Odd new college recruiting/donation website

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Heard a commercial on 680 last night during my ride home advertising a new website that allows fans to tie potential donations to the successful recruitment of certain players. Unfortunately, can't find the website, so wondering if anyone knows what I am talking about? Essentially, it allows you to go and elect a contribution to the athletic association of your choosing, but you can tie that donation to a certain athlete. They only make you pay if that athlete is successfully recruited and signs with the school. Was advertised as a way to allow everyday fans to be a part of the recruiting process. Not sure if it would be used at all, or how successful it could become in getting schools to recruit certain players, but thought it was interesting nonetheless...
 
Doesn't sound like it would be an effective driver of recruiting decisions, and I don't think you'd want it to be that way anyway.

1) The person concerned about the money, the AD, doesn't have much input in recruiting targets at most schools.

2) The fans are literally just going to run to the recruiting services and pick all the five star guys, for the most part. The incredibly vast majority of CFB fans have no idea what makes a good recruiting prospect, and so even if the team did chase these dollars, it's no guarantee they'd end up with a cohesive team.

3) These guys do still have to be admitted to the school, which is a problem for lol wait only we have this problem.

Anyways, I think there's a line in team involvement that the fanbase as a whole should not cross in a good and just world, and this is across it. You never want to crowdsource your coaching decisions because the writhing morass of contradictory opinions that constitutes the average college football fanbase would be incapable of making any of them with any degree of acumen (or consistency).

It will probably end up making the site owners a ton of money, anyway.
 
Chuck Oliver shills for the site on his nightly show (I can't remember the name either, but likely wouldn't post it if i could anyways).
 
GATechAE07 said:
Chuck Oliver shills for the site on his nightly show (I can't remember the name either, but likely wouldn't post it if i could anyways).
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This is where I heard it I think. Not advocating for it, and agree with TIA as to why it's stupid, but you know that there will be plenty of dumb fans of large state schools that end up using the site. Just had never heard of it before, so imagine that it's brand new?
 
Exemplifying the perfectly amateur nature of NCAA football. Everyone is allowed to make money. Except the student-athletes, because that would be gravely immoral.
 
This is the site you are looking for. UBOOSTER

Funny that Florida State and Clemson have more boosted than any other school pretty much (including SEC). This thing looks like it will be a complete failure.
 
Not to mention it creates a bigger temptation for schools to get a kid signed by any means necessary.
 
I have a hard time seeing this website generate enough money to catch the attention of those schools with bigger budgets. A million is kind of a small blip on the radar to a Texas, Alabama, FSU, OSU type. I would be mega surprised to see any of these prospects with a million dollar bounty on them, and I think they'd need way more before an AD stepped in and said "coach, you WILL recruit this guy".
 
can we get more slave auction-y in college football?

The profile pics should be full nude with workout videos alongside to fully display their worthiness to be recruited by fans' favorite schools.
 
Someone could literally buy their way onto a team with this, if they discovered that an AD or coach was actually making decisions by it. It might even be cheaper than paying for school.

Like, what if Vandy went by this? You as a father could probably put half a year's tuition up anonymously to get them to pick your kid, and then not have to pay tuition for four years.
 
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