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WHAT IS IT GOING TO TAKE FOR THE REST OF THE NATION TO TAKE NOTICE?
walker is pretty shitty. kind of in the same way that klein was shitty.
Quote12:21 PMBrianIts going to take at least a Big12 Championship...and a run at a national championship for the nation to take notice. I think Rhodes can do it though.
12:21 PMBrianIts going to take at least a Big12 Championship...and a run at a national championship for the nation to take notice. I think Rhodes can do it though.
It's going to be pretty hilarious all around when Texas finally fires Mack and then hires Rhodes. The ISU butthurt after the announcement, followed by the Texas meltdown after his first season will provide an entire year of .
Quote from: Nuts Kicked on July 24, 2013, 10:51:48 AMIt's going to be pretty hilarious all around when Texas finally fires Mack and then hires Rhodes. The ISU butthurt after the announcement, followed by the Texas meltdown after his first season will provide an entire year of .Would be funnier if UT hired Briles and Rhodes went to Baylor.
Quote from: Belvis Noland on July 24, 2013, 11:26:34 AMQuote from: Nuts Kicked on July 24, 2013, 10:51:48 AMIt's going to be pretty hilarious all around when Texas finally fires Mack and then hires Rhodes. The ISU butthurt after the announcement, followed by the Texas meltdown after his first season will provide an entire year of .Would be funnier if UT hired Briles and Rhodes went to Baylor. and ISU hires Wies because Wies is go at that crap, tricking people in paying him and stuff.
Quote from: Mixed-Nutz on July 24, 2013, 02:56:58 PMQuote from: Belvis Noland on July 24, 2013, 11:26:34 AMQuote from: Nuts Kicked on July 24, 2013, 10:51:48 AMIt's going to be pretty hilarious all around when Texas finally fires Mack and then hires Rhodes. The ISU butthurt after the announcement, followed by the Texas meltdown after his first season will provide an entire year of .Would be funnier if UT hired Briles and Rhodes went to Baylor. and ISU hires Wies because Wies is go at that crap, tricking people in paying him and stuff.
Quote from: WackySquawk08 on July 24, 2013, 02:59:35 PMQuote from: Mixed-Nutz on July 24, 2013, 02:56:58 PMQuote from: Belvis Noland on July 24, 2013, 11:26:34 AMQuote from: Nuts Kicked on July 24, 2013, 10:51:48 AMIt's going to be pretty hilarious all around when Texas finally fires Mack and then hires Rhodes. The ISU butthurt after the announcement, followed by the Texas meltdown after his first season will provide an entire year of .Would be funnier if UT hired Briles and Rhodes went to Baylor. and ISU hires Wies because Wies is go at that crap, tricking people in paying him and stuff. Holy crap. Wackycat caught someone pulling a Wackycat.
Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby started off Big 12 media days on Monday. Here are a few highlights from his time at the podium.On cheating: “Cheating pays presently. If you seek to conspire to certainly bend the rules, you can do it successfully and probably not get caught in most occasions.”On how much cheating is going on:“I don’t think it’s rampant, I don’t think that at all. I think our coaches and programs are of high integrity, and I don’t have any concerns on a local basis. I don’t think it’s cut rate out there, but I think those that conspire to do things that are intended to get around the rules have less resistance to it now than they ?? they’ve gotten very sophisticated. It’s easy to move money around.”On the troubles with the NCAA:“We certainly are operating in a strange environment in that we have lawsuits … plus we have the O’Bannon lawsuit. I think all of that in the end will cause programs to be eliminated. I think you’ll see men’s Olympics sports go away as a result of the new funding challenges that are coming down the pipe. I think there may be tension among and between sports on campus and institutions that have different resources. It’s really unknown what the outcomes will be.”On paying football and basketball players revenue sports: “It is hard to justify paying student?athletes in football and men’s basketball and not recognizing the significant effort that swimmers and wrestlers and lacrosse players and track athletes all put in. Football and basketball players don’t work any harder than anybody else; they just happen to have the blessing of an adoring public who is willing to pay for the tickets and willing to buy the products on television that come with the high visibility.On the student-athletes and their relationship to schools:“Student?athletes are not employees. They should never be employees. It’s not an employee/employer relationship. It’s just ?? it’s a total square peg in a round hole.But the scholarship is going to change.”On the changes to scholarships and how it will affect other sports. : “Even in an environment where we have some additional revenue coming in from television resources, primarily, it is going to be very difficult for many institutions to fund that. It is not hundreds of thousands of dollars a year; it’s millions of dollars a year. It is probably going to extend into the consideration of other benefits for student?athletes, which is great. But in the end, it’s a somewhat zero?sum game. There’s only so much money out there. … I think over a period of time what we’ll find is that instead of keeping a tennis program, they’re going to do the things that it takes to keep the football and men’s and women’s basketball programs strong.”On the Big 12 not having a championship game and how it might affect them for the College Football Playoff: “I like our path to the championship. Our champion has been decided on the last day of the season for about five years. So we have great competition at the end of the year. I think there will be a year when we’ll say: Gosh, if we could have just played one more good opponent we might have been able to demonstrate that we were good enough. But you also, when you play that playoff game at the end of the year, you also have two of your better teams presumably that play each other, and one of them becomes damaged goods. And it may not be the one you want.”On the NCAA’s finances: “The NCAA is currently headed down a path of significant financial difficulty. … When those lines cross, they’re going to stay crossed for a while. In doing that, I think it’s also a good time to re?evaluate what our core purposes are, why does it exist, what is it doing for people and to people and how can we go about sharpening our focus and making sure that we’re spending where there’s appropriate return on investment and where the membership needs to have that investment.“So we have lots of challenges on our hands. I don’t think there’s any question that none of this is going to go away soon. I expect to be in court most of the rest of my career.”On changes going forward: “Change is coming. If you like what you see in intercollegiate athletics right now, you’re going to be disappointed when the change comes, because it’s coming. The scholarships are going to change. The relationship between student?athletes and their universities are going to change. I expect significant change will come in the area of recruiting from the very earliest stages of the recruitment process through campus visits and the declaration and signing of the national letter of intent.”
It seems that we are prepared to let then entire model of amateur athletics be destroyed. All in the name of compensating a handful of individuals in revenue generating sports.we live in a time of great greed
