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[QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 5083607, member: 405"]
Maybe altogether, but not individually, and even then I think that's kind of high.

Are these guys all getting $400K each?  I don't think so, not even close to that.

When Edwards was looking to leave, that was our increased offer to [I]keep[/I] him.  Whatever we paid to get him was probably half of that, maybe even less.

Judah got paid more, but who is going to pay $400K for a bunch of recruits who were not even Top 150?  What was Justin Taylor making, maybe $50K?  Chris Bell - how much do you think he was getting?

Everyone focuses on the high end of the market, and the guys who are getting money to go somewhere else. You don't have to spend that kind of money to get average guys in the door in the first place.

My numbers were current as of the January window.  As I said above, it seems like basketball prices are going up this spring, as bidding becomes more intense.

But even then, around 2,000 Division 1 basketball players entered the portal so far this year.  That's nearly half of every roster - 5.5 guys per team in all of Division 1 hoops.

It's only the top 100 or so who are getting 6 figures.  Those are the ones the sportswriters are writing about.  What do you think the other 1700 of them are getting?

You have to AVERAGE all the numbers, not just cherry pick the top end.
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