Arnett signs 3 year deal

[confucius say]

**** C34, give it a rest. We know State is poor. Unless some alumni hits the life lottery and invents the cure for cancer, we will not consistently have 25mm+ rosters every year. It?s just not financially feasible to rely on the limited millionaire boosters we have to continue doing that

We're actually going to be close to 25 million.
Which is almost double what Indiana spent this year per 247

[Quaoarsking]

You said you would be happy if we beat Arkansas. You lied.

Cry me a river.

[EdwardDrayton]

We're actually going to be close to 25 million.
Which is almost double what Indiana spent this year per 247

Is that total for all sports or just for football? Is that just NIL or includes donor contributions also? For 23-24 we were at $23MM total. So if we spent $15MM on football then $8MM went to other sports. That ranked us 34th in total spending. We sure did not realize that kind of performance value last year.

[confucius say]

Is that total for all sports or just for football? Is that just NIL or includes donor contributions also? For 23-24 we were at $23MM total. So if we spent $15MM on football then $8MM went to other sports. That ranked us 34th in total spending. We sure did not realize that kind of performance value last year.

We will spend over 20 million on just football.
15-16 million of that will be rev share, meaning State Excellence Fund. The rest will be NIL, meaning from the collective.

[ArrowDawg]

If we're going to make a terrible hire at DC we might as well double down and give him a terrible contract to go with it.

Makes sense......for us.

[CadaverDawg]

Total Contributions Rank in SEC -- National ranking in (parenthesis)

1. Texas - $77,974,073 (#1)

2. LSU - $75,929,827 (#2)

3. Georgia - $74,315,945 (#3)

4. Florida - $61,364,272 ((#7)

5. Texas A&M - $54,204,110 ((#9)

6. Alabama - $53,113,300 (#11)

7. Oklahoma - $43,180,134 (#13)

8. Auburn - $36,372,783 (#18)

9. Tennessee - $35,483,274 (#19)

10. Ole Miss - $34,409,478 (#20)

11. South Carolina - $33,833,869 (#21)

12. Missouri - $29,555,704 (#24)

13. Kentucky - $27,938,279 (#29)

14. Mississippi State - $22,612,228 (#34)

15. Arkansas - $22,165,941 (#35)

16. Vanderbilt - N/A (Private School)

Kinda proving Coach's point on this. We beat literally everyone we outspent this season. 4 non con's and Arkansas, and lost to everyone that outspent us. (Assuming Arizona State didn't outspend us, which they may have)

Arguing that "we may be at the bottom of the SEC but not the country!", when 9 of our games every year going forward are SEC GAMES, is not a good argument. We are poor overall bc we play in the SEC and are dead last, or second to last.

So Lebby actually did a jam up job to have us in nail biters with #1, #4, and #9.

Especially with a bottom tier budget and a nincompoop as DC. Matter of fact, the Hutzler hire may be his only negative at this point considering the budget and cupboard he took over.

[Turfdawg67]

I think it is a brain dead take to say any coach besides Lebby has us 7-5. I guess the assumption would be we win 2 out of 3 of Florida Texas and Tenn. We averaged 31 points in those 3 games. So Qs argument is that while Lebby had us competitive in those 3 games against much more talented rosters, everything that went wrong was on Lebby but everything that went right to have us competitive against much more talented rosters is disregarded. Doesnt make sense to me.

Exactly. Totally ignores the fact that we were IN position to beat TX and UF was because of Lebby to begin with... and stand toe to toe with TN and beat ASU.

[Quaoarsking]

Exactly. Totally ignores the fact that we were IN position to beat TX and UF was because of Lebby to begin with... and stand toe to toe with TN and beat ASU.

Florida was a bad team this year! There's nothing impressive about a close loss to them. Not only did they fire their coach, 2 teams who beat them also fired their coaches.

I can get the argument that playing Texas close is at least something in Lebby's favor, but I still go back to the fact that all he had to do is run out the clock, and he just couldn't do it.

[bulldawg28]

Kinda proving Coach's point on this. We beat literally everyone we outspent this season. 4 non con's and Arkansas, and lost to everyone that outspent us. (Assuming Arizona State didn't outspend us, which they may have)

Arguing that "we may be at the bottom of the SEC but not the country!", when 9 of our games every year going forward are SEC GAMES, is not a good argument. We are poor overall bc we play in the SEC and are dead last, or second to last.

So Lebby actually did a jam up job to have us in nail biters with #1, #4, and #9.

Especially with a bottom tier budget and a nincompoop as DC. Matter of fact, the Hutzler hire may be his only negative at this point considering the budget and cupboard he took over.

Money wasn't the reason we lost to Texas, Florida, or TN. Our coach wet the bed.

[The Federalist Engineer]

You guys have to understand- NIL has changed EVERYTHING. Old coaching norms and conference prestige are gone.

Texas Tech is a Top 4 seed- why? They spent 35MM in NIL.

The kid on the left, looking up to the Pirate is the TTU NIL King. He is something like 25M of the 35M they spend.