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The players ought to have a chance to move after they figure where they stand at the end of spring practice.
2024-25 Portal SZN Thread
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Do they do it together?
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It seems like they would be more interested in tightening the rules around going into the portal instead of how many and what times and dates. Maybe their hands are tied on that I haven't really kept up with all the changes. But yes I think it would be beneficial for the players and coaches to have a spring window.
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Interesting. But I am not sure what a clearinghouse will do except approve things that are superficially compliant. It's extremely difficult to prove what arm's length value is; it's very fact intensive. And if they are successful in putting the brakes on NIL deals, under the table money will return.
by:Pete Nakos•about 2 hours•
https://twitter.com/PeteNakos_
Revenue sharing is not expected to start until July 1. The House v. NCAA lawsuit that will trigger rev sharing has a final approval hearing set for April 7, the day of the NCAA men’s basketball championship game. But this winter’s college football transfer portal has been fueled by future revenue-sharing dollars and booster-run NIL collectives.
For the 2025-26 academic year, schools will operate with a revenue cap of $20.5 million. Roughly $15 to $17 million will be allocated to football. The cap makes up 22% of Power Four revenues from the previous year and has escalators, including a 4% hike in Year Two. The settlement also requires all third-party deals of $600 from boosters or NIL collectives to be approved by an NIL clearinghouse.
Between programs promising dollars tied to revenue sharing and NIL collectives offloading dollars before the clearinghouse begins, more dollars are being spent on college football rosters ahead of the 2025 season than ever before.
“I think a lot of schools, because of the possibility of the House settlement and this bullshit clearing house, a lot of schools are trying to flood their payroll over the next six months and get as much money invested in the roster before they enter this area of unknown regulation,” a source told On3.
The value of top quarterbacks in this year’s portal nearly doubled. A year ago, transfer quarterback Cam Ward picked Miami and landed one of the most lucrative financial packages of the cycle. Sources have said that the deal was valued between $1.5 and $2 million.
A year later, that range was the starting point for most quarterbacks who jumped into college football’s free agency. The top quarterbacks in this winter portal cycle all landed deals worth around $3 million for a year.
Auburn, LSU and Texas Tech, among others, have emerged as major spenders in this year’s portal market. The Red Raiders went all-in, tapping into their collective, The Matador Club, that outspent competitors on top talent while building a roster that will contend for the Big 12 championship.
But as dollars soar with the transfer portal ahead of the 2025 season and collectives try to outsmart future regulations, it’s also a sign that the market is not slowing. For programs that have chosen to frontload deals, sources have wondered about what the ramifications will be if multi-year deals have to be put in front of a clearinghouse and are denied. Will athletes be forced to sue colleges and collectives for dollars owed by boosters or donor-run organizations?
As the revenue-sharing cap grows, donor dollars will remain imperative to creating a competitive edge. Even with more revenue-sharing dollars poured into college sports, boosters will donate but the amount needed will fluctuate over the next decade.
“There’s a massive rush to spend money to beat the butcher and get ahead of whatever regulation comes our way,” a source said. “I think that schools know now they’re going to be able to spend $20 million in addition to the other supplemental pieces. What was interesting is you had some big blue blood programs that haven’t been spent much come out of the gates early spending ridiculous money.”
Donor cash has fueled the last four seasons of college football. NIL collectives have driven recruiting and the transfer portal, playing large roles in attracting and retaining talent. In the years to come, boosters and their organizations will have to go through a clearinghouse. But that won’t stop anyone.
Ohio State spent over $20 million on the roster that will play for a national title on Monday night in Atlanta against Notre Dame. If the Buckeyes win their first championship in a decade, it would deliver a return on investment to boosters who have donated in recent years
More evidence that dollars can win championships will supercharge the effort to spend on rosters in the future, especially with more dollars flowing into college sports than ever before.
“That’s never been enough for these competitive schools, boosters and fans,” Russell White, the president of The Collective Association, previously told On3. “That’s never been enough. So, whatever that baseline is, there will always be a need for more.”
Why 2025 rosters will be the most expensive in college football history
https://twitter.com/PeteNakos_
Revenue sharing is not expected to start until July 1. The House v. NCAA lawsuit that will trigger rev sharing has a final approval hearing set for April 7, the day of the NCAA men’s basketball championship game. But this winter’s college football transfer portal has been fueled by future revenue-sharing dollars and booster-run NIL collectives.
For the 2025-26 academic year, schools will operate with a revenue cap of $20.5 million. Roughly $15 to $17 million will be allocated to football. The cap makes up 22% of Power Four revenues from the previous year and has escalators, including a 4% hike in Year Two. The settlement also requires all third-party deals of $600 from boosters or NIL collectives to be approved by an NIL clearinghouse.
Between programs promising dollars tied to revenue sharing and NIL collectives offloading dollars before the clearinghouse begins, more dollars are being spent on college football rosters ahead of the 2025 season than ever before.
“I think a lot of schools, because of the possibility of the House settlement and this bullshit clearing house, a lot of schools are trying to flood their payroll over the next six months and get as much money invested in the roster before they enter this area of unknown regulation,” a source told On3.
The value of top quarterbacks in this year’s portal nearly doubled. A year ago, transfer quarterback Cam Ward picked Miami and landed one of the most lucrative financial packages of the cycle. Sources have said that the deal was valued between $1.5 and $2 million.
A year later, that range was the starting point for most quarterbacks who jumped into college football’s free agency. The top quarterbacks in this winter portal cycle all landed deals worth around $3 million for a year.
Auburn, LSU and Texas Tech, among others, have emerged as major spenders in this year’s portal market. The Red Raiders went all-in, tapping into their collective, The Matador Club, that outspent competitors on top talent while building a roster that will contend for the Big 12 championship.
But as dollars soar with the transfer portal ahead of the 2025 season and collectives try to outsmart future regulations, it’s also a sign that the market is not slowing. For programs that have chosen to frontload deals, sources have wondered about what the ramifications will be if multi-year deals have to be put in front of a clearinghouse and are denied. Will athletes be forced to sue colleges and collectives for dollars owed by boosters or donor-run organizations?
As the revenue-sharing cap grows, donor dollars will remain imperative to creating a competitive edge. Even with more revenue-sharing dollars poured into college sports, boosters will donate but the amount needed will fluctuate over the next decade.
“There’s a massive rush to spend money to beat the butcher and get ahead of whatever regulation comes our way,” a source said. “I think that schools know now they’re going to be able to spend $20 million in addition to the other supplemental pieces. What was interesting is you had some big blue blood programs that haven’t been spent much come out of the gates early spending ridiculous money.”
Donor cash has fueled the last four seasons of college football. NIL collectives have driven recruiting and the transfer portal, playing large roles in attracting and retaining talent. In the years to come, boosters and their organizations will have to go through a clearinghouse. But that won’t stop anyone.
Ohio State spent over $20 million on the roster that will play for a national title on Monday night in Atlanta against Notre Dame. If the Buckeyes win their first championship in a decade, it would deliver a return on investment to boosters who have donated in recent years
More evidence that dollars can win championships will supercharge the effort to spend on rosters in the future, especially with more dollars flowing into college sports than ever before.
“That’s never been enough for these competitive schools, boosters and fans,” Russell White, the president of The Collective Association, previously told On3. “That’s never been enough. So, whatever that baseline is, there will always be a need for more.”
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I'd agree there. I would also say you aren't getting the fringe guys as much in this scenario. You are either getting the kid that knows he has some development to do and isn't expecting to play the first year or two, or you are getting the Raiola, Shavers, Barney-type guys that find their way onto the field right away.
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I'm not entirely sure how this is what you took from the quote you responded to as I literally went into what I didn't like about Williams and why I didn't think he was an insurmountable loss. And I'll save the fact that I wish we could have kept Williams AND brought in Nwaneri. But i'm bored so i'll argue with you anyway...
So you want the guy that didn't even play somewhere over the guy that led our team in sacks? You literally have Mizzou message board guys saying the same thing about Nwaneri that you are about Williams. "Guy leaving wasn't that good anyway, and look who we still have and are bringing in."
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That explanation makes no sense whatsoever
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Nebraska basically told him he didn’t have a guaranteed roster spot and would have to compete with the others to make the team. But would pay him for his time.
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Are we sure about that? I don’t have any info one way or the other but this seems like a guy that Dana and Shorts would either know that they wanted or not.
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I think I like Markway, Lindenmeier, Nelson year 2 than Fidone, Boerk, Linden, Nelson year 1.
Hard to say though. Markway coming back from injury is an unknown. 100% Linden from mix of Boerk/Linden doesn't bother me at all. Nelson getting more snaps seems like a plus over Fidone.
Also still have Bonner for whatever he is.
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There has been a lot of talk about players being added without any promises of actually making the roster. I’m grappling with this thought as I would think if a player has the option why choose a place he may get cut from in 6 months or whatever? But maybe that’s just the reality of CFB today. Everyone is cutting their rosters down and unless they want to drop into the MAC they are going to be fighting for a spot. And I suppose that MAC roster spot maybe available to them later. It’s the only way I can explain all the DB adds.
So, no, I don’t know for a fact but the evidence is there. With Wilson specifically… within the 105 we are probably looking to allocate 11 legit roster spots. Anything beyond that is practice squad fodder. Excluding walk ons, we have 15 people fighting for those 11 spots. Wilson would have made it 16.
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It was explained like this to me: He could walk on this semester and we might have a scholarship July 1. But that is what @BorWhiskey said; he was just a little more forthright about the way he said it.
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And Haarberg
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I always forget Haarberg.
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If we had Boerkircher I’d have zero concerns. That dude is a stud and got paid because of it. The list you gave me though has 2 out of 3 guys coming off major surgeries, so that concerns me and if Nelson is going to develop into a Fidone/Boerkircher type he needed the offseason weight room.
TE not really a huge concern though, we are going to be in a lot more 3 and 4 WR sets, or a slot type TE that can be filled by a Bonner (not boner).
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I'm not as high on Boerk as you but agree on the injury point. Always hard to tell what the other side is going to be. List was also missing Haarberg. Be good to have him go through Spring as a full time TE.
Do we know what Boerk got paid?
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Checks out, sounds like Deab math.
