The portal is the big change. Paying players has always happened.
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big difference between getting parents a job, buying a car and having a agent negotiate a million dollar contract. The former situation could be reasonably competitive for most P4 schools and there were ncaa investigative bodies to prevent it from becoming too overt.
now there is no way to compete with open million dollar contracts negotiated by an agent with mega money blue bloods.
obvious difference
We're not spending much on football NIL. Very few of our signees (high school, JUCO, or transfer) had any other P4 offers.
I think we are paying quite a bit for P4 backups and that’s just the current market. We are definitely spending money on football but I don’t see it moving the needle. It wouldn’t take much to move the needle in Basketball or baseball.
I will say that without the portal, the amount of these NIL deals would get tamped down. Because it's a stretch to pay big money to unproven freshmen, and nobody wants to wait a year for a transfer.
Immediate eligibility broke the dam. I wish they'd fix just that one thing. And then....that would push more players back to JUCO, where we actually benefit.
The biggest difference is having to do it for every player already in your program every year.
You'd be better off if you wouldn't take such hardline stances and argue them to the death. When you say stupid shlt like Leach wasn't a good coach, you look like a dimwit because literally 99% of the world disagrees with you. There was a reason he was so celebrated.
Leach wasn't a bad coach, but to say he was some world beater is inane. I have repeatedly told this board why I didn't like him. His offense was like watching paint dry to me. It was like fingernails on a chalk board. It is literally the worst scheme to watch that has ever existed to me. There was little to no excitement in it unless he had receivers that could roll up YAC. He never had that here and rarely did anywhere.
Yeah. Winning with a boring offense sucks. I would really hate to have that now**
Actually American pro sports are very communistic. Salary caps, payroll taxes, drafts, socialist for sure. European soccer is uber capitalist. College sports are capitalist right now too.
Just stop. When L4 hears “Leach”, he becomes too triggered for rational thought. He was much happier this past season than in 2022.
Leach didn't leave a disaster. Arnett gutted the OC staff and the offensive players transferred out. Some defense too. We get it. You are a rundabawl fan and you hated Leach's offense. Don't rewrite history to fit your hatred of his offense.
Leach left a disaster. Leach left offensive personnel geared to run his offense. Nobody runs that anymore, not the way he did. It was always going to be a disaster when he left. That was the second major reason I was appalled when we hired him, and I said so on here the night we hired him.
Y’all can’t read evidently. I’m not a fan of one dimensional offenses of any kind. They are too easy for good defenses to stop.
Can't believe that mfer didn't know he was gonna die and leave us a disater. What an a hole**
Most of the people who repeated that tired diatribe have stopped doing so because it now sounds so stupid to the majority of the fan base.
Youre a 2-10 fan by every measure
Not really. Maybe here and in your circle. Leach was not as universally worshiped as you groupies think he was. The numbers don’t lie. Opinions are just that. He left a mess. People were warning we were going to take a big step back BEFORE he died. We were winning with defense and the talent was about gone.
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