I agree with you. But I’m pretty certain our culture has changed considerably in the past 15-20 years. Today’s roster is only 33% in-state players and is 15% transfers. The 2006 roster was 60% Ohio high school recruits and 0% transfers.if we could recover the rosters from 1997 and earlier it would probably show 75-80% Ohio high school recruits. The geography of recruiting in national now. It’s no longer even regional.
That’s why you want a kid that has 2 years left. Probably the most you get from now on.
I wonder if any MAC schools (say, Miami?) are thinking of partnering with a Texas Tech or Ohio State and accepting some of their NIL money to develop players by putting them on the MAC roster, playing them in games for a year, and essentially acting as a minor league?
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Excellent insight.
I just saw a great idea on the interwebs: I guess it is totally legal right now for one team in the playoffs to pay the opppsing players on the teams they are playing to enter the portal and not play in the playoff games.
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Why would they pay Miami for a service they get free today?
What actually happens is a big majority of our players stay every year. Between guys moving up and guys moving down it seems to me it is maybe averaging 10 to 12 a year. Most of these comments are about the extreme examples. I believe that a big majority of our players are student athletes working to get a Miami degree.
Yes, some guys leave because they are not getting playing time. Yes, a few guys leave every year for money or someone convinces them that leaving will help their NFL chances (probably wrong about that).
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Because a team could have twice the roster limit to work with……
I’m not sure agreements with a few schools scales. Might take whole conferences.
I’m not saying I’m for it but this is the most interesting idea I’ve heard yet
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That seems fair
I think we just got 3 good years from Ugwu, Wise, and Suttle. The only guys I can think of who just stayed for one year were Larvadan and Amos.
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You’re right Dick……not everyone that comes to Miami through the portal leaves through the portal. But when they do, our collective should be compensated somehow
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An Ohio State could tell a player today, “go play at X school and we’ll sign you in a year”. Why do they need to pay another school for that?
No guarantee that happens
My guess is that we will not use the transfer portal that liberally this off season. Maybe only 4-6 guys. There is a tradeoff for taking more young men even if it might improve the team in the short-term.
Right now Miami coaches can go into high school recruits living rooms and say that if you come to Miami we aren’t going to use the portal except to replace guys we lose to the portal. If you stick around and earn playing time you will get it.
My guess is Henry Hesson will be under center to begin next season.
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You are correct about those guys but times have changed rapidly. Collectives are doubling in size. I think those guys were stories of the past. Guys that left last year would have twice the value in the market this year.
Of course not, but there’s no guarantee that appears if they toss some cash Miami’s way either.
Maybe I’m misunderstanding and the idea would be part of a larger restructure of the system with contracts and such, but I’m not understanding how it work with today’s system.
What a fucking mess.The genie has escaped from the bottle and she ain’t going back…
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And if your team doesn’t do well, it’s because you need to donate even more. Even if you live in a historically poor state with a program that doesn’t need more to win…
People complain about the price of groceries going up, but inflation ain’t seen nothing like what is playing out here. If I’m a small potatoes fan and I give 1k yearly to a collective, that’s prolly a lot of money for me. And it won’t magically become 2k if I want to go on vacations, buy Xmas gifts, save for emergencies, retirement. Because the well is tapped. Shit, the average salary in ‘Murica is like 63k a year. So as that plays out across that minnow segment, the AD has to fish for bigger fish. But even the bigger fish know a loss-leader when they see it because everyone wants their money, and thus will have a cap on spending as there are loads of things you could piss money away on, right? Timeshares. Tanzenite. Tulip bulb schemes. That charming Hawk Tua lady has a quality crypto for instance in need of buyers. Boone Pickens gave Oklahoma State a billion bucks long before any of this and they are no closer to winning a natty. I give this thing 5 years max. 10 if salary caps come into play.
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