Is this true?

[cncchris33]

So we caved to this kid.....buddy hasn't done a damned thing lol.

It's the sad state of college football

Not surprising at all.

 

[EZE]

So we caved to this kid.....buddy hasn't done a damned thing lol.

It's the sad state of college football

You either play the game as it’s currently played, or you go into camp with 1-2 QBs.

And if Heupel did that? You’d be complaining that he lost two QBs to the portal.

 

[cgrish]

So, how do you figure he gets the auto bid for #1 without proving he earned it?

Just my thoughts. Don't see paying a player over a mil. for one year of playing time with no good stats against quality teams. Again, just my thoughts and opinions, I want whoever is best to start.

 

[SayUWantAreVOLution]

Just my thoughts. Don't see paying a player over a mil. for one year of playing time with no good stats against quality teams. Again, just my thoughts and opinions, I want whoever is best to start.

Peyton Manning, way back when, got a $11.6M signing bonus having zero NFL experience based on his potential. That was well before Merk was born.

I'm sorry you don't understand that athletes get paid a lot of money for potential and have for a very, very long time.

And yes, the NFL isn't college, but it's the same risk/reward calculation: pay for potential vs risk of a bust.

 

[VOLtaism]

The portal is reducing my interest more and more each week it's open. Just following the ups and downs in recruiting was bad enough but this is the roller coaster from hell. Unsustainable.

 

[cgrish]

Peyton Manning, way back when, got a $11.6M signing bonus having zero NFL experience based on his potential. That was well before Merk was born.

I'm sorry you don't understand that athletes get paid a lot of money for potential and have for a very, very long time.

And yes, the NFL isn't college, but it's the same risk/reward calculation: pay for potential vs risk of a bust.

He had a pretty good record against some quality teams in the Sec though.

 

[SayUWantAreVOLution]

He had a pretty good record against some quality teams in the Sec though.

His brother Eli got $20M a few years later with something like a 26-14 starting record. Lord only knows what Arch will get no matter how he does at TX.

Athletes get big money all the time for potential. Some are busts. So are corporate employees that get hired and are busts and leave with massive buyouts.

People on VN act like it's not normal in businesses, especially sports, to hire based on potential from performance elsewhere, often at a lower level. It's nothing new.

 

[unfrozencvmanvol]

Everyone was proud when Spyre was said to be on the cutting edge of the bag slinging culture. You live by the bag, you die by the bag though it turns out. Maybe every team is headed in this direction but we are probably a little further down the mercenary culture route than some. We started pandering to the whores 7/1/21, Nico chief among them.