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1 hour ago, NorthTexasWeLove said:
Sure. But not at these monetary levels. It used to be bags of cash as a sign on bonus, if you will. And that was for the elite of the elite players. Then $100 handshakes by boosters for all, but also geared toward the elite players. Now we will legitimately be having bench players at p5 stay bench players at p5 because the money is better. And g5 head coaches are already resiging their posts and taking p5 coordinator jobs. They see the writing on the wall. They see it up close on a daily basis.
Agree, there was some semblance of programs doing the right thing and following the rules even though they were always getting busted for violations, and everyone knew cheating was going on. It's why I was saying the veil is off now, and making everyone play by those rules has supercharged the whole thing.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but the schools aren't supposed to work with NIL collectives to get players right? But everyone including UNT is 100% working with these collectives to send out deals to players. Same kind of fake rule following like we used to have, just more of it now.
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35 minutes ago, Marty said:
sad day for college sports. They're now just "athletes" & go to the highest bidder.
Let's be honest here, the "student" and "amateur" part have been dead at the highest levels for a long time, but now the veil is completely off and the rest have to play by the same rules.
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To add to that Virginia passes law to allow schools to pay players directly.
https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/39967961/virginia-law-allows-schools-pay-athletes-nil
QuoteThe new law, which is scheduled to take effect July 1, is the first in any state to make it illegal for the NCAA to punish a school for compensating athletes for their NIL rights. Current NCAA rules prohibit schools from signing NIL deals with their own players. The law could either give Virginia schools a significant recruiting advantage or provide a catalyst for similar changes elsewhere.
"If this law gets us closer to a federal or a national solution for college athletics then it will be more than worthwhile," University of Virginia athletic director Carla Williams said. "Until then, we have an obligation to ensure we maintain an elite athletics program at UVA."
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22 hours ago, MeanGreenGlory said:
What's the rationale behind waiting until after spring to get defensive linemen in the portal vs. going after more in the previous portal window?
Isn't that what Littrell did? We see that worked out well...
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13 hours ago, NorthTexasWeLove said:
Football is swirling around the toilet bowl. Not just UNT football, but "mid major" football in general. I expect salary corrections at this "level" as well as staff reductions in the very near future. The NCAA's lack of forward thinking going on decades+ attorneys attacking the NCAA and relegating them to a meaningless governing body has damaged the ship. Sinking is next. Basketball at our "level" can continue to tread water due to not needing as many parts to create a competitive product. Until, of course, the major programs start whittling away at that a la NIT rule changes, Sankey openly telling the NCAA tourney committee to tread lightly in their selections, etc. Presumably more to follow.
I do believe that is by design and not a mistake. There are too many teams in FBS, and the resources were getting too spread around. This whole thing is a way for big teams to consolidate those resources and dilute the rest of the teams that don't have money. I wouldn't be surprised of there is a push to make new FBS requirements, the question is how many teams do they want?
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3 hours ago, Andrew said:
I thought I saw it was just long wood for three years. I stand corrected. Just another dude floating around never happy. These kids are going to struggle bouncing around out there in real life. 10 jobs 15 wife’s 20 countries…. I mean I guess whatever. That’s normal… just move move move move because it’s all about you all the time.
I better not see you celebrate a single bucket he makes.
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1 hour ago, MeanGreenZen said:
I don’t think any of us care about being respectful to Longwood.
Many of us just cheer for players who go to North Texas and when players leave North Texas, we no longer cheer for them.You didn't hear? Transferring is the biggest sleight in all of history. Won't someone think of the loyalty!?!
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2 hours ago, meangreenfaninno said:
Sorry man, I gotta call BS on that. My niece ran track for Nevada and we attended some football and basketball games. They have very poor support and their student services are worse. There are no business of significance there quite frankly that would have dollars to give. I can promise you schools like Utah State and Nevada and San Jose State do not have strong NIL programs or donations in general.
I'd guess that they aren't as scouted/watched/desired out west. The gems get picked up by the big programs, but the rest are overlooked.
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2 hours ago, Shark84 said:
Heard that Edwards, Scott and Buggs were all visiting Memphis. Doubt that all three end up there but how weird would that be?
I saw that Scott was also visiting St. Johns, I guess they liked what they saw when we played them.
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13 hours ago, rcade said:
What I don't understand: How do we know our NIL is underfunded compared to our conference mates and other peers when the financials don't have to be publicly reported?
You can kind of read in between the lines and see teams like CLT and UAB that only lost a couple of players while having really strong years. Memphis is losing bench players and is picking up some really nice commits, and USF lost a good amount but already picked up a 4 star from Alabama. CLT got Rosado from FAU. UAB picked up a 4 star from Iona.
https://247sports.com/season/2024-basketball/transferportal/?institutionkey=24053
https://247sports.com/season/2024-basketball/transferportal/?institutionkey=24036
It's also the timing, you can guess that the early movers have been offered a good chunk of money, meaning the collectives have a good amount of money to spend. We haven't had much news until this part of the cycle, while other teams have already made moves on highly rated recruits.
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3 hours ago, Shark84 said:
Does anyone know if a player announces he is transferring to another school, is that binding or can they back out whenever they want. Is there such a thing as a binding commitment anymore? You would think we have to be getting some guys in here on visits but maybe they just aren't making it public to try to hold on to some. Usually word leaks out,
From my understanding you aren't tied down until you enroll in the school. We've seen some commitments back out and re-open their recruitment, meaning they got a last minute offer and hadn't enrolled yet.
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I'm surprised the MWC is able to keep its players better than some power leagues. NIL money or is the west just not heavily recruited?
It's clear our league has a lot of standout talent, but not enough $$$ to keep them at home.
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On 4/12/2024 at 8:44 PM, NorthTexasWeLove said:
Tangible ideas that will continue to move the AAC upward while also stating initiatives currently in action.
He doesn't take over until June, he can't start flipping tables before he's even officially in. The main message I see is he wants to sell this conference and get revenue up, that's the only way to compete, and he's willing to explore any avenue to do that. That's a pretty astute and positive thing IMO.
https://frontofficesports.com/tim-pernetti-aac-contraversy-private-equity/
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Commendable and understandable.
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5 hours ago, Travis said:
Maybe my anticipations were too high for him and I thought he would be a major contributor early. If he wasn’t coming here I’d just assume he had something we would perceive as a step up. But maybe this was a more mutual parting?? Otherwise I am a bit perplexed.
My thoughts exactly.
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5 hours ago, Shark84 said:
The problem is how fast those guys are signed and how much time they can spend working out together during June-August. This would be a good summer to be able to play in an overseas tournament to help team bonding.
I see teams like Memphis and others are already making portal moves, I'd wager we are a week or so away from stuff trickling down to us.
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No way of knowing until we see who Hodge can get to transfer in.
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34 minutes ago, UNTLifer said:
Per 247, the following players from Memphis have entered the portal:
Cherenfant
Young
Pierre
Taylor
Williams
Ah thanks. I thought it was some old transfer since he weirdly entered the portal since January. Seems like a strange thing to do.
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22 minutes ago, GMoney said:
Hey, we're number 1 again!
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13 minutes ago, UNTLifer said:
Per 247:
OK St 4
OU 3
UT 5
TX Tech 5
ECU 8
Memphis 5
Temple 5
Tulsa 3
USF 4
WSU. 4
Memphis has 4
Pierre
Young
Cherenfant
A. Hardaway
3-4 players seems normal, I don't see a single team up at 7 or more outside of ECU which I mentioned.
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41 minutes ago, UNTLifer said:
Again, you don’t have to look very far to find both examples.
ECU is the other team sticks out in our conference. 7 in the portal, and it seems like they are cleaning house because that's a lot to lose for a team that didn't do well. We are losing 7 plus 1 commit, and more importantly 5 of those were our heaviest minute players. Looking around the conference:
Charlotte-3
ECU-7
FAU-6 lost coach
Memphis-4
Rice-6 fired coach
Temple-2
Tulane-4
Tulsa-3
UAB-2
USF-4
UTSA-3
WSU-4
We and ECU are definitely the outliers, and what I've read from them it sounds like they asked their players to leave so they could start fresh.
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2 hours ago, NorthTexasWeLove said:
We lost less last year with a coaching change.
Ouch...
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4 hours ago, UNTLifer said:
You don't have to look very long or hard to realize we aren't in this boat alone.
4 hours ago, wardly said:Indiana State lost their coach and 7 players.
Players leaving due to coach leaving makes sense to me. You like that coach and he recruited you there, maybe you don't want to play in an unknown system. I understand those reasons. We are not in that situation, our coach is still here.
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21 minutes ago, Matt from A700 said:
The only positive thing I can take from this is the dude is taking the nut kicking pretty well. Perhaps meaning we'll still win 20 games next year?
True. I guess we'll see if the gif is accurate or if I should have posted someone writhing on the ground instead.
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Doesn't seem new, but unlimited transfers
in Mean Green Football
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I can't blame them, the system in place allows them to profit and to move freely. We may not like it, but it's the system.
I'm hoping schools taking over the collectives, it's already happening for reasons I stated above, will usher in contracts and buy outs for players. We've opened Pandora's box so we aren't going back to amateur sports, the best we can get out of it is payment on our investments.