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justafan said:
I've wondered about the mechanics of this. Is Key sitting there with a budget and trying to figure out how to allocate it to maximize team performance?

That's a complicated optimization problem that you probably need like a finance whiz for. Maybe we should get ahead of this and hire some smart money people.
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I think we did hire a financial guy to do that for the direct pay of players stuff coming next year.
 
This needs to be after the bowl games. I understand school will start and anyone leaving will need to be enrolled at the other school. but kids possibly making $800,000 or $2mil aren’t students first anyway. All the contracts should have to state opting out of post season games should result in losing 50% or something if their NIL for the year.
 
white&gold said:
This helps me cope a little better. I don’t blame him one bit for leaving.

NFL money ain’t guaranteed. Players have career changing injuries that impact their future ability to earn. Take the $2M now, save a lot of it back, and he’ll always be ahead in life financially.
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Exactly. We play a team that intentionally tries to injure players after the whistle every year. Smelter missed out on a huge payday thanks to those assholes. Get your money now, especially if it's 7 figures like that. It doesn't kill us, but it's a big loss.
 
mts315 said:
From reports Singleton did the same thing after last season and we met his demands and he stayed.

I wonder if this year if...

1. We couldn't meet them from a financial standpoint
2. We drew a line in the sand and decided not to be held hostage year after year
3. We decided we could do just as well without him and use his NIL for another receiver from the portal
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I think it was 1. With a touch of 2.
 
Surely this guy has some time in the off season to mentor our AD on contracts and finding the biggest bang for the buck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Anthopoulos

College football is now MLB. How long before some sort of trade system is worked out on players? Which ATL area High Schools are going to be the College Football Minors? I expect some HS would jump at the chance if we pay their coaches salaries and provide equipment and physical therapy. Expect Junior Colleges to become the minors. I like our chances once the game become business statistics and player development rather than recruiting 17 year old prima donnas. Take the money we are spending on facilities, and spend it on NIL. They will play on asphalt and dress in a broom closet if the money is right.
 
If he is going to get $2 million elsewhere I feel way better about him leaving. That has to be an overstatement - the QB Michigan stole from LSU only got $3M. Alabama has an all-world WR - why aren't they in the playoff?

I agree with coach - the positions get more important the closer you get to the ball. WRs can take off plays when they are going to the other way.
The QB, OL, and TE cannot so that is 7 positions more important on offense.
 
justafan said:
We lose our best players. I don't see that happening much elsewhere unless they aren't getting playing time or their team sucks...

Who is the last top Bama or UGA RB/WR who transferred?

We're like a farm team
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I'm not trying to be snarky, but the majority of your posts that I recall make you sound like you are not a Georgia Tech fan, but a fan of a rival program just here to shit post and sow discord. Either way, post less.
 
LibertyJacket said:
I'm not trying to be snarky, but the majority of your posts that I recall make you sound like you are not a Georgia Tech fan, but a fan of a rival program just here to öööö post and sow discord. Either way, post less.
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I'm a long-time Tech fan who dislikes the recent changes to college sports and am making the case that the situation as is is bad for Tech in some important ways.

I think the fans of rival programs are the fans supporting a system that has our best players going to play for them.
 
justafan said:
I'm a long-time Tech fan who dislikes the recent changes to college sports and am making the case that the situation as is is bad for Tech in some important ways.

I think the fans of rival programs are the fans supporting a system that has our best players going to play for them.
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I agree with Liberty. You should read more and post less.
 
savbandjacket said:
While the portal seems to be a net benefit for our team, it sucks from a fan perspective. Gone is the day where most players are as loyal to Tech as we all are. Don’t get me wrong because I appreciate the transfers who chose us, but I miss the days of finding that star and knowing that he’s going to be on your team until the end. It’s just a game of mercenaries now.
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I'm only buying jerseys or anything else with an athlete's name once they finish their career here.
 
mts315 said:
That is insane to me. That would be equal to about the #88 paid WR in the NFL.

If that number is correct, I understand why we said no.
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Yes, Singleton was a great receiver but not worth $2 million. That's crazy talk. Wish him all the best unless he goes to Athens.

The NCAA, or whatever's left of it at this point, really needs to get Congress to pass antitrust protection legislation in exchange for revenue sharing and collective bargaining, bc we need NFL style multi-year contracts and salary caps. The current system is the worst of both amateur status and professional status, with none of the offsetting benefits.
 
justafan said:
Well let's see what we gain versus what we lose in the portal this offseason. That's a fair way to look at it, right?
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100%. At this point that’s all you can hope for. Fingers crossed these weren’t blindside type of exits, and the staff now can shift the focus from 2025 HS recruiting to Portal recruiting.

GT has a lot offer a high level transfer (Degree, location, NIL collective).

The sport needs 1,2,3,4 binding contracts by the SA and school. That’s the only way this mess will stabalize.

As 247 had on their home page Sunday before the Portal officially opened, “per a P4 staffer, this is going to be an ish show…”
 
I preface this by saying I hate what has become of college football. I am also incredibly pessimistic that the necessary systemic overhaul will ever happen as long as conferences continue to exist in silos acting in their own self interests (no chance the benefactors of the cottage industries that have cropped up in the SEC and Big 10 offices will voluntarily cede money or power for the good of the overall enterprise).

That being said it seems the bottom line to the NIL/Portal Age of CFB is that there are pros and cons for Tech. The bottom line seems to be:

-- The positive side for Tech is that it helps raise the aggregate talent level of non-Top 10 programs due to the annual influx of former 4/5 Star Recruits departing Blue Blood programs after their 1st or 2nd year because they are no longer willing to be backups (i.e. Haynes King, Romello Height, etc.). This helps create greater parity by increasing the talent level of the non-Top 10 programs and, perhaps more importantly, it thins the depth of the Top 10 programs and makes them move vulnerable during the season based on injuries, fatigue, etc. Tech is very well positioned to capitalize on this dynamic. I have a theory that Coach Key has identified NIL investment in O-Line as a market inefficiency and has chosen to invest disproportionate resources in that position(relative to other positions) as both an ROI value proposition and a way to raise our annual floor from a competitiveness standpoint. As football watchers all know, teams with good to great O-Lines will always have some baseline level of competitiveness.

--The negative side is that every year we will be at risk of losing a couple of marquee player to one of the Top-10 resourced programs because we can't afford to allocate a massive percentage of our NIL pie to one or two players. It will weaken our team and will sting because it will typically be a player we recruited out of high school and successfully developed, and we all fell in love with because they were good and helped our team win ballgames. That will suck. We will just have to hope the increase in our aggregate talent level will offset the annual loss of one or two key contributors who leave to chase greener (pun intended) pastures.

Sorry of the length and Go Jackets!
 
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