Shit's getting deep with NIL. Ryan Day needs 13 million to keep his team intact.

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Ryan Day Has Telling Admission: College Football World Reacts (msn.com)

According to Cleveland.com, Day told the contingent that the Buckeyes need $13 million in NIL funding to keep their entire roster together. Otherwise, the team runs the risk of losing players to other programs via the transfer portal.
“One phone call, and they’re out the door,” Day said. “We cannot let that happen at Ohio State. I’m not trying to sound the alarm, I’m just trying to be transparent about what we’re dealing with.”
It's not every day we see this level of transparency from college coaches. Day's $13 million figure is being met with a variety of reactions from fans.
Per Cleveland.com's Doug Lesmerises, Day also said OSU has been gathering information on what the current NIL market is elsewhere.
"He said he believes right now top-shelf quarterbacks require $2 million in NIL money," Lesmerises wrote. "Major offensive tackles and edge rushers he said are about $1 million."
 
Even at the destination schools with generous donors, it will be tricky to keep everyone happy. A legit star will always have more offers…and there will be 5 star phenom recruits that get 7 figure deals and don’t perform. I can’t really blame the guy who outplayed him to expect some cash too.

Roster churn is going to be a nightmare to deal with. I can also see where the portal war winners could lose 3 or 4 games because there is no team identity or cohesiveness, despite having the most talented team on paper.

The shit show is interesting for now, though I’m not sure how long that lasts.

Btw, Ryan Day is absolutely sounding the alarm, but it’s to cover his own ass. He doesn’t like the prospect of not having an overwhelming talent advantage against every team he plays outside of the playoff.
 
I think we are going to need a draft and a salary cap now to level the playing field. Oh yeah, and leave the NCAA to monitor the tennis and volleyball teams.
 
Kace-1 said:
Cool. Don't forget, the season still starts in August and we'll all be happily watching.
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Not exactly true. After 35 years of buying season tickets, this is likely my last year. I'm disgusted with the pending death of college football as we knew it, and the birth of semi-pro football in an official manner. There word team has changed to include the letter "I" and it's all about the money. No school loyalty, no playing for the team's betterment. There will soon be no "recruitment" process, simply a "here's how much money I demand", who's buying? Doesn't matter which team, contender or cellar dweller, just give me my money. This will end up like basketball with the one and done year and go pro. A lot of schools will go bankrupt over this mess. They empty their coffers for a dream team, then the dream team hits the portal for more money, then you're starting over needing yet more money to get back where you briefly stood the year before. Coaching will change from building a team to win a championship within four years to accumulating the best group of players that might gel into a team in one year. Imagine if someone filthy rich like Elon Musk decided to donate a billion dollars a year to Vandy, they could win every national championship for ten years. I've already skipped NFL games for several years, no particular interest. Same with semi-pro.
 
RuffledFeathers said:
Not exactly true. After 35 years of buying season tickets, this is likely my last year. I'm disgusted with the pending death of college football as we knew it, and the birth of semi-pro football in an official manner. There word team has changed to include the letter "I" and it's all about the money. No school loyalty, no playing for the team's betterment. There will soon be no "recruitment" process, simply a "here's how much money I demand", who's buying? Doesn't matter which team, contender or cellar dweller, just give me my money. This will end up like basketball with the one and done year and go pro. A lot of schools will go bankrupt over this mess. They empty their coffers for a dream team, then the dream team hits the portal for more money, then you're starting over needing yet more money to get back where you briefly stood the year before. Coaching will change from building a team to win a championship within four years to accumulating the best group of players that might gel into a team in one year. Imagine if someone filthy rich like Elon Musk decided to donate a billion dollars a year to Vandy, they could win every national championship for ten years. I've already skipped NFL games for several years, no particular interest. Same with semi-pro.
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I honestly feel teh same, and that's as a fan of a school that'll always be able to compete.
 
I posted on my home board last year I was thinking of dropping out, but would give it another year to see what developed. It's getting noticably worse by the day. Not good. I'm interested in visiting a few away SEC stadiums I haven't gotten to yet. But that's about it. Once loved going to bowl games, but now a team is liable to be gutted by the portal before kickoff. Both teams may be gutted and horrible games are generally not fun to watch, even in victory, if certain players hold back to not risk injury.
 
RuffledFeathers said:
Not exactly true. After 35 years of buying season tickets, this is likely my last year. I'm disgusted with the pending death of college football as we knew it, and the birth of semi-pro football in an official manner. There word team has changed to include the letter "I" and it's all about the money. No school loyalty, no playing for the team's betterment. There will soon be no "recruitment" process, simply a "here's how much money I demand", who's buying? Doesn't matter which team, contender or cellar dweller, just give me my money. This will end up like basketball with the one and done year and go pro. A lot of schools will go bankrupt over this mess. They empty their coffers for a dream team, then the dream team hits the portal for more money, then you're starting over needing yet more money to get back where you briefly stood the year before. Coaching will change from building a team to win a championship within four years to accumulating the best group of players that might gel into a team in one year. Imagine if someone filthy rich like Elon Musk decided to donate a billion dollars a year to Vandy, they could win every national championship for ten years. I've already skipped NFL games for several years, no particular interest. Same with semi-pro.
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This ^^
 
RuffledFeathers said:
Not exactly true. After 35 years of buying season tickets, this is likely my last year. I'm disgusted with the pending death of college football as we knew it, and the birth of semi-pro football in an official manner. There word team has changed to include the letter "I" and it's all about the money. No school loyalty, no playing for the team's betterment. There will soon be no "recruitment" process, simply a "here's how much money I demand", who's buying? Doesn't matter which team, contender or cellar dweller, just give me my money. This will end up like basketball with the one and done year and go pro. A lot of schools will go bankrupt over this mess. They empty their coffers for a dream team, then the dream team hits the portal for more money, then you're starting over needing yet more money to get back where you briefly stood the year before. Coaching will change from building a team to win a championship within four years to accumulating the best group of players that might gel into a team in one year. Imagine if someone filthy rich like Elon Musk decided to donate a billion dollars a year to Vandy, they could win every national championship for ten years. I've already skipped NFL games for several years, no particular interest. Same with semi-pro.
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Schools won't go bankrupt over this mess (unless it's secondary financial losses due to loss of registrations etc), but athletic departments most certainly could be in danger of that. Unless it's different than what UK does, no money really comes from the school itself for athletics. That stuff is all paid for by the athletic departments (to include scholarships, the coaching salaries that are over the max the state allows, etc). However, successful athletic programs do have an influence over general student enrollments/registrations, so there could be some fallout on the academic side, but not to the point they go bankrupt......
 
MarineUKFan said:
Schools won't go bankrupt over this mess (unless it's secondary financial losses due to loss of registrations etc), but athletic departments most certainly could be in danger of that. Unless it's different than what UK does, no money really comes from the school itself for athletics. That stuff is all paid for by the athletic departments (to include scholarships, the coaching salaries that are over the max the state allows, etc). However, successful athletic programs do have an influence over general student enrollments/registrations, so there could be some fallout on the academic side, but not to the point they go bankrupt......
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Yes, I'm referring to athletic departments not entire university.
 
RuffledFeathers said:
Not exactly true. After 35 years of buying season tickets, this is likely my last year. I'm disgusted with the pending death of college football as we knew it, and the birth of semi-pro football in an official manner. There word team has changed to include the letter "I" and it's all about the money. No school loyalty, no playing for the team's betterment. There will soon be no "recruitment" process, simply a "here's how much money I demand", who's buying? Doesn't matter which team, contender or cellar dweller, just give me my money. This will end up like basketball with the one and done year and go pro. A lot of schools will go bankrupt over this mess. They empty their coffers for a dream team, then the dream team hits the portal for more money, then you're starting over needing yet more money to get back where you briefly stood the year before. Coaching will change from building a team to win a championship within four years to accumulating the best group of players that might gel into a team in one year. Imagine if someone filthy rich like Elon Musk decided to donate a billion dollars a year to Vandy, they could win every national championship for ten years. I've already skipped NFL games for several years, no particular interest. Same with semi-pro.
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Maybe athletic depts. or other depts of schools will have problems but overall have any of you ever researched the amount of money schools have in their accounts. From donations of wealthy alumni and other fund raising events some have over a billion. Nobody on the upper tier esp is hurting for money.
But what's happening to the game itself is really turning me off. I gave up on the nfl a long time ago and now the college game is becoming a free agent free for all.
 
LyquidMetal said:
Maybe athletic depts. or other depts of schools will have problems but overall have any of you ever researched the amount of money schools have in their accounts. From donations of wealthy alumni and other fund raising events some have over a billion. Nobody on the upper tier esp is hurting for money.
But what's happening to the game itself is really turning me off. I gave up on the nfl a long time ago and now the college game is becoming a free agent free for all.
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IMO, NIL is not the main culprit, it's the portal. Let's be real, players have been getting paid for decades. You know it, I know it, we all know it. NIL allowed the $$$$ to get stupid for sure, but that was a direct result of the government mandating it before studies could be done to figure out how to regulate it. But adding the portal in at the same time blew it completely out of proportion. Go back and look at what Lane Kiffin said about Bryce Young. Kiffin was right. It really is the wild wild west, but because of the portal, not NIL.
 
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