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Honor&Glory
Paper,Rock, Scissors, Lizard, Spock!
I’m completely fine not throwing millions to 17 year olds. Wish the kid best of luck watching bowl games and playoffs on TV after the sanctions hit.
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I'm ok with a more strategic NIL philosophy. Especially since you just don't know how a 17 year old is going to react to a college environment.
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Buckeye86
I do not choose to discuss it
How many NFL first round draft picks wash out? It’s a lot greater than zero and I’d guess between 25-50% don’t make it to a meaningful second contract. If you can’t predict success at that level at a high rate of accuracy, what hope is there for a 17 y/o out of high school (who just got money to be stupid with)?
Even before NIL was a thing, it was said in recruiting (I think by Tressel, before roster management was a prominent thing - at least at Ohio State), it’s not the ones you miss on the trail, it’s the ones you bring in who take up space and don’t contribute that kill your roster-compounded exponentially when they’re taking up NIL cap space.
Plus, giving a HS kid who hasn’t proven anything more than guys on the current roster destroys locker room chemistry.
In summary, yes, a managed NIL approach (especially in the age of the transfer portal) is clearly the best option in the short and long term and you just have to take receipts on a recruitment like this and see how it works out in 1-3 years.
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osuvictory1
Just a schlub from Y-town
I honestly don't get all bent out of shape on lost recruiting battles anymore. Especially DE's.
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Yea we might as well get used to the fact that these higher level DEs are looking for more NIL money than we are willing to give to HS recruits. I'd rather give that kind of money to a more proven portal addition anyway
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I could be wrong but im gonna guess this is more Michigan offering a insane amount rather than us being extreme penny pinchers.
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calibuck
Too soon old, too late smart
Believe it was none other than good ol' 2-10-1 (John Cooper) that said, "if you miss on a player, you only have to see him once a year. But if you get a player who doesn't measure up, you have to see him every day". Or somesuch paraphrase. It was true then, and true now. However, with the expertise that Mark Pantoni brings to recruiting, Coop's latter thought doesn't happen as much. Today, it's more likely that the player will look at the players above him, and if he sees more coming in above him, he'll get the hint and transfer out. Or maybe, and am not very conversant with the NIL rules, he'll find that his NIL $ are diminished or taken away, and then make his way out.
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Fix the scheme last year and it's not close. Day has admitted to not putting his team in the best position to win in that scenario and, irony of ironies, it catapulted them to a national title.
2021-2023 doesn't count in my IMO. You can't factor out the level of cheating, especially when the defense knows the plays, knows the timing and knows the point of attack. Guys who went to the NFL and had been good to borderline great were sitting ducks because of it.
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What 11 said - TCUN is having to offer up so much in NIL right now it's not prudent or logical to even bother trying to keep up. Look at the storm clouds around that program - no matter what the NCAA ends up doing to them, they are deficit spending just to get people.
The recruiting is fine - people freaking out over 17 year olds who are getting millions are hilarious.
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