Though we can only speculate at this point, I would like to know who on the team and eligible for next draft has a shot at first and second round. We have to recruit talent obviously, but it has to show in the drafts that our staff appears to develop players as well. The sooner the better. As an aside, what was also clear about Mullen is that he and his staff had created an environment where the team just quit on them, and themselves. Negligence.
I wish they would or could scrap NIL for something that requires players to meet a real obligation and to transfer, have some kind of buyout, or disincentive to leave so easily.
You’re welcome to put a buyout in the contract. If I were a top rated player, I wouldn’t sign a deal with a buyout because plenty of teams will offer deals without, but you may be able to convince some lower rated guys that it’s their only/best option.
I think Sapp and/or Banks would be at the top of the list of possible. Slaughter and maybe EW3 … if he can stay healthy wire to wire. The rest are still young
That is what the schools are trying to do as part of the House settlement with the direct revenue share payments: multi-year contracts with buyout clauses that disincentivizes leaving.
I suspect that buy-outs will become standard. They are already in all the coaches contracts. I believe the appetite for schools and NIL collectives fronting money to a guy that never shows up or transfers before ever suiting up is wearing thin. Without buyout clauses, that money is gone.
I think the top guys will still have some bargaining room, for a while anyway. When someone figures out the language and wins a few cases, you’re probably right that it will get harder and harder to get away from though. I’m still curious to see how the third party money plays out once the ncaa allows the schools to pay directly. I think those that want to spend the most will continue to do so. You’d think it would get old at some point and level out, but so far it only continues to get crazier and crazier.
If your talking about billionaires, 20-30 mil is like lunch money. Simple interest is astronomical in my world
I agree...this will be an interesting thing to watch how it plays out. I know the NCAA wants to get rid of collectives, which in reality are nothing more than cartels to funnel money to recruits and players in what would have once been called ilicit recruiting inducements. My bet is that they'll end up back in court for trying to restrict NIL when the Supreme Ct ruling was pretty darn clear that it "cannot be limited."
Yeah, the “quasi cba” they’re trying to implement with the house settlement is going to get shredded.
Itll just be inderground and crooked like its always been until the players are under contract. At that point, giving money does nothing.
