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For me, I think the transfer portal needs to be reformed first. I'm not against players changing schools, but there need to be some guardrails. The portal as it stands sets up bidding wars. Reducing this would help the sport.

Thoughts?

NIL has just about ruined college football for me. There needs to be some sort of cap that fosters parity imo.

I don't disagree, but there has never been parity. Ever. Lack of parity caused conference realignment. And conference realignment only made the parity problem worse.

https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2026/01/06/data-texas-has-the-highest-nil-transfer-portal-budget-in-2026-with-am-and-tech-also-ranking-highly/

who do you commies want parity with? Arkansas?

Parity? NIL is bringing more parity and it is hurting a lot of folks feelings when the likes of Tech being in the conversation

The "NIL is killing CFB!" whining is crap......Players have been getting paid for years......now there is a hell of a lot more parity with NIL and the portal and some of the "blue bloods" don't like it as they have lost their monopoly....cry me a river......

If Cody Campbell wasn't a graduate of your school you'd be singing a totally different tune and don't pretend like you wouldn't. He is the sole reason yall are relevant even in your sh-t conference.

David_Puddy said:

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If Cody Campbell wasn't a graduate of your school you'd be singing a totally different tune and don't pretend like you wouldn't. He is the sole reason yall are relevant even in your sh-t conference.

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… and it is eating you alive from the inside out.

Raiderjay said:

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The "NIL is killing CFB!" whining is crap......Players have been getting paid for years......now there is a hell of a lot more parity with NIL and the portal and some of the "blue bloods" don't like it as they have lost their monopoly....cry me a river......

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"Players have been getting paid for years" but not like we're seeing now. Millions are being spent to lure kids to a program and if a team can't pay they can't compete.
I'm glad you're happy with the arrangement but I think it sucks. What made college football fun and special and elevated it above the NFL is disappearing.

Again, I agree. I don't like these changes. But the playing field has become more level, not less, at least for the "haves". There are schools who aren't going to be able to compete. The field will get smaller. Conference realignment saw to that with power and money being centralized in the Big 10 and SEC.

What is entertaining to me as a Tech grad is to watch Tech give the finger to the powers that be, who did what they could do to leave Tech in the second class category, and Cody Campbell and a few other wealthy alums, along with a pretty passionate fan base, said nah.

Tech is going to force the hand of the blue bloods and it's going to be interesting to watch. At some point the good ol boys are going to try to impose a spending cap on NIL (the SEC has already threatened that) and then the lawsuits will start, and then collective bargaining, and then a draft, and then trades, and then we wind up with the NFL minor league that plays its games on college campuses.

But there will be side effects that will hurt college football. Smaller programs won't be able to compete. There will be another super league above what is currently the FBS. And the smaller schools will be lucky to have their games televised, and budgets for them will get smaller, and the sport will suffer overall.

But Tech isn't the cause of this. Cody Campbell is a symptom. The power and money grab by the SEC and Big 10, fueled by media contracts, driven by Disney and ESPN, are the bad guys here. Tech just happens to have a couple of really rich alums who used to play football for Tech and are punching their way into a club where they aren't wanted. And I, for one, think it's funny.

It harkens back to the days when Tech was fighting to get into the Southwest Conference, and then later into the Big 12. The power players then were highly placed officials in the Texas government. Now they are oil billionaires. But the stakes are the same, and it is driven once more by Texas and A&M trying to leave Tech behind.

They might succeed this time. But not without a fight.

A briefer version of this is that Tech is fighting for its existence as a major college sports school.

Whatever the Big 10 and SEC become, Tech is fighting its way in to be one of the schools that the new super-league cherry picks from the Big 12 and the ACC, and it's not an easy fight.

The other schools that don't have major boosters are going to get left out.

As a fan of college football, who loved the pageantry and pride and rivalries driven by generational and regional interests, and players who played because they loved their school, I think that is a very sad tearing apart of a social fabric that I grew up with and loved and still miss.

Transfer Portal

Skubalon said:

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David_Puddy said:

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If Cody Campbell wasn't a graduate of your school you'd be singing a totally different tune and don't pretend like you wouldn't. He is the sole reason yall are relevant even in your sh-t conference.

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… and it is eating you alive from the inside out.

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No it isn't, it's just painfully dishonest that any Tech fan would be posting this. I don't give 2 sh-ts about Tech, it's just funny to me that you goofs have continued to come over to an Aggie website forever to beat your chests and everything that we said to you all season came true a week ago and slapped you goofs right in the face.

You play in a completely irrelevant conference (for now) and anyone in it when they create super conferences here in the next few years will be begging to not get left out. Nobody cares about the Big 12 and now with Texas and OU out of the conference, it will always be the tallest midget. No matter how much you dorks tried to convince yourselves that BYU and Utah were good teams.

Oh and Cody will have to abide by this $20.5 million # and we wont, as we have a 15 year $515 million dollar deal that we can apply to NIL.

Documents: LSU proposed to QB Brendan Sorsby a $3.5M NIL guarantee thru its MMR partner.

In a fascinating window into QB bidding wars, schools are using corporate sponsors to exceed the cap with lucrative promises that haven’t yet passed the clearinghousehttps://t.co/5Or09TFtk9 pic.twitter.com/pOztmpsOK2

— Ross Dellenger (@RossDellenger) January 7, 2026

Also I just noticed, but you pay for a Texas A&M Premium recruiting membership here? Jesus bub.

David_Puddy said:

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Also I just noticed, but you pay for a Texas A&M Premium recruiting membership here? Jesus bub.

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I paid $1 for a one week trial because I wanted to get the skinny on portal activity for Coleman. It will go away in another day or two.

Tech isn't signing the house agreement.

And we've been over why and how long I post here.

Tech just got its first CFP berth. The defense was as advertised. The offense sucked. We'll get better and try again next year. Portal class is shaping up nicely and ESPN has us as the #17 recruiting class.

Tech won't go away quietly no matter how much the blue bloods want it to. It may not matter in a few years, but then again it may.

For my part, I am genuinely saddened that so many Aggies want that fate for Tech. We are Texans and it is good for Texas to have strong schools. Tech hasn't played in the same conference as A&M for a looooong time and as far as I can tell has no desire to join the SEC. The only threat Tech poses to A&M is as a recruiting rival, and according to Aggies everywhere, that's not a real threat, right?

It would benefit the state for Tech to get AAU accreditation and move to the B1G. But Aggies and Longhorns will fight that tooth and nail. Sad.

Maybe Tech will see A&M in the CFP next year. Tech will be an early favorite to make it again. Hope A&M gets there.

Skubalon said:

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David_Puddy said:

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Also I just noticed, but you pay for a Texas A&M Premium recruiting membership here? Jesus bub.

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I paid $1 for a one week trial because I wanted to get the skinny on portal activity for Coleman. It will go away in another day or two.

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Do the Tech mods not provide good enough info for you? Why the hell do you care about what A&M sites say about him?

Skubalon said:

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Tech isn't signing the clearinghouse agreement.

And we've been over why and how long I post here.

Tech just got its first CFP berth. The defense was as advertised. The offense sucked. We'll get better and try again next year. Portal class is shaping up nicely and ESPN has us as the #17 recruiting class.

Tech won't go away quietly no matter how much the blue bloods want it to. It may not matter in a few years, but then again it may.

For my part, I am genuinely saddened that so many Aggies want that fate for Tech. We are Texans and it is good for Texas to have strong schools. Tech hasn't played in the same conference as A&M for a looooong time and as far as I can tell has no desire to join the SEC. The only threat Tech poses to A&M is as a recruiting rival, and according to Aggies everywhere, that's not a real threat, right?

It would benefit the state for Tech to get AAU accreditation and move to the B1G. But Aggies and Longhorns will fight that tooth and nail. Sad.

Maybe Tech will see A&M in the CFP next year. Tech will be an early favorite to make it again. Hope A&M gets there.

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The reason Aggies want that fate for Tech is because a TON of your fans have been talking sh-t all year to us despite not playing each other and being in a different conference. Not sure what year you graduated, nor do a I really care, but Tech has always had a weird little brother complex with A&M, so don't pretend to act like this is the first time you're hearing of it. It came to a head this season when you guys started winning more games than you normally do.

n/m
Not worth the effort.

Skubalon said:

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Tech isn't signing the house agreement.

And we've been over why and how long I post here.

Tech just got its first CFP berth. The defense was as advertised. The offense sucked. We'll get better and try again next year. Portal class is shaping up nicely and ESPN has us as the #17 recruiting class.

Tech won't go away quietly no matter how much the blue bloods want it to. It may not matter in a few years, but then again it may.

For my part, I am genuinely saddened that so many Aggies want that fate for Tech. We are Texans and it is good for Texas to have strong schools. Tech hasn't played in the same conference as A&M for a looooong time and as far as I can tell has no desire to join the SEC. The only threat Tech poses to A&M is as a recruiting rival, and according to Aggies everywhere, that's not a real threat, right?

It would benefit the state for Tech to get AAU accreditation and move to the B1G. But Aggies and Longhorns will fight that tooth and nail. Sad.

Maybe Tech will see A&M in the CFP next year. Tech will be an early favorite to make it again. Hope A&M gets there.

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Aggie disdain/dislike of Tech has a lot to do with how Tech fans treated A&M players and fans. Throwing coins at Aggie players and staff at the end of a basketball game. Throwing all sorts of items from the stands at Jones AT&T. Epithets, threats of violence, and actual violence. It's really hard to wish good fortune on Tech when your memories of trips to Lubbock trigger PTSD.

I'm not sure A&M or UT would fight Tech's admission into the AAU. I don't see how it adversely impacts either school. Not saying it's impossible though... the pettiness in academia is renowned.

Yep there is that aspect as well. At one point in the early 2000s they were worse that the t-shirt tsip fans.

Skubalon said:

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A briefer version of this is that Tech is fighting for its existence as a major college sports school.

Whatever the Big 10 and SEC become, Tech is fighting its way in to be one of the schools that the new super-league cherry picks from the Big 12 and the ACC, and it's not an easy fight.

The other schools that don't have major boosters are going to get left out.

As a fan of college football, who loved the pageantry and pride and rivalries driven by generational and regional interests, and players who played because they loved their school, I think that is a very sad tearing apart of a social fabric that I grew up with and loved and still miss.

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Pissing off and causing problems with the very two leagues you'll need to beg your way into one day seems very smart.

NO MORE coaching hires until the season is complete and ALL NIL funds must be repaid, if the player opts out of the bowl game. NFL or no NFL, finish the season or you do not get paid.

This. I vividly remember tech friends I had burning my phone up and were stupidly giddy like little girls when Kingsbury went to tech. They were all crowing how they duped TAM and they now "had their swagger back".
There is a really good book out called " Backyard Brawl" that is a good read on Texas college football and the rivalry of tu and TAM and other Texas schools. The author is non biased on the subject and has a specific paragraph in the book about how tech has always wanted to be relevant and hollering " but what about us?"

Gunny456 said:

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This. I vividly remember tech friends I had burning my phone up and were stupidly giddy like little girls when Kingsbury went to tech. They were all crowing how they duped TAM and they now "had their swagger back".
There is a really good book out called " Backyard Brawl" that is a good read on Texas college football and the rivalry of tu and TAM and other Texas schools. The author is non biased on the subject and has a specific paragraph in the book about how tech has always wanted to be relevant and hollering " but what about us?"

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There was a Tech grad at my job during the 2013 season who was talking mad smack when Tech hit #10 in the AP after playing nobody. 5 straight losses later including getting their cheeks spread by Baylor and he was quiet as a church mouse.

- increase playoffs to 16
- Seed based on highest overall rankings, not conf championships
- no layoffs/bye week, games start week after end of season and wrap up Jan 1

One change:

If a team finishes in the Top 25 CFP poll and then decides to not go to a bowl game….that team would be ineligible for the playoffs the next season.