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Jiggafini19Deux

Jiggafini19Deux

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NDohio said:
Yep, $146 million and that is only for head coaches. That doesn't include coordinators or position coaches.

We need guardrails to keep these kids from having too much mobility!! Someone call Tuberville and get him to propose a new bill to control these kids!
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Right.

Then you start tabulating the salaries handed out to the guys who replaced THOSE guys, it's a fiscal fecal explosion. TAMU dropped $120M on Fisher and Elko.

The Senator from Alabama, who lost a game to Vanderbilt, should lecture these athletic departments on fiscal responsibility soon.
 
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Jiggafini19Deux said:
Just stay for 4-5 years and grind it out. Surely the coaches were completely honest during the recruiting process and are keeping all of their promises. Work hard, bootstrap it and show the coaches that you simply can't be replaced. They won't go looking for new players.

Here is more context to it:

  1. 532 FBS players. 304 from Power 5 programs, 228 from the Group of 5.
  2. Nearly 100 walk ons
  3. 421 FCS players.
  4. Grand total: 1,127.
  5. December 5, 2022: 780 entries.
Clemson actually offered a player. A Division II OL that everyone is raving about. Oh, the humanity. Saint Dabo dipped into The Portal?

Before anyone clutches their pearls a fourth or fifth time, please be reminded that the grand total for head coaching buyouts was a new record this year. A good chunk of that was Jimbo Fisher, yes, but it was hundreds of millions of dollars nonetheless.
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So what’s your take on the % that don’t find a home, lose their full ride scholarship and never go another college class? How is that beneficial to them and their future family’s success? Wouldn’t it benefit them if they are a third string player that never sniffs the field with a degree in hand and no college debt?

I think there is a lot more to this than player empowerment or coach’s insane contract levels. Even as an ex college athlete, I don’t have a real answer to solve it, but this isn’t sustainable nor logical in the long run.
 
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FWIrish4 said:
So what’s your take on the % that don’t find a home, lose their full ride scholarship and never go another college class? How is that beneficial to them and their future family’s success? Wouldn’t it benefit them if they are a third string player that never sniffs the field with a degree in hand and no college debt?

I think there is a lot more to this than player empowerment or coach’s insane contract levels. Even as an ex college athlete, I don’t have a real answer to solve it, but this isn’t sustainable nor logical in the long run.
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Haven't seen those numbers or heard any of those stories just yet. My take is, ultimately, free will. Everyone has decisions to make in life. For the big time guys like Joe Burrow and Jalen Hurts, transferring paid massive dividends for them in the end. For these walk ons and FCS guys, G5 guys, anyone that leaves and gets left in the lurch without a home I suppose it's an early life lesson.

In the grand scheme of it, we're talking over 1000 players which equates to 7% of Division I football players. That doesn't seem like it's a lot. I think the entire process is more new to us as fans and the general public, and when you face it, anything new typically is met with feelings of confusion, anger, fear. They're young athletes, and therefore you will have people who were never in a similar position feel that they're entitled to begin with and therefore this is all just enabling already entitled youngsters.

We'll see down the line whether this is sustainable or logical, but right now I think it's the shock and awe that leading to a lot of pearl clutching because this is opportunity, benefit and freedom that was previously restricted and is thus making a lot of fans uncomfortable.
 
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NDWarrior said:
I know it was tough coming back this year after a game 10 or 11 major knee injury end of last year, but I think he is a good QB.
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1) He's Canadian, eh! 2) He also can tuck and run effectively when needed; 3) He's very experienced and a natural leader; 4) he's already married and already said he wants to take a shot at the NFL, secondarily the CFL where his older brother (also a Ohio QB) plays; 5) he already said after his attempt to make it in the big leagues, he 100% wants to be a coach. He has ND written all over him!
 
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NDWarrior said:
I know it was tough coming back this year after a game 10 or 11 major knee injury end of last year, but I think he is a good QB.
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I was all about Kurtis Rourke and hoping for a transfer near the end of last year, then the injury. I've come around on Leonard - but if it somehow fell through and Rourke was the guy - they hype would be dead, but I wouldn't be less confident in the season.
 
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