Bison06

You make good points. Did their agreement extend to seeding? I honestly don’t know.

Responded to a few different posts. Sorry ill address your post directly. As I’ve said, I think you could have put them in any order 2-4 and an argument could be made. Strength of schedule ndsu is the clear winner, so I have to imagine that was the conversation behind closed doors. I’m not arguing that it’s obvious that ndsu is head and shoulders above the other two. I’m saying that with the way the season played out, the margin between those three teams is minuscule and it appears SoS is what separated them. This makes the most sense to me.

I could be wrong, but where does recency of loss come into play in the criteria? the three teams were basically tied. The strength of schedule is what separated them.

D2 wins don’t count, so ndsu has one more DI win. This isn’t a conspiracy

Ndsu bad, I get it.

It’s a 3 way tie with the teams beating each other so how would you have separated them?

Earned not gifted. Your anti ndsu bias is clouding your judgement. Ndsu had the best strength of schedule in the country and didn’t have a D2 win.

Gifted isn’t the right word. Could have swapped 2,3,4 in any order and nobody would really have a strong complaint. SDSU can’t jump NDSU with the head to head and usd can’t jump sdsu with their head to head. The D2 wins were the difference I’d imagine.

He looks lined up as the left tackle here to me. #62 C, #73 LG Now I’m curious what the play call was. He blocks down and climbs to the second level like he was run blocking. Maybe it was some sort of RPO. My guess is this was a designed run that was supposed hit the left side. Right Guard pulls and the running back blocks left. That makes sense with how the left tackle blocked. I think the QB saw the play blown up and panicked so he just threw it up. This looks like a designed run play to me.

I never said anything about specific sports, I was speaking about all NIL deals and you asked me what I was smoking. Of course if you look at the highest paid players in the premier conference in the highest revenue sport that will be higher. That’s how averages work.

Of course the big dollar deals will be the ones that get the most attention. The reality is there are nearly 200k Division I NCAA athletes. An extremely small amount of them are making what I would consider big NIL money. As I’ve stated, the vast majority of these NIL deals are just helping kids pay their rent and living expenses. Allowing student athletes to benefit from their own value in the free market was long overdue. Why shouldn’t a college volleyball player be able to go back to her hometown in the summer and run a camp? Why shouldn’t a business be able pay a cross country runner to mention their business on his social media account for a couple of hundred bucks? Even high school kids can do this if someone is willing to pay for it. NIL “salaries” are a different animal and will eventually be handled with some sort of contracts in my opinion. But, overall, an athlete having their own name, image and likeness rights is a significant move in the right direction.

Most people would do a simple google search before making a fool of themselves on a public forum, but not you. Good for you for not caring what the world thinks of you. https://www.si.com/fannation/name-image-likeness/nil-news/shocking-new-ncaa-data-reveals-numbers-for-average-nil-deals

I agree. It’s interesting that football is the only major sport that doesn’t have a viable alternative path to a professional league beyond being an ncaa athlete. Hockey, baseball, basketball(Europe/G league) all have additional paths. Football needs to adapt, there are hundreds of kids on college football teams right now that are only enrolled in college because they have to be. They just want their shot at the nfl.

As much I’m not a fan of some of his antics, even a situation like Phoenix Sproles has created for himself on TikTok wasn’t possible even 5 years ago. Monetizing your social media and your own brand is outside of NIL, but an example of how the NCAA owned these kids and wouldn’t have allowed this to happen.

Lol

It’s 2024, TV and print advertising isn’t the pinnacle of ad spend. Get on TikTok and learn about collaborative marketing.

You have no idea what you’re talking about. The vast majority of NIL deals are for small amounts of money with athletes signing local advertising deals for a few thousands bucks. The average NIL deal in a study done was under 3k. Prior to the new rules, athletes were held hostage by their scholarship while people make literal billions off of them.(see the study done of the value RG3 brought to Baylor university during his heisman run)

Do you have a full understanding of how restrictive the ncaa was under the prior rules? Do you understand that athletes literally did not own their own name, image and likeness? Would you be ok with someone using your face and/or name to make money off of you without you getting compensated for it? Why are defending one of the more corrupt and inept institutions we have in the US? the NCAA

And this is what would’ve lead to the athletes unionizing if that way continued.

I think the current rule works. These are adults, if they want to leave for a better opportunity they should be allowed to. Separately, if NIL money is involved, I expect some sort of contract situation to get involved moving forward. eg. A portion of your NIL money is vested each year you are on the team or something to that effect.

That’s one way to look at it. Another is treating them like people treat their career. Have you ever left a job for more money? more responsibility? Your own happiness? Your home situation changed? There’s a million valid reasons why a player would want to transfer and their punishment is to lose a year of eligibility? Horribly punitive. Some players will abuse it, just like some employees bail on their employer when they feel like it for a better situation. Why should the player be held hostage at the university?

That’s an incomplete view of the portal. The prior rules held a player hostage. The new rules are too loose. The pendulum will swing back to a more appropriate place, but change was absolutely necessary.

Maybe. Not every situation is the same. The world has changed. Imagine if Joe Burrow or Quinn Ewers had been “loyal”. Burrow would’ve been a high school coach somewhere making 60k/year.

1.2 mil I heard. Loyalty is one thing, but 1.2 million in your pocket at age 22 is life changing. Especially for a guy that isn’t guaranteed to make nfl money. Hate to tell a kid not to stay loyal to his teammates, but in this case, I think he should’ve taken the money.

And Tucker Kraft, Isaiah Davis/pierre strong and nfl lineman all around him.