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11 minutes ago, All About UNT said:

Tax, Agent Fee, post-collegiate medical insurance (sans going to NFL) and no... this guy will be working like most the rest of us lol

Yeah, take that all out, and he'll still probably make triple the next two years what I'll make my entire life.

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15 hours ago, All About UNT said:

Tax, Agent Fee, post-collegiate medical insurance (sans going to NFL) and no... this guy will be working like most the rest of us lol

New car, stupid jewelry, poor decisions, etc & broke in five years. 

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3 hours ago, UNTLifer said:

New car, stupid jewelry, ooor decisions, etc & broke in five years. 

The guy who attended Tulane and now Duke? 
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46 minutes ago, Wag Tag said:

To hell with coaches and facilities. NIL is the most item in college football.

This is what the NCAA was trying to stop.  But the hypocrisy and greed of everyone else in the sport getting paid a “market rate” while walk-ons got nothing and scholarship athletes were eating ramen noodles in the offseason broke that model.  The ONLY rational way forward to get sanity and fairness back with a large healthy FBS would about 80-100 teams coming together and becoming an actual league.  No less than 50% of all revenue (not including home ticket sales and merchandise sold on campus) would be shared equally.  Lots of other things would have to be done but most of them include cushy fat cat positions going away, and others taking 50% pay cuts.  The athletic departments would have to surrender a lot of power to the new league/NCAA along with the revenue sharing.  We all know that isn’t happening.  And we are on a slow road to College Football regular season ratings going down and playoff ratings going up while it is new.  Then after the newness wears off we will have FBS looking more like College Basketball.  Dramatically less interest in regular season football with few being familiar with great players outside of Heisman contenders (and/or projected 1st round Quarterbacks).   

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4 minutes ago, Meangreen Fight said:

This is what the NCAA was trying to stop.  But the hypocrisy and greed of everyone else in the sport getting paid a “market rate” while walk-ons got nothing and scholarship athletes were eating ramen noodles in the offseason broke that model.  The ONLY rational way forward to get sanity and fairness back with a large healthy FBS would about 80-100 teams coming together and becoming an actual league.  No less than 50% of all revenue (not including home ticket sales and merchandise sold on campus) would be shared equally.  Lots of other things would have to be done but most of them include cushy fat cat positions going away, and others taking 50% pay cuts.  The athletic departments would have to surrender a lot of power to the new league/NCAA along with the revenue sharing.  We all know that isn’t happening.  And we are on a slow road to College Football regular season ratings going down and playoff ratings going up while it is new.  Then after the newness wears off we will have FBS looking more like College Basketball.  Dramatically less interest in regular season football with few being familiar with great players outside of Heisman contenders (and/or projected 1st round Quarterbacks).   

Good post!  I agree with everything you said.

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On the surface, how did he do more than Chandler Morris? Tulane was a good team, but how is this amount justified versus many others that had equally or even better numbers with a stronger strength of schedule. 

Maybe I am missing something here.

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16 hours ago, Mean Green 93-98 said:

For those who don't remember, this is the guy who transferred out of Tulane to Duke.  The guy will never have to work a day in his life.  Now let the bidding wars truly begin.

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/highest-paid-player-in-college-football-history-transfer-qb-darian-mensahs-duke-deal-is-sign-of-times/

Great article. Thanks for posting.

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6 hours ago, Meangreen Fight said:

This is what the NCAA was trying to stop.  But the hypocrisy and greed of everyone else in the sport getting paid a “market rate” while walk-ons got nothing and scholarship athletes were eating ramen noodles in the offseason broke that model.  The ONLY rational way forward to get sanity and fairness back with a large healthy FBS would about 80-100 teams coming together and becoming an actual league.  No less than 50% of all revenue (not including home ticket sales and merchandise sold on campus) would be shared equally.  Lots of other things would have to be done but most of them include cushy fat cat positions going away, and others taking 50% pay cuts.  The athletic departments would have to surrender a lot of power to the new league/NCAA along with the revenue sharing.  We all know that isn’t happening.  And we are on a slow road to College Football regular season ratings going down and playoff ratings going up while it is new.  Then after the newness wears off we will have FBS looking more like College Basketball.  Dramatically less interest in regular season football with few being familiar with great players outside of Heisman contenders (and/or projected 1st round Quarterbacks).   

Really, what needs to happen is to separate by capacity/attendance/revenue.

If you play in a stadium over 60k in capacity, average 90% attendance per butts in seats, and you have revenues over $80 million, then you’re in the Superpower Division. If you play in a stadium between 30k-60k, and your butts in seats are 75% of that figure for average attendance, with a budget between $30 million and $80 million, then you’re a power school. Anything under this is some level of the current Lower G5s/FCS schools.

Basically, 40 Superpowers, 60 power schools, and whatever the remainder is as a non-D2/3 level.

And this is in before Claims of Racism gets this thread locked.

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6 hours ago, Udomann said:

Man, it's a weird weird world where actually going up to the NFL is a massive pay cut.

Everything is stupid now.

Yep, it's pretty stupid when college kids can buy their dad a new mansion:

Deion Sanders' sons buy him a new mansion in Colorado

This model is not sustainable.  Even if no cap or rules are implemented, I predict it will burn itself out in 5-10 years.  Whether the money is coming from boosters, universities, TV deals or merchandise, it's money that was spent on something else in the past.  One can justify diverting those funds for only so long and then they'll put it back into something with a better ROI.

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7 hours ago, GoGreenBeans said:

I don’t want to sound like a hater on this dude, because he’s obviously a good player, but if he’s getting $8 million then there’s clearly a problem with NIL

So, can Duke insure him for the $8mil invested by NIL in case of season-ending injury?

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4 hours ago, untjim1995 said:

Really, what needs to happen is to separate by capacity/attendance/revenue.

If you play in a stadium over 60k in capacity, average 90% attendance per butts in seats, and you have revenues over $80 million, then you’re in the Superpower Division. If you play in a stadium between 30k-60k, and your butts in seats are 75% of that figure for average attendance, with a budget between $30 million and $80 million, then you’re a power school. Anything under this is some level of the current Lower G5s/FCS schools.

Basically, 40 Superpowers, 60 power schools, and whatever the remainder is as a non-D2/3 level.

And this is in before Claims of Racism gets this thread locked.

I think you will see dramatic drop off in interest if that happens.  The casual CFB fan without a passionate attachment to a particular team is a small market.  College Basketball found that out the hard way.  Your purely market driven model applied to the NFL 40 years ago robs the league of Carolina Panthers, Houston or Tennessee franchises, Baltimore or Cleveland franchise, the Jaguars an maybe even Green Bay (if they were poorly managed and never found Brett Farve).  Hell even the New Orleans Saints would be on thin ice with hurricane Katrina without the Drew Bree and Sean Patton era.  
 

What I think is best would be about 30-40 FBS teams going back down to FCS. And I think a conference like the MAC just doesn’t belong at the FBS level.  And basically any team that has jumped up to FBS after 2000 should be critically examined and forced to go back down if they haven’t met certain criteria in on the field achievement.

 

 

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