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Big XII's Commissioner Yarmark is the Pot calling the Kettle black!
Posted on 7/9/25 at 8:42 am
Posted on 7/9/25 at 8:42 am
He says we are not the NFL, that we(c0ollege sports) are college football and we should act like it! Funny coming from a guy that one of the teams in his conference just spent 1 million dollars on a softball pitcher and now allegedly, 5 million dollars on an offensive lineman! 
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Posted on 7/9/25 at 9:16 am to Bill W Tiger
The Big XII isn't making/directing the payments. Sounds like he's giving his general thoughts on the state of college football. He, as commissioner, can't stop a Texas Tech booster from paying those sums...or the players for accepting them.
Posted on 7/9/25 at 9:51 am to Bill W Tiger
Just let kids go pro out of high school.
Posted on 7/9/25 at 10:01 am to Alt26
You're right.
Not sure wtf OP is talking about. He sounds like he has trouble connecting the dots.
Not sure wtf OP is talking about. He sounds like he has trouble connecting the dots.
Posted on 7/9/25 at 10:54 am to Borntoboogy
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Just let kids go pro out of high school.
They can...just not in the NFL and NBA (must be 1 year removed from HS graduation to enter the draft). Those aren't NCAA rules. It's the pro leagues' rules
Posted on 7/9/25 at 11:04 am to Borntoboogy
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Just let kids go pro out of high school.
Maybe 1-2 kids every couple of years can go straight to NFL, but about 6,000 of them would think think they could.
Posted on 7/9/25 at 11:18 am to Bill W Tiger
Sorry you’re poor, get good. 
Posted on 7/9/25 at 11:28 am to JerryTheKingBawler
I cannot wait to see how the clearinghouse handles NIL contracts. (Clearinghouse must approve all NIL deals made post-July 1, 2025.) I read that about 70% of current deals would NOT have been approved, of deals made before July 1.
I see lawsuits in the NIL future!
I see lawsuits in the NIL future!
Posted on 7/9/25 at 11:34 am to Bill W Tiger
Yormark’s compensation.
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The Big 12 Conference paid commissioner Brett Yormark more than $4.3 million in total compensation during Fiscal Year 2023—his first full year in the role—according to the conference’s latest tax filings.
Posted on 7/9/25 at 11:37 am to GeorgeWest
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I see lawsuits in the NIL future!
Future? They are already happening.
Hell, Tennessee recently passed a law that essentially says Tennessee schools don't have to abide by any House Settlement restrictions on NIL.
The players don't want restrictions on NIL. Neither do the donors.
IMO, the House Settlement with respect to future NIL/revenue sharing payments will eventually be litigated into irrelevance
Posted on 7/9/25 at 11:43 am to Borntoboogy
Just end college football and sports in general and let pro leagues pay for their own minor leagues.
Stop the charade.
Stop the charade.
Posted on 7/9/25 at 11:45 am to Alt26
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The players don't want restrictions on NIL. Neither do the donors.
You don’t say?
Then they can go pro and play in the G-league or UFL. Plain and simple. Get as much money as they want.
Posted on 7/9/25 at 11:48 am to Alt26
Pretty sure you must be 3 years removed or 21 years old to enter the NFL draft. The NBA is a one and done deal. I’ve never seen a freshman leave for the NFL draft
Posted on 7/9/25 at 11:51 am to Rtowntiger
quote:Very well put. Very few NFL teams (if any) are going to draft a kid out of high school.
Maybe 1-2 kids every couple of years can go straight to NFL, but about 6,000 of them would think think they could.
Posted on 7/9/25 at 1:21 pm to Geauxgurt
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Then they can go pro and play in the G-league or UFL. Plain and simple. Get as much money as they want.
Or just play college football or basketball and get more.
The biggest farce many try to hold on to is that major college football and basketball are "amateur sports". They aren't, and haven't been for decades. They are multi-million (now billion) dollar entertainment businesses. No different than the NFL or NBA. The SEC has a TV contract worth $3 billion dollars. The NCAA get's paid nearly a billion dollar for the rights to broadcast the NCAA basketball tournament. That's not a fun, scholastic extracurricular activity at the local park. That's a tremendous money-making operation.
Those leagues generate billions in revenue largely through media rights contract (TV contract); game sales (including tickets) and licensing use of their trademarks. Those EXACT same streams are how programs like LSU football or Kentucky basketball generate revenue. The ONLY practical difference is in the NBA/NFL the players share with the franchises/league in the revenue they collaboratively generate. In college the players don't (at least not fully).
Posted on 7/9/25 at 1:24 pm to CWILKS3
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Pretty sure you must be 3 years removed or 21 years old to enter the NFL draft. The NBA is a one and done deal. I’ve never seen a freshman leave for the NFL draft
You are correct.
My point is that a person can already try to become a "pro" football or basketball player right out of HS. It's just that they have to do so in leagues other than the NFL or NBA.
I think a LOT of college sports fans wrongly believe the rules prohibiting players from going pro out of HS are NCAA rules. They aren't. Those are NFL and NBA rules.
Posted on 7/9/25 at 2:25 pm to Alt26
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The Big XII isn't making/directing the payments. Sounds like he's giving his general thoughts on the state of college football. He, as commissioner, can't stop a Texas Tech booster from paying those sums...or the players for accepting them.
I get that, BUT he needs to get his timing a little better, as the $5 million payout from TT to the offensive lineman just came out in the press AND I bet he wasn't very depressed about it being it was a Big XII 'get'!
Posted on 7/10/25 at 12:06 am to CWILKS3
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Pretty sure you must be 3 years removed or 21 years old to enter the NFL draft. The NBA is a one and done deal. I’ve never seen a freshman leave for the NFL draft
Maurice Clarett tried to challenge that and got it temporarily stayed, which got Mike Williams to jump into the draft, then they lost and both were in limbo for a year.
In Williams’ case, it was utter stupidity since he wasn’t otherwise ineligible, unlike Clarett IIRC.
Posted on 7/10/25 at 6:33 am to Bill W Tiger
I do miss old college football, no portal, no NIL, conferences that made sense.
Posted on 7/10/25 at 7:03 am to GeorgeWest
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I read that about 70% of current deals would NOT have been approved, of deals made before July 1.
So they go back to suitcases of cash?
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