The Saturday Column With No Name – The Next Choice For Texas Tech Football’s Ring Of Honor Is Easy, Donut Holes Vs. Actual Donuts And Wisconsin Vs. Miami Is Just The Beginning With NCAA Football Tampering Lawsuits

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The Saturday Column With No Name

1. Texas Tech officials announced this week that former Tech QB Graham Harrell will be inducted into the Tech Football Ring of Honor this fall. As it should be. A college football hall of famer and great player for Texas Tech. The next QB that should be inducted into the Ring of Honor at Texas Tech is Rodney Allison. If you’re on the cover of Dave Campbell’s Texas Football…that ought to be enough! If you guide Tech to a 10-win season and start the next year as a Heisman Trophy candidate before an ankle injury on a dirty play by Texas A&M, that ought to be enough. If you completely restore and energize the Texas Tech “Letterman’s Association” now the more inclusive Double T Association for former athletes… that ought to be good enough. After all of that, if you don’t think Allison should be in, he gets in on his strong mustache game and Red, White and Blue sweatbands from 1976. Allison for the Ring of Honor.

2. Donut holes are better than actual donuts. Think about it for a few minutes and you’ll agree. All the flavor, more controlled portions, easier to handle. Donut holes are great On-The-Road foods for breakfast. Bear Claws and those cream stuffed things are a mess. Donut Holes should move to the front of the line when it comes to the Donut World.

3. Make no mistake… the lawsuit brought Wisconsin against Miami over alleged tampering with a football recruit will explode into more and more lawsuits. This could all be avoided if college football would break away from the NCAA and start their own upper-level league. Then they can institute a salary cap and have a collective bargaining agreement with players who want to play at the highest level of college football. Until they do this, you’ll see scads of lawsuits like this as lawyers around the country line-up to cash in. It doesn’t matter whether Whisky is right or the Canes are right to the lawyers. They just want the courts to get involved. We’ve gone all the way back to the 1950s when each conference had what we call a Letter of Intent. It only “applied” to other conference schools. So the SWC raided the Big 10, the Big 10 raided the Pac6 and you get the idea.. Not until the 60s at the behest of Texas Tech Athletic Council Chairman J. William Davis, did the modern era National Letter of Intent come into play for the NCAA. That seems so quaint now… So, There Will Be Lawyers….

Enjoy the weekend and we’ll see you Sunday with our 5 Things We Know column.

Hyatt