We aren't going to beat out Alabama and LSU for any recruit very often and it has nothing to do with NIL. Our NIL is better than our recruiting ranking right now which is dead *** last.
Malzahn would be a good get for us. I am not certain that he would want to leave Central Florida, though. They are in a Power 5 conference. Texas and Oklahoma are about to be our problem and not theirs.
So have I. I wanted to hire Paul Johnson way back when. Now more than ever, with the way college football is now, and with who we are in that realm, something that extreme, with a great coach like a Paul Johnson or Mike Leach is eminent.You are correct, but I can’t let you take credit for this. I’ve been screaming this idea for years.
Why does it seem strange? They’re spending more money attacking the portal. It’s almost that simple.
Guys! Look! We played Alabama fairly close this year. What is the worry?! You really want to fire the coach that scored some points on the worst Alabama team since 2007?**
Leach would still be calling and running his “system” offense, and Arnett would still be solely preparing for and calling our defense instead of now standing on the sideline arms folded and emotionless. We lost both our head coach and both our offensive and defensive coordinators. Both look completely different
What does it have to do with, then?
Yea I saw a good question asked somewhere, would being ranked behind Vandy in recruiting and being a 9 point dog to a 2-5 Arkansas team , only 6 games into the season be a record for tanking a program ?
They're blue blood programs who routinely fill the NFL draft with players and they win titles. And OM doesn't regularly beat out those teams for players either- That's laughable. Everything isn't about NIL.
Then explain why them and Florida have the Top 4 players in MS, and we have zero. Like it or not, they are paying up, because they can. Surely you don’t think they are all taking half of what they’d get at Bama or LSU to stay in state?
That’s the entire point. NIL turned a silent auction into an open bidding war. It drove the price through the roof by bringing in totally new money from folks who would have paid before if it was legal, and it completely removed the informal protections of out of state blue bloods from coming in and just taking over. They picked their spots here and there pre-NIL….but had to be careful how often they went to the well to stay out of NCAA trouble. That’s no longer the case.
Well, I’m not sure that the powers-that-be at our school want to “attack” the portal the way om (and plenty of others) are “attacking the portal” at this point in time. The way om has picked up starter-quality players isn’t exactly how the portal was designed to be used. There are certain schools who will secretly initiate contact with a player who isn’t currently in the portal and work a deal with the player to come to their school. They negotiate and come up with the dollar figures and reach an agreement. The next step is the player enters the portal and announces his new destination a few days later. It’s all done under the cover of secrecy and it all looks legit after it’s all done. When you see a “star” player, or at least a guy who was a starter at his former school enter the portal and sign with his new team within a couple of days that seems like a dead giveaway that a deal was made before the player hit the portal. The only problem with it is that it is totally against the rules. Seems we lost a starter to the portal after last season and that player signed with another, more high profile school almost immediately. In our case it comes down to putting out that kind of money to get that type of player out of the portal. The portal is full of players (over 1000 of them at any given time) but most of those players are there because they aren’t very good or they have so many personal problems that no one wants to risk placing them in their locker rooms due to their attitudes. It’s all a money game now, and to get a really high quality player through the portal schools have to pony up some pretty big dollars on the front end. The portal seems to be a throwback to the days when people just handed over bags of cash to high school players prior to signing day. That’s just what I see happening with the portal-maybe I’m completely wrong, but I’m pretty confident that this is what’s happening now
Because (a) rankings are for entertainment outside of the top recruits in the country (b) they don't all have offers from AL and LSU
Our staff has got to go
Google says Paul Johnson is 66. If it weren’t for his age I would be all in.
Yes. He is responsible for:
You see, that was coaching too. Look at what he is doing at Oregon. Look at the other Auburn QB Finley who is now a 70% passer.
Agreed. Our football culture sucks and has since the end of 2018. A lot of people to blame - Mullen for his focus on immediate recruiting which created a gap after 2018, Cohen for hiring Moorhead who wanted to switch offenses, and COVID. It all seemingly hit at once.
Do we really run 12 much outside of short yardage? I think we are entirely 10 and 11. I watched the first half highlights of WMU and I think I saw 12 once in a short yardage situation
We run it more than 10. Yes sir. We run way more 11. Around 75% of the time. That's with using a true freshman OT at TE. Makes sense right!
I’m just asking how much 12 we run. I don’t think it’s nearly that much. I just glanced at highlights and I never see it outside of short yardage. Again I haven’t combed all the film.
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I think you are just pulling those number from thin air. Watch the most recent game and give me the breakdown
