I hear he's got Multi Billion of dollars. He can buy the building where the meetings were held.
Texas Tech 10 Million Dollar Portal Season
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If Tech or BYU pulls away, and teams with limited resources, such as WVU and ISU, realize they can't compete, do they shift money to sports like Hoops, baseball, and wrestling, where they can maybe win a national title?
This is the cruelest insult you could ever throw at a Red Raider.
A) they would hate the comparison with a burning passion
B) deep down they desperately hope its true
As noted in the USA Today write-up, Nick Saban is no longer on the "Commission" with Campbell and the reason is very clear. Saban works for ESPN and one of Campbell's goals is pooling of media rights (which ESPN is against) and breaking up the ESPN/Fox stranglehold on the CFB.
And to do that, he's going to fund the most expensive football roster in america, pay a softball player seven figures, pay MBB players more than the NBA... blah blah blah. Talking out of his ass. Save college sports, but make sure Tech has/can buy it's way to the top while he's at it.
I get TTU being good would be good for the conference. Still hate the idea that some dude who largely lucked up into a fortune can singlehandedly sugar daddy a team to relavance. Hope they flop massively.
As noted in the USA Today write-up, Campbell was playing by the pre-House Settlement rules (or lack thereof) in his financial support of Tech. He and other big donors from other programs (see quotes from Florida booster) are well aware of and advocate the House guardrails that are now in place.
And claiming he lucked into a fortune is BS.
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He probably wants a bunch of restrictions to be implemented while he pays a bunch of TT players under the table. This would create a greater advantage for Tech.
Just think back to the old Southwest Conference days. The cheating was rampant among all of those Texas schools. Money and cheating is embedded into the football culture in Texas.
That's fine. But it's akin to saying, I saw the lack of rules as an opportunity to boost my team to top and, now that I've dumped $40mil into the football program this year, I'm all in on the guardrails and get some rules in place. Doesn't hold a lot of water to me.
And I'm not saying whether he's a brilliant guy or not, clearly he's a smart business man. His fortune is built off of capitalizing on massive macroeconomic events, which timing was perfect for the stages of his business. Hitting it big buying and selling oil/gas leases during the great recession and then again when oil markets crashed in 2014-15 takes a healthy amount of luck.
Given the vast majority of other programs with wealthy boosters were doing likewise, one can understand Campbell's motives in propping up TT during the "no guardrails" period.
He's on another level of thinking. In principle he completely disagrees with how he's investing. However, in today's world the best way to change things is to demonstrate how bad they are. If TTU wins a championship in a major sport through wild spending, it might very well be just the slap in the face the blue bloods need to realize a system of 'slightly' imbalanced parity is better for everyone than alienating the majority of fans.
I don't care how many stars are next to a kids name, development is going to still matter, especially in the trenches. These programs that are shelling out this kind of money for high school talent are going to find out in a real hurry that some of these kids are collecting a check and not wanting to work for it.
Well if you’re counting on TT to win a major championship you’re gonna have a long wait ahead of you. Maybe softball or a sport that is pretty minor they could pull off.
I find it so weird TT NIL keeps getting brought up when their recruiting class is behind powerhouses Minnesota and Syracuse
Campbell mentions in this interview that conference championship is top priority for TT and see how the chips fall in the CFP.
Not sure what recruiting rankings you're referring to but the classes of 2026 and beyond are presumably being recruited under the new House rules. TT sources have confirmed that 2026 recruit Felix Ojo's guaranteed deal is $775K/yr under the TT RevShare cap which is plausible. Anything beyond that is not guaranteed despite Ojo's agent claims. And 2026 recruiting is far from over.
And your B10 boys and Fox puppets need to pay attention to this guy:
I almost always use 247 rankings, I’m not sure what other ones people would really go off of. Sure 2026 isn’t far from over but so far they don’t have much to show for their investment.
I don’t think anyone is worried about this guy and the fact that you think “don’t worry the oil billionaire will save us” is just kinda sad.
So you think Campbell is lying when he states that the vast majority of P4 athletics administrators (including from the SEC and B10) agree with media rights pooling?
The only administrators against it are the ESPN and Fox puppets, Sankey and Pettit, and some dumb eff minions of them.
LOL at your sad comment, you are in B10 fan boy denial mode.
