Recruiting Football Talk VIII

[Devo182]

College football is dead if they gave him 2 million. He is simply not worth that. All that means is there are only 4-5 schools that can afford to compete. They are saying they spent 6-7 million on two receivers. If that’s true their payroll has to be around 50 million. Hard to believe the numbers are true.

Day makes a whopping $10mm.

In the NFL, the roster of only 53 players would be making roughly $250mm. 25x that of their HC...that's how it works out in a freeish market.

Or maybe all the coaches and admin should just be making way less idk.

 

[Devo182]

After the portal thread meltdown I decided to look at actual production on the field by Carnell Tate who is apparently the second coming of Jerry Rice. Through 2 years he has 70 total catches for 997 yards and 5 touchdowns. Three of his touchdowns came against the football powerhouses of Akron and Northwestern. As a reference Squirrel White who these same experts claim sucks had 97 catches for 1184 yards and 4 touchdowns in his first two years. Paying a guy like Tate 2-2.5 million is the quickest way to destroy your team. You have to use your resources wisely because they are not unlimited. Tate appears to have more talent and potential than Squirrel but the fact is up to now, that’s all it is.
Last year Kitselman was the most underrated transfer we got and ended up being one of our best.
I think I’ll just relax and trust the coaches to figure it out. Personally I like spending our resources in the trenches.

Yeah tbh I don't get why people cared so much other than because we were in on him out of HS, so people were familiar with him.

If we want to land a unicorn out of the portal, then hope Ryan Williams enters it. Otherwise, meh.

 

[Vol423]

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This is a classic Jerry Jones hire. Promote a yes man with no head coaching experience from within the organization.

 

[orangemadam]

Why does the team insist on going? ((referring to the above posts about the Auburn game)
According to the bloggers, the fix is in anyway.

Here we go already with the refs again. Just stop.

 

[DD4ME]

 

[PlanetVolunteer]

College football is dead if they gave him 2 million. He is simply not worth that. All that means is there are only 4-5 schools that can afford to compete. They are saying they spent 6-7 million on two receivers. If that’s true their payroll has to be around 50 million. Hard to believe the numbers are true.

But again, aren't the numbers usually estimates? "He can make up to 2 million?"

Paying him that much after they just won a title, with plenty of other talent on the roster and incoming freshmen is plain dumb.

 

[DD4ME]

 

[PlanetVolunteer]

Give him the meth we would have given the football team before they played OSU.

 

[drvenner]

I just couldn't bring myself to quit my job at the bakery. I was underpaid and the hours were lousy, but...

I kneaded the dough.

 

[GoBigOrange86]

Our fanbase likes to write a lot of checks our team then has to cash.

 

[Checker_the_Shire]

Question for the group:

I just got a call from a salesman through Wyndham Group. A few years back my father in law had a trip thing he couldn’t take, so we got it and had to sit through one of those time share presentations. We said no, naturally, but apparently it got my name on a list. So now they’re trying to sell me a 5-package deal that includes 3 domestics, an international, and then a cruise. It was $1498 for the whole thing (not a timeshare, I made sure that was clear). After wavering, they brought it down to $798 and added two more trip options for a total of 6-trips.

My question: does anyone have any experiences with something similar? It feels “too good to be true” so my wife and I were/are very skeptical. My google searches keep bringing up timeshares, which is not what this was, so figured I’d ask here.

 

[knoxvol52]

Day makes a whopping $10mm.

In the NFL, the roster of only 53 players would be making roughly $250mm. 25x that of their HC...that's how it works out in a freeish market.

Or maybe all the coaches and admin should just be making way less idk.

The coaches take all the BS from fans and media. They are under way more stress than a guy on the field playing just a game.

You're comparing grown ass men to 17-21 year old pups.... Don't care if they pay the players but the coaches can get fired at any second. Can the players?

 

[peaygolf]

I just couldn't bring myself to quit my job at the bakery. I was underpaid and the hours were lousy, but...

I kneaded the dough.

 

[85SugarVol]

Agree with the Jeter is overrated folks. He was on a bunch of unbelievably talented teams, protected by a bunch of juicers.

Struck out nearly twice as much as he walked. Career OPS and OPS+ pretty meh. One really good season offensively out of 20. Not good defensively. Solid but unspectacular career WAR - 95th overall with those around him being Barry Larkin, Larry Walker, Alan Trammel, and Gary Carter, to name a few.

He showed up to play, racked up 12000+ PAs, got a bunch of hits, was a leader, and had some unforgettable moments.

Not saying dude doesn’t deserve to be in the Hall, but outside of wearing pinstripes his body of work isn’t overwhelming. Put him on the Orioles or Expos or Twins and it’s a totally different conversation.

Lol. The Baseball Writers don’t agree on much, but they are in universal agreement on one thing - that you’re wrong.

And for good reason.

Among Short Stops -
#1 in Hits
#1 in Doubles
#2 in XBH
#1 in Total Bases
#3 in Stolen Bases
#1 in WRC
#4 in RBI
#1 in Runs
#3 in WAR modern era

Who were the “unbelievably talented” guys that Jeter played with?
Rivera was the Hammer of God, but who was playing every day or toeing the slab?
Pettitte, Posada? Tino? Scott Brosius?

 

[Jpcisco]

Question for the group:

I just got a call from a salesman through Wyndham Group. A few years back my father in law had a trip thing he couldn’t take, so we got it and had to sit through one of those time share presentations. We said no, naturally, but apparently it got my name on a list. So now they’re trying to sell me a 5-package deal that includes 3 domestics, an international, and then a cruise. It was $1498 for the whole thing (not a timeshare, I made sure that was clear). After wavering, they brought it down to $798 and added two more trip options for a total of 6-trips.

My question: does anyone have any experiences with something similar? It feels “too good to be true” so my wife and I were/are very skeptical. My google searches keep bringing up timeshares, which is not what this was, so figured I’d ask here.

If it feels too good to be true, it 99.9% of the time is.

 

[Checker_the_Shire]

If it feels too good to be true, it 99.9% of the time is.

That’s pretty much why we said no. But of course now I’m wondering if we should have said no. And let’s be honest, if I called back tomorrow they’d let me in on the deal, even if they claimed “once you hang up, this is a one time deal!”

 

[Jimmy Football]

Our fanbase likes to write a lot of checks our team then has to cash.

Did a Tennessee fan do this? It could have been anyone.

 

[Jpcisco]

That’s pretty much why we said no. But of course now I’m wondering if we should have said no. And let’s be honest, if I called back tomorrow they’d let me in on the deal, even if they claimed “once you hang up, this is a one time deal!”

It didn't sound too sketchy until they cut the price in half and added 2 more trips. That would signal red flags to me. Here is a reddit thread with vacation scams. Some in the comments sound like what you were offered. Might be worth checking out to ease your mind.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Scams/s/zdVoqyTXHt

 

[JCVol00]

Did a Tennessee fan do this? It could have been anyone.

Probably someone with the auburn staff, no way a ut fan knew which car was his

 

[Jackcrevol]

Will make a very good situation receiver.

 

[Orange.]

No AP didn't say that part but don't tell me that Matthews didn't get a big bump in NIL to return to Tennessee after he was going to the portal just like Tate was going too.

I’m glad to hear the first part. If you check, you’ll see I never said a bad word about Matthews. I never bought the Tate story, to begin with.

 

[85SugarVol]

CKC had her baby today

Way to go Coach KC! Congratulations!

Take the weekend off, and let’s get back after it come Monday.

 

[InVOLuntary]

Did a Tennessee fan do this? It could have been anyone.

I don't even know what this is.

 

[peaygolf]

 

[Orange.]

Question for the group:

I just got a call from a salesman through Wyndham Group. A few years back my father in law had a trip thing he couldn’t take, so we got it and had to sit through one of those time share presentations. We said no, naturally, but apparently it got my name on a list. So now they’re trying to sell me a 5-package deal that includes 3 domestics, an international, and then a cruise. It was $1498 for the whole thing (not a timeshare, I made sure that was clear). After wavering, they brought it down to $798 and added two more trip options for a total of 6-trips.

My question: does anyone have any experiences with something similar? It feels “too good to be true” so my wife and I were/are very skeptical. My google searches keep bringing up timeshares, which is not what this was, so figured I’d ask here.

Maybe call someone at Wyndham corporate.