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That was my first thought. I think Nelson could be close to having a breakout year and this will certainly help.

For the love of god pick already

Sometimes when you are close you just need a game changing player to get you over the hump. On a season like last year one player might take you from 3 wins to 7 wins. Just proves that we haven't had a guy like that so it's not surprising that we have been lagging in the win column.

That amount of money doesn’t exi…

I'm going to laugh when all these people at the universities spending hundreds of millions of dollars still don't have a National Championship to show for it. The thing is, this isn't like the NFL where you are paying for a known commodity. These are just high school kids and only a handful of them are sure thing can't miss prospects if there even is such a thing. Look at Ohio State and Alabama, they already get the pick of recruits every single year. Are they good every single year? Yes. Do they win a natty every single year? No. I think of Kentucky basketball for another example. I really don't see how they can get any more loaded with talent than they already are. Their entire roster is basically 5 star players yet they haven't made a final four since 2015... Unless schools can start getting kids to walk-on with NIL money (which is possible I suppose) they are still only have so many scholarships to give out. I think when this is all said and done you will see a bunch of programs try to buy success and in the end many will be no better off than they are now.. The real wild card is how they are going to manage kids taking offers to transfer. To me that's where things really could get ugly.

That's what I thought. Really an odd situation.

Is there any reason why she wouldn’t have been on a full scholarship?

Yea I'm hoping that's where Thompson is an upgrade over AM. I believe in regards to overall talent they are very similar but Adrian was 0-15 on last drives to tie or win the game. Woof...

We finally have a much easier schedule than we've had. If we don't have any missteps early and if If luck swings our way I could see this season being similar to the 2016 team under Riley that went 9-4. Not necessarily saying we'll be that much better just a better record.

This and the “No Sit Sunday” Wisconsin game at the PBA are Co #1 for me.

Aurora Cooperative where you at??

I think it's unfortunate that we've absolutely sucked for the last 7 years. Donors probably getting tired of thowing money around to see a s#!tty product on the field but then again Tennessee hasn't been great and they're somehow getting it done.

Likely places to see some guys move on. QB- Smothers seems most logical but has given no indication that he doesn't plan to stay and battle it out. RB- Somebody has to go but besides Stepp they all seem to be right in the mix. Even he may just want to play out his career at this point. WR- Grimes, Hardy III, Neville OL- Lynn, Maybe Alex Conn I know he's young but I've never heard him mentioned at all DL- Need guys for bodies at this point until you get replacements but seems like we have at least a couple that will never contribute. LB- Malcom maybe but also really young CB- I thought Lynum was mentioned as coming along last year but seems to be lost in the shuffle now. S- Pola- Gates So still a lot of possibilities.

It would not surprise me to see them try and add 4 or more bodies on the DL. Besides maybe an OL, we seem pretty set and have at least decent depth at most other positions.

That guys entire account is him pretending to have the inside scoop on some big story. His account is a rumor mill.

Which in a way does not really make sense to me because didn’t this all start because the Universities were selling #7 jerseys but the star QB that was wearing the number and actually generating the sale wasn’t getting any money? It seems like all of this would of been way easier if they would have just let the universities do it and make it regulated. Like the university could give 20% of profit from any player jersey sales or T-shirts with x players name on it.

Yea maybe for him specifically. That might be more of an indictment that they really didn’t try very hard to keep him cause I can almost guarantee he’s not making more than Quinn Ewers.

Maybe we can go back to the ol “county scholarship”. Get the top 10 guys in the state every year using NIL deals and build your roster with numbers.

Unfortunately I’m not sure Frost is the right guy in this new era. He hates NIL and what it’s going to do to football. He just wants to build his team the old fashioned way and then go pluck a few guys from the portal to help. It wouldn’t surprise me if we had a s#!tty season if he takes his money and walks even if he’s not forced to. Might see some more college coaches head for the NFL if given the opportunity too.

I think initially you will sort of see 3 tiers with NIL. Tier 1 would be schools like Oregon, Texas A&M, a lot of SEC schools probably Ole Miss, Arkansas, Alabama maybe Oklahoma and Oklahoma state. These schools will be essentially be bidding on the best players buying their recruiting classes. It will be obscene money. Tier 2 you will have schools that will really try and use NIL primarily how it was intended. Schools that have big fan bases that can contribute in numbers. They will try hard to help players build brands, make clothing lines, do advertising for businesses, sign some autographs. This is where we fall. Tier 3 will be schools like Kansas State. Not big a big enough fan base to get a lot in numbers. No real big money boosters. These type of schools are going to be at a huge disadvantage. They will hope like hell that NIL becomes more regulated soon or they are pretty well f#&%ed if you ask me.

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Wildeman, Rogers, Riley and then I’m assuming he counted Daniels and Thomas in there as well. Which they technically used their eligibility anyway, they just chose not to come back for their free covid year.

Scott may just give him $100k of his own money. It’s a good investment cause we’re screwed without Ty. He may not be the best player in the team but with our DL depth he’s arguably the most important.