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Sad day for A&M, but a sadder day for college athletics across the board
Posted on 6/26/24 at 1:00 pm
Posted on 6/26/24 at 1:00 pm
UT just bought A&M's entire baseball program as a package deal. Coach, staff, and players who are entering the portal left and right, mostly to follow the coaches to Austin for NIL deals that have already been offered according to a number of sources.
The team A&M should be fielding next year, will all be in Austin just wearing different jerseys than if they had stayed at A&M.
This is the state of college athletics.
Regardless of how you feel about UT, A&M, Schloss, Del Conte, etc. The saddest truth in all this is that college sports are broken, and probably will never be repaired.
The programs many of us grew up identifying with on a deep personal level are wholesale bought and paid for on an open market now.
I know this is the Rant, and most replies will just be calling me a poor bitter Aggy or whatever. But in my opinion this bigger than that. This is a dark day for college sports across the board, and I believe an inevitable sign of the future of college athletics.
There is absolutely nothing in place to stop this from happening to any other program in any sport if a donor at another program is willing to cut a big enough check. And many of you know deep down that's true, whether you'll admit it or not.
That's my personal takeaway from this situation. Just wanted to put it out there.
The team A&M should be fielding next year, will all be in Austin just wearing different jerseys than if they had stayed at A&M.
This is the state of college athletics.
Regardless of how you feel about UT, A&M, Schloss, Del Conte, etc. The saddest truth in all this is that college sports are broken, and probably will never be repaired.
The programs many of us grew up identifying with on a deep personal level are wholesale bought and paid for on an open market now.
I know this is the Rant, and most replies will just be calling me a poor bitter Aggy or whatever. But in my opinion this bigger than that. This is a dark day for college sports across the board, and I believe an inevitable sign of the future of college athletics.
There is absolutely nothing in place to stop this from happening to any other program in any sport if a donor at another program is willing to cut a big enough check. And many of you know deep down that's true, whether you'll admit it or not.
That's my personal takeaway from this situation. Just wanted to put it out there.
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Posted on 6/26/24 at 1:01 pm to Krampus
Womp womp womp womp
Wooooooooooopm
Wooooooooooopm
Posted on 6/26/24 at 1:02 pm to Krampus
Nobody cares. College athletics is a fallacy
Posted on 6/26/24 at 1:02 pm to Krampus
How do you think G5 fans feel?
The only player worth a shite on our squad last year will be playing WR for the Aggies this fall
The only player worth a shite on our squad last year will be playing WR for the Aggies this fall
Posted on 6/26/24 at 1:03 pm to Krampus
Hire a better AD next time and you won’t have to type all that shite
Posted on 6/26/24 at 1:03 pm to Krampus
I would feel bad if your football team didn’t pay 30 million for a #1 recruiting class
Posted on 6/26/24 at 1:03 pm to Krampus
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UT just bought A&M's entire baseball program as a package deal.
No they didn't. TU did.
Posted on 6/26/24 at 1:03 pm to Krampus
it sucks but I guarantee you Aggies will find 40 players that want to play baseball in the SEC and pretty good players at that and it won't take long to ratchet the talent level back up
the transition year will suck but all teams are going to be in the same boat when coaches leave for whatever reason
the transition year will suck but all teams are going to be in the same boat when coaches leave for whatever reason
Posted on 6/26/24 at 1:03 pm to Krampus
This is about a couple of universities that constantly get their nuts caught in their zippers trying to measure each other's weiners.
Posted on 6/26/24 at 1:04 pm to Faurot fodder
Bitch please
Posted on 6/26/24 at 1:04 pm to CarolinaGamecock99
We didn't. We paid about $5M if you do the math.
Posted on 6/26/24 at 1:04 pm to Faurot fodder
This post was edited on 6/26/24 at 1:05 pm
Posted on 6/26/24 at 1:05 pm to Krampus
Posted on 6/26/24 at 1:05 pm to Krampus
Aggy bought an entire football recruiting class, cry harder.
Posted on 6/26/24 at 1:06 pm to Krampus
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UT just bought A&M's entire baseball program as a package deal. Coach, staff, and players who are entering the portal left and right, mostly to follow the coaches to Austin for NIL deals that have already been offered according to a number of sources.
Why didn't your program match the offer?
Posted on 6/26/24 at 1:06 pm to Krampus
Kinda sucks but enough of the crying. If roles were reversed we'd be throwing a parade. Time to regroup and move on.
Posted on 6/26/24 at 1:07 pm to CarolinaGamecock99
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I would feel bad if your football team didn’t pay 30 million for a #1 recruiting class
This. Nobody is going to feel bad for you Aggie
Y’all bought a class and couldn’t do shite with it.
Posted on 6/26/24 at 1:08 pm to Krampus
College athletics in major money making sports hasn’t been college in decades. It’s big business and the athletes are finally getting to take part in the financial aspect instead of the fallacy of a scholarship being the pay when some of these players have to be babied in crap majors to even be eligible.
It’s minor leagues and the idea that they are student athletes is a joke.
You got screwed we get it. That’s what happens in big business, no one has ethics.
It’s minor leagues and the idea that they are student athletes is a joke.
You got screwed we get it. That’s what happens in big business, no one has ethics.
This post was edited on 6/26/24 at 1:10 pm
Posted on 6/26/24 at 1:08 pm to BlindTiger7
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Aggy bought an entire football recruiting class, cry harder.
truth
Posted on 6/26/24 at 1:09 pm to Krampus
Wait a minute...
Mr. "We can buy anybody we want" is crying ecause they got outbid for the people they want?
Mr. "We can buy anybody we want" is crying ecause they got outbid for the people they want?
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