#1: Yeah, I doubt Dan wants to come back to Starkville anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by War Machine Dawg
#2: Prime to Bama. You heard it here first. This season at Colorado is his interview.
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#1: Yeah, I doubt Dan wants to come back to Starkville anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by War Machine Dawg
#2: Prime to Bama. You heard it here first. This season at Colorado is his interview.
Can you imagine the meltdown if we had hired a high school OC to be our head coach?Quote:
Originally Posted by War Machine Dawg
Also, Rogers has 1 more year of eligibility left after this year, and theoretically he could have 2 more if he redshirts this season by playing in no more than 4 games.
If I didn't have any rooting interest in Mississippi State and was just his personal advisor, I'd recommend that he step away from the starting role (being available to fill in in 1 more game if we need him for whatever reason), and transfer to Tulsa or Western Kentucky and try to chase down all of Case Keenum's NCAA reccords in 2024 and 2025.
My philosophy and general ideas
#4 actually it?s been big business for a long time. What IMO has been a problem for as long as I have been following MSU 40yrs+ is that we try so dead gum to be squeaking clean in atheletics. This is a dirty business and morals kindness doesn?t get you crap. Bama has been cheating for a very long time, Auburn has been cheating for a long time, Ole Miss been doing it for a long time, LSU had a guy embezzling money from a children?s hospital and funneling it to the football team to gain wins on Saturday. Yes I?m not nieve enough to not believe we haven?t paid players.
It also runs deep in our fan base. A Andy of Mayberry belief. I was supposed to be all hospitality to that stupid LSU fan that sat in front of me and ruined my game day experience. The whole time I was sitting there looking at the back of his fat ass head I was remembering how god awful I was treated at the LSU stadium.
My first year at MSU was Felker's first year as coach. Speaking of going overboard, WAAAYY overboard with the hospitality, pregame our band used to stand in front of the visitor's section and play THEIR fight song for THEIR fans to get fired up at OUR HOME games. Somebody deserved a swift kick in the nuts for that decision but it was probably applauded in-house.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ranchdawg
I don't think Bama boosters would allow that to happen.Quote:
Originally Posted by TrapGame
Arnett wasn't an up and coming hot name for any head coaching position. No power 5 team would have ever even considered him as HC and probably not many other D1 teams would have either.
Am I off the line, if I say some big-time boosters want Will to start come hell or high-water?
Winning makes strange bedfellows.Quote:
Originally Posted by DownwardDawg
The best players in the country will want to play for Deion. I'm watching to see if and when the QB son departs the college game. Deion might be up for bid at that point.
8 touches each? No way in **** is Will going to complete 24 passes that don't include running backs. Funniest thing I've read all dayQuote:
Originally Posted by Lord McBuckethead
Rogers is going to be advised to go get some graduate courses at another UniversityQuote:
Originally Posted by Quaoarsking
I dont think Bama is ready to hire a black HC just yet. I may be wrong but I will certainly be surprisedQuote:
Originally Posted by DownwardDawg
Yeah. I would be very surprised.Quote:
Originally Posted by Coach34
The more I think about this, the more I think there's a good chance it happens. Say what you will about Bama, they want to win. They want it more than air to breathe. If they thought hiring Satan was the best chance at winning, they'd hire him and make sure the contract for their souls was ironclad.Quote:
Originally Posted by TrapGame
Don't get me wrong, I'm well aware CFB has been big business for a long time. That train left the station when TV started to become a bigger and bigger thing in the 90s. My point was that as long as there was the farcical fig leaf of amateurism as cover, a segment of our alumni/fans and a significant portion of our administration could delude themselves into thinking "It's just amateur athletics. We can do things 'the right way' and win. We can be the good guys. Eventually those mean cheaters like Bama and Northern Miss will pay. Look at SMU."Quote:
Originally Posted by Ranchdawg
Now that NIL is here and players are getting checks, the fig leaf is gone. Between player payroll, benefits and the ever increasing coaching salaries and ridiculous buyouts where you have to pay losers to go, decision time is here for us and many other programs of our size and resources. Do we want to stay on the gravy train? If so, time to go all in and get dirty with the rest of the hogs. If not, have the guts to tell us, the alumni and fans who support all this, and pull out of the SEC at the very least. Probably need to pull out of the P4/5 altogether if we're not willing to get in the slop. But this half in, half out stuff isn't going to work. Realignment isn't going to care if you're a charter member of the conference or not if you're not pulling your weight.
Considering the way they meddle in every other aspect of our program, I'd be surprised if there WEREN'T Cigar Boyz who are in the Cult of Will and insisting he start.Quote:
Originally Posted by vindastra
Tying this to NIL, what is going to happen when someone who donates enough NIL to support several players steps in and starts dictating starting lineups or else they take their NIL money and go home? I've heard that supposedly already happened at Texas A&M.Quote:
Originally Posted by War Machine Dawg
That's why NIL regulation is absolutely necessary. The money needs to be a donation to a general fund and from there blindly distributed. NIL contributors need zero knowledge of who gets their money to ensure they can't meddle that directly. But right now we've got the Wild West. Repeat: I'd be surprised if the Cigar Boyz of every big school weren't doing significant meddling thanks to unregulated NIL.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mjoelner34
As for the hypothetical, that's a tough call. You need the booster and the NIL money, but you also need the coaches to have enough autonomy to tell the Cigar Boyz to go F themselves if they start meddling to the degree of attempting to dictate who gets PT and who doesn't. I'd lean towards telling the NIL booster to go away, because if you win, he'll be happy. It's when you're not winning that the meddling and such is a problem. But it takes serious stones to make that call. And it's really easy for me to say from behind my keyboard.
Not sure we have the money in our fanbase to keep up even if they were more dedicated. But the whole thing is totally broken. The same boosters who give Bulldog Club donations, buy season tickets and travel multiple weekends to see games and pay gas and large hotel bills shouldn't also be put upon to fund a player payroll to keep and get players when bidding against fanbases with exponentially more booster money to work with. Even IF NIL worked in reality like it was theoretically supposed to we would be behind the 8 ball but the fact that it is pure pay for play leaves us in a really bad way. I give to the Bulldog Initiative to try and help but I don't like it and never will. I really wish football and basketball had true minor leagues like baseball so that guys that have no interest in education and just need a way to get to the league and make money could do so without it having to run through an institution of higher learning for that to happen.Quote:
Originally Posted by AROB44