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Message: [QUOTE="RedtheGOB, post: 5360093, member: 8907"] It's their same fan sites and local media that are saying what their players are getting, same as here, just like how it's pretty well known what Jesse or Maliq got to leave or Eddie got to transfer in. Do you at least agree the # for Jones at Marquette has an extra digit on it and is 7 figures, while the #'s here are 6 figures? If not I don't know what to tell you. You're living in the past and might as well be bucketed in with the group of people that Waters wrote about in his article being unprepared for the NIL space last Spring. Just because you don't "believe" players are getting what is being written online or that they deserve that much doesn't make it not true. I'd argue players are actually getting more in perks on top of these $'s (like cars) and that doesn't make it into the reporting. People bashing Autry all day here about how he was clueless about talent and NIL and yes he was. What annoys me is then in the next post the same people don't want to believe other programs are giving their entire starting 5's 1 mil each or their best players 1.5 or 2 mil or more. Autry is a crap coach and was unprepared all year and still is but this perception that other programs and coaches succeeded this year by magically figuring things out without the money faucet flowing is just false. And yea You can downvote me and hit me with kenpom metrics all day and I agree he's underperforming a ton with the budget he had and deserves to go. However Very few coaches took the budget we had and are making the tourney even with stellar coaching under ideal circumstances ie hitting homeruns in the portal and avoiding injuries. The most glaring example of this of course is a 3-4 bid ACC league, where the middle 10 teams including us all said ehh 2 mil is prob enough to put a team on the bubble and get in. Then the entire ACC got absolutely slaughtered in the SEC/ACC challenge. [/QUOTE]

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