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UNC fans would rejoice even if the admin hated it.
Sadly I wouldn't have as much of an issue with these numbers if they were for endowed positions. Say Sean Glennon plays 10 games of the 12 he gets that proportion of the endowed position. Tyrod gets the 2/12th. Divide the money.
Apparently Arthur Blank really wanted him last time but ultimately allowed his execs to make the decision. He may be more involved this time since the Morris tenure didnt go so well.
The revenue share is still required to be an NIL deal because of anti-trust. Will be interesting to see if these contracts have Termination clauses and what they call for. Also what is the period of performance on the Rev Share/NIL and had UW initiated any of their side of the agreement. Lastly if it does go to court and UW is forced to disclose how much they are paying all their players...not sure UW wants that can opened.
its the same problem we are going to see with AI. Used correctly, we should see a decrease in administrative bullshit that people waste their time on today thus enabling employees to do more of their actual work and less work-about-work. Instead, companies are going to try and buy quick fixes and lay people off since "AI can do everything" and then wonder why quality continues to suffer and eventually no one wants their product.
So it might be the rev share that he signed, that's binding to the school, rather than a full on NIL issue. I hope it ends up in court
Wonder if we will see another lawsuit against a player.
.....but as a Hokies fan DEAR GOD YES
this is how I feel when there's talk of doing "Kaizen events"
the events are hyper-focused improvement events named "Kaizen" but the whole point of Kaizen is continuous improvement. Not instantaneous improvements that occur over the course of a week-long dedicated event and then get left as they are until whenever the next Kaizen event is (usually not for years). Completely misses the mark
One of the issues I see is at the uva/VT level of programs is that we arent going to get the top of the top transfers, so you are getting P4 players looking for playing time and lower level players thay weren't evaluate correctly by everyone. But you are largely still expecting development by other staffs which as we move more into the portal era there are more players and less development going on. Once everyone is just portaling and not developing then then you can't build via portal either. So then it will be some weird scheme where you hire coaches so their players follow them so that they get developed but thats only going to increase coaching salaries which are already insane.
The game, including NFL, will suffer as the college games moves more away from developing players. I see this in industry all the time, software engineers that move projects so quickly that they never seen their design choices in production so they keep making the same issues because it "worked" before. They rise up in the company or jump companies as they resume pad but have no real understand of their craft and then they are making company wide mistakes because they have so many projects and buzzwords on their resume that the entire company is tanking because your server less architecture is running slow because everything is coded in python and Scala and they have left the company so making arguments against "the architecture" isn't an option because the ex employee was the anointed one and you can't convince any one differently.
Newest drama in college football
Washington QB Demond Williams apparently signed his new NIL contract to stay but is now entering portal. Thought to be either Miami or Tennessee tampering. Lot of fingers were pointed at Kiffin but LSU reached a deal with Sam Leavitt from Arizona St.
Oh my god, you just triggered me from my last gig, which we as middle management kept beating the drum of you're not training anyone and the comp structure sucks, which is why you're stuck in this loop of dwindling returns and high turnover. Nobody listened beyond my manager and just kept looking at automation like it would fix every problem.
They might not have even half assed it, just quarter assed 1 thing and the board three quartered sitting with their heads up their asses on their luxury yachts
As a Falcons fan DEAR GOD NO
If Campbell ditches PSU after a month and that saga continues, there won't be enough popcorn on this planet for the hate watching I'll do
There is nothing wrong with any of the project fads, business fads, buzzwords or consultant fluff that gets thrown around, rebranded and resold again and again. The problem is that most businesses are looking for shortcuts instead of processes and half-ass whichever methodology they are using and are surprised when the results come out the same.
Amazing that the Heisman Trust overlooked this with Caleb Hurd. He was jobbed.
I'm not here to annoy anyone. I will cease wondrousing the commitment threads if that is the community preference.
May they continue to do this year after year. We'll own them.
Wild thought, but I wonder if the DWI played a bigger role in Caleb Woodson's decision to transfer than we're acknowledging... specifically the 12-month license suspension that comes with it.
I remember hearing somewhere Tyrece Radford mentioning something similar when he transferred to TAMU, noting that his transferring had a lot to do with his legal situation after the DWI.
Also In today's NIL environment, where players are earning real money and often driving high-profile cars, that kind of restriction isn't trivial.
Not saying this is the reason, but it feels like a plausible contributing factor that doesn't get discussed much.
Here is the gray area we likely never see. The agent is the one submitting the request to contact other schools to see about the interest in their player and the school doesn't respond in seven days. No school is going to come out and admit they failed to respond. Its also possible the school approved it. I dont think we have ever seen a school confirm they gave permission. They dont want to answer the questions from their own fan base to be seen as facilitating the loss of top players.
He should take his time coming back. Those foot injuries take forever and come back in an instant if you're not fully healed
For no better place to put this....
Some smoke on both Belichick and Matt Campbell being on short lists for NFL HC jobs. Belichick with the Falcons and Campbell with the Browns.
How glorious could that implosion be if both were to leave now?
NCAA Bylaw 13.1.1.3 specifies that athletics staff members or other representatives of the
institution's athletics interests shall not make contact with the student-athlete of another NCAA or
NAIA four-year collegiate institution, directly or indirectly, without first obtaining the written
permission of the first institution's athletics director (or an athletics administrator designated by the
athletics director) to do so, regardless of who makes the initial contact. If permission is not granted,
the second institution shall not encourage the transfer and the institution shall not provide athletically
related financial assistance to the student-athlete until the student-athlete has attended the second
institution for one academic year. If permission is granted to contact the student-athlete, all applicable
NCAA recruiting rules apply. If an institution receives a written request from a student-athlete to
permit another institution to contact the student-athlete about transferring, the institution shall grant or
deny the request within seven business days (see Bylaw 13.02.1) of receipt of the request. If the
institution fails to respond to the student-athlete's written request within seven business days,
permission shall be granted by default and the institution shall provide written permission to the
student-athlete.
Unless Whit is saying contact is okay, it is against the rules.
This is where I have a problem....players have always deserved to make money off their legitimate NIL---jerseys, autographs, endorsements, ect.
But without any real rules or Regulation, we have players (and their largely unqualified NIL Agents) just doing whatever they want. Come/Go/Sign contracts/Eligibility---there are no consequences whatsoever and the "rules" are essentially voided as soon as you Lawyer Up.
I see much of nothing coming of this, See what happened with the CB Lucas who left Wisconsin for Miami---Wisconsin sued Miami and look what happened----Kid played with zero penalty.
No matter where you fall on the side of Player Compensation, I think we all can agree that this isn't good for College Sports and has nothing to do with actual "NIL". Moreover, it is doing nothing to prepare the 98.8% of these College Athletes that will never make a living playing their sport.
So what exactly are we accomplishing here? Paying money to guys who run fast so they can sustain adolescense and never really be prepared for the actual workforce where there are Rules, Regulations, and expectations for compensation? Where they can't job-hop every 6 months in any realistic profession??
The NIL Proponents are all for "get yours" without thinking about the long-term picture of where these guys will be when they are 35 and--for the vast, vast majority--that NIL money has been long gone.