assembling their rosters creatively
The four collegiate Football Playoff teams demonstrated how much a financial infusion has altered collegiate athletics by building their rosters in inventive ways using cash payments from fan “collectives.”
In November, the Texas Longhorns played the Iowa State Cyclones. An early example of collective bargaining was Texas’s attempt to compensate its linemen.Give credit…Reuters, via Aaron E. Martinez/USA TODAY Sports
Billy Witz and David A. Fahrenthold
From New Orleans, where Texas and Washington were getting ready for their College Football Playoff semifinal match, David Fahrenthold provided updates. Michigan and Alabama were getting ready for theirs, but Billy Witz was reporting from Los Angeles.
31 December 2023
The once-dominant Texas Longhorns have recently concluded a 5-7 football season in late 2021, suffering their first six-game losing streak since 1956. The team’s coach, Steve Sarkisian, stated, “We need bigger humans.”
Texas discovered a new, or at least newly legal, method of recruiting them during the off-season: money.
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