There's a reason why guys like Saban and Harbaugh ran away. They could see the writing on the wall.
I know Pena was getting a lot of money to portal, too. Hopefully we hang onto him.
Is there any indication how much our NIL went up from last year?
fran has the ears of big donors. I havent heard of major grassroots (orangeunited) increases but the money’s there to be strategic with. We can compete with 95% of schools imo
I’m looking at the results on the field and it sure seems like we’re seeing an “evening out”.
Good point about Fran being able to handle it. Under the prior administration we would likely lose our best and replace them with lesser talents resulting in a doom loop toward complete irrelevance. With Fran we have a real chance in this environment.
Yeah, those facts must be a critique of our coaches who chose to start him over Kerr and others. I think they know their business and who is good and who isn't.
This is a key season for that. We have had only two of his high school recruiting classes. And we have holes. And a monster schedule. Many on here are saying we won't be as active in the portal this year. I hope that isn't true. We don't have to being in 19 portal kids but of those, 12 played a key role this year. I think we need to at least match that this year.
Not my point, Barnes may develop into an all conference corner , my point is with the portal guys are coming and going , we shouldn’t overreact.
except that’s not happened under Dino. Lost some guys, gained some guys, roster improved incrementally year over year.
I think with a recruiter like Fran we would've been better under the old system. It's not the portal so much as it is the messed up version of NIL that has made the portal into something it wasn't supposed to be.
It's such a bastardized version of what everyone thought the court ok'd. It isn't sustainable or fair for all the parties involved. To have free agency twice a year verbally prepaying tens of thousands of kids and committing millions of dollars all through shady back channel handlers before seeing what value comes from their talent will bankrupt colleges, ensure players are constantly lied to and manipulated, and make sure thousands of players never getting a degree because they're chasing the dragon of the 4 year dream payout.
Dino ended his tenure just as the mess we now know as (and what I will henceforth refer to as the “portNIL”) really got going. I have no doubt that with him at the helm this past season we would have, at best, struggled to be bowl eligible, and at worst won 2-3 games. He did an ok job during his tenure, and the team may have improved marginally, but this new environment would have eaten him up. The new game is recruiting and retention which were not in my view his strengths.
I hope we keep both Ross' but I'm guessing you are referring to Emmanuel.
Was thinking Bob
This is why, flawed as it is, the NIL system works. It protects the colleges and universities themselves.
Agree but hopefully the fact he hasn’t put in his name yet means he’s staying. Silence there is good.
