Recruiting Updates 22-12-15...

[CajunVic]

And what exactly has a&m accomplished? You think boosters were putting together $95 million bags for potential incoming recruits?

Not sure about your number but YES

Amounts have been available for as far back as I can know. In the 80’s the relative number to compete was not nearly as high as in the 2020’s and I am sure that the number has increased tremendously with the new over the table legal tender now available. But my point is that A&M has always been in the game at the highest level with no appreciable results for years so why would it dry out now with the same performance. Ego’s make those who provide believe “one day” . . .

[cjr3888]

How is it not illegal to offer that much money for a kid to transfer ? Where is the NCAA on this?

It is illegal to offer money to transfer. NIL deals can only be worked once on campus. However, the NCAA doesn't care and will hide. Until these coaches start naming names and putting the evidence out in the public, it won't stop. This has been going on forever and we fight it on the high school & middle school level to keep our athletes on our campus.

[Million$Mullet]

Not sure about your number but YES

They are a funny bunch over there. All that money with nothing to show for it.

[Turbine]

If this was new you would see a slow escalation in the amount of NIL money being offered.

The shear 0-60 $ speed of NIL offerings makes it clear the money was being funneled all along.

I can't wait to how official budgets are adjusted.

[Cajun Monkee]

how can we sustain success when this will happen to our best players year in and year out. It’s going to be very hard to compete unless we have some alumni injury lawyers that wanna throw money at players to level the playing field. Unless of course the NCAA steps in and puts caps on these deals. Even the NFL has salary caps

Fingers are going to get burned.

ZZ posted that a player from UNC has been offered $5 million to transfer to two other schools. Maybe so, maybe not. I have hard time wrapping my head around this.

But that kind of money is gonna have some strings attached by the donor(s). If that kid don't start, its gonna hit the fan.

Now coach is bringing in another kid to take the place of the kid I'm paying $5 million dollars who is now gonna sit the bench behind a portal transfer?

I think the simplest, quickest fix is to reinstate the one-year sitout.

This is gonna be fustercluck all the way around.

[CharlieK]

College football used to be the closest to perfect sport out there. All it needed was a genuine playoff for the National Championship. Then they changed almost everything about it except for that and saved that for last. Now it's an enormous mess.

[Rainman66]

https://thesundevils.com/sports/foot...tansbury/13828

He played as a rs freshman.

According to this article he is in the portal. Don't know why you can't find him.

https://arizonasports.com/story/3416...enters-portal/

Thanks, my only resource is 247 tracking portal.

[CajunEXPRESS]

If this was new you would see a slow escalation in the amount of NIL money being offered.

The shear 0-60 $ speed of NIL offerings makes it clear the money was being funneled all along.

I can't wait to how official budgets are adjusted.

I’m sure that the money has exploded since the NIL. Players wouldn’t have fought so hard to get that money preyed away from the NCAA. Additionally there are tens of thousands of boosters who wouldn’t pay under the table that are willing to pay into apparently approved methods to compensate players. So while always existed it now exists in much greater numbers.

[Turbine]

I’m sure that the money has exploded since the NIL. Players wouldn’t have fought so hard to get that money preyed away from the NCAA. Additionally there are tens of thousands of boosters who wouldn’t pay under the table that are willing to pay into apparently approved methods to compensate players. So while always existed it now exists in much greater numbers.

For sure.

Can you imagine how some industries would explode if they didn't require offshore accounts?

[CajunEXPRESS]

For sure.

Can you imagine how some industries would explode if they didn't require offshore accounts?

In spite of NIL the transfer portal is absolutely free to become more or less restrictive. That’s under the purview of the member institutions AKA NCAA.

[CajunT]

Thanks, my only resource is 247 tracking portal.

He doesn't necessarily have to sign early. He can enroll in January and he can officially sign in February. Alexander and Stansbury would be a nice finish to the class in February.

[Policarp]

What's keeping a college athlete from having a NIL agent to negotiate on his/her behalf.

With NIL in SEC now going well over 1 million for 5 star recruits and proven transfers.....seems to me that the biggest loser in a few years at this pace will be the NFL. SEC is essentially morphing itself into the NFL. Without any salary caps or tax concerns as it's all done under the guise as non profit institutions....it would take less than 5 years to compete head to head vs NFL.