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2025 scUM Shenanigans, Arguments, etc.

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CincyInterloper said:
It’s like alleged, but when everyone knows it actually happened.
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ORD_Buckeye said:
I'm sure Sharonna and crew are lying their teeth off to recruits about the impending nothinburger. Too bad the portal's a hell of a drug.
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$$$ talks. Cryin' and his crew are little to no part of the reason why suddenly this surge of more higher level guys are "wanting" to go there. There's no harm for these recruits to commit at the moment for promised big NIL money, they can and will just jump elsewhere if heavy sanctions do come down.

This all seems like a calculated PR stunt by scUM though, all of this NIL money suddenly came flying in at a convenient time. We've seen how desperate they are to preserve the bullshit "Michigan Man" imagine. Wonder how many of these hilariously high NIL offers will even stand up if they actually get to the time where it's time to pay up anyway. scUM is offering like 4X the money to these players than the next best offers.
 
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buckeyemania11 said:
$$$ talks. Cryin' and his crew are little to no part of the reason why suddenly this surge of more higher level guys are "wanting" to go there. There's no harm for these recruits to commit at the moment for promised big NIL money, they can and will just jump elsewhere if heavy sanctions do come down.

This all seems like a calculated PR stunt by scUM though, all of this NIL money suddenly came flying in at a convenient time. We've seen how desperate they are to preserve the bullshit "Michigan Man" imagine. Wonder how many of these hilariously high NIL offers will even stand up if they actually get to the time where it's time to pay up anyway. scUM is offering like 4X the money to these players than the next best offers.
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Or maybe not. Good money and you only have to play in 13games. A lot fewer hits come draft time. Not saying anyone would follow the logic, but it might be something to consider.
 
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NFBuck said:
I'm not sure that matters anymore. This is now a $$$ industry.
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The top guys are going there purely because of NIL, we've seen how that's worked out for other schools so far who take on a bunch of recruits they only were able to get attention from because of NIL. It's liable to implode anyways even with the $$$
 
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buckeyemania11 said:
The top guys are going there purely because of NIL, we've seen how that's worked out for other schools so far who take on a bunch of recruits they only were able to get attention from because of NIL. It's liable to implode anyways even with the $$$
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Or it's the market beginning to mature a little bit and that is going to be the price for top end talent going forward.

I think you could very easily see kids just go to the highest bidder, looking at it like a temporary stop on the way to the NFL, and couldn't care less about the CFP let alone Bowl games.

One thing that will be true though is those teams will be paying a premium for their talent. That should be (unknown budgets cloud the picture) a competitive advantage for teams that feel they can out scout and develop bigger spenders.

Who knows? It's all still to be played out but I wouldn't get comfortable with any kind of rock solid belief in what worked a couple years ago is the proper way forward as well.
 
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I dont think you can get rid of the management aspect, no matter what shape it ends up taking. Take Phil Jackson, he spent his time managing egos, not coaching basketball. He later took this ability of his to Los Angeles and managed Kobe and Shaq as well. I think, if I can make some assumptions and table it the "osu way" where players are getting paid well, but also understand this is a developmental league, rather than the ATM way (I do mean TAMU, not ass to mouth) which is throw a ton of money at a bunch of guys who are looking out for themselves. We've seen some test runs on this philosophy. I hope scUM tries, cuz the test results ain't great. And Sharon ain't CFPs Phil Jackson
 
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Jaxbuck said:
Or it's the market beginning to mature a little bit and that is going to be the price for top end talent going forward.

I think you could very easily see kids just go to the highest bidder, looking at it like a temporary stop on the way to the NFL, and couldn't care less about the CFP let alone Bowl games.

One thing that will be true though is those teams will be paying a premium for their talent. That should be (unknown budgets cloud the picture) a competitive advantage for teams that feel they can out scout and develop bigger spenders.

Who knows? It's all still to be played out but I wouldn't get comfortable with any kind of rock solid belief in what worked a couple years ago is the proper way forward as well.
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You are right, who knows.

I think some of our fan base is hilariously over reacting to what scUM is doing though. I've seen plenty of claims elsewhere acting like scUM is building some sort of SUPER TEAM level recruiting class and leaving Ohio State in the dust.

We currently both have the same # of top 200 commits, scUM has more lower end guys (400+ in the composite) though and our class is currently higher in average player rankings (92,27-91.57) even with them offering 3-4X the next bidder for these bigger guys they are getting,
 
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The funniest shit is that they are mind blown to why the 5* WR would choose Syracuse over them

Syracuse had THREE guys with 900+ receiving yards last year. Not a single scUM WR has reached 900 yards in the Harbaugh/Cryin' Sherrone times and only 2 have ever hit 800 across the last 10 seasons combined

Geeeeeee which offense would you rather play in as a WR?
 
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