I like O'Malley and have no doubt that he was told that, but I'd put more stock in what Brice was told as he seems to know what the NIL payrolls for the blue blood programs are. He wrote an article and mentioned that multiple sources told him that Georgia's payroll this year was $12 Million, and followed up on a podcast that ND's payroll was "half or a little more than half of Georgia's" which would be about $7 Million.
Why not? The NCAA is a toothless tiger...there were grown men playing their 8th and 9th season this year.
Reading between the lines from what the II folks said, it sounded like Fisher was just done with school and wanted to go to the NFL. I have no doubt they went to him and asked him if there was a number it would take to get him to come back and would've taken care of him if he gave them a number, like they did with Cross/Mills/Watts last year.
Carnell Tate would be the best receiver on 90% of teams.
The problem is that if the current House settlement with the clearing house stands there is not going to be any above board spending on high schoolers anymore. That's why Michigan, Oregon, and some others emptied the bank this past cycle.
Some numbers that we know according to Brice:
Tate is one they should absolutely back channel. They have a relationship with him and you push the "he'll always be #2 to Smith at osu."
Fair question... but I still don't understand why Collins played over him. That was a waste of a pick up imo.
I'm excited for Cam Williams, but feel like we should hold off on penciling him into the lineup until we hear he's coming along. All we've heard is that he wasn't ready as a freshman, not that he would be ready as a sophomore
Correct.
1. Every NIL payment has to go through clearing house now with the expressed intent of stopping pay-for-play.
This team would look different if the team was healthy... they absolutely had enough talent and coaching to win a title. Notre Dame is so much closer to a championship than many realize, apparently.
IIRC, the clearinghouse requirement only applies to school-affiliated collectives.
Bullshit on this, we are good enough to win a Natty now! We were right there and we have the talent to do it. Simply didn't show up. We can play against anyone. We just knocked out 3 top ten teams. I'm all for paying players but Tate was playing game with the market hard. Id honestly rather have a guy like Love on the team who bet on himself.
Is this true? Would make a huge difference. Do you have a link to that?
I'll have to look; it would have been from an article. I haven't pulled any of the case docs off PACER.
Yeah that was a bit of a swing and a miss by him.
Stock the cupboards, let the cream rise.
Think 90% is too low.
