macktheknife
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Rumor is aTm acquired $25 million in NIL cash for this year's recruiting class. Don't know where we are heading, but we are in a different place.
Rumor is aTm acquired $25 million in NIL cash for this year's recruiting class. Don't know where we are heading, but we are in a different place.
Rumor is aTm acquired $25 million in NIL cash for this year's recruiting class. Don't know where we are heading, but we are in a different place.
I'm still wait and see on the crazy NIL money. They definitely made the splash in the first year. But if they don't make the playoffs with this Dream Team class, do boosters still shell out $25M in 4 years? Doubt it.
NIL is the new thing right now. People with money will "invest " in new stuff. When they don't get adequate return, the investments will decrease. NIL deals are more like pro sports draft pick. No sure things, and many will be busts. They are less like pro sports big money free agent deals which generally go to proven professional players. Hence, the latter have a much greater chance of positively impacting a team.
CHristian Beal Smith is in Columbia this weekend to see the Gamecocks and their message board seems pretty excited about their chances. His HS coach says 25 schools have contacted him.
While this is nothing but speculation, I wonder if Beal-Smith received some indication that Ellison/Cooley/Turner would be receiving more workload next year and that led him to the portal.
Or maybe he just wanted to go get a different experience, who knows.
CBS told the staff during the season that he wasn't going to come back and was going to enter the draft so we took in 2 RB recruits. Then after the season he changed his mind and said he wanted to come back but the staff told him there was no longer any room for him after taking in our HS class. So that's why he entered the portal, not because he didn''t want to split carries anymore. Whoever gets him will get a really good RB.
He was honored on Senior Day, so seems this has been in the works for a while.
No clue if this is legit at all, but this is a random YouTube comment I just read:
If true, sounds like we don’t get Claiborne if CBS was planning to come back given how early we were on and offered Carney.
While this is nothing but speculation, I wonder if Beal-Smith received some indication that Ellison/Cooley/Turner would be receiving more workload next year and that led him to the portal.
Or maybe he just wanted to go get a different experience, who knows.
People with agendas prefer to create their own narratives, like the BS claim last season that something was off with WF's football "culture" which led to transfers last season (when WF had fewer than almost any Power V school).