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re: Five Star+ DL Jalen Brewster Will Take OV To LSU This Weekend | Texas Tech Commit
Posted on 5/29/26 at 2:32 pm to Underteaux
Posted on 5/29/26 at 2:32 pm to Underteaux
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You can always tell who doesn’t belong in recruiting conversations when they say something like this.
Yeah these guys refuse to come to grips with the fact that 95% of the reason a players chooses a school these days is money
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Posted on 5/29/26 at 5:17 pm to Balsamic_duck
And rightfully so
Posted on 5/30/26 at 8:00 am to LCboi
quote:As long as everyone keeps making comedy off TT's exceedingly WEAK arse schedule and points out the hypocrisy of loading up a schedule with WEAK arse teams because strength of schedule is being disregarded in favor of won-loss record, then players like Brewster might decide that being a big fish in a small pond might get you wins, but you're still in a small pond, and not competing against the better teams where you can receive a better opportunity to build your NIL brand. Sure, those billionaires can spend the money, but the LSU campus and alumni network is far and away worlds better than that sandy hellhole of Lubbock, Texas and a bunch of West Texas tumbleweeds and sand storms.
Tech has 2 Young billionaire ex Tech football players that want to win. Type in Double Eagle. If they want him even we can't compete with Tech. Nor Texas or A&M. Those guys are loaded and want Tech at the top.
Posted on 5/30/26 at 8:44 am to Donkus
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Brand matters. Texas Tech has never won anything, and will never win anything
I agree brand matters just not as much as it did.
Also ever heard of Indiana being football dominant? Me neither until they were last year
Posted on 5/30/26 at 5:55 pm to LCboi
Want to bet?
Posted on 5/30/26 at 7:26 pm to lsuson
Tech's big / main money bag loudly proclaimed, after buying the top DL in the country that year ( a cool $5M), that he would never get out bid & "warned the college football world that he was coming for everyone's top recruits.+ This was 3-4 yrs ago
Posted on 5/31/26 at 1:55 am to Keltic Tiger
Hearing stuff like this just makes you love college football recruiting nowadays even more 
Posted on 5/31/26 at 5:25 am to LCboi
quote:I mean you can't but that billionaire hedgefuns cat in Cali and Todd Graves sure as hell can hang with anybody.
Tech has 2 Young billionaire ex Tech football players that want to win. Type in Double Eagle. If they want him even we can't compete with Tech. Nor Texas or A&M. Those guys are loaded and want Tech at the top.
Stop pretending like we're broke and A&M will dominate us.
Posted on 5/31/26 at 7:06 am to HubbaBubba
In an ideal, logical version of recruiting you'd be on point. However, this isn't an ideal, logical recruiting landscape anymore for many. It's about money up front and money in general.
NIL, in its pure form, would be the ultimate difference maker between schools such as LSU and Texas Tech, no doubt. Certainly more legitimate opportunities at LSU. However, schools, including LSU, are using MMG money pools to get these deals done. What that means is, personal, homegrown NIL deals are not so much important as they otherwise would be. The money is pooled first, the deals signed promising x amount to players are signed then individual NIL deals are conjured up through these MMG partnerships to fulfill NIL obligations agreed to in the contracts. After the money is promised, contracts signed and obligations to fulfill are set. This very practice is the centerpiece of the challenges the CSC has brought forward in denying such deals, ie the Nebraska case they won. Money is promised, and at times paid out, before any legitimate NIL deal has been negotiated. See the leaked Sorsby, Leavitt deals. Heavily reliant on MMG pools. Not a deal done yet that can legitimately pass an audit to warrant the money promised.
In short, a school like Texas Tech isn't relying on homegrown NIL deals players and agents procure. It's built on money already guaranteed. They'll find the deals to make those contracts good during the life of the contract, which at Texas Tech is generally 2-3 year deals.
Being honest, if purely based on naturally occurring NIL opportunities, no one would compete with giants like Texas, USC, OSU, Miami etc. Big city schools with major corporations a few blocks down the street with the largest, and richest, alumni bases in the country. We wouldn't be competitive at the top.
NIL, in its pure form, would be the ultimate difference maker between schools such as LSU and Texas Tech, no doubt. Certainly more legitimate opportunities at LSU. However, schools, including LSU, are using MMG money pools to get these deals done. What that means is, personal, homegrown NIL deals are not so much important as they otherwise would be. The money is pooled first, the deals signed promising x amount to players are signed then individual NIL deals are conjured up through these MMG partnerships to fulfill NIL obligations agreed to in the contracts. After the money is promised, contracts signed and obligations to fulfill are set. This very practice is the centerpiece of the challenges the CSC has brought forward in denying such deals, ie the Nebraska case they won. Money is promised, and at times paid out, before any legitimate NIL deal has been negotiated. See the leaked Sorsby, Leavitt deals. Heavily reliant on MMG pools. Not a deal done yet that can legitimately pass an audit to warrant the money promised.
In short, a school like Texas Tech isn't relying on homegrown NIL deals players and agents procure. It's built on money already guaranteed. They'll find the deals to make those contracts good during the life of the contract, which at Texas Tech is generally 2-3 year deals.
Being honest, if purely based on naturally occurring NIL opportunities, no one would compete with giants like Texas, USC, OSU, Miami etc. Big city schools with major corporations a few blocks down the street with the largest, and richest, alumni bases in the country. We wouldn't be competitive at the top.
Posted on 6/9/26 at 1:12 am to LCboi
quote:TT has suddenly become a pariah school and everyone is going to drop them from their schedule and the Big 12 may boot the university from the conference. This is an egregious ruling by that judge regarding Brendan Sorsby. If that happens, player are going to be bailing, money be damned.
that want to win. Type in Double Eagle. If they want him even we can't compete with Tech. Nor Texas or A&M. Those guys are loaded and want Tech at the top.
Posted on 6/9/26 at 6:29 pm to HubbaBubba
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TT has suddenly become a pariah school and everyone is going to drop them from their schedule and the Big 12 may boot the university from the conference. This is an egregious ruling by that judge regarding Brendan Sorsby. If that happens, player are going to be bailing, money be damned.
exactly my thoughts... lots riding on this Sorsby thing
Posted on 6/10/26 at 7:29 am to HubbaBubba
This is certainly a situation to keep an eye on. Commits are about to start dropping....
Posted on 6/12/26 at 8:17 am to WhoDatNC
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This is certainly a situation to keep an eye on. Commits are about to start dropping....
I agree with this. Even the big 12 is putting heavy pressure on Tech about this. If I were a recruit or recruit agent, I would be getting off that ship.
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