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MO WR Jeremiah McClellan (Oregon Signee)

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I've come around to the players' side. Take the money. Might not ever get a chance to take it again. If someone had came in and offered me more money before I took my current job, I wouldn't be working where I do now. Is what it is.

I hope he made the right decision in the end, I wish him the best, and we'll be fine. I don't really view CFB as amateur sports anymore, they're being paid to play football. It's nothing more than business now.

I agree with the sentiment about burning bridges, but if it was a last second pitch, then so be it.
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I think it’s a bit more nuanced than this….for example, getting decent PT at Oregon early is certainly beneficial to the kid, on top of NIL $$$$…….but call it, (2) years under Hartline’s coaching, and the long term benefits plus the pedigree pays it off, IMO. Transfer as a junior with all that time developing at WRU and being around all these dogs….it pays off. We saw it with Jam-O, we even saw it with Sam Wigulsz.

Chasing a bag makes sense if all things are equal….in this case, I don’t think things were equal. It’s also not out of question, anything McClain may have been offered got pushed into the Jeremiah Smith collective (I don’t know this).

My FSU buddy is claiming FSU’s collective offered to top Smith’s best NIL deal from any program. Smith told them it’d take at least $1M per year, and FSU offered it. He thinks OSU offered less than $1M but the value of Hartline made it worth it…..he also thinks OSU came up with more on signing day to make up some of the difference which would make sense.

It’s a new world.
 
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We are placing a lot of value on things that don’t pay the bills. I would rather take the biggest bag now and the biggest bag in two years when I transfer again if I’m good enough to get another.

Hartline is awesome, and there is still no guarantee anyone can get another million dollar offer (or whatever it might be). I don’t think it is that nuanced, personally.

I definitely know what you’re saying, not gonna say you’re wrong. I have just lost all faith that CFB is anything other than business and workplaces for most of the players now.
 
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Generally speaking it’s a bad idea to take less right now for a promise down the road.

In the case of some these precocious talents it might make sense to take a little less for the coaching and development but I’d have a hard time telling 99% of these kid to take less money today and bet on NFL riches later.

At one point in the not so distant past we told them to make sure they got a degree so they’d have something to fall back on because the NFL was just such a crapshoot.

Now we try to tell them to take less money now and bet on themselves/NFL. I just can’t get behind that.
 
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