re: Coach Kelly says they aren’t going to buy players.

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by all accounts competitive until they weren't enough.

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So they weren’t competitive

But I don’t mind getting over paid, says Coach Kelly.

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What he’s saying is that “we’ll pay you what you’re worth but we’re not going to get stupid”

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So why are we paying high school athletes millions of dollars? None of them have proven anything.

Then don’t look so desperate by saying stupid shite in early spring. I’m fine playing the youngsters and vets we have but Kelly goes and says how we desperately need DTs to the media. Thats a pretty stupid thing to say if your plan is to pay reasonably for portal guys.

Kelly is the 8th highest paid coach. Tell me how many head coaches paid more than him deserve more money than him? I can count 2.

1) Kirby Smart
2x national title, national runner up

2) Dabo Swinney
2x national title, 2x CFP runner up, 2x CFP semi-finalist

3) Kalen DeBoer
1x national runner up

4) Steve Sarkesian
1x CFP semi-finalist

5) Ryan Day
1x CFP runner up, 1x CFP semi-finalist

6) Lincoln Riley
3x CFP semi-finalist

7) Mike Norvell
Undefeated regular season

8) Brian Kelly
1x BCS runner up, 2x CFP semi-finalist, 2x Div 2 National Title, winningest active head coach

It's a real bad look when the head ball coach comes out and says "we're only targeting DT" and we swing and miss.

That, combined with the embarrassing calling BR video for DA-monic, Barrow to Miami and missing on the Wake CB... it's been a tough week
Are we going to have to go to a 3-3-5?


At least we still have 2025 class

Never heard of 95% of these players. Nothing but bribes and pay to play which is still supposed to be against the rules

That's fine, but it's also all on him if it doesn't work out with the guys he has.

He came out and publicly talked about how bad we need DL. I guess most of us thought he had control over how we were gonna accomplish that.

This sounds more like he had no idea this would happen. Which is pretty frickin frustrating.

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will have teams finish much higher than us at the end of this coming season

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Calm down, your catastrophe chickens haven't hatched yet.

Currently players have all the power and can hold schools hostage for more money. NCAA opened Pandora’s box and needs to figure out a way to at least protect schools somewhat. I am old school and thing a scholarship and all the extra benefits including living stipends were payment enough for these kids, but I get change too.

There needs to be contracts and there needs to be restrictions on transfers again ASAP. Make kids sign 2 year contracts with schools essentially to get/keep NIL and then after 2 years they can free transfer.