TN letting their QB leave instead of paying NIL demands for him...

[IrishPokerDog]

I think it's going to create some big headaches initially because in the SEC and Big 10 especially that 20.5 million or so is going to put the traditionally lower half SEC and Big 10 schools in play money wise despite them not having the big boosters funding a lot of NIL. Now those lower rung SEC and Big 10 schools can compete roster wise a lot easier if they are strategic with how they spend that 20.5 million.

You think a lower rung SEC/B1G team all of a sudden gets roster parity because there’s a team salary cap? Ha!

NIL was going to put the bag man career out to pasture - the House Settlement breaths new life into that profession - bags get bigger to carry tho….

 

[Gator Fever]

You think a lower rung SEC/B1G team all of a sudden gets roster parity because there’s a team salary cap? Ha!

NIL was going to put the bag man career out to pasture - the House Settlement breaths new life into that profession - bags get bigger to carry tho….

Yep they will compete much better (not full parity obviously) if smart about it money wise with all the conference teams having a bigger base like that. That big base from revenue itself will be bigger than all but the biggest NIL nimbers right now in college. What scares me is UF might have more of the type of big boosters that back off some when this starts. More than the Bama and TX boosters etc. The crap is going to get crazier with Vandy and Minnesota etc being in play money wise now.

 

[IrishPokerDog]

Yep they will compete much better (not full parity obviously) if smart about it money wise with all the conference teams having a bigger base like that. That big base from revenue itself will be bigger than all but the biggest NIL nimbers right now in college. What scares me is UF might have more of the type of big boosters that back off some when this starts. More than the Bama and TX boosters etc. The crap is going to get crazier with Vandy and Minnesota etc being in play money wise now.

One thing that boosters want from their investment, aside from field performance, is access to coaches and players. When most of the NIL money for program now is coming from the university through profit-sharing, and all the deals going through a central clearing house, does how a booster buys access have to change? Because if boosters get less access for the cash they give, they won’t be too thrilled with that.

Who the hell knows - Wild and wooly world

 

[Gator Fever]

One thing that boosters want from their investment, aside from field performance, is access to coaches and players. When most of the NIL money for program now is coming from the university through profit-sharing, and all the deals going through a central clearing house, does how a booster buys access have to change? Because if boosters get less access for the cash they give, they won’t be too thrilled with that.

Who the hell knows - Wild and wooly world

Yep we will see how it plays out but I have a feeling the biggest boosters might cut down on their NIL money some or at least change some of it back to things like donations to non-NIL things like facilities. The one thing that never happened under NIL in any big way was colleges that have very wealthy alumni but aren't big football powerhouses starting to just buy the best players in big numbers. It stayed the teams for the most part that were already giving big bags like Bama, Georgia and OSU etc. I guess those big boosters just have more passion to do it while the very rich Stanford etc ones don't.

 

[TEBOW TIME]

UCLA is paying him 1.7 million but after taxes he's gonna make $800,000 where Tenn has no tax on NIL money

 

[gatordad3]

Poor bastards can't get a break. TCU QB turned them down.

Tennessee QB target turned down $1 million more in NIL, per report

Tennessee's aim to replace quarterback Nico Iamaleava reportedly took a weird turn when a potential replacement turned the Vols down.

www.saturdaydownsouth.com

 

[TEBOW TIME]

Poor bastards can't get a break. TCU QB turned them down.

Tennessee QB target turned down $1 million more in NIL, per report

Tennessee's aim to replace quarterback Nico Iamaleava reportedly took a weird turn when a potential replacement turned the Vols down.

www.saturdaydownsouth.com

Wow

 

[TEBOW TIME]

4 things to know about new Tennessee QB Joey Aguilar

Joey Aguilar is set to replace Nico Iamaleava as Tennessee's starting quarterback, so here's what fans should know about the newest Vol.

www.saturdaydownsouth.com

Tenn and UCLA swapped QB's

 

[46885]

I don't feel sorry for anyone involved here

 

[TEBOW TIME]

A prediction for what's in store for Nico Iamaleava at UCLA

Former Tennessee QB Nico Iamaleava will have plenty of eyes on him after transferring to UCLA this spring.

www.saturdaydownsouth.com

Word on the street is that his little brotha is leaving Arkansas to go to UCLA. Also their dad and uncle got some sort of job at UCLA.

 

[Gator Fever]

4 things to know about new Tennessee QB Joey Aguilar

Joey Aguilar is set to replace Nico Iamaleava as Tennessee's starting quarterback, so here's what fans should know about the newest Vol.

www.saturdaydownsouth.com

Tenn and UCLA swapped QB's

I have the feeling TN won in that deal.

 

[Gator Fever]

A prediction for what's in store for Nico Iamaleava at UCLA

Former Tennessee QB Nico Iamaleava will have plenty of eyes on him after transferring to UCLA this spring.

www.saturdaydownsouth.com

Word on the street is that his little brotha is leaving Arkansas to go to UCLA. Also their dad and uncle got some sort of job at UCLA.

His dad is a 100% idiot from what people say. Cost Nico close to a million already with that 4 million dollar joke demand to TN. I will laugh if Nico face plants almost as bad as DJ Ugh at UCLA.

 

[Gator Fever]

Arkansas puts departed QB Madden Iamaleava in its crosshairs by encouraging NIL collective to recoup buyout

Nico Iamaleava's brother may find himself at the forefront of a high-stakes battle over binding NIL contracts

www.cbssports.com

If Nico's brother didn't fulfill his NIL contract they should legally enforce the deal when the player leaves early.

 

[LizardGrad89]

You are witnessing the main reason Saban called it quits. When a player is more interested in how much he is getting than anything related to earning it or proving your value as a team member.

I disagree. Saban called it quits because he was smart enough to see that Bammer was no longer going to have an overwhelming talent advantage from buying up all the players. This is not to say that they can't continue to be a power, they have a long history of paying players so they have systems that have been set up for years that other schools are just now trying to create. But to have 5 star third stringers? Those days are gone. So they will have up and down years like everybody else. We saw them take a step back last year, and we are going to see Georgia do the same this year. Neither school has the talent to hide a mediocre QB any more.

 

[Gator Fever]

I disagree. Saban called it quits because he was smart enough to see that Bammer was no longer going to have an overwhelming talent advantage from buying up all the players. This is not to say that they can't continue to be a power, they have a long history of paying players so they have systems that have been set up for years that other schools are just now trying to create. But to have 5 star third stringers? Those days are gone. So they will have up and down years like everybody else. We saw them take a step back last year, and we are going to see Georgia do the same this year. Neither school has the talent to hide a mediocre QB any more.

Yep Bama, GA and Ohio St won't have as big an advantage as they had in recent years.

 

[Nicktheslick]

I disagree. Saban called it quits because he was smart enough to see that Bammer was no longer going to have an overwhelming talent advantage from buying up all the players. This is not to say that they can't continue to be a power, they have a long history of paying players so they have systems that have been set up for years that other schools are just now trying to create. But to have 5 star third stringers? Those days are gone. So they will have up and down years like everybody else. We saw them take a step back last year, and we are going to see Georgia do the same this year. Neither school has the talent to hide a mediocre QB any more.

It’s kinda the same thing.

 

[TEBOW TIME]

Rumor claims Alabama, Texas and other SEC schools could kick Tennessee out of conference over loyalty document

A huge new report claims that SEC schools like Alabama, Texas, and LSU could soon push to have conference rivals

sports.yahoo.com

 

[Gator Fever]

Rumor claims Alabama, Texas and other SEC schools could kick Tennessee out of conference over loyalty document

A huge new report claims that SEC schools like Alabama, Texas, and LSU could soon push to have conference rivals

sports.yahoo.com

I see why TN is trying to do that. The issue is the biggest boosters trying to get a big edge as the courts will never allow true NIL to be limited like new rules on paying some revenues to players. A court isn't going to care if boosters are paying a player way over estimated market level for NIL as it's what any motivated or idiot person is willing to pay. A bunch of boosters supposedly are saying they are going to pull back big time on funding NIL when the schools start paying the players out of revenues but we know those Bama and Georgia ones will try and get any edge they can just like pre-NIL. People are really dreaming if they think Bama's biggest boosters would allow Vandy's NIL budget to be that close to theirs.

 

[LizardGrad89]

I see why TN is trying to do that. The issue is the biggest boosters trying to get a big edge as the courts will never allow true NIL to be limited like new rules on paying some revenues to players. A court isn't going to care if boosters are paying a player way over estimated market level for NIL as it's what any motivated or idiot person is willing to pay. A bunch of boosters supposedly are saying they are going to pull back big time on funding NIL when the schools start paying the players out of revenues but we know those Bama and Georgia ones will try and get any edge they can just like pre-NIL. People are really dreaming if they think Bama's biggest boosters would allow Vandy's NIL budget to be that close to theirs.

There ae only two options for college football, one is to let teams pay whatever they want, the other is to restrict it and have cheating. I mean, that's been CFB for the past 100 years or so, no reason anything will change now. So we either have the wild west, or successful cheaters get rewarded. The only hope is that it will be harder to sway kids when everybody is getting something, vs a few schools offering cash. A poor family might have the honor to take an above-board 200K payout vs a 200K payout with a 50K secret kicker than they would find choosing to take nothing instead of a 50K payday. It's damn hard to look around a kitchen full of hungry children and say "taking no money was the honorable choice". It's quite a bit easier to say "taking a little less money was the honorable choice, does everybody like their steak?".

I was sure I had a point, Hold on. Oh yeah, got it, while we will always have cheating if there are any rules at all, a system where the players get paid under a salary cap is going to greatly lessen the impact. You might see cheaters get one or two players they otherwise wouldn't, rather than having third-team players who were four-time All-State at their position in HS.

 

[Gator Fever]

There ae only two options for college football, one is to let teams pay whatever they want, the other is to restrict it and have cheating. I mean, that's been CFB for the past 100 years or so, no reason anything will change now. So we either have the wild west, or successful cheaters get rewarded. The only hope is that it will be harder to sway kids when everybody is getting something, vs a few schools offering cash. A poor family might have the honor to take an above-board 200K payout vs a 200K payout with a 50K secret kicker than they would find choosing to take nothing instead of a 50K payday. It's damn hard to look around a kitchen full of hungry children and say "taking no money was the honorable choice". It's quite a bit easier to say "taking a little less money was the honorable choice, does everybody like their steak?".

I was sure I had a point, Hold on. Oh yeah, got it, while we will always have cheating if there are any rules at all, a system where the players get paid under a salary cap is going to greatly lessen the impact. You might see cheaters get one or two players they otherwise wouldn't, rather than having third-team players who were four-time All-State at their position in HS.

Yep I am curious to see how it plays out. My initial thought is it will give the lower rung SEC and Big 10 teams a better chance to compete if they max out on using the revenues (thinking I saw the limit was going to be like 21 million). If you really did your homework and avoided bidding wars I think a Vandy or Miss State could stay competitive over some years. I wonder if teams like that will spend it mostly in just the portal or try and take some swings on high rated unproven high school players.

You might see some schools pushing for the boosters to keep funding the high rated recruits with "NIL" deals while that revenue money goes to current players and portal additions.

 

[LizardGrad89]

Yep I am curious to see how it plays out. My initial thought is it will give the lower rung SEC and Big 10 teams a better chance to compete if they max out on using the revenues (thinking I saw the limit was going to be like 21 million). If you really did your homework and avoided bidding wars I think a Vandy or Miss State could stay competitive over some years. I wonder if teams like that will spend it mostly in just the portal or try and take some swings on high rated unproven high school players.

You might see some schools pushing for the boosters to keep funding the high rated recruits with "NIL" deals while that revenue money goes to current players and portal additions.

It's interesting how NIL has given teams that had no opportunity to get top players a chance to sign them, while the transfer portal makes it almost impossible to keep them.

 

[Gator Fever]

It's interesting how NIL has given teams that had no opportunity to get top players a chance to sign them, while the transfer portal makes it almost impossible to keep them.

Well I think most had that chance whether within the rules or not. NIL seems to have not changed what teams boosters are most willing to do the most though I think we had more motivated football boosters at UF back in the mid 80s through the 90s compared to how it is now. This 21 million revenue thing is really going to change how things might work now though. I guess we would see how it initially plays out in the 26 season. Really curious to see if Boosters pull back a lot on funding NIL like many are claiming they will when this takes effect..

 

[LizardGrad89]

Well I think most had that chance whether within the rules or not. NIL seems to have not changed what teams boosters are most willing to do the most though I think we had more motivated football boosters at UF back in the mid 80s through the 90s compared to how it is now. This 21 million revenue thing is really going to change how things might work now though. I guess we would see how it initially plays out in the 26 season. Really curious to see if Boosters pull back a lot on funding NIL like many are claiming they will when this takes effect..

That will be interesting. It's basically a significant budget cut to the athletic department. Some school raid the athletics department for them general funds will be lower, others spend every dime back on the sports, they will face some serious personnel cuts. Heck the first group might as well, I can see the school president saying "you'll send over the same amount as always, figure it out". That money was being spent on something. I'm sure some will say it was being wasted. But, one man's waste is another man's staff of five he will hate losing three people from.