JerryAU

As long as our young and good show some patience & will stay long enough to gain experience and develop at their positions. LOL 4-5*'s have expectation$ and demand$ these days with little patience or the maturity to wait for a Coach that takes years to build a contender.

A contingent of representatives have sent numerous individuals to DC to press upon lawmakers the need for assistance. Conference commissioners, the NCAA president, college presidents, chancellors and influential coaches have asked for help. Senator Tuberville presented draft plans to help lawmakers understand the situation and emphasize the importance of congressional action, apparently none if it even gets out of committee because nothing has moved the needle.

🤮 Seriously guys, this is just nauseating.

AMEN! The Administration is scared to shine light on anything negative, like they choose to shield the Family from just how crappy some of the athletic teams have become. My response to your above post is in no way negatively directed at you Cameron. I informed my kids early on that I would pay 100% of their education but I would NOT subsidize stupidity. I feel exactly the same way about Auburn Athletics. We've all watched the Auburn Administration make one stupid decision after another and they've systematically wasted well over $100million in just 3 yrs buying out football staffers year after year after year. Firing head coaches, coordinators, position coaches, support staff while we alum and fans all watched the 3-peat losing seasons circle the drain. Auburn Athletics are not good stewards of the finances and the BOT have been enablers to the administrators who have made one poor choice after another. We as a family, choose to financially support AU Academics and it will stay that way.

If anyone has read into the particulars of the class-action lawsuit House vs NCAA, it is estimated that a settlement will be worked out between both parties, a judge has already hinted that the NCAA (and its member institutions) will be slapped in the face with a +$4Billion lawsuit for backpay to former athletes. That's a pretty sizeable chunk of money that will be coming out of every NCAA program's pocket to pay former athletes who never got the NIL windfall who want their share of the pie. This class-action lawsuit is what has suddenly spurred the NCAA & school presidents to clamor around in Dallas trying to come up with a settlement figure for the backpay to former athletes AND devise a workable plan for the future of college athletics. 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.

There was a time not too long ago where 65% of UAB's athletic department revenue came from subsidies. They had never been a self-sustaining operation up there. Unless they've experienced and complete reversal of fortune once they joined the AAC, I doubt very much has changed in their revenue streams.

Truth bomb! Those UAB players feel cheated out of the revenue, but truth be told, very few programs operate in the black.

Great post Titan! Yes, Oregon provided him with protection, but Kenny Dillingham was the reason Bo went to Oregon. He knew Bo and had faith in him, and Bo trusted Dillingham to develop his skills and put him in a position that could bring out the best in him. Oregon offered the weapons and an established offensive system that worked, which allowed Bo to showcase his talents, the kid nearly won the freaking Heisman for crying out loud. 🤩 I admit that I couldn't see Bo's talent or potential here at Auburn, but I never blamed him. I 100% blamed the piss poor coaching/schemes + the sub-par oline talent for the main reason Bo became frustrated and couldn't improve at Auburn. I'm happy he found a team and a coaching staff that helped him be successful at Oregon. I'll pull for him in the pro's, just like I pull for all SEC players in the pro's.

Who really knows though? With all the insiders we have on this tiny fan board with people that sit in on OTV/NIL meetings and know the in's & out's of the $$ levels for OTV in football/baseball/basketball, etc. 3 yrs after the NIL's inception has anyone physically seen a fully executed NIL contract? I read where OTV probably had to pay Broome $1.2 million to come back this season. And it's been said Thorne could be pulling +/-$700,000.

I don't know what players were paid before NIL and for some odd reason no one knows exactly what they're paid with NIL now. I did see where Jaden Rashada is in the portal. This is a 5* QB that Miami offered $9.5mm NIL package and Florida counter-offered $11mm NIL in last year's recruiting cycle. The kid ended up at Arizona State, couldn't earn the starting QB position at Ariz State and is now in the portal. WTH? What did an NIL collective see in this kid that made them think he was worth that kind of NIL package? $9-$11million is more than twice what offensive coordinator & QB coach at a DI level school was making in salary.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the Chad Morris experiment at Arkansas at Jerry Jones behest? Chad's 2-year stint leading the Hogs to a 4-18 record would've been enough to make me want him disbanded from Arkansas Athletics for life. 🤬

Fans are fickle. UK fans packed out Rupp and left hundreds standing outside who couldn't get in to attend Pope's introduction speech as UK HC. They had more rabid fans attend Pope's inauguration than we had on a beautiful spring A-Day game in JHS.

I see where Goodman mentions, "The day basketball coach Bruce Pearl and football coach Hugh Freeze lose their abilities to raise money for those collectives is the day they lose their jobs." which made me recall Calipari celebrating in the last week his NOT having to raise NIL funds at Arkansas, so that he can now 100% focus on his HC responsibilities. Calipari had to get on his soapbox, glad hand Kentucky boosters and pass the offering plate at UK alumni functions to raise NIL $$. Apparently, the Arkansas Administration knew he despised do that and they assured him they already had $10million in NIL for Hog Basketball and he wouldn't have to raise a dime for their NIL. I'm wondering how many head coaches actually like not only selling their program to prospective athletes, but also selling it to boosters, donors, and begging a fan base to pony up $$ to pay the players?

It's been 3 weeks since he said he was threatened and basically crickets. Maybe he's waiting on an apology and acknowledgement from the Mods? I'll be honest, if '50 is gonna have his ass on his shoulders, I'm glad it's during a slow time for sports. I've become dependent on his daily articles. But enough is enough, it's high time the old fart to gets back to work!

I don't know what kind of money the current roster gets paid. But I've seen mentioned on numerous occasions that OTV needs +/-$10MM a year for football alone. That's a chunk for such an underperforming squad IMO.

Who on the AU team are getting the big money though? I'm seriously having a tough time finding which select few have earned the big NIL money.

Sometimes kids have to grow, mature and develop within a system. I'm afraid this unrestricted transfer portal coupled with ungodly NIL money will make the notion of patience to stick with a team and soak up coaching & develop a thing of the past.

Agreed. Lord knows we heard enough this year about a Bama player (Sears) who could've easily been in O&B had our coaches just offered him. I don't want to hear the lamenting and whining IF Holloway were to go there and show out in crimson. 😭

I wonder what Nate Oats sees that we don't see?

When AU's very mediocre quarterback is pulling an $800,000 NIL and the team turned another losing season, we know things are way out of whack. I'm not into subsidizing an inferior product just for the hell of it.

UK owed Cal $33million if they fired him. It appears Cal walked away and, in the process, relinquished a $33million buyout. It's a little odd that Arkansas has made no public announcement.

What other options does he have? Take their 💲, ball out another year and be worshipped like a star at uat doesn't sound like a bad decision to me. Heck, get a master's degree on their dime too.

Until Oats took uat to the F4 this year, I didn't think much of him. He's a damn good coach, he knows how to develop players and this year he did it with a whole new coaching staff & mostly a new roster. I'd be fine if he just left the SEC altogether. We don't need our in-state rival challenging the legacy Bruce has built at Auburn.

Is it really Auburn mediocrity, or is it just Auburn? Historically Auburn is middle of the pack, it's kinda always been that way.