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Regarding the EPL as a P2 comp: you wrote it off, but I think it's a huge distinguishing factor that teams do have the ability to play their way into the EPL. Leicester City won the EPL in the 2015/16 season 8 years after being relegated from the Championship (the league below EPL) to League One. The only way to get access into the P2 is if the P2 decides you add sufficient financial benefit. There are also multiple examples of quality teams building from League One/Championship to stick around in the EPL. Look at Wolves, Bournemouth, Brentford, and Brighton. Multiple well run, but lower earning (and with less cash infusion) clubs have been able to compete. Brighton was in Champions League last year.
As for the Super League - I just disagree. I don't think the fans of the blue blood programs would care one bit about the teams they're leaving behind. And I have zero trust in any institution doing anything once the TV backers decide to form one league with all of the biggest brands.
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I thought he included that position in his 400 page plan.
I saw somewhere that in his 400-page document his GM of football operations will head up recruiting. Or at least recruiting will fall under the GM's side of the house.
I see no possible downside to this plan.
This^^^^
Doctors pull $300 - 750k per year depending on specialty. It's not "I'll pay for a new stadium today" money, but thousands of doctors throwing $10k per year at their college sports team adds up pretty fast.
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...So tOSU/Texas/Georgia/UNC etc are about to explode player comp.
Year 1 is deflating the footballs and cutting the sleeves off all his UNC sweatshirts.
I'm just sayin' the ECU and ODU are a step-up from Fork Union... I'm just ignoring the truth that we're also part of the developmental program for these kids to jump elsewhere.
NIL can be a Both/And with the House Settlement though. No restrictions on NIL aside from the amounts being public/transparent above $600. So tOSU/Texas/Georgia etc are about to explode player comp.
Yes, VT values Phillips, (BWW he was rated the #46 of 51 safeties in the ACC rated by PFF), but not as much as he values himself.
per TSL... Philips was planning on staying @ VT then got involved with an agent who convinced him to ask for more $$$. So much more $$ that VT was like.. we'll do half that if you stay. And Phillips chose to leave and hit the Portal.
Highly unlikely that anyone is going to pony up the kind of money he is asking for. Great chance he winds up getting less than VT's offer.
Welp
Bill Belichick and North Carolina have sent out an offer to Penn transfer RB Malachi Hosley🐏Hosley rushed for 1,192 yards and 9 touchdowns this season.https://t.co/Tp38IjnYIl pic.twitter.com/sYjPc51wYy— Transfer Portal (@TransferPortal_) December 12, 2024
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Apples and Oranges. The EPL is a league that is already essentially split away. It effectively is the P2 of English football, and while there is technically a path for anyone to be good, it typically starts with needing an influx of cash from what is usually a billionaire saudi or american. If you don't get that, you wallow in Championship football in perpetuity, maybe once in a blue moon getting a promotion only to be slapped down hard because you just don't have the cash to compete.
From what I remember, and you can correct me if I'm wrong, the backlash about the European Super League is because it was the true elites ("blue bloods") banded together to cut all the regular elites out of the cashflows. It would be like the backlash that would exist throughout the SEC and Big Ten if Alabama, Texas, Georgia, Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State, Tennessee, USC, and Oregon all decided to split away from their conferences keeping all their money for themselves. The backlash if that tried to happen would be swift and loud, and likely get the government involved to protect those left behind.
Yep, can't really blame any of the guys for entering the portal to test the waters. If I knew I could double/triple my pay by switching my job I'd definitely throw in an application 😂
The thing is, with the new $20.5M revenue sharing plan that is set to go into effect with the House settlement, along with the new NIL clearinghouse, NIL is going to be less a factor I think. Programs are going to have to start operating like a professional organization managing what is essentially a salary cap. It seems UNC has recognized this and is firing the first salvo in this new arms race to build that organization.
You had many valid points there. But somebody FOIAing his manifesto is something I can assure Bill never even dreamed would happen. Never happen in the NFL.
I've gotta start getting ready for a trip I'm taking with my dad down to Patagonia the middle of January. I went 2 years ago and he's gone the last 4 straight. Some GREAT trout fishing (Rainbows/Browns primarily) down there and the views are breathtaking. Truly an amazing destination with great fishing.
Has anyone been to Christmas Island for bonefishing? I've talked to my old man about going there and have scratched the surface of what that would look like.