I keep coming back to this⌠hope my boy Tex knows something!
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Sources at several Power 4 schools told ESPN that the price for re-signing a proven starter this offseason is typically exceeding $1 million.
The going rate for locking up a QB1 has increased significantly entering 2025, with teams knowing they need to devote a decent chunk of their revenue-sharing funds to retain their signal caller. Theyâd rather pay a premium to keep their leader than venture into the portal and roll the dice on somebody else.
So itâs a pretty darn good time to be good-to-great starter who has remaining eligibility. In many cases, these quarterbacks are getting a 3x or 4x pay raise next year compared to what they were earning for their name, image and likeness in 2024. Thatâs life-changing money, and all they had to do was stay where they already planned to be.
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The rumor currently is we sent out a seven figure offer for Claiborne, along with Oregon. Wake was forced to match it or at least get close enough to matching it to sway him back.
Now itâs time to see if Clawson stepping down has any influence on that decision.
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According to Wakeâs board, decisions from players that stayed were made without knowledge that he would be retiring
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I think once youâve spent seven figures on one playerâs NIL, that player shouldnât be able to use his name, image, or likeness anymore. You paid good money for them â theyâre yours.
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Oh so we bank rolling now
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So how are players being paid? I thought it was off deals and stuff. It seems more like salary work or payments from the program. Seems so shady and terrible.
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Iâve said this about hoops, and it might be more applicable to football.
Itâs a matter of time before someone challenges the 4 year rule in court. With NIL $ and the fact that there are only so many NFL slots, these guys will want to continue to get paid at the college level. A grad school student is still technically a student-athlete whether theyâre in their 5th year or 7th. Weâve had players in both major revenue sports playing while in grad schoolâŚwhatâs so magical about 4 years of eligibility if someone really wanted to test the issue in court?
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The Ivy transfers who were at St Johnâs for basketball kinda tried this offseason and it didnât work.
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It is shady and terrible. A lot of these deals are being back channeled and preordained by the agents representing the players, it sucks but itâs how itâs being done and you gotta be willing to play the game in order to get in the door with high profile prospects.
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Its crazy to think the day of the NIL has already come and gone with it becoming salaried players on boot money.
I guess thereâs still somw âlegitâ NIL out there but like you said thats not what gets players in the door.
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I canât wait for taxes with those guys. Also, I think they need to do away with scholarships or cap the money at 30kâŚâŚ dudes are getting free school,food, and gear. They donât need much. Theyâve also been getting stipends for a long timeâŚâŚ College sports isnât healthy
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Iâm sure youâd love an Internet stranger saying your salary and benefits should be arbitrarily capped at 30k because they figure you donât need much either.
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My favorite outcome from this NIL donation would be a 7-5 year that gets CTE extended before plummeting back into the abyss as the money dries up
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Ha. Our guy Sauce is in the military I believe if you paid attention
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It seems extremely likely. Iâm high on chandler morris fumes rn, but it does seem more likely to extend a bad era than it does to lead us boldly into a new one.
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I was too. Cuz I love America, which includes loving its free market economy. Artificially fixing and depressing player compensation is commie nonsense.
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Hahhahaa. Ok.
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Im all for players getting payed and getting paid as much as they can. I hate the open free agency market every 9 months.
Guys figured out tbe tax thing year one when they got hammered by it. If theyâre smart take that money in cash keep a deal with one vendor for tax purposes and pocket the rest
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My only complaint is the deception of calling any of this NIL. We tried letting the players capitalize from their name for like a yearâŚuntil they figured out their names werenât worth anything. None of this has anything to do with name image or likeness. Theyâre just professional athletes being paid a salary, partially through middle men. We need to start calling it such. And the NCAA should be labeled a pro sports association for that matter.
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