I got a chuckle from the TCU Offensive Analyst and Recruiting Coordinator Bryan Carrington stated in a thread on Twitter criticizing “unique NIL deals.” This guy commented “the reality is that that extra 2k it’s gonna be a concrete ceiling for most players in scarce markets that are oversaturated with 85 scholarship players attempting to ‘build their a brand’ in a desert…” The “desert” is in reference to Lubbock, Texas, that quaint hot and dusty little metropolus, home of the Red of Texas Tech University. Well, I lied. Lubbock is not quaint, expecially in the Summer, Fall, Spring, or Winter. But it hot is Summer and damn cold many nights in winter. Back to what has made the Frog man mad….. Texas Tech has promised all of the 85 scholorship players and 15 walk-ons in that football program will earn $25,000 ub NIL money. That really does not sit well for the folks in Fort Worth.
It seems that Mr. Carrington does not like what Tech as done with NIL chump change and his statements back that up. The funny of the comment is that TCU might be in the Metroplex of Dallas-Fort Worth, but if you have ever been to Fort Worth, they seem to suffer the same “desert” like environment as Lubbock, without the clean smog free air that West Texas citizens of Lubbock get to enjoy. And Fort Worth is the largest “cow town” south of another big time bovine city, Oklahoma City. Give me Fort Worth over Lubbock? No, give me neither. I will take OKC with Cattleman’s Steak House, the Thunder on Reno Street, and Bricktown and what it has to offer.
That is the way I see it sports fans.
Feature photo: © Provided by KLBK Lubbock. Red Raider fans clap back after TCU Horned Frogs recruiting coordinator calls Lubbock a ‘desert’
