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[QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 5084700, member: 405"]
I guess the word "average" is one they never taught you in school.

I said in my very first post on this topic, quite a while ago, that All American type players could get single digit millions, people like Shadeur Sanders, with all Deion's publicity behind him.

I said that there was a continuum, and players like Hunter Dickson, who might get you to a Final Four, probably got $400-500K a year ago.

If you think you have to pay the numbers that schools are paying for transfers with 3 or 4 years of college experience, like we are reading about, to assemble your team in the first place, you're simply wrong.

I've linked articles 4 stars out of HS are getting $75-150K, elite players $250-500K.  That's what [I]they're[/I] getting.  We haven't had to pay that kind of money for any of the guys we've gotten out of HS (except Donnie) since NIL began about 4 years ago.

If guys are making more than the average by the time they are juniors, or have break out years, or threaten to transfer - that's not what you paid for them in the first place.

That's not what you are paying for your CURRENT ROSTER.  This is not that hard to understand.

What we paid for guys [I]last year[/I] will change for the ones who got better.

But last season, on last season's NIL budget, they don't get raises [I]mid-season[/I].

Right now, it's the NEXT off-season, and guys are shopping themselves.

THOSE GUYS WANT MORE MONEY TO STAY.  NOBODY DEBATES THIS.

But you don't necessarily KEEP all those guys, do you?  
How many of those guys did we dump - SEVEN?

OK, THOSE GUYS ARE NOT GETTING MORE MONEY FROM SU THIS YEAR.

THEY ARE NOT GETTING *ANY* MONEY FROM SU THIS YEAR.

THEY DID [U]NOT[/U] GET RAISES. THEY DO NOT HIT OUR BUDGET.

Some of that money gets reinvested.  Sometimes in less expensive guys, or spread around.

I mean, don't you follow how pro teams work the salary cap?  Don't you follow pro contracts, and how some guys price themselves out of a team?

This is not any different.  Not everyone gets LeBron James money.
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