Currently on the plane to go watch the biggest testiment to our NIL failures, Mohamed Toure , excel against Florida, for Miami. He’d easily be our best defensive player, today, even at much less than 100%. How much better would this defense be with Toure and Wesley Bailey? I’d say a lot better. Instead, we have serious defensive deficiencies at all three levels. In particular, The ends and tackles were seriously manhandled yesterday, and were clearly gassed at the end of the game.
This fanbase just isn’t serious about fielding successful football or basketball teams. Thankfully we are serious about complaining on the messageboard.
If we were serious, we would have collectively donated at least $5M. Even this amount pales in comparison to the $20M that Ohio State spends. For starters, we need 1,000 donating 1,000 for NIL.
So we will always be at a disadvantage against programs with fans serious about competing, IE Iowa, whose quarterback alone is getting $1M+.
So we do the best we can, competing on the cheap, and hope for the best, knowing that the outcome probably isn’t going to be to our liking against the better teams on our schedule. Our best team in a long time was 10 pts worse than Iowa. Nevertheless, Satisfied with the effort out there, and we should fall within our normal’s 5 to 9 Win performance band.
It’s just a shame we will be wasting the stellar performances of our quarterback and Wide Receivers. Athan, if he maintains his current trajectory, will be drafted. Ian Strong and Korey Duff will be pursued, during the NIL period, and offered big bags. We waited so long to watch a strong quarterback, strong running back and and strong wide receiver performances, and it’s all for naught because the defense stinks.
