Please let this be our program’s culture…

[LadyVolette]

Georgia Troll. You are within one comment of getting the Ignore button.

Yes please.. man, we are a tolerant bunch

 

[Alto1]

You can add Dale Jones to that list also!

Absolutely! No list is complete without Dale “The Alabama Killer” Jones on it……..

 

[woodpusher]

Yeah, the Minor leagues, it's a lot like Baseball if you think about it.

The Rookie leagues= get enough to live on= the lower tier never play in NFL player, low totem NIL.

Then you have double A= were some are bound for NFL some not these are the ones that may stay their Senior year because a good NIL is better than the NFL cup of coffee. A graduation and good NIL will suffice for them until they know more.

Then you have the Triple A= 5 star & high 4Star players who get up to a million NIL and wait until it's basically a sure thing to go out early It. is a Quasi NFL Minor league while acting like you're going to college with loaded tutors & collectives are paying the NIL and NFL & Agents are laughing all the way to the BANK$$$ .
JMO but I'll still watch for the time being

Are rookie league/short A players very unlikely to make it to MLB?

 

[woodpusher]

NIL is playing a role but a track record developing guys for the NFL is what reigns Supreme. The Top 4 programs with players currently in the NFL are Alabama, LSU, OSU, and Georgia. Is that a surprise? Look at how each has recruited the last 6 years. Those teams keep sending guys to the pros, so the top recruits follow in pursuit of the same dream.

You raise a good point - I don't think you were trolling.

 

[woodpusher]

Love the sentiment but I’ve come to terms with the fact that those days are gone. There will still be players that want to wear the Orange because their parents raised them on it. But these days, it’s most likely going to be the team that pays the most NIL money or there is opportunity for early playing time or they like the style being played. Right now UT is positioned well to offer all three areas. But I’m not going to sit around and worry about them having love and loyalty to dear old UT, history or past players or current teammates. That is long gone. Welcome to “college” football 2023.

At the same time, Polamalu was talking about his NFL team. As far as I know, there is a great deal of pride in playing for the Steelers. I want to say that for the 3rd and 4th Super Bowls (1979-80), every player on the Steelers had played for no other NFL team. Chuck Noll had had some bad luck with player trades and relied on the draft and college free agents.

Obviously that's not the case today - Trubisky comes to mind immediately, I went through half the roster and 10 Steelers have played for other NFL teams, so I'd guess the total was around 20. I don't know what the league average is. It's probably not possible to field a competitive team without considering signing players on other teams.