Didn't El Sux cheat too with the lottery BS?
RIP MSU football. And every other football team outside of 10 or 12 of them.
Because blue-bloods can stockpile talented players that were forced to sign elsewhere before. We will miss out on signing a ton of MS players due to this and will have to raid 'lesser' schools for their talent.
I agree with your second point.
What keeps US from stockpiling? Arent we all restricted by the same #'s? Sorry for being a lazy dubmass for not reading the article.
Because very rarely will players with a Alabama, LSU, Florida, Georgia, Tenn, Texas, Oklahoma or Auburn scholarship offer choose another school not in that group, so those teams will now collectively taking 160 players a year that would have otherwise gone to State, ole miss, Kentucky, Arkansas, etc. and been the best signees of the class. That's a lot of additional talent being kept with the top programs.
It wasn’t cheating since it was available to all students. Same with Vandy, how they can use their endowment for any student to foot their bill.
I'm not sure how much more this hurts us compared to the status quo. Certainly doesn't hurt us compared to what NIL does to us.
I think it'll actually help us a bit. Say Alabama has $10,000,000 NIL and we have $2,000,000. We have 20% of their budget. Now add $22,000,000 to each, and they have $32,000,000 while we have $24,000,000. We now have 75% of their budget and can probably outbid them for players that would sit the bench there but start here.
It's great for a few HS athletes. For most it won't be, not in the long run.
Exactly. That was the reason for the 85 scholarship limit.
Same thing that keeps Jim Bob's Law Firm in Mantachie from stockpiling all the top legal talent from Harvard and Yale. Jim Bob doesn't even have a limit on the number of lawyers he can hire.
If we could spend that money on the top players, I think you'd be right. But Let's say the scholarships are worth about $50k per year at state and bama. So we each have $4.1M of scholarships, and we have $2M a y ear in NIL and they have $10M in NIL, so let's say a total budget of $6.1M and $14.1M. We each get another $1.15M to spend, so now that gap on a percentage basis is shrunk some more, but we can only spend that extra moneys on players already outside of our top 82.
Our best chance to succeed is to basically become a Last Chance U type of program. I think this is a killer in high school recruiting where we have not shown a ton of interest in emphasizing NIL resources, but maybe if you REALLY embrace the portal, some years you may hit it big. But it’s going to be volatile at best.
It's already at that. They'll just be able to allocate scholarships up to that instead of 85 if they choose to do it. And it's stupid as hell!
But why in the hell do they think football teams need 105 players?
Yeah I don’t think there was a need for football expansion whatsoever. The other sports, I can justify. Although college baseball outside the SEC is probably dead now.
Would like to see stats on crootin' rank compared to NIL $$ each player gets. I wonder to what degree are the ACTUAL Limitations our budget places on who we can realistically offer. Has the talent gap grown or shrunken since NIL? Blue Bloods been Out Bidding Common Folk a Long Time.
Well... the Title IX participation ratio, last I checked, was about 75%. So for every 10 scholarships for the men, you'll need 7.5 for women. It's not a true 1:1.
Yeah, and I'm just re-quoting what I read in an article a few months ago, but the piece that I remember reading about Title IX is that it is 100% focused on equal "opportunity" to play rather than any kind of pay/NIL equality. Therefore, what I took from it is that as long as women are still able to receive the same ability to participate in college sports by way of scholarship, Title IX doesn't say a word about any form of payment beyond that. Of course, it was also written well before this became a thing, so who knows what might change with it in the future
