But Jerry Jones is reportedly "offering double" to UK players and recruits. Please! Don't fall for it.
Arkansas couldn't match Calipari's UK contract dollar for dollar...
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This, along with the FedEx deal, are nice to throw up at the beginning. But someone is going to look at this money, see that it really didn't get them anything, and those dollar amounts will go back to nothing in a few years.
No way this stuff lasts. You don't HAVE to spend double or triple what other teams are spending, just to win a national title.. something that probably isn't going to be worth the money at places like Arkansas or Memphis
Like, cool Memphis won a national title and only had to spend 30million.. all they will get for it is a 10% boost in apparel sales and more riots in downtown. Congrats!
No way this stuff lasts. You don't HAVE to spend double or triple what other teams are spending, just to win a national title.. something that probably isn't going to be worth the money at places like Arkansas or Memphis
Like, cool Memphis won a national title and only had to spend 30million.. all they will get for it is a 10% boost in apparel sales and more riots in downtown. Congrats!
Most of these teams spending all this money on NIL are never gonna win anything that matters anyways.
It's all a bit goofy.
He's shtick is long past it's expiration date. They picked him up in the bargain bin aisle and still paid too much.
Huh? He builds teams for MARCH. Uh huh.
Maybe with Cal going to Arkansas the NCAA’s microscope goes there with him!
Been saying this from the beginning.
Sooner or later, ALOT of people throwing this money around are going to realize that they aren’t getting any return investment and stop offering up all these funds.
No. It sucks to be an Arkansas fan with John Calipari and sleazy Bob Petrino as your coaches.
Arkansas fans like yourself will find out soon enough........for a second time with Petrino.
Tell Coach Pittman to watch his back. Both those guys will knife him.
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3 years max at Arkansas.
People aren’t following him like he thought and Cal is as thin skinned as they come.
People aren’t following him like he thought and Cal is as thin skinned as they come.
Our government seems to have the same idea. If you throw enough money at something, surely it will fix itself, right? Without ever trying to dig in and understand the roots of the issue. Cal had some of the best players here for the last 5 years, and he didn't produce. You can give him all the money to get all the talent, but he doesn't manage it as well as he once did. He now has a chip on his shoulder and something to prove, so we may see a new invigorated version of Cal. He had grown soft here. Maybe giving him all the money and all the talent in a different situation like Arkansas may propel him to succeed. I'm just saying it didn't happen here for the last 5 years with those resources. He can't blame that on Mitch or the administration. He was still getting players, the results were on him alone.
But he overpaid in the worse way and did it.
You can’t wish you didn’t afterwards.
This is something I hope is true. If it is, then getting rid of the NCAA ref bias would be the greatest part of getting rid of CCC.
How does UK who allegedly has the worst NIL in the conference besides Vandy, an AD who doesn’t support NIL, and has JMI hurting NIL outrecruit Arkansas in football 2 of the 3 years that NIL has been a thing? Something’s not adding up. Maybe Jerry Jones and the other booster’s don’t care about football.
Yes, I agree. His performance has called into question his whole "players first" system. I think he will be driven and consumed to prove his legacy to basketball. His system failed at The Premier basketball school. I personally don't see how success with the system at a second-tier school can shore up his legacy.
However you want to view it, not sure why it matters, you got what you wanted…we got what we wanted, no reason to be bitter.
It’s not they don’t care, it’s they have no confidence in the coaches. Let’s say we hired…Urban Meyer (just an available big name, not a real candidate or even somebody desirable) you’d see the same push from Boosters to support and provide the tools. Cal is the equivalent of Urban Meyer without all the baggage and off the field stuff. Pittman…not so much.
You would think that Arkansas would be more concerned about going toe-to-toe with Texas A&M for football recruits?
No confidence in leadership of football program, it’d be a poor investment (in their opinion).
They are shopping in the discount bin at Wal-Mart with their coach, but they are voluntarily overpaying for recruits out of spite. If they are going to act like they are swinging a big money D with the outlandish headlines, then do you see how this doesn't compute?
Maybe he'll sell the Cowboys to become more liquid...and give them a chance to win a Super Bowl again. He was going to draft Johnny Manziel! He's not all there.