tigahdor

You're assuming this is a rational market with open information. Imo it's very possible to have crazy outliers because no one knows what "market rate" is in this wild west period.

Texas won't even pursue. They have Baxter.

It's an absolute mess. It'll impact all schools and the net is that there will be no loyalty and it'll suck. Imagine if every NFL player was a free agent every year. You'd never care about any players bc none would be around long enough!

The challenge is that these are kids so I'd hate to prevent them from transferring if they're truly unhappy, want to be closer to home, etc. The real problem is the tampering imo. Without that, you probably wouldn't see guys risk the portal unless they were really unhappy or vastly underpaid. Still would suck a little, but would be a lot better.

Unfortunately, the NCAA clearly has zero ability to enforce tampering. Not sure why since the NFL/NBA/MLB do it.

For real. They already have the top 2 Safeties in the country, do they really need #3?

Get Jackson and we're solid at DB. Toviano would be gravy. Brown and Sampson is a sick duo at WR if it happens. Not sure why anyone is whining.

They will 100% try to do that. Will it be enough? Hopefully not

barf at all of them

It really is pretty unbelievable for a school that's so obsessed with sports. I mean freaking Rice, UofH and Texas Southern had already done it multiple times!

Fun fact - this is A&M's first top 4 finish in baseball, basketball, or football since WWII (using playoffs when they existed and BCS/AP otherwise).

That leaves only one other P5 school that hasn't done it - Northwestern.

Haha you have it completely backwards. Look at Kiffin's Twitter feed. He's been anti-A&M on this issue for months. Sankey is protecting Jimbo by muzzling Lane.