Poll: Meet Nico's Demands or Let Walk?

Meet Nico's Demands or Let Walk?

  • Renegotiate/Pay More

    Votes: 120 10.2%

  • Move on

    Votes: 1,059 89.8%
  • Total voters
    1,179
#28
#28
He was a freshman last season, and he was adequate and showed promise. I was not awed. His long ball was off, we did not run tempo enough for whatever reason, and we were limited on offense. Normally, when you renegotiate, you have more to bargain with. I am already tired of resigning every player on the team every year. It's pure capitalism with no contracts. Unsustainable.
 
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#29
#29
This same fan base suffered through a decade plus of buying football coaches on the cheap as well as years of futility with lower level basketball hires, always begging to open the pocketbook up and get a big name (with big paycheck) coach. Now, we are wanting to go cheap at our most important position? Replace Nico with whom, and what are your savings? You don’t know, because only the schools/collectives, the players, and the IRS (hopefully) know how much these guys are making. Yet, with non-existent knowledge you want to manage the team’s payroll. Nico has good athleticism and elite arm talent. His processing speed, OL (passpro, at least), and WRs were substandard last year. It’s Heupel’s job to make him better. I guarantee you Josh doesnt want him leaving the team five months before the season. We shouldn’t be encouraging it either. This outrage is silly.
 
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#30
#30
WillisWG said:
his NIL deal is with Spyre, so why would I care if he says those mopes to get him more money
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Three reasons:
First, the timing means that if we simply can't meet his demands, he walks only a few months before the season. Those snaps could have gone to Merklinger, Mac, or <insert top tier transfer QB here>.

Second, money is a zero sum game. At some point, an unexpected cost raise affects the ability to pay others.

Third, if he is successful doing this now, in mid-April, you can expect others to do also. Buckle up!
 
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#32
#32
JohnnyJava said:
This same fan base suffered through a decade plus of buying football coaches on the cheap as well as years of futility with lower level basketball hires, always begging to open the pocketbook up and get a big name (with big paycheck) coach. Now, we are wanting to go cheap at our most important position? Replace Nico with whom, and what are your savings? You don’t know, because only the schools/collectives, the players, and the IRS (hopefully) know how much these guys are making. Yet, with non-existent knowledge you want to manage the team’s payroll. Nico has good athleticism and elite arm talent. His processing speed, OL (passpro, at least), and WRs were substandard last year. It’s Heupel’s job to make him better. I guarantee you Josh doesnt want him leaving the team five months before the season. We shouldn’t be encouraging it either. This outrage is silly.
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I hate it, but we have to pay him. He knows we need him. He has great potential and hopefully will progress. I blame Nico, but mostly I blame what college sports has come to for this.
 
#33
#33
SockeyeVol said:
Three reasons:
First, the timing means that if we simply can't meet his demands, he walks only a few months before the season. Those snaps could have gone to Merklinger, Mac, or <insert top tier transfer QB here>.

Second, money is a zero sum game. At some point, an unexpected cost raise affects the ability to pay others.

Third, if he is successful doing this now, in mid-April, you can expect others to do also. Buckle up!
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Your third point will certainly lead to an unsustainable crisis
 
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#34
#34
You pay him. This is just the reality of modern day college athletics. We need actual contracts that you can just renegotiate whenever you want to. This is the logical next step and would be better for everyone when it happens.
 
#36
#36
VOLLeeann said:
You mean the year he sat on his ass? :)
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This is my biggest issue. He got paid to play mop up duty in the regular season and the bowl game vs Iowa his freshman season. That $2M could have gone to an impact skill position player. So he has basically gotten paid $4M for the equivalent of about 15 games. And he has maybe earned his money in about 8 of those games? If that? He hasn’t earned that $4M so if that isn’t good enough for him then I would let him walk.
 
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#37
#37
Too many questions that we’ll never get the answer to make an educated call. We don’t really need the answers as we are not the coaches and can only guess what has gone on behind closed doors starting the second half of the Oklahoma game last year

It was like a switch was flipped on the offense.
 
#38
#38
I know this comparison is extreme, but I gotta say this NIL crap has to have a line, players don't cross. This crap reminds me of terrorist demanding more and more money for hostages. Weak leaders bow to their demands. Real leaders wipe them off the face of the earth, and other terrorists, (players in this instance, learn a valuable lesson).
 
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#41
#41
At this point I just want a team to love, even if we never win it all. The constant turnover and renegotiations are annoying. I can’t even name half our roster anymore. Just give me 85 guys who want to be here and I’ll continue screaming my lungs out but I’m not motivated to cheer for these kids right now
 
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#42
#42
The On3 ringleader of the idjits who are delightedly running the risk of encouraging our own fans to boo our own team at the Orange and White game. Don't swallow the bait.
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"You know, I get lied to quite a bit," he says.
 
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#49
#49
He has all the leverage right now. Pay it and let’s go win the SEC! Fully invest in George’s development, in the meantime.
 
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