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Whatever market this is only exists in today's CFB world. It's not comparable to anything else out there. Sure, what you pay a player is based on what you have and what you expect from them, but the "what you have" isn't driven by any conceivable market presence other than being an irrational fan for a favored sports team. The bar is all over the place throughout the 136 FBS teams and isn't remotely comparable. If you want to compare the market value of a player between Bama, LSU, and UT, then that might be a conversation. Let all of the big dogs form their own minor league and that may work. I can't see any way this mess continues as is and I think it will all implode in a few years without major changes. I've been wrong before though.
I do know, however, that my decades of giving and season tickets are in jeopardy. Unfortunately my allegiance lies with a team that falls outside of the ridiculous money pump and narrative that is CFB. At least we have a good engineering program and a beautiful campus. Go Hokies.
Yes, this model is unique to college sports, but it's still governed by economics.
Just like anyone else deciding who to sell their labor to, there are often factors beyond just pay.
Down vote me away, but transfer rankings are in fact made up.
lol come on. Show me in the real world where my 25 year old son that has no resume and proven nothing at that job level gets paid by fanboi donations and no contracts, rules, etc. You can't. For Sean Pedulla, Mansoor Delane, countless others- its 100% about the money. 100%. and this model ONLY exists in the Baller Industrial Complex- nowhere else on earth.
"The NIL world isn't comparable to standard business models."- Bingo. No industry in the world pays on potential, fake value and charitable "donations" on players or workers without employment agreements or contracts. The 90% of the NBA first round players that suck wind and can't fucking play are paid on potential but they have actual contracts that bind them to the team for a certain amount of time. No other comparison is Arch Manning getting 4 million a year having been a back up QB until now without a contract - he could walk after 3 games and keep his redshirt this year and leave the team- nowhere else is this bullshit allowed in the real world.
I just disagree with this entire premise.
What a player is worth to a team is directly related to how much money is being pumped into their program, not what their actual market value is. This is not a real-world scenario where the cost of labor is weighed against the final cost of the product for the customer.
These two sentences are conflicting. Market value literally means that the cost of something is whatever people are willing to pay for it. In this case, that something is the time/energy (aka labor) of recruits.
Any time you're talking about 'skilled' labor (in the economic sense), the value of labor has little to do with the sale price of the final product, and more to do with how much other people are willing to pay for that labor. Just look at the entire tech industry - Software costs have zero to do with how much developers, product managers, etc demand.
You can make jokes that these individuals aren't 'skilled', and you can make the argument that at some point, a college football player becomes a commodity, but at the end of the day, the top X players (300? 500? 1000?) can make a difference on a team's results.
In the economic sense, certain players have a more 'inelastic' value, so they can demand more money, that only a few firms can afford to spend.
Anyways, at the end of the day, I stand by my above statement: These players are making decisions on more than just money, but if two offers are too distant (more than 5%-20% off) then the team making the higher offer will almost always land the player.
I am slowly getting there. But last year was better than the year before.
Sell it to a wahoo...
I realized a few years ago that I really enjoyed the off weekends when we were not traveling to a game in Blacksburg quite a bit. I get to sit in my own house, and watch a bigger slate of games from a much more comfortable seat. Combine that realization with the slow and steady decline of the fan service experience in Lane Stadium and going to the games just wasn't the highlight of the year for me anymore.
Not MLB directly, but.... Trevor Bauer just gave up one of the longest post-steroids home runs we've seen last night in Japan. 594 feet!
Update: Trevor Bauer returns from the Japanese minor leagues, immediately surrenders the longest home run in recorded history pic.twitter.com/XFPfEUmfwH https://t.co/tyJqd24oBI— Not Gaetti (@notgaetti) July 16, 2025
The issue with compensation is that it's not really relative and therefore it's difficult to be competitive. What a player is worth to a team is directly related to how much money is being pumped into their program, not what their actual market value is. This is not a real-world scenario where the cost of labor is weighed against the final cost of the product for the customer. The NIL world isn't comparable to standard business models.
That's why I said that the compensation has to be competitive. Just like people on the real world, other factors can outweigh a 5 to 20% drop in compensation. But if school A is offering 150 K in school B is offering $1 million, then it's a no-brainer.
I have to agree with DC that money really is the only deciding factor now. Enough money will easily nullify a rough culture and/or location in this era of football.
I'm at a loss for words at your absolute miserable luck with your rig. Yes, sell the damn thing, from push pole to trailer hubs and be done with it. Then, buy a new rig, up your guide fee a little and start tying earrings to beat the band. You're a fishing guide, man, and you won't be getting rich anyway, so go into debt and at least be able to sleep at night and party with your friends. I know folks that use their boats as much as you do, but without as much travel, admittedly, and they don't have the panoply of disaster you routinely must navigate. But then again, all of my friends would tell you that I'm really good at telling other people how to spend their money.
I'll never be a grandfather, but I've been a great uncle for a number of years. Hearing has been gone for a while, thanks to absolutely no ear protection while young and stupid. Gunfire, chainsaws, too much loud music, both heard and played, and a special shout out to the lads of Grand Funk Railroad for their stupid loud concert in Germany when I was in the Army in '71 or '72. Hearing aids help, but I rue those unforced errors. As for vision, thank goodness for glasses.
Neither of those things keeps me from appreciation of beauty, however. As for acting pervy, a nice young woman at the local convenience store told me that in her experience, it seemed that age made gentlemen out of most men, and I've tried to remember that before actually leering at a lovely young lady.
Oversimplification. It's just like accepting offers in the real world. You accept an offer with competitive compensation, at a company that you believe can further your career, with a company culture you like, in a location that works for you.
Everyone's on scholarship. There are roster limits now - you're either on the 105 or you're not. If he is, he's on scholarship. Whit and Pry have said repeatedly that they plan to fully fund football (for now at least).
I work in the CRC, there have been 3 or 4 new hangers in the last couple of years. Our little airport is growing up.
Because transfer ratings aren't just made up and we typically don't pursue D3 transfers. Those things just aren't true. Outside of Reddish, who was the last D3 transfer we signed? Come a point, you're breaking the signal/noise CG by throwing categorical nonsense out there as fact, then saying that it's "just an opinion". There is almost always a nuanced argument that could be made from his posts, and honestly, I'm pretty sure it's usually close to what DC actually thinks. That's why you can get to something interesting if you sift through the noise and engage. In this case, I that boils down to something very similar to what you just posted. You'll notice that you're not getting down-voted.
I realize I only post periodically, but I've been around for a decent time at this point. The negativity really is a reason I don't come more. Knowing that every discussion has someone (often the same someone) who is just mad and throwing bombs makes it a less pleasant way to spend my occasional free moments. I don't think I'm alone in that, and I think that also accounts for the pattern of DVs on borderline posts.
Drove by Blacksburg Exec Airport on way home from work today. There were as many private jets there as for a home game. What's up?
Have you ever seen the young man Dallas Mason play (guitar and drums) in Ocracoke. He's a 15 year old prodigy that's lived there his entire life and plays regularly at the local oyster house and other places on the OBX.
Edit: And... sorry for your trouble. Leg!
Grandfather in my case. But losing vision and hearing can be advantageous in this situation since it helps you avoid the distractions.
You aren't wrong. Seems like daily I am seeing a new headline on turmoil in Charlottesville.
Unfortunately texas oil money, alabama old money, wherever the billions Ohio State donors have comes from, etc is in fact endless. There is no end to the money. If star QBs cost 30 million a season, aTm donors would pay that in roughly 3 seconds. no end to the money. So I doubt this shitshow ends unless congress gets involved and passes actual laws around texas and alabama booster money laundering schemes