Arkansas posted saying he wants $2M a year lol that’s outrageous! Tennessee really screwed up the market price for a 5star.
I agree with this, my counter point would be I think if you land him you make a statement to other guys you are trying to get in the class.
That creates such weird optics potentially for A&M. Suppose their financing is above and beyond everyone. Each quarterback gets a $10M NIL. Each wide receiver a $5M NIL. Each DT a $8M NIL. The total budget being around $150M per year, so far and above the ability of everyone else. The entire team is five star players (except for punter and kicker). Consistently.
It's like how NFL teams try to manage their salary cap, minus the creative contracts that are sometimes employed. Do you devote most of your cap resources towards quarterback - like Baltimore did with Joe Flacco - to the expense of the rest of your team. Or do you go lower with QB - as Seattle was able to do with Russell Wilson on a rookie deal - and devote the resources to other key positions.
You're not wrong but what top kid is going to come here to sit for 2 or more years? TBH, I would almost question this kid's judgment if he did come here unless he just has that much confidence he will step on campus in January or June and take the job from both Garcia and Brown. There have to be better options for him.
Is he bringing in $2m of business for the car dealership / local BBQ house etc that he signs his NIL with? Or have we completely thrown the pretence that these are anything other than legal bags out of the window at this stage?
I don’t know how credible the Arkansas poster is. The guys on that site think he’s reputable but who knows. Even if it’s half, $1M a year it’s like WTF! The NFL minimum is $600k lol you want a $1M to redshirt and then “compete”. If it’s true and this is the new normal for QB recruiting my mind is blown. He better be a Heisman candidate lol
I don’t want to speak on this too much but the issue isn’t how the qb room will react to it. As I’ve said UT threw everything out of whack , so either the money gets dumber or the market resets. It’s getting ridiculous and fast.
Only reason it wouldn't be thrown out the window is if someone thinks in earnest that people will make a car buying decision based on an 18 year old they had never heard of who sits on the bench behind an experience player as the majority of these guys will do in their first year or two.
This isn’t a couple hundred grand.
I won't say it isn't possible, but I would find it hard to believe individual people were getting in excess of a million dollars per year under the table. I am sure there were tens and even hundreds of thousands in rare cases, but the sheer volume has to have exploded. Maybe I am way wrong.
You’re absolutely right it isn’t - but if you consider the revenue a star player could potentially bring in for a program and local businesses - these players have every right to chase the bag.
It’s not outrageous money for a qb to start and be good though. It’s only a bad deal for us because we don’t have that need today or presumably next year if Garcia is good.
Yeah its interesting, cant see how its good for the game. Happy the kids are making money but there has to some kind of structure that keeps at least a little bit of competitive balance. There have always been haves and have nots but the spread is growing so fast that people across the country will have to at some point start losing interest in the sport.
I mean, we’re doing pretty good with NIL TVD has deals equavalent to at least a few hundred thousand dollars. Let’s just educated guess and round up and say $250-400k.
