Jakobe Thomas in the portal

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lukeneyland said:
Ok so you believe that all these major collectives are operating financially independent of the revenues of the AD?
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Yes. If you can point out one that isn't please let us know. I believe a university AD funding their collective would be news.

Lots of eyes on hundreds of millions of dollars
 
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utvolpj said:
Yes. If you can point out one that isn't please let us know. I believe a university AD funding their collective would be news.

Lots of eyes on hundreds of millions of dollars
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It wouldn’t have to be hundreds. That seems improbable given the nature of the sport. If you ain’t cheating then you ain’t trying in the SEC. Also weren’t schools cleared to pay athletes anyway? Has that not gone into effect yet?
 
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lukeneyland said:
It wouldn’t have to be hundreds. That seems improbable given the nature of the sport. If you ain’t cheating then you ain’t trying in the SEC. Also weren’t schools cleared to pay athletes anyway? Has that not gone into effect yet?
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The AD is the hundreds of millions. They are heavily scrutinized and release their Financials every year

No not yet and that will be subject to title ix regs. It will be equally distributed
 
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Is this decision based off the player being told we're going after a safety and that could potentially replace him?
Should we be looking for a person safety signing due to this?
 
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utvolpj said:
The AD is the hundreds of millions. They are heavily scrutinized and release their Financials every year

No not yet and that will be subject to title Xi regs. It will be equally distributed
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I’m pretty certain that Trump’s administration indicated title 9 would not apply to paying players.
 
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CobbWebb71 said:
These players don’t care about playing time, it’s all about the straight cash homie!
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Yea, I think you're right.
It seems like 'playing time' was a commodity ONLY bc it WAS necessary to get the exposure to make it to the league, where they (USED TO) get the "bag". NOT ANYMORE--
NOW, they get a hefty satchel without the need for guaranteed p.t., based on some sort of "expert" evals comparing apples to oranges (most of the time).
But I digress, this is classic, "it is, what it is", imo...
 
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mitzustu said:
Minus Brooks, Charles, Slaughter, Thomas….. all we have at Safety is Turrentine.

What’s going on with football. We can afford Ament in basketball and can’t keep two starting safeties on a roster???
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Sleepy Josh.
 
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mitzustu said:
Minus Brooks, Charles, Slaughter, Thomas….. all we have at Safety is Turrentine.

What’s going on with football. We can afford Ament in basketball and can’t keep two starting safeties on a roster???
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Heupel seems to be over his head in dealing with the portal. He needs to be more proactive, or he needs to hire someone to help him navigate the protal
 
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unfrozencvmanvol said:
The last defense Martinez coached at Georgia, the one he got fired for, had Justin Houston on it who played for the Chiefs and had over 100 career NFL sacks (4 pro bowls). We hung 45 on them with Jonathan Crompton at QB. They had Geno Atkins too, who made 8 pro bowls.
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You know that there are 11 players on defense.
 
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Savings in reserve with NI transferred and somehow the collective can't find it in the budget to pay him a few shekels?
 
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Illinoisvolfan2 said:
But at least the pros have contracts which the players adhere to almost 100% of the time. Here? I don’t know if these kids actually have contracts. I would assume they do if they are getting NIL money
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My understanding of these NIL deals is that they are more akin to memoranda of understandings than true contracts. While we tend to focus on the big dollar ones with the elite players, there are hundreds of kids that the collectives "promise" money to that in many cases they don't get or don't get it all. Its chaos for the coaches because the moneys coming from a third party that they don't really control. The universities don't want real contracts with these kids, because then they become employees of the university which opens up a whole other can of worms. The market will eventually sort out the relative value of the players, the Nico fiasco was a huge step in that direction. I don't know how they get a handle on basically everyone being a free agent every time the portal opens.
 
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