No surprise. If a perfect for school that has a loaded roster, and therefore large NIL commitments offers $2 million and another decent opportunity offers $3.5 million, that $1.5 million is going to set the rest of your family up for life… parents, brother, sister, all get houses. The NFL still gonna want a brother. FWIW, we all know it’s wishful thinking that his secondary coach will develop him. He’s just willing to believe that he’s going to be schooled well enough to still be attractive to the NFL.
Yep. Individual performance and measurables are what matter to the NFL. Being on a National Championship team is low on the chart.
I have zero problems with the top kids taking the most money. If stupid people are willing to pay it. They would be stupid not to take it.
If CBN cannot win one here he will not win it “there”. NIL and program dominance will not be the factor, culture and the schemes he authorized will. Has our defensive scheme helped us win, or lose games this season? That’s what I am talking about.
Too early to judge scheme imo. Let’s get a year or two of CBN’s guys into the system. At that point, the success/failure of the staff/system can be more accurately gauged.
The only reason that Oregon played for the Pac12 championship in 2020 was because Washington got hit with Covid and they replaced them with Oregon in the championship. Oregon didn't even when their division that year.
Yet with all that Clowning they sit at 8th 1 spot ahead of us. Reminds me of how a car will speed around you and Bob and weave thru traffic just to end up at the same damn stop light side by side. Have you looked at Miami's class? Top to bottom ours is hands down more complete. They have two 5* , 8 4* and 8 3*. We have 18 4* and 4 3*. Our blue chip ratio is better and we've assumably spent millions less. Just saying.
That’s correct bperkins, he is listed as winning the conference and finishing 2nd in his division. Thank you for that additional fact… it kind of makes that 2nd conference championship mean very little… which was my original (albeit admittedly somewhat snarky) point.
Their class is definitely top heavy. 4 top 60 prospects and 10 top 200, whereas we are sitting with 0 top 60 and 9 top 200. We have another 9 between 200 and 400, but they have nothing between 157 and 464. That tells me that our depth is probably going to be much better...we just lack the top talent needed to compete with the premier programs.
Rules? Really? All of the perennial playoff participants have been playing outside of the "rules" for years. Rules are for suckers if no one is going to enforce them and the NCAA has proven over and over again that they don't care as long as the gravy train keeps running.
