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I guess the Pennix wasn't mightier.
I'm not sure but there are a number of national accounts running with this....though he's the only one credited with any actual source information which is fishy.
Bill Belichick leaving the UNC dorms on a Sunday morning next fall pic.twitter.com/ZnuIRLSgnp— Wings (@MichiganWings) December 10, 2024
How credible is Ollie?
And with those walk ons and G5 players, would ESPN, Fox and CBS just shrug their shoulders and say "yeah, that seems pretty close to what we're paying billions for"? Of course not. Come on.
The Drone Racing team would like a word.
Apparently Bill Belicheck gave UNC a 400 page organizational bible that if they agree to would make him the next head coach.
JFC
Bill Belichick has agreed to become the next Head Coach at North Carolina. We are currently waiting to find out if UNC agrees as well...Per @OllieConnolly Bill handed UNC a 400 page organizational bible with structure, payment plans, staffing choices, and plenty more pic.twitter.com/kXd3X6ugl3— Unnecessary Roughness (@UnnecRoughness) December 10, 2024
Well because for many of them the only reason they got into virginia tech - much less duke or michigan- is because they can play football. So Brent Pry gave them 75K dollars in education and got them into a school they otherwise would have never sniffed. Perhaps thank him by playing in the bowl game for him? too much to ask?
UNC women just won their 23rd national title in soccer. VT has zero in anything all time. So there is a blueprint out there.
Why would portaling players want to play and risk injury for their next stop?
"if every player refused to play the 2025 season"- the hundreds of G5 players, walk ons, prospects that were overlooked would line up and play. Look VT is going to turn over 1/3 of our roster between now and march... and players aren't replaceable? come on
Let's examine the choices for American (and foreign) high school seniors in the real world. 1. Go to college- there are a myriad of levels here. You can go to Johns Hopkins to study pre-med and then med, you can go to Harvard to study business, you can go to Yale to study law- IF- huge IF- you are in the top 3% of your high school class. If not, you can go to a fine school- Virginia Tech. Off you go to find yourself and get an education. You don't get 6 figures for showing up though- so take note. 2. Get a job- for 99.99% of high school graduates, this is going to be an entry level job or trade apprentice. Many good honest livings out there- but right out of high school, you are not getting a 6 or 7 figure check for showing up your first day. 3. Join the Military- for 30K dollars per year. 4. Not do anything and live in moms basement- or something similar 5. Go backpacking in europe or 6. Join the NBA G league- if you are one of the 40 best basketball prospects in the world- for 85K per year. or you can do the totally equitable and realistic choice behind door number 7... sign with BYU hoops for 7 million dollars before you play a game, or extort virginia tech after you redshirt for 500K dollars before you scored a touchdown. Seems totally fucking real world and "fair" huh?
I've got it! Everyone is so hung up on football and basketball with NIL - we will NEVER keep up with either of them. Let's reroute all our NIL money and become the most dominate men's soccer club in America!
Not sure what point you're making. I agree with your entire post. However, who populates the teams representing "school x" and "school y"?
Looking at it another way, if every player refused to play the 2025 season, and they all had their scholarships revoked, but schools, conferences and coaches also didn't get their TV money, who took the bigger hit? Who would have the bigger motivation to try to get those games played?
At this portal rate, I won't have to worry about buying tickets I'll suit up and burn a year of eligibility for the field level experience.
I think the next logical thing in the whole NIL/Pay for play will need to be contracts that you can't break for minimum of 2-3 years. This whole transferring every year, taking a bag, not doing shit then transferring again for more money is not sustainable.
I think our starters are mid and our backups are worse than mid. So to your point about player evaluation... yeah probably.
I will say I think this staff has hit on some of the younger guys (Woodson and Pop come to mind) as well as good portal evals. I think Pennix and Bradshaw were always going to be somewhat reaches. Their recruiting short lists were very Fuente-ish (VT, a mid P4, G5)
back when I thought VT had even the slightest chance of reaching the summit I was interested in watching other games and seeing how they might impact the post season picture. Now that it's basically a foregone conclusion and the powers-that-be are unashamedly pushing the agendas of a select few teams I have very little interest in the sport at large. It's a direct result of the failed CFP structure, conference realignment, and networks putting all their eggs in two baskets. The sport just isn't interesting anymore because anyone not named Georgia, Bama, LSU, Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State, Oregon, Texas stand no chance. Regional rivalries are dying. Teams in California are playing the ACC. Oregon is in the B1G. The SEC appears to run the show. ESPN proudly slobbers all over the SECs unit. Guys like Herbstreit have become total clowns with no integrity. I. Just. Can't. Watch. Anymore.
I've joined an EPL fantasy league with my brother and have found watching soccer on the weekends to be FAR MORE ENJOYABLE than football. I watch one football game a week (VT) and then focus on soccer. It's been great.
What if they were 3 win guys who got passed by the 6 win guys? (Then it's a recruiting issue)
This times a Million.
Here's the other point that none of the NIL proponents have been able to answer..what happens 5 years down the line???...say you give a college football player $750k over 4 years to score you 9 total TDs. After taxes, that's slightly more than $450k. A nice chunk of change but not set for life kind of money.
Even if that player is investing that money incredibly wisely (feel free to LOL at this point), they are still going to need a consistent source of income.
And since we have allowed them to transfer 3 times and decided that their education isn't real compensation, they have no degree and are left as a 30 year old with no real marketable skills. Is that really progress???
Networks generate money by raising subscription fees. The majority of which subscribers never watch a college football game. They also generate money through ad revenue during said game. To that point, Army Navy game ads- a game played by kids that can not accept NIL and don't chose the school by how much bag they get- command as much as the SEC title game. That's where CBS gets their money- not from Lynn Kidd or Xavier Chaplain- live sports content played by literally fucking anyone - and turned over every 4 years- is where they make their billions. If not Chaplain, someone fucking else- bank on that. It's fucked logic to tie the 2 together. You think people only watch the rose bowl if there are highly ranked recruiting classes in it? fucking nope. They watch it because its "school x vs. school y" and its live sports. The over valuation of these players, the over payng of these players is going to kill the sport- and then what violin will we play for ballers that get a free 250K dollar education? when they kill that goose?
I'm honestly shocked that as of right neither Drones, Watson, or Davi have declared for the portal
Edit: can we get some green on Pop and Kyron?
That I don't have the answer to. I'll fall back on my prior observation that the mess we're in is because we don't have the courage to call this a pro sport. Things like letting athletes get agents is a pro sport concession. We (collectively) cling to the amateur nature of the sport because that's part of the charm.
But amateurism and billion dollar TV contracts cannot exist together for any length of time.
As for that 3 star not having any monetary value, I agree. As an individual, he doesn't. But in the aggregate, recognizing that you can't field 138 football teams (and thus merit those TV $$$$) w/out a whole lot of 3 stars, they do have some value.
An honest reckoning of what college football has become would have allowed us to understand and compensate for that value. We haven't had that honest reckoning yet.
No I know, there is no chance of it working. But damn, this shit is just stupid now
Yeah, I saw the Ollie tweet earlier, but others more recent saying nothing had been agreed to...but now, like 15 minutes later looks like everyone is running with it
Super