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re: 247: How much players at each position are actually getting paid
Posted on 5/21/24 at 7:10 am to LSUTIGERS8181
Posted on 5/21/24 at 7:10 am to LSUTIGERS8181
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How the hell have D lineman become the second highest paid behind QB’s?
A better question is why RBs are so overpaid
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Posted on 5/21/24 at 8:18 am to CottonWasKing
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This shows how ridiculous the asking price was for the two DTs we bowed out on
Williams was well in excess of a million too, for being on campus like 7 months.
These things are paid out monthly, so say his number was $1.2M, that's about $170k a month.
This post was edited on 5/21/24 at 8:19 am
Posted on 5/21/24 at 9:54 am to Captain Crown
Kelly should have tripled the average price by buying 5th round players!
Posted on 5/21/24 at 10:13 am to J2thaROC
It's the same reason that future leaders will either step away from a decent salary for a number of years in order to take on an additional $$$ couple hundred thousand debt to get their mba at a top business school or an executive mba even later in their careers. That can open new worlds of potential earnings across a much broader number of industries. They instantly garner more demands for what they can bring to the table.
The risk is that they pick the wrong emphasis or aren't as great as they thought of themselves and can't compete with that level of academic competition. Just like injuries, less than stellar training discipline, etc prevent delivery of all that the would-be athlete hopes to garner. There are no guarantees. The higher the risk, the higher the reward; until it isn't. Therein lies the rub.
The risk is that they pick the wrong emphasis or aren't as great as they thought of themselves and can't compete with that level of academic competition. Just like injuries, less than stellar training discipline, etc prevent delivery of all that the would-be athlete hopes to garner. There are no guarantees. The higher the risk, the higher the reward; until it isn't. Therein lies the rub.
Posted on 5/21/24 at 10:27 am to hsgeoboy
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Shoot dude, if you’re really talented at something that has a ton of demand that people are willing to pay for in time and attention (as I’m sure you yourself do with college football), you get compensated for that.
Well i sure hope they no longer get scholarships, and give those based on academic reasons. These ball players are no longer amateurs, they are professionals. In fact, i don't see why they are associated with colleges anymore. In fact, college sports in general should probably be dissolved, and let these professionals form their own sports leagues.
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Stop watching college football.
Your wish is being granted. Pay for play and the portal has cheapened college athletics and no one really cares anymore.
Posted on 5/21/24 at 12:24 pm to hsgeoboy
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Stop watching college football.
I feel like that day is slowly approaching
Posted on 5/21/24 at 1:57 pm to lsufanva
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So you're in favor of citizens having information censored because it may not be good for the bottom line or socially acceptable? Small, seemingly insignificant steps toward censorship eventually lead to huge, extremely significant steps toward citizens having no say over the information distributed. That's not an America I want any parts of. Food for thought
It's not often I agree with you, but this is a hill I'm willing to die on. Quite literally.
Posted on 5/21/24 at 2:14 pm to BugAC
quote:Viewership for the National Championship was the highest it’s been since LSU v Clemson.
Your wish is being granted. Pay for play and the portal has cheapened college athletics and no one really cares anymore.
The addition of the playoffs is going to increase viewership as well. Honestly, I think CFB is poised for delivering a much better product than it has in the past 10-15 years.
Players decommitting from a school didn’t start with NIL, nor did paying players. The transfer portal creates a lot more engagement with CFB news during the offseason as well.
So maybe there’s just the same, if not more, amount of whining when we get turned down for an option the prospect feels is better for them and their families. The whiners just have a different buzzword to blame now.
Posted on 5/21/24 at 2:19 pm to SlowFlowPro
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A better question is why RBs are so overpaid
Because running backs get their names in the paper when they score touchdowns… remember, the NIL payers aren’t (yet) tape junkies who know that the lines are more important to winning
This post was edited on 5/21/24 at 2:21 pm
Posted on 5/21/24 at 2:48 pm to SlowFlowPro
quote:This is college, not the pros.
A better question is why RBs are so overpaid
This was every playoff national champ's leading rusher minus UGA who just runs 3 backs with all efficent numbers
2023
Blake Corum 1245 yards 27 TDs 110 receiving 1 TD
2020
Najee Harris 1465 rush yards 26 TDs 425 receiving 4 TD (in only 13 games)
2019
Clyde Edwards-Helaire 1415 rush yards 16 TD 450 receiving 1 TD
2018
Travis Etienne 1660 rush yards 24 TDs 80 receiving 2 TD
2017
Damien Harris 1000 rush yards 11 TDs (averaged 7.4 ypc) QB Jalen Hurts added 860 yards and 8 TDs
2016
Wayne Gallman 1130 rush yards 17 TDs 150 receiving
2015
Derick Henry 2220 rush yards 28 TDs
2014
Ezekiel Elliott 1880 rush yards 18 TDs 220 receiving
Also, if you do every playoff team, im betting well over 90% if not all of them, had a great RB, or running QB.
Posted on 5/21/24 at 2:53 pm to Vanilla Thunder
quote:quote:Your wish is being granted. Pay for play and the portal has cheapened college athletics and no one really cares anymore.
Stop watching college football.
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Stop watching college football.
I feel like that day is slowly approaching
Posted on 5/21/24 at 9:40 pm to Captain Crown
some quick back of the napkin math shows, if accurate, you need to be roughly between 10 to 12.5 million or so per year if you want to be on the upper end of the talent rankings.
Posted on 5/22/24 at 3:01 pm to BugAC
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no one really cares anymore
Then why waste your time reading and posting on a college sports recruiting forum?
Posted on 5/23/24 at 2:23 pm to John Rambeaux
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I cannot tell you how infuriating it is to see a graphic showing teenagers making triple of what I do.
Lol this guy is getting downvoted but at least he's willing to admit the reason he hates NIL, unlike most on this board.
Posted on 5/23/24 at 2:26 pm to chalmetteowl
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remember, the NIL payers aren’t (yet) tape junkies who know that the lines are more important to winning
You really think that the Brian Kellys of the world are just leaving NIL payments to the whim of the gordon mckernans of the world? lmao
Posted on 5/23/24 at 2:48 pm to John Rambeaux
quote:They are more valuable than you. They probably work harder at their craft too.
I cannot tell you how infuriating it is to see a graphic showing teenagers making triple of what I do.
Posted on 5/24/24 at 12:25 am to Captain Crown
Of course Chicken hearted that
Posted on 5/24/24 at 7:18 am to hsgeoboy
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Everyone has different vocations, theirs just happens to be college football for the time being and we pay their salaries with our time and attention. Don’t like it? Stop watching college football.
They’re professionals now too - Be prepared to take all that comes with that.
Boooing included
Posted on 5/24/24 at 7:53 am to BugAC
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Your wish is being granted. Pay for play and the portal has cheapened college athletics and no one really cares anymore
lol they set ratings records this past season and with the playoffs will break those records this year
Posted on 5/24/24 at 7:56 am to Draconian Sanctions
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some quick back of the napkin math shows, if accurate, you need to be roughly between 10 to 12.5 million or so per year if you want to be on the upper end of the talent rankings
transfer portal guys skew those numbers somewhat and lot of the HS guys sign multi year contracts worth 600k total over 3 years plus whatever they earn from other endorsements
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