You here posting tells us you care at least some.
Football apathy
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You were correcting things that Perd got wrong. In the first few comments, you specify those amounts, but I didn't see that Perd had claimed 7 figured was being earned.
Do you see the confusion? You are correcting Perd for something Perd didn't claim.
Yeah I see what your saying but it’s been all over this board that 7 figures was what Luke K was getting. It’s been said on this board Shapen was getting a lot. I think most understood why I brought that up. Apparently not.
Then who was? Just about EVERY P4 school’s projected starting QB is their biggest expenditure. If not, they are doing something very wrong. Shapen was widely reported to be making $1.2-$1.3 million last year, when he didn’t even make it to October. And had he made it through the season, that probably would have been a bargain. This year, he easily got $400k-$500k bare minimum just from the revenue share. Even if he’s not quite hitting 7 figures from NIL, the total package is still way over $1 million annually. From below, you can see the average pay for a halfway decent, proven starter begins at $1.5 million, with portal players often commanding way mo:
Lol. You think he’s got more family wealth than Arch Manning? You know, the guy that sucked while pocketing $5-$6 million this year? You have absolutely no clue how much money is flying around in this current system, or what it takes just to land mediocre talent at the QB position.
I never for one second thought LK was the biggest salary. Good lord.
I truly hope you’re joking. If he has a “nice deal”…..as in, even Top 30 on our current roster, that’s just more evidence that shows how truly clueless this staff and our NIL operation is. We don’t have extra money to be giving “nice deals” to 3rd string QB’s.
No, I didn’t. As stated above, it’s be an absolute embarrassment if we were dumb enough to throw the bank at LK.
Ohhhh. A mitigation clause. That’s fantastic. So, we get to subtract the $300k he’ll be making as Auburn’s outside linebackers coach from the $1.1 million per year we owe for the next 3 years, and only pay him $800k next year! Awesome!
Our defense was a liability in 2023 with those two running the show without an offense that could keep them off the field, and now its about to get even worse, as is the talent
A coach with upside? That’s a new one.
Yet we retained the worst assistant of all (Loadholt) who singlehandedly handicapped our offense more than anyone.
Who cares? Again, we need players. Not buildings. $60 million for an IPF when we already have one is a giant waste of resources.
Still not seeing it. 2-16 in P4 games. 1-15 in SEC play. This staff and players aren’t getting it done. It’s phenomenal that anyone would argue otherwise.
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The title of the thread is literally “football apathy”. The post confirmed that I am indeed apathetic about this bowl game.
If you can’t say “I don’t care” in a thread about apathy, then I’m not sure when you could ever say it.
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Make no mistake. When the game comes around Friday night, I'll be locked in.
You’ve been telling us you don’t care a lot!!
Hilarious. Nice work of AI….
You’re copium really coming through.
Shapen grandfather was an oil man in the Shreveport area worth several serval millions. His father owns several dealerships in Louisiana and Texas. We didn’t pay 1MM to him in 23/24
Yes we had to have a backup to shapen and brought Luke in. It wasn’t dumb what’s dumb is posters like you who want to take message board BS and act like it’s fact
Total defense in 23 wasn’t great but it was about middle of SEC.
We have the NIl and money to upgrade salaries and facilities But you don’t give so your kinda part of the problem anyway
I’m doe providing facts to you. Especially when your source is AI
This is just me, but I'm excited for the game. I haven't seen a live State game in a long, long time.
None of the numbers you are claiming to be be correct and incorrect are publicly known.
This argument is kinda funny to watch because it's not like anyone can actually prove their comment is correct.
We had a plan when we hired Jackie. We had a plan when we hired Mullen. We had a plan when we hired Leach. We don’t have a plan now and haven’t since Leach passed away.
A lot of folks get tired of hearing stuff like that every year. When it starts showing up on the scoreboard people will notice, and I think that's fair.
I'm only halfway watching and haven't seen a crowd shot yet, but you'd think they'd have a good crowd there.
We played Wake Forest a few years ago in the Music City. Good crowd for a cold night, and the game was pretty good too. We didn't blow them out by any means. We bought club level seats through MSU and assumed they'd be good seats, but they were inside the goal line by a good bit. Lots of WF fans on the 50, lower level.
Official just got bowled over. He's trying to look like no big deal, but he's in pain.
Still feel we should be able to play a low level D1 or top level D2 school instead of our spring game. Like one of the Dakota or Montana schools, etc.....and it would count in the standings for the fall. You'd start the fall either 1-0 or 0-1. That would give us a regular season of 13 games. The new spring game would be just like any of the fall games. Band, cheerleaders, the whole 9 yards. Just play it whenever the baseball game wasn't being played....day or night on Super Bulldog Weekend. Game would be included with our season ticket package. SBW will likely be the LSU baseball series weekend.
Then name the highest paid MSU players, and how much they are making….oh wise one. Let’s hear it.
Seriously - can’t wait to hear your spin on how a staff and admin that collectively has a .111 winning percentage in the P4 and a loss at home by 4 TD’s to Toledo is somehow playing 3D chess with its “investments”….. while everyone else is playing checkers.
We’ll all be waiting on your non-response.
Me too. It’s a big opportunity for us to show we can maybe be competitive going forward.
this is a terrible idea. You’d lose a week of spring practice on game prep to play a game nobody would care about anyway.
Funny. I’ve been hearing for years how great our NIL war chest is and how we’re so smart in saving it rather then spending it. We should be winning a national championship soon. Or at least erase the national debt. Fact is if we’ve got NIL money we’re not spending (and recruiting rankings and on field results prove we’re not spending much), we’ve got even bigger idiots running our show then I think we do.
We'd better have something. Well, I have seen that college football is money-driven, and frankly, we don't have many doctors and lawyers in our money base—just the cold hard facts.
More likely, we don’t have a lot of nil money but for some reason it’s verboten to say that plainly
I like 77 but he's the ultimate sunshiner. He wrote a similar post last year too. I respect his optimism but I'm in full show me mode and I don't begrudge anyone who is critical.
Yeah. It doesn’t take a genius to see this. And we didn’t help matters by overpaying for a 3rd string QB who only got a few snaps vs Alcorn.
If you remember, that was a face saving maneuver after losing out on Van Buren and Arnold. Complete waste of money. An experienced FCS grad qb could have been had for about 10% the cost. Really dumb
I think we were fine with letting Van Buren go. Got lucky losing out on Arnold. But yeah, stupid. You have to evaluate players & pick either Taylor or Luke K. Lebby’s indecision cost us this fall.
I’m not talking hindsight, I’m say8ng at the time it was said VB was let go because Lebby had an in with Arnold, and when he was left high and dry, they scrambled to get the top ranked guy on the board….
You’ve missed a lot of good football games on random Tuesdays or Thursdays the last couple of weeks -last Saturday even.
Several more over the next 3 days.
I think it’s possible that we have more NIL than we think but we are just stupid in how we spend it. So basically, even worse than what you said.
I’ll give Selmon credit for fundraising, he can do that. But so could Loaferz. That alone don’t make you an AD.
I think it’s the worst of both. We don’t have much NIL money AND we’re stupid in how we spend it.
along w/ throwing all this money they keep bringing up, which nobody really knows anything about. If money is being spent on all these facilities, players, and coaches, when is there going to be a return on those investments and how long do you keep throwing it against the wall and at these players, coaches, and facilities and still go 0-8 or 1-7 in conference?
I’m so tired of you pǔssy àss cuntshits. The same bítches that are complaining about apathy are the same one that complained last year that complained the year before. WE GET IT. You don’t like college football. Then fück off. And don’t bring your sorry àss around if we ever start winning 8/9 and sniff the playoffs.
I also love the little fǔcktards that say I don’t watch the bowl games because the players don’t care. No, you don’t watch bowl games because your balls are probably in your wife’s purse and you are probably watching Kardashians or some shít. If you did watch games you would have seen plenty of games where players were getting into scuffles and clearly demonstrating that they cared about winning.
DS needs to go on a honeymoon again so Hadad can purge this board of all the estrogen.
I also love the little fǔcktards that say I don’t watch the bowl games because the players don’t care. No, you don’t watch bowl games because your balls are probably in your wife’s purse and you are probably watching Kardashians or some shít. If you did watch games you would have seen plenty of games where players were getting into scuffles and clearly demonstrating that they cared about winning.
DS needs to go on a honeymoon again so Hadad can purge this board of all the estrogen.
We’d probably all be fully done with this staff if we saw the side-by-side comparison of what we paid Kromenhoek and what Ole Miss paid Chambliss.
Oh give me a break. The amount of mental gymnastics it takes to turn “some guys don’t care about bowl games anymore” into a weird masculinity purity test is honestly impressive in the most embarrassing way possible. Not everything has to be filtered through this caveman checklist of what real men are supposedly required to like, as if enjoying or not enjoying a December exhibition game sponsored by a lawn mower company determines anyone’s worth.
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