re: Money as a primary motivator

Thanks for the assumption that I didn’t type that like an idiot…but I did. (Thanks to the English police for pointing out my error, I deserved it)

Funny thing is I know better and that’s what my fingers typed. Even looked at it and went…”hmmm. Doesn’t look right….keep typing”

I’ll own the mistake.

And didn’t say money was the only reason. I said primary.

Just funny that this kid said it went “to the last minute and Texas made it possible”

Couple that with the rumors that he wanted LSU and Momma wanted Texas, and the fact that he’s got a better chance of making the big $$$ in the NFL at LSU and it just made me wonder.

Look. If the rumors in other threads of $500k annually are correct, you can’t tell me that LSU was THAT far off.

If we were, he took Texas for a ride. If we weren’t he was going to make enough at either school to take care of his family financially.

That really was my point?!

Loyalty is a two-way street. Big talk asking young people to be loyal to institutions who have proven they will not return that level of trust.

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MONEY...as a primary motivator,

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this was the subject of a debate that my group had several yrs ago with a consultant we had in for teaching motivation of many diverse individuals you find in the workplace.

He said Money was a demotivator and we all, of course, disgreed. He proceeded to explain this by telling us to think back on the last raise we got. Cost of living raises we have already assumed the "worth" of that raise. Promotional raises last about 3 months as far as employees feeling motivated by it. After that we all generally assume the value of that raise in our self worth to the business/company.

He went on to show us the demotivational side of money. He told of a group in a bank he worked with one time and they had a senior old lady teller that generally trained all the young new hire tellers and she held that position with pride... until she found out that she made barely any more than the new hires. At that point she was immediately demotivated.

As for football players they will react the same way. As soon as they feel they are not paid enough they will lose motivation and that usually comes from finding out what someone else they believe is not as good or important as them gets.

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He is Gordon’s most featured athlete. I’m not calling you wrong but it’s the name of the game now. If you think Perkins came here because he loved LSU and only thought about our culture then I have news for you….

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Perkins passed up a lot more money at A&M to come to LSU. This has been said by a ton of insiders. He’s Gordon’s most featured athlete after becoming an all American. That’s a lot different than saying LSU outbid everyone for his signature out of high school.

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But, do we think that maybe Kelly knows what he's doing by intentionally capping NIL investments when it comes to certain players? (I don't know this as fact, but it seems that way)

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Lol this is what you're going with?

Kelly self imposed an NIL cap? Lol ight big dog

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At some point, someone who makes a decision based on $$, as opposed to passion will, sooner or later, either..

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Here is the flaw in all of the arguments you posted below the quote. Anyone who a top tier program overpays to “hire” has to leave in 3 or 4 years. And if they are good enough to overpay it’s likely this overpay is still underpaid relative to their next job.

Imagine you’re in college and choose to intern for a future job. You’re sure of what your future job will be and all of the internships are more or less identical. Are you going to take the internship that pays more or less?

I wish they all choose purple and gold. Regardless of where the money comes from it’s going to be green.

TLDR.

You sound intelligent.