Texas A&M clearly wasn’t paying attention to Pete Gillen’s ten year deal ** -- WahooMatt05 11/13/2023 12:34PM About 30-40 years ago, when Texas A&M was recruiting and paying big money -- Hoo TV 11/13/2023 2:24PMInsert a Link
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Not political...just a rant. For the money that Texas A&M is paying to buy -- Tuckahokie 11/13/2023 11:26AM Texas A&M clearly wasn’t paying attention to Pete Gillen’s ten year deal ** -- WahooMatt05 11/13/2023 12:34PM About 30-40 years ago, when Texas A&M was recruiting and paying big money -- Hoo TV 11/13/2023 2:24PM This reflects what is wrong with college athletics. Football anyway. If the -- Seattle .Hoo 11/13/2023 12:13PM The power structure is such that schools like Alabama and Georgia have no -- CharlestonSC 11/13/2023 1:53PM Never thought I’d prefer NFL to college ball -- SysHoo 11/13/2023 12:36PM Same---except I am losing interest in both. -- Shenhoo 11/13/2023 2:00PM I gave up on college football 15 years ago n -- BocaHoo91 11/13/2023 1:02PM Maybe a non-factory school might make the expanded playoff on -- Tuckahokie 11/13/2023 12:55PM You never know. I hear Wossamotta U has a hell of a quarterback. -- Seattle .Hoo 11/13/2023 1:35PM I agree with this. The money in college sports is huge. -- BocaHoo91 11/13/2023 12:36PM It just means taxes are too low ... rich folks got too much extra cash -- Quaker 11/13/2023 12:07PM Yes ** -- ResistHoo 11/13/2023 12:20PM You're not entirely wrong. ;) ** -- Seattle .Hoo 11/13/2023 12:13PM It's not like that same money would still be around if not for football ** -- HokieDan95 11/13/2023 12:03PM The flip side is that despite such an expensive -- BocaHoo91 11/13/2023 11:46AM I don’t necessarily think that’s true for the Texas schools. They basically -- WahooRQ 11/13/2023 11:57AM The Permanent University Fund (PUF) (link) -- Hoo TV 11/13/2023 2:37PM The aTM and UT endowments cover multiple campuses each. -- PBCHoo 11/13/2023 1:30PM But does aTm print their own money without football? ** -- BocaHoo91 11/13/2023 12:01PM 18 BILLION, not million. Mostly oil and gas money. -- WahooRQ 11/13/2023 1:14PM It’s no different than any Fortune500 CEO if you think about it. -- WahooRQ 11/13/2023 11:42AM It's different. The lowest revenue in the F500 is $7.2 Billion. S&P 500 -- Late 80s Hokie 11/13/2023 12:20PM Going a step further. Avg F500 has almost 61,000 employees. Richest CFB -- Late 80s Hokie 11/13/2023 1:00PM I just mean the way contracts are negotiated. You can’t get someone like -- WahooRQ 11/13/2023 1:31PM Good post. It is out of control. ** -- TomGlansAski 11/13/2023 11:38AM Why do you hate student athletes?!?!? ** -- ResistHoo 11/13/2023 11:33AM Agreed ** -- tchoo 11/13/2023 11:29AM