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Post by VBallLife on Jun 6, 2024 21:44:18 GMT -5
Good players, but as a top 10 this list leaves a lot to be desired. A top 10 without Ayanna Watson and Nadiya Johnson is laughable. They might be the two best college prospects in the entire class. I also believe Hoppe should be the#1 setter, prep dig rankings are so dumb compared to prep volleyball, they rank based off a bunch of popularity Both publications do. Clubs have influence as well.
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Post by horns1 on Jun 6, 2024 22:21:46 GMT -5
Not that it guarantees anything, but Cari Spears started following Genevieve Harris (2 different accounts) on Instagram. JE also started following her And, he started following Emma Cugino on IG
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Post by slxpress on Jun 6, 2024 22:26:08 GMT -5
Beginning 2025-26, all Power 4 VB programs (and some others) will have the same ammunition - a piece of 21.5 million cap for each athletic program. Football players will get a huge chunk of that. After FB gets their free money, men’s BB will get their bag of money. Each institution determines how the revenue will be shared. The SEC is going to push for minimal Title IX compliance - meaning very few dollars for women sports. For those schools who can raise 21.5 million, the playing field will be even. That might seem unfair to Texas supporters who love having a big bag of money to help them stack players on their roster - many who will be four-year practice players. we will see how it goes. Appreciate your insight though. Do you, though? I love how folks love to get declarative about how the settlement is going to work. One thing I can guarantee. It’s not going to work the way people who are sure how it’s going to work, think it will. The other thing I’m sure of is that Texas is going to be just fine in the money department. It’s highly entertaining as a long time fan to know all the ways we tied our hands behind our backs all those years while programs around us sprayed oodles of money and benefits under the table just to compete. Not that we were white as the driven snow, but there was an institutional hesitance to go all out that at various times OU, SMU, A&M - even Baylor under Briles - committed wholeheartedly to. There’s such a sense of satisfaction with NIL that the speed governor was released regarding Texas using market forces to help acquire the best talent. With the natural advantages of the school, the city, the talent in the state, and with an athletic administration that FINALLY cares more about winning than raising money, while also being lights out at raising money. I feel like we’re finally reaching our final form after a lifetime of wondering when we’d truly reach our potential. The complaints about Texas having an unfair advantage - which is true - ring so hollow to me. I have hated the direction college athletics has taken since 1984 when the NCAA lost their first substantial case in front of the Supreme Court against OU and Georgia. That paved the way to unleash the monetization ability of college football, which helped to propel the cognitive dissonance we’re faced with today. And all along, I just thought, man, if Texas can just get out of its own way we should be dominating in this environment. And now here we are. One thing I know for sure. That settlement isn’t going to solve anything. Without transparency in terms of how much each athlete is paid and by whom, and an enforcement mechanism if some kind of agreed upon pay structure is not adhered to, players who are perceived to be potential difference makers will get paid more than the official amounts. This isn’t going to change anything in that regard. A school like Texas is still going to have more money to throw at athletes than the competition, directly and indirectly. People who see this as some kind of leveling of the playing field are going to be sorely disappointed.
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Post by Kearney Kingston on Jun 7, 2024 7:54:38 GMT -5
You must feel truly satisfied to know you can continue to buy success. Congratulations!
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Post by mln59 on Jun 7, 2024 8:28:54 GMT -5
You must feel truly satisfied to know you can continue to buy success. Congratulations! thank you. it does feel pretty good
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Post by eyeroll2021 on Jun 7, 2024 8:36:26 GMT -5
You must feel truly satisfied to know you can continue to buy success. Congratulations! LMFAO. How is this different than any organization - what business or university isn't trying to hire the best by offering them the best terms?
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Post by utvbfan on Jun 7, 2024 9:33:47 GMT -5
You must feel truly satisfied to know you can continue to buy success. Congratulations! Sounds like a sore loser.
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Post by eyeroll2021 on Jun 7, 2024 9:51:26 GMT -5
Camp Attendees 2026 S Blair Thiebaud - Houston Skyline S Genevieve Harris - NCVBA OH Henley Anderson - Austin Skyline OH Halle Thompson - Houston Skyline DS/L Rileigh Butler - Austin Skyline DS/L Emma Cugino - Mintonette 2025 OH Cari Spears - TAV DS/L Callie Krueger - Austin Skyline OPP Addison Gaido - Austin Skyline Not that it guarantees anything, but Cari Spears started following Genevieve Harris (2 different accounts) on Instagram. More importantly, Harris is basically following the entire team and a bunch of alumni. Good sign
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Post by hornfanaustin on Jun 7, 2024 10:14:55 GMT -5
You must feel truly satisfied to know you can continue to buy success. Congratulations! OU softball tips their cap to ya!
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Post by hookem1 on Jun 7, 2024 10:53:31 GMT -5
JE also started following her And, he started following Emma Cugino on IG A DS named Emma from Big ten country? Sign me up
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Post by hookem1 on Jun 7, 2024 13:33:29 GMT -5
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Post by slxpress on Jun 7, 2024 14:07:51 GMT -5
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Post by slxpress on Jun 7, 2024 14:11:43 GMT -5
You must feel truly satisfied to know you can continue to buy success. Congratulations! Hey, for a long time we were buying a lot of mediocrity in the athletic department. It's nice to step up!
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Post by eyeroll2021 on Jun 7, 2024 14:34:28 GMT -5
Hands down, this is your best pun ever. I salute you, sir
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Post by biodogtexas on Jun 7, 2024 15:29:21 GMT -5
We graduate Skinner, Wenaas, RR, Franklin and Akana. But the scholarship game is so tricky sometimes with NIL, partials, and COVID years that it could theoretically be anywhere from 2-4 from that group that are on scholarship. I haven't been following the NCAA lawsuit talks that closely, other than the headlines about being able to pay SAs - if that goes through, don't scholarship counts basically become meaningless Depends on the school and implementation. Scholarships and most of their benefits are tax exempt. Directly paying players turns them into workers and most of the benefits into taxable fringe benefits. Imagine being an out of state student at USC getting a scholarship that covers your 90k+ annual cost of attendance. You're school and expenses are all paid for and you get a little bit of NIL to pursue your hobbies and have your fun. Then one day you get a tax statement from the school showing you owe taxes on more than 100 thousand dollars of non-monetary compensation to the state, local, and federal governments... They'll have to directly pay students double what their scholarship was valued at just so they can pay their taxes and still have the money for their necessary expenses.
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