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Throwing money at it won't necessarily guarantee a positive upswing. Look at all of the fast risers over the last few years. Mo' money, mo' problems.
Sounds like Gentry will be returning to the scene.
Harbaugh is such a hot head I could see Saban purposely pushing his buttons making Harbaugh lash out (like punching Jim Kelly in the past). End of camps. Saban wins again.
Offer out to Johnny Jordan, #15 center in the country, from Gonzaga HS in DC:
http://virginiatech.247sports.com/Bolt/Virginia-Tech-offers-Washington-D...
They would be, but they're still trying to figure out how to open the box.
UNC actually hasn't recruited that well over the last 4 classes. This year is the first year they are recruiting at an elite level (probably will end up around 15) with next year looking even stronger if they have another successful season. Winning cures all as long as you have a staff thats willing to bust it on the trail to seize the momentum.
Too bad the fans/alums don't and refuse to give.
There is one formula. For the most part schools with big athletic/football budgets and have wide & deep fan/business support also get the best recruiting classes. The things create program cache. The outliers are schools in recruiting rich areas. Coaches/recruiters have a fairly insignificant impact.
VT is sort of one of those three. I'll say it yet again, for VT to get to the next level of recruiting, the athletic budget needs to increase by 30% and then maintain that level with consistent growth.
You can bet the farm that Whit Babcock understands this.
To fortify my earlier comment please check this link out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubqmHi16_Eo
Might bring a tear to your eye as well as some goosebumps looking forward. Do I lose man points for this? Come on September.!
does that mean UVA is playing Apples to Apples?
Yes I would be in favor of a Gross salary cap, and then a range that you can pay players.
So that the minimum might be just what tuition and Cot of Living comes out to, and then maybe something like lets say 25% of a schools allocation from the conference media package is used above that to compensate the players who are driving that viewership the most.
I'm not ignoring those questions, I'm waiting for someone, anyone to answer all the questions associated with paying players. Instead all we hear about is, players should be paid and if X school is paying them then why shouldn't we.
Happy?
Could a 5* (or any player for that matter) go straight to CFL, get paid for 2 years and then join the NFL?
"Amazing" to me- Alabama broke NCAA rules & now their HC is lecturing us on the possibility of rules being broken at camps. Truly "amazing."— Coach Harbaugh (@CoachJim4UM) June 1, 2016
Well, this should be interesting.
We also already have a better QB commit and 2 better TE commits.
So the only option for someone who wants to get paid for playing football before the age of 20 is to go into 2 leagues, both of which are bastardized versions of the one you have spent your entire career preparing to play? So your training will actually most likely hinder your chances of success at the NFL level rather than help them?
And this, in your mind is acceptable?
I mean, this isn't even getting into the multi-billion dollar business that collegiate football currently is, of which the athletes on whose backs the game is played are strictly prohibited from seeing a dime.
Good for him. Really doubtful he would have been a QB for us.
Michigan (Followed almost immediately by a mental "hey, wasn't '99 FSU a sugar bowl too)
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2000-2002 (MBA) lived in the burg in 2003.
It would be better to try to answer the questions than to ignore them, which is what is happening right now. Sure they are tough to decide, but that doesn't mean there should be nothing as a response.
Then who decides market value? Does every kid get paid? Is there an upper limit (salary cap)? Is it just money paid from the schools funds or can anyone pay the kid?
I think it comes down to if you think the NCAA is itself morally in the right and if the current scholarship model is or is not morally wrong to start with.
That sort of frames the whole, is slipping players some more on the side right/wrong question.
Both the CFL and AFL have an age limit of 18. These kids want to go straight to be paid a salary then guess what they have entry level options.
Yeah, right now we're not taking some moral high ground... We're that one high school senior that actually attends class on cut day because skipping out would be against the rules.
You mean they are still waiting for someone to open the box for them.