Duke fans are already quaking in their boots about Elko leaving. Spoke with a donor yesterday with usually reliable knowledge and ties to the athletic department and he said there are already talk about raising funds for an inevitable counter offer.
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Yeah, itās a lot more than that.
Utah football's NIL deal includes new trucks for scholarship players - Coach and Athletic Director.
āTo celebrate their new custom app, the Utah Crimson Collective is making NIL history by bringing every scholarship football player an opportunity to drive away with new 2024 Ram 1500 Big Horn trucks, complete with the Night Edition package.ā
Thatās EVERY scholarship player. Iāll let someone else look up the total cost, but itās a hell of a lot more than $150K a year
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They must have a difficult time trying to figure which truck is theirs in the parking lot after practice.
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The article notes that theyāre leases the school is covering (plus insurance), theyāre not giving the trucks to the kids. Those are $60+k trucks, so its certainly more than $150k, but its not the $3-4M that giving one to every scholarship kid would be. Iām guessing $350k/year?
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Can the school cover the leasesāwouldnāt it have to be an outside group/collective? Also, if all scholarship players get a lease that would be closer to 750K or so.
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Oh, youāre right, I misread it. Its the Crimson Collective, Utahās NIL group, not Utah itself.
Wow, leases on those trucks run $1k/month for a 3-year lease, thatās higher than I expected plus I figured not all the kids would get them for various reasons so itād only be ~40 trucks. If its all ~60, plus insurance, $750k/year might be low.
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Iām amazed at the sheer amount of inventory. Feels like every time I see a report car lots are complaining about shortages and now hereās Utah giving away 85ish new Rams
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Probably closer to 700 a month but if they give them to 85 kids that adds up fast!
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No, I strongly disagree with this take. Every AD should have a mental list of potential replacements if a coach needs to be replaced for any reason at any time. Bronco quit a few days after our game against VT, which is around the same time as almost every other coach was fired. We would only be behind them in timeline if those other schools had started to quietly inquire about potential replacements in the last few weeks of the season and even then, only a few weeks.
Also, the schools that fired coaches hired coaches from other schools. I doubt ND expected to lose Brian Kelly when they did. Or Oklahoma losing Riley or Oregon losing Cristobal. Did SMU or Fresno State expect to hire new coaches?
Duke hired Elko after we hired Elliott. Who do you think we reasonably should have hired and who wanted our job, but was unavailable because they had been hired by someone else already in that cycle? I canāt think of anyone.
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$714k/year, which sounds like a lot until you put it in perspective that itās only, what, maybe 10% of what the coaches make?
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Google says average lease is $772/month for 36 months, plus $2000 due at signing. At 85 scholarship players, thatās $787,440 annually, plus $170,000 in the first year. Not chump change!
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Iām learning a lot about leasing a truck.
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May have already been shared
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Good luck to them (not really) may have to be a BIG one.
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Duke should save their money. If a SEC team wants him theyāll get him.
We desperately need to be scouting low major QBs for future transfers. I think weāre going to need a couple next season. Now that people have seen Colandrea, weāre going to have a hard time keeping him from being poached.
While I understand the logic. I think the fear of the transfer portal is a bit overblown. AC is a fine QB and sure there will be interest but donāt think itās nearly as intense as we make it out to be.
Not everyone has SEC money and SEC aināt calling
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AC is a dawg but heās also thrown 6 picks on 100 attempts. I donāt think people are gonna back up the brinks truck for him
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