccer is because it is cost effective. Texas doesn't need need to add facilities, new coaches, venues, travel, etc that they would need to do with a new sport like women’s gymnastics.
Bottom line Texas is not only not cutting scholarships but fully funding other sports that previously had to work with partial scholarships. Bold move by Del Conte and others.
