Our big donors will buy an Oline for 2025.

#27
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McDad said:
Ever notice how fans are quick to spend the "big donors" money? Coaches, facilities ,buyouts, and now team units and players.

Yeah.
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It’s our only hope.
Our oline play is killing us right now.
since we can’t recruit them at a high level (other than Sanders) and we aren’t developing them, I’m reaching for the only hope we have since Heupel won’t fire Elarbee.
spend everything we have in our NIL coffers on the oline and hope our other position rooms are ok.
 
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wrharvey21 said:
Did you miss the part where one of our best oline recruits decommitted in favor of Oregon? I'm not sure they do.
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Second best, yes I know he went back to Oregon…Nike Money.
so far, our top recruit Sanders is sticking to his commitment.
 
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Volfan1000 said:
Ellarbee has not shown that he can develop the Perrys and Satterwhites that he recruited.

2025 will be a make or break season for CGE.
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Perry is a freshman and Satterwhite is behind Coop. Heard is a redshirt freshman. How many freshman or sophomores play o-line in the SEC? Not even the 5 stars at Bama and UGA play as freshmen. This team has no Juniors on the O-line, that is when most o-linemen start in the SEC. It takes time to develop o-linemen in the SEC. I doubt Sanders will be starting on opening day in 2025.
 
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THEONLYTENISEE said:
It would be better if we could recruit and develop our HS O Line recruits.
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We’ve got 3 blue chip true freshman OL from the 24 class and 3 more committed in the 25 class so we‘ve got some talent for the future. Hopefully they will stay and develop but we definitely need to pick up some portal help. Don’t we lose 4 starters from the OL this year?
 
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Volfan1000 said:
Ellarbee has not shown that he can develop the Perrys and Satterwhites that he recruited.

2025 will be a make or break season for CGE.
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I mean his development has been fine to this point. Very few teams have underclassmen playing at a high level early. I agree completely on your last statement. My concern is we don’t have anyone as far as depth developed it seems like. We’ve had pretty solid Oline play imo up till this year. We’ll see.
 
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Vfl2407 said:
Second best, yes I know he went back to Oregon…Nike Money.
so far, our top recruit Sanders is sticking to his commitment.
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Oregon is also closer to him.

Sanders isn’t flipping barring a major change like Heupel leaving or something like that. He’s tight with a lot of current players and incoming recruits. Ohio State and Georgia both pushed hard for him so it’s not like he didn’t have options.
 
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I wonder what Ole Miss supporters are saying, along with Bama, Georgia, Missouri and others

Every team in the SEC has talented athletes any team can win and any team can lose any given Saturday.

Funny how our coaching staff went from best to worst in seven days.

I'm still 100% volunteers believer.
 
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EsPN has an article about NIL and compensation agreement. Focus is for schools to compensate players and less dependence on outside NIL deals. There is a cap to what the schools can pay.
 
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NetworkVol said:
4.5 seconds to throw is actually pretty decent.
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Perhaps, if you get beat after 4.5sec. If you just release like it's a screen when it's not a screen, you're not doing your job.

I'm reminded of Peyton screaming at Saturday "when we call a pass play, block!!!" because the line wanted a run and didn't do their job.

If Peyton was in Nico's shoes, I suspect Heard would've gotten a similar earful.
 
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farmdogvol said:
Perry is a freshman and Satterwhite is behind Coop. Heard is a redshirt freshman. How many freshman or sophomores play o-line in the SEC? Not even the 5 stars at Bama and UGA play as freshmen. This team has no Juniors on the O-line, that is when most o-linemen start in the SEC. It takes time to develop o-linemen in the SEC. I doubt Sanders will be starting on opening day in 2025.
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Both those teams have definitely started true freshman on their lines recently. Starting alongside vets help and I hope Vols get to that point.
 
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Raebo said:
EsPN has an article about NIL and compensation agreement. Focus is for schools to compensate players and less dependence on outside NIL deals. There is a cap to what the schools can pay.
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Yes, but the schools cannot cap outside NIL deals so those schools who want to recruit well will still use them + school generated deals.

It's the market driving the prices and the school cap does nothing to really control the market even if the NCAA thinks it will.

If you want talent, you pay the market value for talent. Schools paid under the table previously to get better talent and schools will continue to do whatever they have to do to get talent via internal and external NIL.
 
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With the current state of college sports it’s hard to have expectations for future seasons. With it being so easy to transfer now how do we even know Nico will still be here next year.
 
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