Texas Tech football coach Joey McGuire on roster squeeze, tampering
Texas Tech football coach Joey McGuire discusses players on bubble to make 105-man roster. He also says agents ‘shopping players’ in college football
DALLAS — He doesn’t need this. He can walk away right now, and leave the unseemly unraveling of college sports to someone else.
Hop on a plane and escape Washington D.C. and the land of everybody’s got an angle, and be home in the DFW Metroplex in a matter of hours. An amateur sports world of turmoil in his wake.
Or he could do what he has always done.
Fix the problem.
“I’ve built and sold $15 billion worth of companies,” Cody Campbell says. “I’m not a dumbass.”
Of all the upheaval, of all the unthinkable moves over the last four years that have drastically changed college sports, none would be more improbable than this.
A deep-pocket booster, a capital investment savant, saving college football – and by proxy, college sports – from itself.
He knows what you’re thinking. What does a billionaire businessman, a Texas Tech sports sugar daddy, know about saving college football?
The logical response: what do university presidents know? Because they’re the men and women in charge of it all now — and doing a catastrophically poor job of it.
Cody Campbell part of Donald Trump’s team
Campbell, 43, sees the dichotomy of it all, and at this point, the only thing that matters is the most powerful man in the world believes Campbell has a chance to assess the problems of college sports – with its front porch money-maker, football – and fix it.
Though the White House hasn’t officially announced it, President Trump and Campbell – a former offensive lineman at Texas Tech in the early 2000s – have spoken at length about how to fix the problems of the last four years of paradigm…
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