DAG
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Do we have confirmation ? Otherwise that is a wild headline.
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On 5/15/2024 at 8:54 PM, TigerPAC said:
I think it’s bc Arky HS ball may not be that competitive as compared to other states, especially in the speed department. People remember Mustain and Frazier, and have their hesitation. I’m sure there have been good college QBs from Arky but I have no idea
Ryan Mallet, Tyler Wilson to name a couple.
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17 minutes ago, cbo said:
Agree he will get at least 3 years no matter what. I'm fine with that considering the mess he inherited.
But I predict his seat gets warm year 3. And if he has another NMSU type game in year 3, look out.
The thing about freeze is he will have another game like that. It’s too much of a pattern. He will win games that we probably shouldn’t win and give up a game we shouldn’t. But with extension of the post season, it may not completely reset the season.
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Honestly I don’t have faith that Thorne will prove to be have improved to the point of taking us from a six win team to an 8 or 9. My hope is the people around him can offset it all. I do hope that this loyalty to Thorne does not become the undoing of Hugh Freeze.
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45 minutes ago, bishoptf said:
I think it may get pretty ugly if he has a losing season, I don't think they would let him go unless its really brutal but man I think if he is unable to show some progress then its going to get more difficult each year to say give me time. I guess he will get at least 3 years but at some point all the excuses have to stop and you have to show that you are getting better, just my opinion.
I don’t believe we will have a losing season but say we go 6-7 or something weird like that , I don’t see him getting fired either. He will get at least three years no matter what in my eyes.
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Throwing against air. I hope people give this young man a chance to develop before the hype begins.
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17 hours ago, Zeek said:
Vegas decided to drop some lines recently and I think most of them are easy money.
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Oklahoma @ Auburn (Oklahoma -3)
- I think this one is fair. They have a bit more consistency and typically receive more respect than us.
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Auburn @ Georgia (Georgia -24)
- I think the under here is easy money. Yes, last week's game was at Jordan Hare but we only lost by 7. To think the game being in Athens is a 17-point difference is a stretch. Especially considering I think we are better at almost every position group than we were a season ago.
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Auburn @ Missouri (Mizzou -10)
- I understand Mizzou being the favorite at home but I'm going with the under. Not seeing them as a double-digit favorite over us. They have done a good job building a solid program over there and the easy schedule will keep them fresh. Still, I think we win this game or at worst lose it by one possession.
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Texas A&M @ Auburn (TAMU -3.5)
- Simply put, I think we are the better team, or at least even. So the home-field advantage should make us the favorite. I believe we beat this team comfortably this season.
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Auburn @ Alabama (Alabama -15)
- Milroe is not good and I am not a believer in Husky Harsin. We struggle at BDS and shouldn't be the favorite but Alabama has been hemorrhaging talent this offseason.
Thoughts?
My thoughts is Vegas is hoping you and other Auburn fans have the same thought going into the season. No shot to you or maybe it is but there is a lot of homerism in your evaluations of the games. That is exactly what Vegas hopes happen.
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Oklahoma @ Auburn (Oklahoma -3)
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Stone cold killa
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Got that offer from Texas.
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11 hours ago, Tiger Refuge said:
Crazy that we still care this much about a player that left us two years ago. I figured that we could just forgive those that differed from us and move on.
I guess that’s expecting too much.
Surprised something like this isn’t already on rivals. Seen threads for far less and more relevant to Auburn moved to the rivals thread.
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as football is the major sport, which college athletics seems to be shaped upon based on revenue, that is where the resources will be mostly allocated to. It has never just been about competing for championships. Clemson and FSU are big dogs in the ACC and they are trying to get out of there. Same reason why it wasn’t good enough for Texas and OU to be the pillar of the big 12.
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This could be very ground breaking
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The NCAA's national office might be footing the bill for a settlement expected to be more than $2.7 billion in the landmark House v. NCAA antitrust lawsuit in hopes of reshaping and stabilizing the college sports industry, according to multiple sources.
Sources told ESPN this week that parties have proposed the NCAA's national office -- rather than its individual member schools or conferences -- would pay for the settlement of past damages over a period of 10 years. The NCAA payments would be paid to former college athletes who say they were illegally prevented from making money by selling the rights to their name, image and likeness.
The settlement would come with a corresponding commitment from conferences and schools to share revenue with athletes moving forward, per sources. The settlement would establish a framework for power conferences to share revenue with their athletes in the future. Sources have told ESPN that schools are anticipating a ceiling of nearly $20 million per year for athlete revenue share moving forward. (That nearly $20 million number is a permissive cap derived from a formula based on each school's revenue, and schools could choose how much they want to spend.)
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25 minutes ago, TexasTiger said:
If a university really wants to get litigious they could allege fraud, I suppose. Or the contract could be based on games available to play.
I think the latter would be easier. Basically what the NBA does by ownership and the league.
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2 minutes ago, AUght2win said:
Wonder what will happen when a top draft pick fakes an injury to miss a bowl game.
I suppose not much can be done about it unless it is written in the contract to say otherwise.
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"If you sign a contract and receive compensation, you're obligated to perform certain duties -- in this case, play 12 regular-season games and a bowl game or a bowl game and the playoff," he said. "That's logical to expect. It's the way the rest of us working folks operate."
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1 hour ago, JerryAU said:
The stubborn old jackasses kicked the can down the road and acted greedy for far too long, then the lawsuits and courts took control and the whole shebang has blown up in their faces.
Yep, If they would’ve given up a little bit of the pie I do NOT think things would’ve turned out this way.
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Way too subjective. Partially unfair because some of us weren’t even born during some of these coaches tenure.
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22 minutes ago, TexasTiger said:
I wonder if a pay plan results in other changes, like fewer scholarship athletes? 53 instead of 85? When you’re having to split revenue you reconsider the relative value of the guys who don’t play much. Will colleges have practice squads that make significantly less?
Good questions all around. So much grey area. I am also wondering where they are getting that estimate figure of 20 million.
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Things are moving steadily.
The leaders of college sports are involved in "deep discussions" to reach a legal settlement that would likely lay out the framework for sharing revenue with athletes in a future NCAA business model, sources told ESPN.
Sources indicated the top-end revenue share number per school -- once it's determined -- would be in the neighborhood of $20 million annually, although that's yet to be settled.
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15 minutes ago, TexasTiger said:
Absent some total collapse, I'm confident we'll be in the "haves," but I think how it plays out is pretty up in the air. Right now, the P4 schools have long-term TV contracts so I think any new configuration (e.g. a super league that ditches the NCAA) would require some significant renegotiations. But the current model seems unsustainable and the basic premises underlying big-time college sports have unalterably changed. It seems to me the future has to involve some type of employment contract for players to manage transfers, "salary caps," etc., and restore at least some measure of stability/predictability to rosters. What we've evolved to at present will exhaust coaches and those bankrolling programs. The fact is, it's pro ball now with less rules. the pro part ain't going away. There's gotta be a push toward more order, I would think.
I think the P4 schools, with maybe a handful of additions, leave the NCAA for at least football and form some type of association to manage it all.
I agree, it certainly does not seem sustainable. I honestly wish when Trevor Lawrence and Justin Fields bought this up years ago it would’ve been some sort of pathway for shared revenue . But it didn’t happen, now we got this.
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31 minutes ago, TexasTiger said:
And it makes sense, but I suspect it will come down to the haves and have nots— which schools have the lucrative media deals? Right not it’s the recently reduced Power 4. Very little for the group of 5. Zeno overestimates his worth at a school like UAB. If he shared their revenue he’d owe a ton of money.
I just wonder how this all will play out between revenue sharing (if this picks up steam), NIL. Hopefully they got the right people leading this charge. Being in the SEC, I imagine we would be in the haves group.
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32 minutes ago, TexasTiger said:
He plays for a team that loses money:
Quarterback Jacob Zeno said the move shows the players' growing interest in having a voice in a new model for college sports.
"In a way, we've been cheated out of money, and decisions are being made behind our back," Zeno told ESPN. "It's not really fair because we do so much for the sport, for the school and the conference. We should at least deserve to know what's going on and what decisions are being made."
True. It was only a matter of time though before the players started seeking revenue sharing.
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UAB was first. When does Auburn join?
RB Brian Battie injured in shooting
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3am, hookah lounge, probably some drinking. Whatever transpired , there is no reason to take a life over it. It is crazy how much less empathy we have of our fellow human being. Now someone loss their live, another is fighting for theirs and the one(s) responsible will sit in a cell for the rest of their lives.