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ok? We aren't the NFL. It's my opinion spending that much on one person is not smart when there are so many spots to fill.

Again, I’m with you on that being a bad idea if you can avoid it.

That said, based on rumored numbers found online Carson Beck was between 8.75% and 26.67% of Miami’s NIL budget this season.
 
Nope, they’re all gonna be D-2 and lower. Can you believe we are even recruiting kids who have only played at the high school level??
Two things:

1. That’s a comically bad strawman of what I said.

2. The high school recruit line doesn’t really work all that great as a joke because it is nonsensical.

While it isn’t perfect, sports is about the closest we come to a meritocracy. The difference between a typical blue chipper and a typical D-II kid is striking. A kid that ended up at a D-II school is typically a kid who could have seen the field for a P4 school. The ones that eventually do are exceptions.
 
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Two things:

1. That’s a comically bad strawman of what I said.

2. The high school recruit line doesn’t really work all that great as a joke because it is nonsensical.

While it isn’t perfect, sports is about the closest we come to a meritocracy. The difference between a typical blue chipper and a typical D-II kid is striking.
I think what people are missing with this is we are not signing “typical” D-II kids. The *best* D-II kids are capable of contributing at this level. Football is a developmental sport, and different players develop at different speeds and to different extents. If these D-II kids have P4 programs after them, I’m going to trust that rather than worrying about where they came from last year.
 
Again, I’m with you on that being a bad idea if you can avoid it.

That said, based on rumored numbers found online Carson Beck was between 8.75% and 26.67% of Miami’s NIL budget this season.

What is Miami’s NIL budget? They are one of the elite spenders. Massive donors funding NIL opportunities outside the university.
 
What is Miami’s NIL budget? They are one of the elite spenders. Massive donors funding NIL opportunities outside the university.
What I saw in a cursory search was $15-24M this year (and Beck getting $3.1-4M of it).

No clue if that’s true, but it seems consistent with rumors about other players. It seems that P4 QB NIL is trending towards being on par with NFL QB deals as a percentage of payroll.
 
If they’re giving $5m to a QB, they’re exceeding the $20m limit. So that $5m deal has to include outside deals. That’s been the trend where the school is setting up these deals now and promising that money just like it was from the internal NIL dollars.

Just look at Kiffin’s contract. LSU guaranteed him $25-30m in NIL funds. If the clearinghouse were a real thing, they’d have been on the phone asking for details on how that works. But those limits don’t matter at all.
Teams are absolutely relying on NIL deals above and beyond the rev share. Rev share and NIL deals are two separate things, but some are using these terms interchangeably or calling rev share…NIL. It’s hard to determine what these amounts for NIL, for attracting new coaches, means. For example, is MC getting $30MM in prearranged NIL deals on top of the $20.5MM rev share? Or, does he have $9.5 in NIL deals available?
 
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That the only two commits from the portal are D-II kids doesn’t give me a warm fuzzy feeling.

Is the long snapper on scholarship?

Obviously this is too early to know anything, but I hope Rogers doesn’t turn out to have a chip on his shoulder about small schools having kids talented enough to play P4.
Long snapper: time the speed of his snaps, % good vs poor. A great LS is a great LS, regardless of level. He is a specialist & important one at that.

Other is an ultra-productive LB & there are a crap ton of fans from other suitors very unhappy he committed with the good guys. Rogers & Co know what kind of LB they want so I'd let that quash your lack of warm & fuzziness.

As far as chip, I hope it is larger than ever. F the woe-is-me BS. The continual devil's advocate-type takes or doom posting is getting beyond tiresome.
 
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I think what people are missing with this is we are not signing “typical” D-II kids. The *best* D-II kids are capable of contributing at this level. Football is a developmental sport, and different players develop at different speeds and to different extents. If these D-II kids have P4 programs after them, I’m going to trust that rather than worrying about where they came from last year.
Not sure this is true.

I think I’m the only one here talking about D-II and I know for a fact the distinction isn’t lost on me.

The “typical” bit was in response to the silly, hyperbolic take on my actual point and the even sillier joke comparing a high school recruit with a D-II transfer.
 
The market is stupid and coaches needs to call the bluff
I actually think bluffs being called are exactly why tons of deals haven't gotten done.

Agent tells player $X is going to be the market but I need you to get in the portal.

Agent works before portal....can't get deal sealed...

Agent tells player BS about big players needing to get off the board...

Big players aren't leaving because $X hasn't happened...

Agent has a pissed client. The visits don't mean jack squat.
 
Teams are absolutely relying on NIL deals above and beyond the rev share. Rev share and NIL deals are two separate things, but some are using these terms interchangeably or calling rev share…NIL. It’s hard to determine what these amounts for NIL, for attracting new coaches, means. For example, is MC getting $30MM in prearranged NIL deals on top of the $20.5MM rev share? Or, does he have $9.5 in NIL deals available?
I think the $20.5 million has to be split among all sports