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- It was a Summer Tradition around our house growing up. The arrival of the first of the College Football preview magazines. Of course Dave Campbell’s Texas Football was the gold standard. Still great. But there were others like Athlon’s and Street and Smith. Later on Phil Steele’s preview magazine was a must get. The Sporting News and Sports Illustrated… all of them helping us get through the Dog Days of Summer and getting us closer to the start of another season. Today, those magazines are still around, but it’s just not the same. In a Sign O’ The Times, we saw Texas Tech Football tweeting out the latest previews and rankings. Not just from a magazine, but from a video game! The EA Sports College Football rankings were out and Texas Tech was rated quite well as you’d imagine on both offense and defense. Who knows, in this era of sports, the video game power ratings on teams and players might be more accurate than drunken sports writers, coaches picks and radio/tv folks…Either way, it goes to show how that no matter how much things change, some things remain the same. We’ll devour anything in June and July to get us to August and September. And we wouldn’t have it any other way. Unless of course we could get on our bike and go to the local store bring home a copy of DCTF…and a Slushee.
- I’m no expert on business, but this doesn’t seem like a sustainable model…
https://x.com/DanielLibit/status/2070553070925213790. According to reports, the NCAA has spent nearly 300 million dollars on legal fees the last five years plus another 372.4 million in settlements due to the House ruling in fy25 alone. If you want to know what’s gonna kill the NCAA it’s not N.I.L. or the transfer portal. . . it’s stuff like this. The NCAA is not sustainable and needs to be blown up into a much smaller and workable governing body for the top 100 or so schools who are willing to be involved in high-level sports. No more. No less. - If nothing else, the era of N.I.L. may be creating a new class of young athletes embracing the conservative approach to economics. They are learning first-hand now that Uncle Sam comes for a big chunk of that money, unlike a scholarship dollar. The player making thousands or even millions are finding out real quick where the government goes to get its money! Don’t be shocked to see more and more college athletes espousing conservative taxation approaches in the coming years. Goes to show, you never know how kids are gonna get an education in how the real-world works!
Hyatt
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My favorite article from Texas Football was one year in the 60s. The article was about trick plays. You can bet the first five years I was coaching, I tried every single one of them. That issues is in my Mom and Dads old house, up in the attic somewhere. I read that thing every year before going to coaching school.
Ah yes, coaching school. A rite of July around our house growing up!
Hyatt