Recruiting Forum Football Talk IV

[Orange_Crush]

Doooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooossssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss!

 

[Orange_Crush]

Best family vacation ever was 10 days in Italy.

My kids were 10 and 7 (10 years ago this Summer ). My wife and I were worried that they would get bored going to the museums and magnificent churches, but they were enthralled by the history. It was a wonderful time for my family. We powered our way across Rome, Florence, and Venice on gelato. Anytime the kids started to get tired, we powered up with gelato. Considering that we walked almost everywhere, we made lots of gelato stops. One day in Rome, we walked 12 miles. Kids never complained!

The history there is indescribable. I could have spent a week in the Vatican museum just by itself…

Kids get tired of Italians?

 

[Rizzo924]

This might be one of kindest ways to put what he actually did to our football program.

Despite the Pruitt debacle, I’m still glad Schiano wasn’t hired here, but Currie not the AD to blame for football.

 

[tomq_123]

 

[Voltime123]

Despite the Pruitt debacle, I’m still glad Schiano wasn’t hired here, but Currie not the AD to blame for football.

Lol you just opened a huge can of worms, ppl don’t take too kindly around here of ppl speaking ill about Phillip Fulmer even though it’s the truth

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

Best family vacation ever was 10 days in Italy.

My kids were 10 and 7 (10 years ago this Summer ). My wife and I were worried that they would get bored going to the museums and magnificent churches, but they were enthralled by the history. It was a wonderful time for my family. We powered our way across Rome, Florence, and Venice on gelato. Anytime the kids started to get tired, we powered up with gelato. Considering that we walked almost everywhere, we made lots of gelato stops. One day in Rome, we walked 12 miles. Kids never complained!

The history there is indescribable. I could have spent a week in the Vatican museum just by itself…

I can only imagine how awesome that was. I have pretty much given up on European travel, there are just still so many places here that I still want to go...I can't do both, and "See America First" won out.

 

[GiggerVol]

Best family vacation ever was 10 days in Italy.

My kids were 10 and 7 (10 years ago this Summer ). My wife and I were worried that they would get bored going to the museums and magnificent churches, but they were enthralled by the history. It was a wonderful time for my family. We powered our way across Rome, Florence, and Venice on gelato. Anytime the kids started to get tired, we powered up with gelato. Considering that we walked almost everywhere, we made lots of gelato stops. One day in Rome, we walked 12 miles. Kids never complained!

The history there is indescribable. I could have spent a week in the Vatican museum just by itself…

Would love to one day spend a few weeks visiting Italy, Greece etc. Never had the chance or affordability but still on my bucket list. Fortunately we were able to send our son on a three week trip with a group of other student anbassadors when he was 14. The two things he still remembers and talks about the most are visiting the Vatican and going to the death camp in Auswitch where they actually walked through one of the gas chambers.

 

[ConwayFitty]

I can only imagine how awesome that was. I have pretty much given up on European travel, there are just still so many places here that I still want to go...I can't do both, and "See America First" won out.

I feel the same. As impressive as all of the manmade attractions are in Europe, I would rather explore the natural wonders of America. The coliseum would be awesome, but the Grand Canyon is awe-inspiring

 

[Jimmy Football]

I can only imagine how awesome that was. I have pretty much given up on European travel, there are just still so many places here that I still want to go...I can't do both, and "See America First" won out.

If you’ve been to the Parthenon in Nashville, you’ve pretty much seen all Europe has to offer.

Oh, and go to Schulz Brau. There, you’re covered.

 

[drvenner]

Despite the Pruitt debacle, I’m still glad Schiano wasn’t hired here, but Currie not the AD to blame for football.

He is totally to blame IMO. He botched the hire so badly, Fulmer had a very small pool to pick from by that point.

 

[SoilVol]

Donde Plowman just got herself a 24% ($160,000) raise. Her new salary is $820,000.

I've got some issues with that decision.

 

[drvenner]

Lol you just opened a huge can of worms, ppl don’t take too kindly around here of ppl speaking ill about Phillip Fulmer even though it’s the truth

He made a terrible mistake with Pruitt. Most of us wanted Pruitt by that point because the other options seemed much worse. We were all wrong.

 

[Jimmy Football]

Donde Plowman just got herself a 24% ($160,000) raise. Her new salary is $820,000.

I've got some issues with that decision.

This is why no one is going to side with the NCAA on NIL restraints.

 

[Voltime123]

He made a terrible mistake with Pruitt. Most of us wanted Pruitt by that point because the other options seemed much worse. We were all wrong.

We were all wrong but what prevented Fulmer from firing him when he should have?

 

[drvenner]

We were all wrong but what prevented Fulmer from firing him when he should have?

Again, he made a terrible mistake. I agree he picked the worst possible hill to die on. He definitely has some accountability for the huge mess we were in when DW was hired. It was a mistake to hire him as AD, but, again, at the time, most of us thought it was a great idea. He hitched his wagon to the worst nag possible.

 

[GoBigOrange86]

Donde Plowman just got herself a 24% ($160,000) raise. Her new salary is $820,000.

I've got some issues with that decision.

Meanwhile the university will keep farming the actual teaching out to adjuncts making $3000 a course while administrators continue to rake in the big bucks.

 

[butchna]

This is why no one is going to side with the NCAA on NIL restraints.

Has nothing to do with athletics. She’s still on the lower end of average compensation for university chancellors.

 

[thistime]

I keep hearing folks mention some kind of a salary cap as a possibility for managing NIL. I see NO way that could work. Salary caps in professional sports are only capping how much a team can pay for their roster. It has nothing to do with capping how much an individual can make in endorsements. Even if athletes became employees of the Universities and there was a cap in place the athletes would still be free to profit off of their own name. To not be able to would be like telling Lebron that he isn't allowed to make money from Nike. Or even better, could you imagine the uproar if they told him how much he was allowed to make from Nike?

I also see no way that they could prohibit you from making money from corporations/entities that are either owned or have "boosters" in their management/on their boards. If that was to happen wouldn't companies be able to sue because they are being restricted from investing their money as they see fit?

Think about it like this-

Would Saban not be allowed to do his crappy AFLAC commercials if say AFLAC was owned by an Alabubba booster or alum? Would anyone tell him that it would be illegal to make money from them? Of course not.

We will see how this all eventually plays out but, at the moment, it seems like a whole bunch of straw grasping.

It's unlikely that college football keeps this hybrid amateur/professional model for very long, teams too unstable and too many legal problems. More likely to eventually move toward the NFL model IMO. Players get revenue sharing/salaries, but they give up some freedom of choice and movement in the process. You might have drafts, contracts, trades replacing this state of free agency and bidding for recruits and transfers. Once players don't have complete freedom to choose their team, or leave when someone offers more money, my guess is the NIL contract values will drop to true market value of their name, image, and likeness, because the "inducement" value will no longer exist.

I have a novel idea to stop all this NIL madness. Play "Minor League" football sponsored by whomever they get to pay and start a league and then if your good enough go Pro. OR Play college ball, if you need to for financial reasons or if the Pro's see talent move to the Pro's or the minors . OR Play college ball graduate use your degree or if your good enough play pro ball or at that time go to the minors. Seems reasonable and is doable.....because Baseball. Ice Hockey and even to a lesser extent Basketball already do it and football is even having new start up leagues for those that didn't make it to the League or need more work.

I really do feel for the athletes that do the work and go to school as well but with that being said there are students that are doing the school work and paying there way as they go and I doubt anybody is offering them a NIL and I would say they work just as hard.

I just hate seeing layer after layer of potential uproar build up everyday.

 

[Glitch]

I knew I was in deep when I found myself in the RF daily looking for updates on football recruits and being entertained by a bunch of morans in this thread. Y’all have made me laugh on several occasions…but please stop posting pictures of snakes.

You are welcome. I will try to post more.

 

[RikidyBones]

I knew I was in deep when I found myself in the RF daily looking for updates on football recruits and being entertained by a bunch of morans in this thread. Y’all have made me laugh on several occasions…but please stop posting pictures of snakes.

 

[Glitch]

Would you rather have Weezer’s nudzs? He’s still looking for takers.

 

[Glitch]

It went right over my head that is alarming to me.

 

[engineerVOL]

I giggled.

 

[SSVol]

I giggled.

That happens.

Played golf yesterday, and was waiting for my wife to join me for dinner at the club. She texted "Are you inside?". Wasn't sure whether to LOL or be offended.

 

[Leeleesteeth]

Donde Plowman just got herself a 24% ($160,000) raise. Her new salary is $820,000.

I've got some issues with that decision.

Put a snake in her bed. One that is native to East Tennessee