Pres Signs Executive Order to ‘Save College Sports’

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Then are you saying we should just blindly accept when someone here claims we are an NIL power when even Coach Sampson himself said we are a poor program?

Come on now.

If you don’t like a source, fine.

But the people making claims against mine are doing so with either NO sources and NO numbers to back them up, or are quoting YouTubers like Nakos, or are pointing to individual anecdotal examples of ONE recruit each in football and basketball that hardly reflects the level of NIL across the roster.

Here is one of my sources. Question it all you want, but a CPA compiled it.

https://nil-ncaa.com/

Another source of mine was CBS Sports, which I would think is pretty reliable.

It ain’t a blogger or a fan board.

Another was Heartland Cillege Sports, which has been in business for decades,

NONE of them show UH anywhere near the top in NIL,
and a lot that show us near the bottom of the P4.

Of course, Indiana shows well on all, debunking the false narrative that Cignetti did it alone. Amazing coach, sure. But he had plenty of help from sugar daddy Cuban.

One guy that argued against me (@nilsonm6 used Pete Nakos, a YouTuber and online writer as a source.

If you have a problem with using sources like that, then why aren’t you addressing him?

I think my sources are at least on par with those, if not better.

But here is the best source of all, THE PLAYERS…

Mike Batton himself said in an interview that our players don’t make nearly what other players at top programs make.

So if you have both coaches and players saying the same thing, ya might want to listen.

Just a suggestion.

Signing one big name in each sport could be the exceptions that prove the rule, consider that.

Weigman’s rollover aTm NIL is still less than most P2 starting QBs.

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As for Trumpp’s EO, as I said, it likely won’t withstand court challenges and won’t be enforceable.

BUT….IF IT WERE,……

It would indeed help us.

Consider this.

AJ Haulcy couldn’t have transferred to LSU.

Just sayin’!

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Sure he could have. He would sit a year, but 2026 would have been his 5th year.

But there are other guys we wouldn’t have gotten for the same reason, so pointing to one guy as if he would have changed our whole trajectory is kind of pointless.

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No Tanner Koziol, who i think was more important to last year’s success

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Because this isn’t a marketplace for labor based on performance, real or expected. It’s a piñata candy dash for players as positional goods, built on envy and pride, not love of the game, sportsmanship, or the opportunity to form character. John Wooden might have gone postal by now if he were still around for this.

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Mmmm….ok.

I somehow doubt he would have done that.

Most returning all-conference players aren’t going to be too happy about having to sit out at that point when their hype and their game are at their peak. They will be deterred from making such a move as a result.

Under this EO, he might decide to leave early for the draft, and take a gamble on that but will be much more likely to stay than transfer and sit out.

It’s one thing to sit out as an incoming 18 year old true freshman.

It’s quite another to have to sit out as a returning all-conference senior.

CougarDue’s point is valid though.

Koziel likely stays at Wisconsin for the same reasons.

In that case, it would hurt us, but I think it would overall help more than hurt given how many top players we have gotten out of the transfer portal in recent years.

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Why do t you look at the impact he had on the head-to-head matchup between UH and his new team?

We’ve gained far more from these transfers than we’ve lost.

Just admit you were talking out of your ass again. :laughing:

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Coach Calipari from minute 4:40 and on about NIL and the transfer portal effects.

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I think contracts would help a lot more than making players sit a year. Sitting a year is stupid for everyone involved. Who wants players stuck at a school they don’t want to be at? What happened to American freedom? Why can’t student athletes go and come to school like every other student
And the courts will agree

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On that point we agree.

This won’t stand up to court challenges.

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Another idea.

College Sports does not need to be saved. It has adapted.

Look at the attendance for March Madness. And TV ratings.

No save needed.

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College sports doesn’t need to be saved? That’s like saying my car’s dash lights up like a Christmas tree, but I still get from point A to point B. Why take it to a mechanic? The NCAA is antiquated and until we have a new governing structure in college athletics, I do not see anything changing. Sadly.

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The very same schools that made a habit of breaking the rules that were in place are now saying they need new rules in place.

Make it make sense. :laughing:

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You keep saying that even though CKS said this wasn’t true a day later and that he shouldn’t have said that… and then you say “oh… you have to believe his initial statement”…

because that is one of your core “pieces of evidence”.

Why do you think CKS walked it back… because he probably pissed off some BMDs…

And I quote CKS… “WE’RE ANYTHING BUT POOR…”

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“And CKS said we’re poor AND Haulcy left for more $ AND some CPA put together a list that doesn’t mention Houston in it…”

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Saying he shouldn’t have said it isn’t the same as saying it isn’t true.

In all likelihood he only back tracked because his bosses chewed his ass for what he said.

As I said, a person’s initial gut reaction is far more likely to be true.

And players have said the same thing.

Batton defintely said so in a podcast interview.

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What does “we’re anything BUT poor” mean…?

His EXACT words…

Anyway… we’ll agree to disagree.

We can circle back after the Coogs win the B12 this year with their awesome roster…

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As I said, we are on the lower end of the P4, and even in basketball, on the lower end of the Sweet Sixteen.

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Anyway, someone posted this on the basketball board.

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The whole point is that it isn’t true. By most accounts, we are definitely not poor and we are near the top in basketball NIL among 300 + schools on D1. We can’t compete for players like Dybantsa against some of the other top schools, but that doesn’t mean we are poor. There was an entire discussion in a separate thread about what he meant, and my guess is that we were trying to land a top top recruit where Dybantsa-like money was required, and we couldn’t make it work. That does not mean we are poor by any means.

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