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In ISU's case I'm guessing they just aren't spending the whole budget and therefore lengthening the runway on running out of reserves. It isn't additional money...just $3m not deficit spent.
Football had $14m to spend. Of that, $5m was drawing on reserves. Football spent $11m and drew $2m on reserves. There isn't truly $3m in savings....you just left $3m in your piggy bank that will be spent later.
When I played college football, when Fall practice began in August there were always a lot of transfer and freshmen newbies on Day 1. On Game Day 1 several weeks later, a few had already got the message and left. I assume to actually enroll elsewhere or enter the work force. After the season was over and the first semester ended. When I came back in January for the 2nd Semester, even more of that group disappeared. Essentially, if they could meet enrollment requirements, they could participate in the full season with all the perks of a scholly of free housing, meals and football road trips etc. stay out of trouble without actually going to classes and have a pretty good deal going on. My point is that going to religion 101 hasn't been an issue for years and if you think these high paid players and coaches worry about academics well more power to you.
There’s no world or alternate universe where Sorsby is worth $5 million. The NFL is breaking because salary caps are bursting from the trend of massively overpaying mediocre quarterbacks, and it looks like that trend is happening in college football too.
I am not sure any NIL number is correct. Blum said the number floated around about Abu's NIL was way over inflated. I would be surprised if Sorsby is getting $5 million or Rocco is getting $3.5 million. Maybe they are, but have a hard time believing it.
I totally believe it. The Athletic had a good report about how much each position group is getting in NIL this cycle. On quarterbacks:
I suspect Raynor is one of those upper six figure guys.
That makes sense to me and how I thought it would work incrementally.
That’s not to say there absolutely no value in reducing the amount we take from reserves but that is fundamentally different than saying we have “more money to spend on football”.
If BB is going to comment on the NIL number, I wish he would just tell us what it actually was.
I believe that is more than Brock's rookie contract (total) and Sorby's 5 million is for one season. Totally out of control. How long before one of them offers up 8 figures?
I really really really hope not...I mean really...
Seeing as we know UCF and USF (and potentially others) wanted Raynor he is not coming to Ames for a Hickory Park gift card. Quarterbacks are expensive.
I'm with you, but sharing a non-public employees salary doesn't seem very smart
Heard he got free hickory park BBQ and that’s all he wanted.
This is where I disagree with CW's comment about having "GMs" available to the press and giving out numbers for position groups/players/etc. You DON'T want those numbers out. If they are, someone is just going to use it against you in recruiting.
It's gotten to be ridiculous. Sorsby is a fine QB. Pretty similar to Rocco I guess. In no way are those guys worth that much. You know it's bad when Chambliss is talking about suing for another year in college when by most accounts he would be a first round pick in the NFL. He'll make 4-5x more in college than he would in the freaking NFL. Think about that.
