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I haven’t read through all these threads but is there a chance ISU is not planning to share the full $20.5 million with student athletes, particularly the football program? These things are supposed to be public information (ie how much each player gets) but I haven’t seen anything on it. My understanding is schools CAN share this revenue with athletes but are not required to.

The football program is paying around $4 million less for coaches next year and I could see the football program saving another $4-5 million not paying the full allotment to the team. With a new coach, you can gradually add to the allotment over the next 4-5 years until you are funding the football team completely with revenue sharing.

Do I love this idea?! Hell no…but ISU is not a blue blood and you have to be creative to compete.

Wazzu had about $2.5 million to spend, so if ISU dipped to $7 million, we could still build a roster albeit with under the radar guys.
I don't know why you'd do this unless you're willing to accept a long rebuild. You're just kicking the can down the road. We need to figure out how to raise more money on a sustainable basis and get some NIL deals arranged for kids outside the revenue share.
 
I wonder what grounds public funds can be used in secret. Either way, I would get creative with a graduated payment system (using $7.5 million in Year 1, $8.25 million on year 2 under Rogers) and use some of the ‘surplus’ on a retention bonus for players that make it to the next Fall camp or participate in bowl games.
 
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I wonder what grounds public funds can be used in secret. Either way, I would get creative with a graduated payment system (using $7.5 million in Year 1, $8.25 million on year 2 under Rogers) and use some of the ‘surplus’ on a retention bonus for players that make it to the next Fall camp or participate in bowl games.
At what point will a school offer deferred comp /annuities (think Dodgers) and back end some of these obligations. Not sure how all of this will work, but gotta be creative if your Iowa State.
 
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It's going to be easy to root for PSU (Matt) to fail next year - just like it's easy to root against the Hoks. However, just like the years of the B1G East & West divisions (with Iowa always playing a cupcake schedule and sleepwalking to 9-win seasons), Penn State will easily have a chance of immediate & significant success next year. MC chose a great year to start his tenure at PSU. Hope I'm wrong and they struggle.
 
It's going to be easy to root for PSU (Matt) to fail next year - just like it's easy to root against the Hoks. However, just like the years of the B1G East & West divisions (with Iowa always playing a cupcake schedule and sleepwalking to 9-win seasons), Penn State will easily have a chance of immediate & significant success next year. MC chose a great year to start his tenure at PSU. Hope I'm wrong and they struggle.
And he could be setting himself up for failure. It’s almost a sure fire guarantee that Penn State will be in the playoffs next year and if Campbell doesn’t consistently have them in the playoffs, they’ll want him gone. He better pray they’re in the playoffs at least 4 times in his first 5 years
 
And he could be setting himself up for failure. It’s almost a sure fire guarantee that Penn State will be in the playoffs next year and if Campbell doesn’t consistently have them in the playoffs, they’ll want him gone. He better pray they’re in the playoffs at least 4 times in his first 5 years
It's far from a guarantee that they are in the playoffs. They are closer to going 6-6 than being in the playoffs.
 
I wonder what grounds public funds can be used in secret. Either way, I would get creative with a graduated payment system (using $7.5 million in Year 1, $8.25 million on year 2 under Rogers) and use some of the ‘surplus’ on a retention bonus for players that make it to the next Fall camp or participate in bowl games.
It's not worth going to prison just to make college kids wealthy. All these players leaving shows exactly why it's a bad idea to use taxpayer money to pay for players.
 
The more I look at the current portal, and even MORE athletes that will be entering the portal still, i am less worried for ISU and more worried for CFB in general. We will be able to build an entirely NEW team and be swapping 3*s for 3*s. This is going to be much less about coaching, and more about who can evaluate the best talent out there in the portal, AND what kind of brilliant money manager do you have running your NIL program?
Just looking at for example LBs in the portal

Wesloski 3* 6-1 225 RS-Jr North Texas (#25)
Ezeogu 3* 6-3 200 RS-Fr JMU (CFP)
Romaine 3* 6-2 232 Jr Kansas St
Lefau 3* 6-1 211 Jr Texas
Howard 3* 6-4 241 Jr Florida

It is going to be HOW do you evaluate who can do what for the cost?
Last BB season I heard a talking head say since roster turnover is so great every year the regular season needs to expand to allow teams more time to gel. Insanity. However, I can see that same argument coming to FB.