2022 Texas Portal News

[Eastexhorn]

I saw that one as well.  Surely the possibility of playing with Ewers has to be talked about as well as being in Sark's system.  Also, he wants to play baseball and while I'm not 100% sure Texas has space, playing for a championship level team has to be attractive to him.

If Mario plays baseball he would count as a football space. And surethere is a space for him on football roster.

Belive there is 5 spaces and maybe 6 left to be filled.Campbell , a safety maybe a LB. almost forgot have to save 2 spaces for the Brocks.?

 

[dillohorn]

Portal?    NIL?...............will cause loss of fan interest in the future....................just like free agency did to the nfl. I hate this sh*t.......Just my 2 cents.

 

[Eastexhorn]

You forgot baseball free agency. It hurt atendance and loss of interest for me.

 

[Wayne]

Portal?    NIL?...............will cause loss of fan interest in the future....................just like free agency did to the nfl. I hate this sh*t.......Just my 2 cents.

If your team wins there will be no loss of interest. 

 

[TFloss32]

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[TFloss32]

Portal?    NIL?...............will cause loss of fan interest in the future....................just like free agency did to the nfl. I hate this sh*t.......Just my 2 cents.

Alabama has dominated the sport for so long now to the point where it's become incredibly predictable, but it remains wildly popular.

I think it will be just fine even though the "amateurism" is fading fast.

 

[RickyFlair]

Portal?    NIL?...............will cause loss of fan interest in the future....................just like free agency did to the nfl. I hate this sh*t.......Just my 2 cents.

 

[Wayne]

You forgot baseball free agency. It hurt atendance and loss of interest for me.

Baseball free agency happened in the 70s. I was just a kid I still went to Astro games after they signed Nolan Ryan. TV hurt baseball attendance. Before free agency you’d get one or two games a week and they wouldn’t always be your team.   Now you can watch every game. 

 

[Rotty22]

If your team wins there will be no loss of interest. 

Agreed

 

[hookemhorb]

I think Texas can be a school that has underperforming guys on campus leave and replace them with studs from elsewhere.

That's of course the ideal scenario but only about 10-15 schools can expect that to occur regularly, Texas being one of them. 

Any guys leaving via the portal that you feel like we will miss next season?

I'm thinking the portal will be used by "disgruntled" players who think they should be playing more. As good as our 2022 class was, how many will stick more than a year? It's hard to say because there isn't much history but I have a feeling, the recruits that were torn between a couple of schools have an easy out if they don't like something.

I would guess maybe 75% won't make too much of a difference but there could be up to 25% that could have been difference makers.

 

[oldhorn2]

JMHO but I thought interleague play ruined a lot of interest in baseball.

I think the portal transfers will level off after a few years. I think what has fueled so much portal movement is NIL money.I know you arent supposed to talk to other teams before portal entry, but do you really believe anyone obeys that rule? A frontline starter can sort of....you know....uh....ask around and get an idea what some school will pay for him to go there. Several schools are now being interviewed about this right now by the gutless NCAA. Either a deal will be brokered or chaos will ensue. We could prosper under either scenario......and while we are looking down our nose at aTm we need to come to grips with reality. Those guys have invested in football. Nobody has better facilities. They ponied up to buy a coach while we have fumbled around. Our facilities got stale and dated. We need to up our game.

and while I am at it....I like the staff. They seem to have calmly gone about business. They played last season, got a look at what they had and politly invited nearly half the team to portal out of here. Then with a losing record they signed the #5 class in the country. Then they set about talking top talent to portal over to us. That is a big,big deal if you ask me.

 

[TB14]

Portal?    NIL?...............will cause loss of fan interest in the future....................just like free agency did to the nfl. I hate this sh*t.......Just my 2 cents.

LOL wut? NFL games average 20 million views every week. Is now worth billions. Free agency only made it grow exponentially!

 

[NWAHorn]

I've been a sports writer for a lot of years, covering the SEC since 2004. Several years ago you could see this coming. College football as we've known it is going to end, and the NCAA will end with it. Super conferences like what the SEC is building will rule the landscape, and I don't think the SEC is done with adding teams. College football will be run like the NFL with its own commissioners, etc. I also think the bowls as we have known them for 100 years will ultimately end and there will be an NFL style playoff format. This will put an end to the opt-outs. If you are a college football purist, this is going to be a tough time. Money rules everything and ESPN is the driving force behind what we're seeing, just like ESPN was the driving force behind Texas and OU moving to the SEC. It was an either jump on the train or get left at the station thing for them. 

 

[TexCoyote]

I've been a sports writer for a lot of years, covering the SEC since 2004. Several years ago you could see this coming. College football as we've known it is going to end, and the NCAA will end with it. Super conferences like what the SEC is building will rule the landscape, and I don't think the SEC is done with adding teams. College football will be run like the NFL with its own commissioners, etc. I also think the bowls as we have known them for 100 years will ultimately end and there will be an NFL style playoff format. This will put an end to the opt-outs. If you are a college football purist, this is going to be a tough time. Money rules everything and ESPN is the driving force behind what we're seeing, just like ESPN was the driving force behind Texas and OU moving to the SEC. It was an either jump on the train or get left at the station thing for them. 

Good post.  I agree 100%

 

[TexCoyote]

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[Sirhornsalot]

I've been a sports writer for a lot of years, covering the SEC since 2004. Several years ago you could see this coming. College football as we've known it is going to end, and the NCAA will end with it. Super conferences like what the SEC is building will rule the landscape, and I don't think the SEC is done with adding teams. College football will be run like the NFL with its own commissioners, etc. I also think the bowls as we have known them for 100 years will ultimately end and there will be an NFL style playoff format. This will put an end to the opt-outs. If you are a college football purist, this is going to be a tough time. Money rules everything and ESPN is the driving force behind what we're seeing, just like ESPN was the driving force behind Texas and OU moving to the SEC. It was an either jump on the train or get left at the station thing for them. 

 

[Wayne]

I've been a sports writer for a lot of years, covering the SEC since 2004. Several years ago you could see this coming. College football as we've known it is going to end, and the NCAA will end with it. Super conferences like what the SEC is building will rule the landscape, and I don't think the SEC is done with adding teams. College football will be run like the NFL with its own commissioners, etc. I also think the bowls as we have known them for 100 years will ultimately end and there will be an NFL style playoff format. This will put an end to the opt-outs. If you are a college football purist, this is going to be a tough time. Money rules everything and ESPN is the driving force behind what we're seeing, just like ESPN was the driving force behind Texas and OU moving to the SEC. It was an either jump on the train or get left at the station thing for them. 

Agree. But just one comment for the college football purist:  it was never pure. 

 

[Sirhornsalot]

Agree. But just one comment for the college football purist:  it was never pure. 

No, it wasn't. Just like people aren't perfect. But I like it when its closer to good than closer to bad.

 

[Coot]

I'm an old coot so for me the best times for college football came before national recruiting. Only Notre Dame recruited nationally. A team from Texas had mostly Texas kids. Same was true for USC, Alabama, Ohio State, Penn State and Michigan. Of course, some loser teams like OU and Arkansas had to recruit Texas but most schools recruited in-state players. That way there was more than school pride. There was regional pride as well.

There was less cross conference play and much more unpredictability as well. That was one reason bowl games were more meaningful.

 

[Rotty22]

I've been a sports writer for a lot of years, covering the SEC since 2004. Several years ago you could see this coming. College football as we've known it is going to end, and the NCAA will end with it. Super conferences like what the SEC is building will rule the landscape, and I don't think the SEC is done with adding teams. College football will be run like the NFL with its own commissioners, etc. I also think the bowls as we have known them for 100 years will ultimately end and there will be an NFL style playoff format. This will put an end to the opt-outs. If you are a college football purist, this is going to be a tough time. Money rules everything and ESPN is the driving force behind what we're seeing, just like ESPN was the driving force behind Texas and OU moving to the SEC. It was an either jump on the train or get left at the station thing for them. 

Where there's money involved, there's always someone there to exploit and get what they want.