Quote Originally Posted by The Federalist Engineer View Post
The bright side is that MSU is not Auburn picking up a bunch of marginal transfers.

Potentially the big players, like Burns could take 80% of someone's NIL dollars. MSU needs to bid Burns up. Make him start at 200k, knowing that LSU will want Burns dearly. But the imperative is to make Burns a pyrrhic prize.

Make Burn's NIL floor super high, then Let TAM and LSU spend huge money. The Machiavellian move would be for some noble MSU spy to "accidentally" tells Schlossnoddle's wife that "MSU is winning the SEC next year, We are spending all our money on a Jittery kid from Tennessee. People have sold their trailers, old pickups, and wife's prosthetic legs, to wrangle maybe $201K for this one player. Ole Miss has $245K but no relationship with the player."

If very good players may be had for 30K, then I rather get 7 non-Foxy pitchers, than one kid who looks super-high effort and potentially out-of-control. Imagine getting Burns for 300K and he does not pitch beyond March.

Before bidding, I would want to have Dr Andrews examine Burns for freshness.
Yes but with one top arm you have guaranteed win almost every Friday. That being said, as you bring up, he could also throw his arm out and all that money is wasted. On the other end you can get a hit line Skeens and he gets you to the CWS. If we do have a good staff then go get a top dawg and let the rest battle.