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Marshall2323 said:
8.5 million and up are designated for uniforms and other apparel. Keep in mind that when estimating the value of such a deal the dollar figure for related items is calculated using "retail value."

This class is comparable with classes of the past decade. It is only lacking the kind of explosive talent that will best Ohio State and Oregon. We will have to wait and see if Indiana is a long term contender and USC is spending like a drunken sailor.
USC concerns me ( I think they have like 6 or 7 NCs since 1960). They have the elite pedigree, the location and apparently the funds to contend.
A "solid" recruiting approach and dependable coaching will yield top 5 results in the conference (a bit better some years and lower others). Schedule and other factors will come into play. For instance this season.....PSU may actually be 10-2. But most people aren't thinking of PSU as a top 2 conference team. If PSU remains in the top 25 of NIL, their ceiling most years will be top 10-15. Hardly excellence at the highest level.
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Wake us up in 12 years and let us know how it turns out…assuming there is anything left of college football by then.
 
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LMTLION said:
Kraft has done a great job with corporate NIL sponsorship deals. He has done a terrible job with wealthy alumni and other rich donors. A good chunk of that information to contact those folks sits behind the cia level fortress walls of the PSU alumni association. They don’t like to share. We have one of the largest alumni networks in the nation and little ability to leverage it. Other schools have figured it out.
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Maybe the potential donors are still pissed sbout Joe being railroaded?
 
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The interesting aspect about Taylor (per pay boards) is that he actually did verbal to Campbell during his visit. Then Nebraska called him the next day with a higher offer and Colorado then matched it. Taylor is a better talent than I thought, and I would give him an elite offer. I just wonder how smart it is to play the game with him. I don’t think it’s necessary to match the offer from those two schools. It’s insulting, as we’re a much better program. Hopefully we can get close enough or Kraft/HVU can find a new revenue opportunity so that we have enough funds to accomplish what we want in the rest of this class and more importantly the January portal class.
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I think a key sticking point for us could be that sweetening the pot for Taylor could mean he gets more than Howard, Sowell and Eskildsen. If that is the case it could cause major lockeroom issues.

I like the idea of sweetening the deal if we can reasonably do it without breaking the bank and still preserving funds for the portal and not causing issues in the WR room. Clearly we are a better program and Taylor knows this so we probably don't have to match Nebby's deal but still be pretty close.
 
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I think a key sticking point for us could be that sweetening the pot for Taylor could mean he gets more than Howard, Sowell and Eskildsen. If that is the case it could cause major lockeroom issues.

I like the idea of sweetening the deal if we can reasonably do it without breaking the bank and still preserving funds for the portal and not causing issues in the WR room. Clearly we are a better program and Taylor knows this so we probably don't have to match Nebby's deal but still be pretty close.
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Sweeten the deal for an unproven high school player? Isn't that what Franklin did with olesh?1
 
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