Tech May Not Sign House Agreement

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Not really, because as I said above, NIL is about either the most deeply pocketed blue bloods using their coffers to buy as much or more talent than before, OR having a really big sugar daddy (and I specifically mentioned Oregon and Tech as the literal CASE STUDIES for that) do the same.

The idea that a have not without a sugar daddy stands any chance in the NIL world is simply NOT supported by evidence.

Indiana has had an intriguing rise, but again, it’s mostly because of super talented transfers following a new coach, not NIL, and in any event, if they don’t make the Fina Four, that point won’t work.

UH, with insufficient coffers and no NIL sugar daddy, will have to rely on inordinate strength in the transfer portal to have any chance.

God I wish we could get our own Oregon/Tech style sugar daddy.

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I asked you five times the following question:
Why is it that this agreement does not include jail/prison time and an immediate probation to ten years?
You want your agreement to work? Make these changes otherwise it is dead in the water and does not stand any litigation. You know it as a lawyer but you sure do not want to admit it.
What this agreement does is let the blue bloods abuse the system. pay players under the table like they always have.
Go ahead and deny if you wish.

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Prison time? Only a criminal court can do that. That’s silly. Are you being facetious? Because if you are being serious, that’s almost lampoonable/ These are business matters not criminal ones.

Probation? Isn’t loss of bowl eligibility a form of that? That’s already in the CSC’s kit bag. UH suffered a loss of bowl eligibility while on probation, so this isn’t too different. Financially, losing a year of conference revenue distributions hits WAY harder, and the CSC makes that possible.

Tech isn’t refusing to sign this because it doesn’t.have strong enough punishments.

FAR FROM IT.

They aren’t signing it because it might limit Cody Campbell’s ability to keep buying a team and make it hard for them to challenge that.

It’s pure self interest. Do NOT assume that Texh has noble reasons for going rogue.

They have purely selfish reasons.

This new enforcement mechanism prevents that, which is good.

Remember, without this, the Houae settlement has no teeth.

Most of us would rather have enforcement power than not.

Only Tech and (inexplicably) Baylor, don’t.

Don’t insist that UH die with them.

That’s stupid.

As long as I don’t see UT and aTm protesting, it’d be ridiculous for us to do the same and risk losing all we have worked hard for.

If YOU are insisting upon such a thing, then I gotta be honest….i’m not sure you have UH’s best interests at heart.

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If you break irs rules can you go to jail too?
How many have gone to jail for it?

For someone that pretends to know the law. You ought to know the basics.
Unless this agreement reach that type or IRS breach level. This agreement means nothing. Nothing says that schools won’t fight these allegations in court. And that agreement does not stand a chance to have a stay in court proceeding. Its own definition means squat…and you 100% know it.
I tell ya the law piss off law firm never disappoint on coogfans.

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Wesley Snipes willfully failed to file income taxes for three years, which is a CRIME over which federal courts have jurisdiction.

HUGE difference.

That’s a CRIMINAL matter.

Again, these are business matters, not criminal ones.

Bad example……BAD argument.

If you don’t mind, please come up with something better and actually on point/not irrelevant if you are going to complain.

If the best you can come up with is something completely different, unrelated, and irrelevant like that, then you have nothing.

Case closed.

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The law piss off law firm is at it again. You are arguing with the most basic laws. This agreement does not stand a chance in a court of law. Everyone knows it. and you do too. Stop pretending.

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No, I don’t know that.

And apparently most of college football and their legal teams don’t think that. The P4 conference offices don’t seem to think so.

If this agreement were unlikely to hold up in court, then why haven’t any of the biggest names in college football expressed opposition to it? Hint: because a) it likely would hold up in court, AND b) it creates what we nearly all agree needs to be created: an enforcement mechanism for House.

Why are only tech and Baylor being this moronic? We know why in Tech’s case. Not sure in Baylor’s, but I’d like to believe that we are smarter than they are.

DON’T insist that UH be as stupid as they are being and risk losing everything we have worked for as a result.

Even Paxton hasn’t said that he doesn’t think this agreement will hold up in court. With all due respect, DON’T issue a legal opinion that you aren’t qualified to give.

In fact, the main reason he is advising against schools signing it is probably because he knows that it will hold up in court, and he doesn’t want either his office or a school like Tech to be limited in their ability to resist House enforcement by it. Paxton knows good and well that this will stand up and doesn’t want his office to be unable to file lawsuits on Tech’s behalf when Campbell gets caught going too far in buying players and the CSC tries to rein him in.

Most of college football, OTOH, DOES want Tech’s sugar daddy to be reined in and not be able to buy players without limits.

Not sure why YOU don’t.

There’s no reason to think that this wouldn’t be legally binding and valid if signed. That’s why Tech is resisting signing it; because they don’t want to be bound by it.

Most of college football DOES want Tech, and everyone else to be bound by it.

Again, if UT and aTm resist, we will reassess.

But if they don’t, then I’ll be GODDAMNED if UH should and get left behind for it.

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Indiana is bank rolled by Marc Cuban now. I wouldn’t say they are a have-not. I would compare them to Oregon and Phil Knight.

Cuban is basically funding anything or anyone Cignetti wants for the team.

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Then I rest my case!

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That’s not true!!

.in fact, during the halftime show of the Georgia/Georgia Tech, Booger McFarland was asked if LK would stay at Ole Miss, go to Florida or go to HIS ALMA MATER LSU and he said:

Not sure. Selfishly, i want him at LSU but in this new NIL / Transfer era, the playing field has leveled out and LSU os no longer a no brainer.
Other schools have caught up to the powers of the last 50 years.

HIS words so im going to trust him, and the eyeball test, over what you keep sayinh which is proven wrong each week

TT, Vanderbilt, Georgia Tech, Indiana, etc. are now competitive whereas LSU, Florida, Penn State & USC are not.

The NIL + Transfer portal is the WORST thing imaginable to happen to the old powers and the BEST thing to hsppen to schools like Houston

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LSU may not be a no brainer, but that DOES NOT MEAN that a “have not” will be in the NIL era.

It simply means the same thing it means for Bama: that there are now other blue bloods that HAVE MORE and can PAY MORE and which, as such, may be better options.

Again, rich getting richer, not the poor getting richer.

But consider this. UH’s NIL wasn’t even good enough to keep up with LSU’s. If it were, then we wouldn’t have lost Haulcy to LSU.

Think about just how far behind that puts OUR NIL compared to either a) the biggest money blue bloods whose NIL would be even larger than LSU’s, or b) the schools with the biggest sugar daddies like Oregon, Tech, and Indiana.

WAY far behind.

Good thing that UH has among the biggest transfer portal advantages around to make up for that.

We’ve all seen the result of that this season.

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Man, you need your vision checked

We lost Halucy but GAINED

  • the top QB transfer on the market
  • a possible first round Tight End
  • a workhorse RB

CWF obviously though that money was better spent on the ofensive side of the ball…which was Anemic ast year so Hallicy was a player we could let go without affecting our Defense.

It was a strategic money ball decision

Plus…we added defensive players via NIL.

Id check to see if any optometrists are open on Monday

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Again, that shows our advantage in the transfer portal that can, to some extent, make up for our NIL disadvantages.

It is NOT proof that our NIL is especially good, particularly in that QB’s case; he had rolled over aTm NiL, not organically UH NIL, which is small.

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We were ranked late in the season…LSU was not…so our use of the NIL funds fielded a better squad

Im fact, Tulane has passed up LSU this season.

Stop thinking of blue blood , in your old definition, those days are THANKFULLY gone!

Viva the NIL era!

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Uh, no.

We fielded a better team IN SPITE OF, NOT because of NIL, which for us is not an advantage.

And why did we? Well, again, because while we are relatively weak on NIL and revenue, we have unusual strength in the transfer portal.

See the examples that you provided…AND MORE (Walls, the LB from Utah, Vedder, etc).

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Are you on another planet right now?

We used a ton of NIL money to upgrade most of our playmaker positions!!!

We turned over last seasons roster with NIL money

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Well, the opportunity to play in the SEC certainly played a role. Ultimately we don’t know what goes on behind the scenes.

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Except that Haulcy’s own X posts and statements indicate that getting paid and NIL were the reasons for his departure.

That’s precisely HOW we know that getting bigger NIL at LSU played the biggest role.

Even Cullen doesn’t dispute that one.

He simply claimed that we somehow got more for our money elsewhere.

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Ok…so let me get this straight.

Law. If you were GM…you would have gone all in on signing Halucy and passed ohe half dozen NIL acquisitions we made at key positions, including QB??

That would have made you feel better?

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The NIL for Weigman was already there from aTm, so it wasn’t a matter of us choosing to spend our money elsewhere, or choosing to spend our NIL funds on him and not Haulcy, if that’s what you are thinking or saying.

We simply rolled over another school’s NIL in that case. Fortunate for us.

As for all the other great transfers we brought in, that proves MY point about our inordinate strength in the transfer portal better than it proves yours on NIL.

Even transfer star Mike Batton admitted in an interview, if memory serves me right, that UH players aren’t particularly well paid.

They transfer here anyway. Again, THAT’S OUR STRENGTH.