The Future is Here

Cougar Football
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Way to extrapolate.

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Right



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The players were already getting paid. No one is that naive are they?

The money is just being elevated from the dark into the light. From a black market with all the characters that a black market has, to on the table business deals.

I suspect you are going to see more of the Miami type deals where everyone gets paid.

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In Texas - especially in houston - those days of rags to riches stories are over

The poor areas can’t field enough players for a football team - pretty much you better be solid middle class or upper middle class to win games consistently - look at houston - outside of north shore most of these teams are deep suburban teams so these kids aren’t coming up starving on average - again, that kid, who went to cy woods I think, isn’t worth $10k but someone had a dealn

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He worth what the market will pay him.

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Does anyone actually believe that Texags received 20k in revenue from their exclusive interview thus justifying their business decision? They are just the conduit.

From bag men to Texags. The platform is changing but the money isn’t.

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Their market - did orangebloods put in a offer or something?

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This take is so far from reality.

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Can we fundraise money to get a Longhorn and Aggie player to say that UH is the best football team in the state and recruits should go to Houston?

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The system as it is evolving today will mean less scholarships overall to athletes. Careful what you wish for and what agenda/bias you are pushing.
If it goes the way it is going today. Say goodbye to many colleges sports. It could be football and/or basketball if a school doesn’t feel it can keep up with the arms race OR if the school goes all in on either or both, then goodbye to baseball, track, soccer, etc
 and the scholarships that go with it.

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Why would it go away? How many guys will A&M, Bama, Texas, Georgia, Ohio State, etc. be paying? Everyone in the top 3000 of players nationally for high school football will demand tens of thousands of dollars?

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It isn’t just those schools but to your point, we have to compete against two of them and few other schools that have deeper alum pockets.

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Lol. We don’t compete against A&M or UT.

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Correct. And in this era, UH will never compete directly for recruits against the likes of Bama & UT & ATM.

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In one sense we don’t but in some cases we do. LOL is right.

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Exactly. So them paying someone has little impact on us. We weren’t getting that guy to begin with.

Of course, people want to get all hyperbolic whenever paying players enters the chat.

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I’m not being hyperbolic. There are many things we can’t compete with. If you think it is just the couple of people who will get $10k for an interview and that is the end of it, good luck with that narrow line of thinking.

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Straight up recruiting, UH has never been able to compete with Bama, UT or A&M in football, so nothing will change there. UH will continue to get its 2 and 3 stars, but with NIL, we have a chance to steal a few 4 stars especially since we may have a chance at a national championship.

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Exactly. This will benefit us more than anything. But some people just hate the thought of a student athlete getting their fair share. So, college football will only have 10 teams competing moving forward. Everyone else will go under.

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I am not arguing for or against but if you think getting paid that type of money is a fair share then
ok

This on top of all the other 24/7 services the kids get from their programs.