Portal 2023-24

[vegashog]

We're looking at McCord

hopefully he's looking at our cash.

also qb from boise st says arkansas has reached out to him.

[buff2.0]

The QB from Boise makes me hard.  I mean... his ball skills do... his football playing skills.

[vegashog]

81 3* or higher qb in the portal on the first day.

[animal]

The QB from Boise makes me hard.  I mean... his ball skills do... his football playing skills.

what does she look like?

[Pig Benis]

Catalon back in after one year at TX. I guess they didn't leave room for him.

[vegashog]

seems like he would have waited around to see if he could get a ring out of the deal at least.

[DrMongoose]

Word is Gabriel was asked to leave as Venables wants to move on to the backup.  Gabriel has played five years mostly at UCF.  Word is he's going to Lebby at ms state which might alter kj s plans. 

When do all these Covid extra seasons go away?

good luck to him behind a Kennedy coached line

I think this is the last year of the covid seasons.

[vegashog]

it's the last year for the 2019 class. if you were a freshman in 2020, with a covid year and a redshirt, you have a total 6 seasons of eligibility.

at least i read that somewhere.

[Feral]

it's the last year for the 2019 class. if you were a freshman in 2020, with a covid year and a redshirt, you have a total 6 seasons of eligibility.

at least i read that somewhere.

Yep.

Medical redshirts and special exceptions aside, 2024 will be the Covid year for 2019 recruiting class. 2025 should be the final year for any Covid athletes.

[hit_that_line]

Ole Miss is expecting to clean up. There's no way in hell they've got deeper pockets than us.

[DirkPiggler]

Ole Miss is expecting to clean up. There's no way in hell they've got deeper pockets than us.

They don't have deeper pockets, but their rich people don't "waste" money on stuff like academics or minor sports like basketball.

[Feral]

Ole Miss is expecting to clean up. There's no way in hell they've got deeper pockets than us.

Why do people keep saying this when we cheap out on athletics all the time?

Some facilities aside (which, save for baseball, are middle of the pack in the SEC), we simply don't spend money on coaches or players nearly to the degree other teams do.

Either we have money and don't spend it, or we don't have it. Neither is desirable.

[BleedinRed]

I suspect Ole Miss is cleaning up, not because they have money, but mostly because they have a dynamic young coach that the kids want to play for.

[DirkPiggler]

I suspect Ole Miss is cleaning up, not because they have money, but mostly because they have a dynamic young coach that the kids want to play for.

But they had to pay a lot of money to keep him...money that in the past they were either unwilling or unable to spend.

[hit_that_line]

Why do people keep saying this when we cheap out on athletics all the time?

Some facilities aside (which, save for baseball, are middle of the pack in the SEC), we simply don't spend money on coaches or players nearly to the degree other teams do.

Either we have money and don't spend it, or we don't have it. Neither is desirable.

We spent $6mm more than Ole Miss in FY22. They are operating at a deficit and showed huge increases in spending categories across the board. Their facilities are on the lower end of the conference. Definitely looks like an unsustainable path, especially when people get sick of ponying up for NIL and other bullshit.

[vegashog]

We spent $6mm more than Ole Miss in FY22. They are operating at a deficit and showed huge increases in spending categories across the board. Their facilities are on the lower end of the conference. Definitely looks like an unsustainable path, especially when people get sick of ponying up for NIL and other bullshit.

that post seems to imply that schools themselves fund nil. they don't.


instead of a few giving a lot, they have a lot giving some. same with most of the other sec schools.

arkansas fans in general seem to think it's the responsibility for a relatively small group of rich guys to make nil successful.

missouri and ole miss set up collectives that the average fan can give what they can and state exactly where it goes. we were late in the game in doing that.

[DirkPiggler]

that post seems to imply that schools themselves fund nil. they don't.


instead of a few giving a lot, they have a lot giving some. same with most of the other sec schools.

arkansas fans in general seem to think it's the responsibility for a relatively small group of rich guys to make nil successful.

missouri and ole miss set up collectives that the average fan can give what they can and state exactly where it goes. we were late in the game in doing that.

Also, I suspect many of their boosters who are funding NIL are doing so at the expense of donations to their athletic foundation...hence the deficit spending HTL pointed out. 

We need to figure out a way to transition from donors funding the athletic department to contributors fund the talent acquisition and the massive TV payouts paying for facilities, operating expenses, coaches salaries, etc.

That would mean tying ticket and parking priority to NIL contributions, which I'm not sure if there is a legal way to do right now. 

The way most of these collectives are set up, donations to these are tax deductible (for now...the IRS is licking its chops), where contributions to athletic foundations for ticket priority are not.  We need to take advantage of this as well, at least until the IRS cracks down on the collectives as 501(c)(3) orgs.

[hit_that_line]

that post seems to imply that schools themselves fund nil. they don't.


instead of a few giving a lot, they have a lot giving some. same with most of the other sec schools.

arkansas fans in general seem to think it's the responsibility for a relatively small group of rich guys to make nil successful.

missouri and ole miss set up collectives that the average fan can give what they can and state exactly where it goes. we were late in the game in doing that.

Only so much to go around especially in Mississippi. Wait til a nasty recession. Money is going to be an issue across the board.

[hit_that_line]

Who knows what changes with the new ruling today that schools can pay them directly. Ole Miss ran an $8mm deficit in women's basketball. Dear lord.

[vegashog]

or something like this

https://sports.yahoo.com/ncaa-proposing-new-college-athletics-subdivision-rooted-in-direct-athlete-compensation-145051537.html