Tech is ranked #216 nationally in the US News academic ranking. Seems like they need to use the money elsewhere.
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So do all schools, but that’s another discussion.
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I bash Tech holistically.
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Hopefully that game broke Tech psychologically.
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Who cares what teetech does? With all that money what did they get? Some doughnuts maybe?
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Not really.
NIL is far larger than historical bagmen. Getting a transam is nothing to a million dollar payday that comes with some current NIL…
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They can have all that money and still be trash.
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Over time it will make a difference. Tech is heading in the right direction in both football and basketball. Campbell can take that 4.3B and at only 5%, it’s $215M per year in earnings. I think the TTU NIL will be very well funded.
His previous asset sale was for $6.4 billion. This is the second big one.
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SMU has entered the chat.
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Yes! And even they found a way to jump Texas Tech DESPITE TT getting that lucky Big 12 invite from day one!
You think trans ams were the extent of the payments? Lol
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Yes indeed ! What the then Governor of Texas( SMU alumnus) said after being caught paying players the SECOND TIME …“Well, we have a payroll to meet”!
Go Coogs !
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Not so fast, my friend… Spending is about the only thing they’re ahead in and that alone isn’t good enough to win. They’re the Mets on opening day, bragging about the highest payroll in baseball just to finish middle of the pack.
No one at Tech knows how to actually win. Even the AD, top donors & coaches are constantly focused on peripherals and stuff that doesn’t matter, just like the fans are. It’s who they are.
UH is playing an entirely different game, maybe more like the Brewers or Guardians, a form of strategic small ball that can win the conference. With where we are in the Fritz rebuild it would be counterproductive to try and spend like Tech this year anyways.
We have a head coach who knows how to win, a culture of winning that’s contagious from basketball, and a Chancellor who wins. If Tech is steadily mediocre then UH is reliably volatile, swinging between the highs and lows, due for the high.
It says a lot about Tech (and Baylor) that both are opening their FOCs and renovated IPFs this year, the same year we are… even after significantly out-earning and outspending us by hundreds of millions over 27 years. It should be an embarrassment to them, allowing us to close the gap and position ourselves as peers.
We’ll do the same with NIL and probably won’t ever spend more than they do in a single season.
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This post should have its own thread and be pinned at the top. There are so many fans that post here that think “regular” fan donations are what’s holding back UH’s NIL.
I’m baffled by how many coogfans posters don’t realize NIL is a battle of mega boosters. Good on Tech for having mega boosters that actually want to compete in the NIL market.
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I guess we’ll see. Their football program took a coach that ours really wanted but couldn’t afford. Whether their remarkable transfer class turns into a championship remains to be seen, but they have better players on campus than they’ve ever had. If they don’t at least get to the conference championship game this year, that coach will be on the hot seat. We’re not at that point and haven’t been in a while.
Their baseball coach has had them in the CWS four times in the last 10 years, so it’s kind of silly to say he doesn’t know how to win.
Their basketball coach is excellent - had them in the tournament in his first year last year and in the mix for the title this year after breaking our home winning streak. How does that show he doesn’t know how to win?
If you want to look at track and field, they won two national championships in the last 5 years. That seems like winning.
Facilities? C’mon. If you haven’t been there to look at them (I have), I don’t think you have any basis for comparison. But will all that cool stuff produce a football championship? We’ll see.
Sure, we’ve done more with less, but that’s not the point of this thread. Could we do more with more? I bet our coaches would like to find out.
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T. Boone and Knight are the biggest examples of donor largesse. T. Boone did all you can for OSU. Great football facilities. Are they better than TX Tech’s? Oregon is in the Big 10 and made the Playoffs. They are also AAU.
While Campbell has given great sums to NIL, what’s he doing for academics? That’s an area that is sorely lacking at Tech which ranks in the 200s nationally and worst in the Big 12, near WVU.
Fertitta has given to facilities, which were greatly needed, but also helped establish our medical school.
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Who makes the sweet sixteen the most in the last five years.
Honestly its about more than money sometimes.
The school prestige matters. The facilities matter, the surroundings matter, the people and talent matters.
Unless tech builds a forrest there i dont see them in the foreseeable future holding recruits longer than a year.
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I don’t know, but he’s on the Board of Regents. Tech has invested a ton of money in new buildings over the last decade or so, and their med school complex keeps growing. I don’t think a lack of investment is to blame for whatever academic rankings are out there.