If Kamario is the real deal

In other news, water is indeed wet.

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Originally Posted by Coach34

I fully support Lebby not naming him the starter- but the money aspect was in no way outrageous given today's market

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It was outrageous for MSU to pay that much to a back up who may have actually ended up 3 string at State.

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Originally Posted by Coach34

https://x.com/on3sports/status/19586...YKXqKt8QQD9Mtw


It?s going to cost a lot of money to keep him

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Who was offering Pavia even 1/2 that money?

For 1M more, Vandy could take Carson Beck or the Michigan QB. It's only 0.5M short of Oklahoma's QB.

If our athletic program is the “real deal” then we will pay it. But that’s the problem…

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Originally Posted by CaptainObvious

It was outrageous for MSU to pay that much to a back up who may have actually ended up 3 string at State.

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But if we don't pay for the backup then our options would've been an injury prone Shapen and a true Freshman with accuracy issues, and make no mistake Kamario is struggling with accuracy. It's why he's running 3rd team. Did we overpay for Kromenhoek? Debatable. I don't personally believe we did because we went out and got a guy that, if/when Shapen goes down, you feel comfortable starting.

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Originally Posted by CaptainObvious

It was outrageous for MSU to pay that much to a back up who may have actually ended up 3 string at State.

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He is better than our current back-up

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Originally Posted by Really Clark?

It's the transfer portal that's the issue. NIL doesn't spiral to these amounts without free range free agency driving the cost of securing transfer players / keeping your own.

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Simple fix... make them employees and then you can limit transfers through contracts. Universities don't want to do this.

They are making the University money, affect enrollment greatly and should be allowed to earn at a reasonable rate. Without some sort of control with the employee/employer relationship then we will see this spiral until people decide it's not worth it.

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Originally Posted by Hot Rock

Simple fix... make them employees and then you can limit transfers through contracts. Universities don't want to do this.

They are making the University money, affect enrollment greatly and should be allowed to earn at a reasonable rate. Without some sort of control with the employee/employer relationship then we will see this spiral until people decide it's not worth it.

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A fix, yes but not so simple. If they are employees of a public university, i.e. state employees, you won't have consistent contracts across the board. Different states with different employment language and terms. Not to mention the enormous added cost of retirement, taxes, benefits paid by the school. Then you have private universities thrown into the mix. Not to mention what happens with Title IX.

The cleanest solution probably at this point is football separate entities with collective bargaining and contracts. How to make the division between the football club and the university separate but still maintaining a cooperative between them, would be the more difficult part to work out.