After hearing the OSU QB is entering the portal because he could get paid north of 6 million dollars, I was trying to estimate what current programs like Georgia and Alabama are now paying to payroll a team. Are they over 20 million dollars at this point to try and win a championship...maybe even higher when you factor recruiting costs. It does seem that each year the expenditures are going up rapidly. It is difficult to truly know since NIL is coming from boosters and the schools are not reporting it.... but curious if anyone has a good idea how much the cost might be for these competitive teams.
$20 million wouldn't surprise me. How much NIL money is needed to maintain Ohio State football roster
Hope those players have a good tax guy. I can see some IRS issues down the road with kids getting multimillion-dollar deals and not paying uncle sam..
That is not the only reason he entered the portal. He entered because OSU fans were roasting him and Ryan Day didn't have his back. When asked several times by reporters, Day was non committal that McCord would even be the bowl starter. Kyle McCord transfer: Why Ohio State QB is entering portal after 2023
Karma is a bitch and Ohio St will pay for it. You run off a guy that had 3100 yards, completed 66%, 24 TDs, 6 INTs because he couldn't get it done on the last drive where he got picked throwing off his back foot when he absolutely cannot take a sack.
Guess not many around here watched OSU games. In the ones that actually mattered, he was average at best. Michigan 18/30 271 yards 2 TD 2 INT Penn State 22/35 286 yards 1 TD 0 INT ND 21/37 240 yards 0 TD 0 INT
exactly. And his stats - in reference to those 24 tds, is like half of what the prior 2 qbs threw for per year. No way he is getting 6 million NIL from any school.
I don't for one moment believe these ridiculous amounts of money being tossed around. $6 million? Yeah, I doubt that very much
Some really good pass defenses too. Interesting you picked the #2, 3, and 4th best passing defenses in the FBS. #1? Ohio St. All 3 of those are also in the Top 10 for total defense. Ig Hugh Freeze gets this QB, the SEC better watch out for Auburn. Since Auburn flipped the best receiver from A&M, they now have 3 of the best receivers coming in - all tall, fast, and great football IQs.
It's Ohio St, those are the only games they care about, never said they stunk. After Justin Fields and CJ Stroud, McCord was a drop off. I mean 99% of players would be but that is where that program is, average or even above average is not good enough.
As Auburn hires Hugh Freeze, remember his past misdeeds go far beyond calling escorts Auburn and freeze will get their guys. It's not if. They don't even try to hide their lack of ethics anymore. Old news but a good refresher.
Yeah I don't buy McCord thinking he's worth $6 million, or a lot of the larger numbers we hear. I believed Ryan Day when he said they needed $13 million to maintain the roster, that's reasonable to me. The top WR leaving Texas A&M also reinforced this point this week: Evan Stewart sounds off on Jimbo Fisher, NIL situation at Texas A&M: 'Had y'all thinking we was all millionaires'
What’s not clear is whether they are 16 mil short or 16 needed for the incoming class or does 16 cover their entire 85 man roster plus an incoming class. It’s was rumored that at Ta&m spent 30 mil on one class of hs kids beyond whatever they already had invested in their roster. My guess is they need 16 to sign this class - and that may just what they are short at that moment.
I wouldn’t doubt that superstar qbs could get that type of money but not that guy. He’s not that great.
