How UGA is handling NIL ...

[TaikoTiger]

You can put your head in the sand all you want, but it's been seven years. Clemson's failure to compete has been a self-inflicted wound. He got stubborn and didn't change until he was forced to. Everyone knows this. It's not some secret.

Look at your losses each year since the NC:

2018 - 0 NC
1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4

That's a trend that is directly related to the fact that he wouldn't play the NIL/transfer portal game that you have to play today. Just spitting facts here. You should be glad that he's coming around to the way the great coaches, like Smart, are doing it.

Truth is the program is as healthy as it's ever been. Even gives everyone else a head start without taking transfers but still leads the country with most national titles among active HCs. And he set the trend on not giving out short-term NIL bags, recruit players who actually love the game and want to be develop but I guess it's cool now since Sheep Kirby says it years later

 

[WhosYourDawggy]

Truth is the program is as healthy as it's ever been. Even gives everyone else a head start without taking transfers but still leads the country with most national titles among active HCs. And he set the trend on not giving out short-term NIL bags, recruit players who actually love the game and want to be develop but I guess it's cool now since Sheep Kirby says it years later

LOL, troll.

Losses per season since the last NC - 1,2,3,3,4,4 - in the ACC. That is what we call a trend. And it isn't trending toward healthy.

And that's tied among active HCs, as you know.

 

[Wild Turkey]

I think your numbers are way off - once you get out of the top X players, whatever X is, they are glad to get whatever they get. I guess there is a RevShare/NIL scale for players outside of X. I mean, the 1000th player in the country isn't demanding a certain amount of money. He's just glad to get a scholarship.

Let's look at numbers:

136 teams x 25 high school players each—3,400 high school players. I'm guessing 90% of them take what they can get. So that puts X at about 340 players who can make demands.

Now, those are the players who can be difference makers, and they will likely get spread out more. There was a time when Bama, UGA, and OSU basically took in 50% of the top 100. They can't afford that anymore.

I’ve been on the broadcast team for my local high school (whole family graduated from there) for 16 years and we play in the top 7A division so I’ve been around a lot of prospects and it’s pretty consistent with the black kids they go where they were offered the most. That’s from their mouths and from some of their parents.

Most of the white kids are just happy to get a D1 offer if it comes unless they are QBs or linemen but they don’t talk much at all to be honest and kept it close to the vest.

 

[WhosYourDawggy]

I’ve been on the broadcast team for my local high school (whole family graduated from there) for 16 years and we play in the top 7A division so I’ve been around a lot of prospects and it’s pretty consistent with the black kids they go where they were offered the most. That’s from their mouths and from some of their parents.

Most of the white kids are just happy to get a D1 offer if it comes unless they are QBs or linemen but they don’t talk much at all to be honest and kept it close to the vest.

I think we all get caught up in the big bucks to the top players. But I am pretty sure that beyond the top X, whatever that is and I suspect it's fairly small and position-oriented, there is sort of a pay grade. OL get this, DBs get this. Once you are in the 500s, or 1000s, it's not like HS kids at that level are getting hundreds of thousands.

In some way, it's like the NFL draft. The 1st round guys get a ton of guaranteed money. But, beyond that, not much guaranteed and most of it is on a set scale. In fact all the NFL is on a set scale, but beyond the 1st and part of 2nd, it's not much and not guaranteed.

 

[Deep Creek]

we play in the top 7A division

7A? Damn, how many schools are there in the great state of Alabama? We have a ton of schools playing football in Tejas but we only go up to 6A!

 

[Wild Turkey]

I think we all get caught up in the big bucks to the top players. But I am pretty sure that beyond the top X, whatever that is and I suspect it's fairly small and position-oriented, there is sort of a pay grade. OL get this, DBs get this. Once you are in the 500s, or 1000s, it's not like HS kids at that level are getting hundreds of thousands.

In some way, it's like the NFL draft. The 1st round guys get a ton of guaranteed money. But, beyond that, not much guaranteed and most of it is on a set scale. In fact all the NFL is on a set scale, but beyond the 1st and part of 2nd, it's not much and not guaranteed.

I’m not saying they are getting big bucks. I’m just saying they are shopping for the most they can get.

It’s pretty shocking how open they are about it.