You can’t fight something you are going to lose and cost yourself billions more especially when the SCOTUS is not on your side.
It also means AL can do what Bear used to do and that's grab up EVERY top player and some lesser guys we'd normally get. The 105 is going to be really bad until things settle out.
I disagree. Most of those guys will not see the field. They will get the hell out of dodge once they figure that out. They want to play for Alabama but more than that they want to get on the field. Why do you think guys hit the portal now? Because they want to get on the field. The only change will be with 105 rather than 85 is a greater chance of not getting on the field. They will hit the portal. It will probably change who we get out of high school but the portal will be loaded with talent.
You think we're going to take a hit.. wait til we see what this does to the level of play at G5 schools.
Right! What would the bidding war for Ashton Jeanty look like between the tier 1 schools? He’d make more than he would entering the draft.
Ya but this isn’t 1980 when you were on TV once or twice per season. There are still on 22 starting spots and these pre madonnas don’t want to go ANYWHERE and sit on the bench. Look at the Oatis situation now.
The benefit to a Bama with the 105 is it gives them more margin for error. They are fine with the back half leaving but they will have little weakness in the first 50+
The NFL also has in season trading, waivers, free agency.
Perhaps, but you're going to have to pay a premium for transfer portal players, instead of what a HS player would cost...and they can still transfer again. Also, State hasn't really hasn't burned it up in the portal.
22 starters + 2 back ups at each position is 66. Specialist included no reason to have more than 75 or players on a team.
Exactly! Oatis is a perfect example of that. I’ve said all along paying players with no transfer portal would be a nightmare for smaller schools. I always go back to that Bama team that had Najee and Damien Harris, Bo Scarborough, and Josh Jacobs. With the portal, one or two of those guys would have probably transferred out.
Attendance was already trending in that direction pre-NIL, due to the growing availability of games on TV, where ratings are very high. Those ratings are all that really matter to the sport, and are what drives all of these decisions.
No. Schools have discretion on how money is distributed. We can value guys differently than other schools & still get them
Shouldn't "scholarships" be reduced instead of increased? And what about schools (perhaps Notre Dame, Stanford, etc.) that value academics over athletics? All schools have reduced requirements for athletes, but not to the same degree.
it doesn't matter. Teams can allocate money how they choose. If a kid chooses to play for Bama for $50K over MSU for $300K & is in 2 deep, then he doesn't want to play football anyway
I think $22M is just the minimum. I doubt there's going to be a cap. But this could actually help us on a comparative basis. Say we're spending $5,000,000 now and the big boys are spending $15,000,000. This would boost us to $27,000,000 vs their $37,000,000. So we'd be at 73% of what they're paying vs 33% now.
I just don't if I forsee continuing to spend $10 mil over the revenue cap for 2nd stringers. We should be able to compete at a high level in this era, especially with more playoff spots
We'll see how this all shakes out. But if dawgstudent is right and the Excellence Fund within the Bulldog Club will be used to pay the $22,000,000 and the Bulldog Initiative will continue to exist to pay the excess, I'm going to continue to make most of my donations to the Initiative. I'm not contributing a dime for the $22,000,000.
