A popular opinion among a lot of college coaches is that Acaden is the best *college* point guard prospect in the 2025 class, which would explain his final four schools.
to belittle the fans
We needed Cal to get outta the way!!
it would be nice to have a point guard that can score & create on his own.
You mean like when Devin Askew literally made it 4 on 5 every game.
Even after 4 years of college he still wasn’t any good.
Anyone who says they know a dollar amount on players is lying...period.
I'm surmised that our budget is in the $5 to $6 million range. Barnhart said two boosters pledged $4 million combined. Club Blue is now in excess to $1 million (and counting). So, is it a safe assumption that BBN could scrounge up $1 million more? I'd say so. That's $6 million, and that's a pretty conservative estimate.
That was a weird pick too. He definitely is in the loop. I don’t care about the % because they change the last day when something changes, but he generally knows where the wind is blowing.
Let’s say the second rotation guys average 200k, that’s a million for 5 guys. That leaves 4 million for 5 starters give or take a million. I believe Dilly got like 700k. So you could get some elite freshman around that rate. Probably more for elite portal guys and stuff.
The issue is we need to get that every year now. If we can get 2 million from club blue, I’m guessing we could get 3-4 million from ultra huge boosters on average a year. Business deals and other sponsorships we need to bag soon. Then whatever schools revenue share and can pay soon.
The guys over on Sleepers Media were asking BBN if we were tired of OAD, and in the comments section, almost everyone said that OAD was never the issue. It was Cal's inability to use players properly, and his failure to retain guys who clearly weren't OAD material (Goodwin, Orton, Boston, Diallo, Teague, etc.).
Anyone who thinks talent is a problem is goofy, we dominated with freshman for like 8 years. It can be done, but supplementing them with super college guys will work even better.
We truly have a small section of the fan base that is completely moronic on the "No more OAD" argument. They forget how many of our OADs were absolutely sensational when they were at UK.
What? Why would it? The average student has no reason to be paid for their NIL as they don’t offer anything unique or in demand.
LFG!
I know some of you don't like him, but Trilly has a verry good prediction rate. Maybe Acaden wanted this out with Brown visiting right now?
This the concern. Where is this $ going to come from every year? Why can't it come from the TV revenue? Just can't see the boosters come up with $ every year.
The people I know aren’t really “anti one &done” . They just don’t want it to be the main thing our program is about.
Me either, I think the majority needs to come from revenue sharing and the school from TV revenue.
”Normal students” have been eligible for NIL forever, it was only the athletes who weren’t.
Agree, the same people aren't going to contribute $4 million every year endlessly. There has to be another source of NIL income. So, how do you come up with that many millions every year? What a mess NIL has created.
