Texas Longhorns (big hat, no cattle; please don’t Horns Down us)

[cincibuck]

Yeah, here's a link to the ESPN article (below). He made $100K during his 1st stint there as a career development officer in the school's Division of Diversity and Community Engagement. This time he is working for the Athletic Department. They aren't yet reporting what his new salary is; however, being a state university it is sure to be public knowledge soon.

I heard Clemson is offering him more money to be the new Howard's Rock all the players touch before running onto Memorial Stadium field.

 

[AuTX Buckeye]

 

[AuTX Buckeye]

 

[colobuck79]

I'm sure they don't care about the season tickets or the boycotting of games. But the end donations ........

 

[pnuts34]

Uh I wonder how this starts affecting the football team and recruiting.
Dabo seemed to dodge any blowback, Iowa had some setbacks and Gundy got partially hit but still escaped unscathed.

 

[pnuts34]

Going to be an interesting year for Sark...

 

[Taosman]

How is Sark going to "fix" Texas race problems? Short answer; He's not. Pulling the plug on Herman accomplished nothing. A slightly older take on the Texas racial problems.

Yahoo Sports
With roots in racism, 'Eyes of Texas' should be banned. So why isn't Texas listening to its Black students?
Shalise Manza Young
Shalise Manza Young·Yahoo Sports Columnist
October 22, 2020·

In mid-June, athletes at the school posted a thoughtful letter on social media accounts detailing a list of changes they wanted to see on campus, expressing a desire to “hold the athletic department and university to a higher standard by not only asking them to keep their promise of condemning racism on our campus, but to go beyond this by taking action to make Texas more comfortable and inclusive for the Black athletes and Black community that has so fervently supported this program.”

https://sports.yahoo.com/eyes-of-texas-tom-herman-athletes-song-battle-005335387.html

 

[Merih]

Out of curiosity I looked up tOSU. We have ~$30M in contributions versus their ~$50M.

 

[LovelandBuckeye]

Out of curiosity I looked up tOSU. We have ~$30M in contributions versus their ~$50M.

Yeah, but what kind of online classes do they offer?

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

Out of curiosity I looked up tOSU. We have ~$30M in contributions versus their ~$50M.

Our AD has historically based its fundraising on a shitload of small donations rather than cultivating "whales" precisely to avoid the toxic culture that Texas has found itself in where the whales think they run the AD. In a normal fundraising year, athletic donations are 6-8 percent of overall university donations, and the AD just recently received its first 8 figure donation (just barely at 10M even) whereas the academic side has been getting multiple such donations annually for decades.

 

[Merih]

Our AD has historically based its fundraising on a shitload of small donations rather than cultivating "whales" precisely to avoid the toxic culture that Texas has found itself in where the whales think they run the AD. In a normal fundraising year, athletic donations are 6-8 percent of overall university donations, and the AD just recently received its first 8 figure donation (just barely at 10M even) whereas the academic side has been getting multiple such donations annually for decades.

Super interesting thanks for sharing. I couldn't put my finger on why OSU feels different. But I think it has something to do with the student athletes coming first, not boosters... which in turn creates the right culture for the student athletes to love tOSU and be champions for the university long after they leave. Buckeyes in the NFL are loud about the fact that they love tOSU which is not something you see with Texas and other universities.

 

[pnuts34]

Super interesting thanks for sharing. I couldn't put my finger on why OSU feels different. But I think it has something to do with the student athletes coming first, not boosters... which in turn creates the right culture for the student athletes to love tOSU and be champions for the university long after they leave. Buckeyes in the NFL are loud about the fact that they love tOSU which is not something you see with Texas and other universities.

I think you're looking through scarlet colored glasses a bit. Most guys in the NFL brag loudly about their college, Texas guys aren't excluded. And most end up working in Austin after graduation or after their careers are over. I think it's smart that our AD doesn't rely solely on massive donors, so this type of thing doesn't happen at OSU, but you're fooling yourself if you don't think guys out there(especially ones at big football factories like OSU) talk about their schools as much as guys who went to OSU.

 

[Merih]

I think you're looking through scarlet colored glasses a bit. Most guys in the NFL brag loudly about their college, Texas guys aren't excluded. And most end up working in Austin after graduation or after their careers are over. I think it's smart that our AD doesn't rely solely on massive donors, so this type of thing doesn't happen at OSU, but you're fooling yourself if you don't think guys out there(especially ones at big football factories like OSU) talk about their schools as much as guys who went to OSU.

Perhaps. Maybe I just have less UT NFL success stories to pull from in recent memory relative to OSU

 

[JCOSU86]

Our AD has historically based its fundraising on a shitload of small donations rather than cultivating "whales" precisely to avoid the toxic culture that Texas has found itself in where the whales think they run the AD. In a normal fundraising year, athletic donations are 6-8 percent of overall university donations, and the AD just recently received its first 8 figure donation (just barely at 10M even) whereas the academic side has been getting multiple such donations annually for decades.

So, you're saying Texas does it wrong? Imagine!

 

[colobuck79]

So, you're saying Texas does it wrong? Imagine!

One thing they do right: they destroy conferences better than anybody.