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04-15-2025, 06:50 AM
#281

Originally Posted by
38843dawg
It?s been one of those two since the get go. Once he entered it was over (for state), regardless of what some would say. Is what it is.
Then we have a good chunk of money for someone else. I hate losing him, but we can't do anything about it.
What's our big board look like?
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04-15-2025, 07:52 AM
#282

Originally Posted by
msstate7
Then we have a good chunk of money for someone else. I hate losing him, but we can't do anything about it.
What's our big board look like?
One of either Melvin Council Jr or Tayton Connerway, Maliq Ewin, Corey Washington, and Sam Walters. Everyone else we're mentioned with are below those 5 guys
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04-15-2025, 09:07 AM
#283

Originally Posted by
Goldendawg
The average salary for year one in the NBA is about $1.6 million. NFL for year one is $795K. This is insane with NIL and especially the portal. They are in no way "student athletes". Family bought 8 FB season tickets for consecutive 58th year. If there is not contracts and a salary cap soon, 59 is seriously in doubt.
795k was the minimum salary for a rookie in the nfl in 2024, not the average.
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04-15-2025, 12:17 PM
#284
Keyshawn Murphy to Auburn. He will be good for Bruce Pearl and I hate it!
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04-15-2025, 12:31 PM
#285
Member

Originally Posted by
StarkVegasSteve
The Iamaleava stuff was the first public crack in the dam for the players. These schools, and donors who are giving the big time money, are about to start realizing they are the ones with all the power in these situations. They are the ones just handing over money with no guarantees. I have a feeling we will look back in 5-10 years at this saga and see that it was the first step towards players being under contract.
Nico put himself in a dumb position by not fulfilling his NIL obligations and UT called him on it. But they only get to look like innocents for a minute. It?s already being floated around that they are willing to pay $4 mill next year to poach someone else?s QB with names on their wishlist like Haynes King and Sam Leavitt being floated around
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04-15-2025, 12:35 PM
#286
Member

Originally Posted by
StarkVegasSteve
One of either Melvin Council Jr or Tayton Connerway, Maliq Ewin, Corey Washington, and Sam Walters. Everyone else we're mentioned with are below those 5 guys
You think we have a shot at any of these guys?
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04-15-2025, 12:44 PM
#287

Originally Posted by
NCMSTFAN
Keyshawn Murphy to Auburn. He will be good for Bruce Pearl and I hate it!
Yep. Sucks.
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04-15-2025, 12:54 PM
#288
I am definitely a bit concerned about next years team now that Murphy is gone. Hubbard, Jones and Warren seem to be the only 3 returning with Kugel, Murphy and Nwoko all gone. I see we have 4 freshman commits in which 3 of them are 4 start players, but it will be tough starting a lot of freshmen. Anyone have a good link where we can see who we landed in the portal?
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04-15-2025, 01:05 PM
#289

Originally Posted by
sleepy dawg
795k was the minimum salary for a rookie in the nfl in 2024, not the average.
Has it went up that much since Dak was a rookie? I think his 4th round contract was worth $3 Mil total so that would be more than that for an undrafted free agent.
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04-15-2025, 01:14 PM
#290

Originally Posted by
Cowbeller
You think we have a shot at any of these guys?
We'll get one of Council or Connerway. I feel pretty confident that if we pushed Washington he would commit. No clue on the other two.
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04-15-2025, 02:52 PM
#291

Originally Posted by
Tbonewannabe
Has it went up that much since Dak was a rookie? I think his 4th round contract was worth $3 Mil total so that would be more than that for an undrafted free agent.
Yes, it goes up a good bit every year. 2025 minimum is 840k. It's expected to be over a million minimum by 2029.
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04-15-2025, 02:56 PM
#292
Walk like the King or walk like you don't care who the King is
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04-15-2025, 02:59 PM
#293

Originally Posted by
Coach34
Murphy to Auburn
I posted earlier..... sucks. Watch him go average 18 and 10 for Pearl.
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04-15-2025, 03:03 PM
#294
Speaking of that, how do we feel about Jans player development for the next level? Ultimately every College kid wants to play in the NBA. Tolu is our only NBA guy right now (he had 14 points and 8 rebounds the other night with the Pistons) But Tolu was a Howland recruit.
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04-15-2025, 03:26 PM
#295

Originally Posted by
NCMSTFAN
Speaking of that, how do we feel about Jans player development for the next level? Ultimately every College kid wants to play in the NBA. Tolu is our only NBA guy right now (he had 14 points and 8 rebounds the other night with the Pistons) But Tolu was a Howland recruit.
Honestly, Jans's style isn't very conducive to producing NBA players. It appears that his approach this year is to go back to what he's more comfortable with, which is a defense first team that is more opportunistic on offense than prolific.
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04-15-2025, 03:41 PM
#296

Originally Posted by
NCMSTFAN
I posted earlier..... sucks. Watch him go average 18 and 10 for Pearl.
He won't. He's not going to get a whole lot of touches in their offense. They need a traditional post and he's not that. Which is so funny because him being asked to play the 5 here was one of the reasons he said he was going to get in the portal.
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04-15-2025, 03:57 PM
#297

Originally Posted by
KB21
Honestly, Jans's style isn't very conducive to producing NBA players. It appears that his approach this year is to go back to what he's more comfortable with, which is a defense first team that is more opportunistic on offense than prolific.
I agree and this can hurt us in recruiting. Every kid wants to play for a coach who puts players in the NBA. Im not sure if Jans has any NBA guys as a Head Coach. He is more of a system coach, not a player development coach. And if he does revert back to defensive first type coach, it's hard to convince top talent to come in and play tough nosed defense as a recruiting pitch. Throwing NIL money at them does help but that money only goes so far and their agents are letting them know that.
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04-15-2025, 03:58 PM
#298

Originally Posted by
StarkVegasSteve
He won't. He's not going to get a whole lot of touches in their offense. They need a traditional post and he's not that. Which is so funny because him being asked to play the 5 here was one of the reasons he said he was going to get in the portal.
Yea I was a little sarcastic when I said that but I do think Pearl can get more out of Murphy than Jans did if given the minutes.
Last edited by NCMSTFAN; 04-15-2025 at 04:04 PM.
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04-15-2025, 06:25 PM
#299
Well we don't ever have to discuss whether Purcell or Jans can get more out of someone else's players. *****
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04-15-2025, 07:29 PM
#300

Originally Posted by
Coach34
Murphy to Auburn
Yep, for apparently north of 2.5 mil. We just can't compete when it's an all out bidding war and that's what football and basketball has become to get top.quality players.
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