(06-20-2013 05:41 PM)Memphis Owl Wrote:  

(06-20-2013 03:56 PM)Orange County Owl Wrote:  

(06-20-2013 03:35 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  When people argue for paying college athletes, they always bring up some amount that the athlete has presumably earned for the University. I wonder how much of the $250M they think should be paid to Manziel as a commission?

I'm sure that he'd settle for 5%.

And at that point Manziel in ineligiblehas to promise to repay the money if/when he "goes pro" and ATMUNT goes on Probation for letting a kid use a water hose owned by the athletic department to wash his car.

FIFY

(06-20-2013 06:08 PM)RiceDoc Wrote:  

(06-20-2013 05:41 PM)Memphis Owl Wrote:  

(06-20-2013 03:56 PM)Orange County Owl Wrote:  

(06-20-2013 03:35 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  When people argue for paying college athletes, they always bring up some amount that the athlete has presumably earned for the University. I wonder how much of the $250M they think should be paid to Manziel as a commission?

I'm sure that he'd settle for 5%.

And at that point Manziel in ineligiblehas to promise to repay the money if/when he "goes pro" and ATMUNT goes on Probation for letting a kid use a water hose owned by the athletic department to wash his car.

FIFY

or an A&M football squirt bottle for Wet T-Shirt night at the club.

(06-20-2013 06:08 PM)RiceDoc Wrote:  

(06-20-2013 05:41 PM)Memphis Owl Wrote:  

(06-20-2013 03:56 PM)Orange County Owl Wrote:  

(06-20-2013 03:35 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  When people argue for paying college athletes, they always bring up some amount that the athlete has presumably earned for the University. I wonder how much of the $250M they think should be paid to Manziel as a commission?

I'm sure that he'd settle for 5%.

And at that point Manziel in ineligiblehas to promise to repay the money if/when he "goes pro" and ATMUNT goes on Probation for letting a kid use a water hose owned by the athletic department to wash his car.

FIFY

I stand re-educated...

(06-20-2013 05:07 PM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  

(06-20-2013 01:08 PM)Memphis Owl Wrote:  

(06-20-2013 12:20 PM)ricex Wrote:  

(06-18-2013 08:46 PM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  

(06-18-2013 07:42 PM)3-OwlsInTheNest Wrote:  Try this frame, which will lead back to prestige and your point about some fools. Rice has been, traditionally, media stupid. In many respects it remains media stupid. Leebron has tried to change this, though, in my opinion, he remains fixated on dying media. But that hot shot is a subject for another thread. Athletic success -- particularly if we maintain Rice's scholastic standards-- is smart media. Like, prestigious PR you cannot buy. Would the BOT understand this PR argument? I don't know. Some of you know the BOT members. In one of your elite tete a tetes, lay this line of analysis on'em.

The BOT is well aware of the positive PR and financial (endowment, annual fund) impacts of having successful athletic programs. This was emphasized in the McKinsey study, but was known internally from seeing the dramatic spike in both applications and gift giving in the years immediately following our national championhip run in baseball, and continuing through 2008, during which period we went to Omaha five of seven seasons. They are also fully committed (as is Leebron) to keeping us at the D-1 level. The issue as many have already stated is one of revenues (or lack thereof) and how to overcome the current, very significant subsidy given to the athletic department to cover their annual budgetary deficit. It's why an action-oriented, revenue increasing plan is an imperative if anything is going to change.

To this point, see the following article in the Houston Chronicle re the financial impact from Manziel's Heisman:

http://www.houstonchronicle.com/sports/a...611233.php

Specifically--"Over four months Manziel became the most celebrated Aggies athlete in history, and A&M has said the school expects to net about $250 million based on his winning the Heisman."

While that may be an exaggeration, how far would the real number offset future athletic cost of the Rice program if it occured within the hedges.

Last night the ESPN crawl reported that Manziel was looking to transfer prior to last season. Yesterday he also tweated that he could not wait to get out of College Station. That tweat was withdrawn.

I wonder if all is not well in College Station opening an opportunity for the first game of the 2013 season.

Maybe Manziel should have accepted his other Div 1 football offer that would have allowed him to also play baseball. If he did, he might be in Omaha right now.

Apparently the tweet was in regards to a ticket he got for his car being parked the wrong way in front of his house and for having too dark of a tint on his front window, all the while he was fishing in Port Aransas.

http://deadspin.com/johnny-manziel-was-a...-514442861

I hope that College Station Police Officer enjoys working the graveyard shift for the next month.

Parking the wrong way ..sure. Too dark of a windw tint..?? That's being a jerk.