Buy or Sell
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Buy, but only for a 2 or 3 year window. This current situation of pay for play and a transfer portal with no strings attached will wreck the sport. The big time conferences will eventually pump the brakes on this prostitution ring (much to Hugh Freeze’s chagrin)
We may sign them. But we won’t keep them for 3 years.
Tell that to Perkins from Raleigh
ETA and to think that these players you are talking about weren’t paid for is naive. They are just paid more now, as there are more resources, and publicly.
Slight Sell - I don’t know how much it’ll matter with MS / AL kids.
But, I do worry about holding onto players from Atlanta, New Orleans, Dallas, etc.
But, I do worry about holding onto players from Atlanta, New Orleans, Dallas, etc.
My hope is recruiting will stay about the same, since schools can only sign up so any players. When they hit their limit of signees (all 5 star players at Bama, GA, aTm, etc) schools like MSU wil recruit from the leftovers.If they develop for us, some 5-star school will take them second or third or fourh year through the "portal of theft". Perhaps we will get some of their castaways through that same portal. Sadly I see not that many three and four star players staying with the rich programs all four years. Many will be forced out and go looking for a new school. Maybe we wil get some of them.
It will be a given that players we sign will leave to follow the money if they wind up being high value players after a year or two of training at MSU or hte schools like us.
Hopefully it will sort itself out eventually, but the "Good Old Days" are gone forever, just like Len Lew's, and the Crossroads.
Sigh.
It will be a given that players we sign will leave to follow the money if they wind up being high value players after a year or two of training at MSU or hte schools like us.
Hopefully it will sort itself out eventually, but the "Good Old Days" are gone forever, just like Len Lew's, and the Crossroads.
Sigh.
Sell. I think that you may see more players taking a chance on a school because they know they can move at will.
Sell.
Jeffrey Simmons was offered a lot more money to go somewhere else than he got to come to Mississippi state.
Buy, kinda.
The kinda is that we'll lose out on them coming out of high school, but might get them in the portal. If the NIL deals are front-loaded or have the same value year-to-year, we could pick up good quality players who aren't getting much playing time. Yeah $200k/year is a lot for a college player, but if you have one year of eligibility left, aren't getting the PT you want, and still have NFL dreams, you might give up that $200k for a shot, even if it means transferring to a school that could only give you $50k max.
I think it will end up like the MLB draft where college seniors get screwed on signing bonuses. You'll be able to get good athletes with one year of eligibility left without having to provide much of your own NIL money (not that they can't figure out how to get extra on their own).
The kinda is that we'll lose out on them coming out of high school, but might get them in the portal. If the NIL deals are front-loaded or have the same value year-to-year, we could pick up good quality players who aren't getting much playing time. Yeah $200k/year is a lot for a college player, but if you have one year of eligibility left, aren't getting the PT you want, and still have NFL dreams, you might give up that $200k for a shot, even if it means transferring to a school that could only give you $50k max.
I think it will end up like the MLB draft where college seniors get screwed on signing bonuses. You'll be able to get good athletes with one year of eligibility left without having to provide much of your own NIL money (not that they can't figure out how to get extra on their own).
And the topic said nothing about 5* players. It even listed a 4* in AJ Brown. We’re talking about the top players in the state, and Perkins is the top player in MS
Bama had 13 players enter the portal at the end of this season. If you can sign 25 players each season. 42% doesn't sound like a made up # from Finebaum.