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I hate this. All of it. The coaching carousel, the NIL deals, the portal chaos all just drive costs and expectations to unreal levels. The only real "players" are the schools that seem to have unlimited resources (LSU, Ohio State, et al). Everyone else is just gonna be hoping everything can come together for one magical season.
 
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I thought Wallace had potential to contribute but he had some injuries in the off season.... he's definitely a hard worker - wish him well.
 
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Clad in Big Orange said:
I hate this. All of it. The coaching carousel, the NIL deals, the portal chaos all just drive costs and expectations to unreal levels. The only real "players" are the schools that seem to have unlimited resources (LSU, Ohio State, et al). Everyone else is just gonna be hoping everything can come together for one magical season.
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Yup. Like everything else, college sports is a business. There’s no loyalty anymore. 🎫 prices are going up and we’re getting a crap product. Not just UT, everywhere in 🏈 look at the NFL. There’s no truly great, dominant teams.

The QB landscape is very weak compared to where it has been. Julian Sayin might win the Heisman throwing to 2 🔝 10 first round receivers and beating “checks notes” Texas in Arch’s first start and Michigan with a decrepit offense
 
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MDsweetT said:
Yup. Like everything else, college sports is a business. There’s no loyalty anymore. 🎫 prices are going up and we’re getting a crap product. Not just UT, everywhere in 🏈 look at the NFL. There’s no truly great, dominant teams.

The QB landscape is very weak compared to where it has been. Julian Sayin might win the Heisman throwing to 2 🔝 10 first round receivers and beating “checks notes” Texas in Arch’s first start and Michigan with a decrepit offense
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A big complaint of the 2010-2020 era of college football (not saying from you specifically) was that a small number of dominant ran the sport and won almost all the time. Now it's bad a bunch of different teams have a chance to win any given week.
 
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SayUWantAreVOLution said:
Then the complaint from you would be: Why don't we have any depth on this team when someone is injured?

How can you have "next man up" if there's no next man there?
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All I am saying, is I would rather pay the money on contributors with some experience than spending it on guys who will not see the field for a couple of years.

How much did we pay Nico before he played? How much are we paying McIntyre?
 
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Godfatha said:
All I am saying, is I would rather pay the money on contributors with some experience than spending it on guys who will not see the field for a couple of years.

How much did we pay Nico before he played? How much are we paying McIntyre?
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Again, if you can't pay guys to sit, you can't compete. It's that simple.

If we refuse to pay Faizon Brandon to sit and learn as a freshman, he'll go somewhere that will and we'll never see him in orange. If we insist he has to start as a freshman, he'll do what's good for his career and go somewhere that won't.

Your call but this isn't a "let's do it on the cheap" sport.
 
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SayUWantAreVOLution said:
Then the complaint from you would be: Why don't we have any depth on this team when someone is injured?

How can you have "next man up" if there's no next man there?
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Exactly. People talk about backups as if they do nothing and are not ‘contributors’. They suit up every day like the starters, and put in a day of work each day the 1st/2nd team does. If nothing else, they’re scrimmage pieces just like the non-FBS teams we play.

If they’re getting paid, it’s commensurate with their value, large or small.

Folks got some weird ideas around here.
 
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Rocky Top T said:
I was responding to another post. Take what I said out of context, then you run that smart mouth
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You responded to me. Either keep up, or make better posts...or both lest you be subjected to more smart mouthednessery.
 
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Clad in Big Orange said:
I hate this. All of it. The coaching carousel, the NIL deals, the portal chaos all just drive costs and expectations to unreal levels. The only real "players" are the schools that seem to have unlimited resources (LSU, Ohio State, et al). Everyone else is just gonna be hoping everything can come together for one magical season.
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Yep. College football blows now.
 
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Godfatha said:
Wonder how much we are paying these guys who never see the field, only for them to hit the portal? Seems like money thrown down the toilet.
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If you knew how much $$ is was tied up in this freshman class, 80% of whom contributed nothing, you’d vomit. Major awareness fail by Heupel. He should have signed fewer HS players and gotten about 6-7 more portal players.
 
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VolRage said:
There is rumor of Brazzell going to LSU but I don’t believe that for one second.
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As others have said, Brazzell is headed for the draft. WR's with his meaurables that can stretch the field are gold in the NFL, and he played himself into late 1st/early 2nd territory with the combine still to come.. It would surprise me if he isn't a 1st round pick.
 
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SayUWantAreVOLution said:
This was the same complaint from the "bag man" days. We always said "they paid them" when Alabama recruited highly but the real truth was "they outbid us."

The money is much higher now but the schools that are able and willing to pay more, just as it's always been, will be successful. There are a few different schools paying now but a lot of the usual suspects are right there.

Nice things, like elite football teams, cost money. They always have and always will. If we're trying to do it "on the cheap" it's not going to go well for us. Phil Fulmer did not win at UT from an empty bag.
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I don't think this new system compares in any way to the old system where you paid 4 or 5 top players under the table and could field a good team. Now you must hold on to your recruits while other teams openly bid for them and the same goes for the rest of the team. Literally everyone is getting something and every one of them thinks they need more and the stakes go up every year. This years portal will be nothing like last years portal as players get smarter and coaches get desperate. We are stealing their players while they steal our players and we are all trying to hang on to our recruiting classes. You must replace all the players you will lose and still get the overall number of players you need. Its 3 dimensional compared to the bag man days.
 
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05_never_again said:
A big complaint of the 2010-2020 era of college football (not saying from you specifically) was that a small number of dominant ran the sport and won almost all the time. Now it's bad a bunch of different teams have a chance to win any given week.
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It isn't necessarily the parity itself that is the issue, it's the fact that instead of more teams stepping up and being great it is a 'dumbing down' due to NIL and portal movement spreading the wealth and cohesive units being impossible to build, resulting in mediocrity across the board. The quality of the game suffers, just as it has over the last couple of decades in the NFL.

Aside from Ohio State, and we honestly don't even know about them yet due to that joke schedule, who are the great teams this year? Or last year? "Any given Saturday" sounds really nice until the games are sloppy messes, which is becoming more the rule than exception.
 
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VOLtaism said:
I don't think this new system compares in any way to the old system where you paid 4 or 5 top players under the table and could field a good team. Now you must hold on to your recruits while other teams openly bid for them and the same goes for the rest of the team. Literally everyone is getting something and every one of them thinks they need more and the stakes go up every year. This years portal will be nothing like last years portal as players get smarter and coaches get desperate. We are stealing their players while they steal our players and we are all trying to hang on to our recruiting classes. You must replace all the players you will lose and still get the overall number of players you need. Its 3 dimensional compared to the bag man days.
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There's a lot more money and the bag men didn't have to deal with the portal and multiple transfers. Agree.

But the point remains that it's all about the money and always was.

When we paid well for talent, we won. When we didn't, we lost.

The same will remain true in this era except the portal means you don't just recruit a guy once, you recruit that guy every year if he's good AND the market value of players is crazy inflated now with no "bubble bursting" in sight.

Those counting on Congress to fix this apparently haven't been watching Congress "fix things" for the last about 50 (being generous and taking a low estimate) years.
 
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