Bama Players Transferring (catch all thread)

[TiderJack]

By chance did you see that stat on the Netflix documentary about Bitfinex? I just it last night

Yes I did and the amount was $4.5B in the documentary. Very strange and interesting documentary.

 

[Tideflyer]

a man amongst boys at Oneonta

Me? I would just love to have someone named “ Fluff “ playing football for the University of Alabama! Sounds like something from the early 60’s, and that ain’t all bad!

 

[Isaiah 63:1]

Yup. Unless there's some kind of cap imposed we will be second-tier in terms of financial leverage in recruiting.

We simply can't compete with the money bags that many competitors hold.

Heck, the billionaires at UTx and aTm could probably buy the entire state of Alabama if they really wanted to.

And it only takes about 5 years for a program to slip into irrelevance for young players in today's age of immediate gratification and 24/7 exposure to information.

If some rules don't get put down sooner than later, we might see ourselves get spent into oblivion.

If we play by those rules, yes; but someone will figure out a way to compete without having the most money. The A’s did so in MLB until the rest of the teams started using analytics too and bid up the price of on base percentage so that Oakland could no longer get it on the cheap.

Alabama has to do now what Oakland did 25 years ago, and then keep innovating once others catch on, as they will. Oh, and don’t let Michael Lewis write a book about it…

 

[smith5753]

Yes I did and the amount was $4.5B in the documentary. Very strange and interesting documentary.

I enjoyed it as well. It definitely left me with a few questions considering the funds recovered by the DOJ have never been returned to their original buyers. Bitfinex gave them a coin basically the equivalent of their original investment, essentially a refund, the problem was those investors lost substantial gains. I think there’s much more to the story.

Didn’t mean to hijack the thread.

 

[AlistarWills]

The clock's ticking until that one person is a Saudi who buys an entire AD or conference

Well, Deion tried to sell Colorado Football to the Saudi’s….or something like that.

 

[TheRealPokeChop]

View attachment 47767NIL money paid out for the 24 season. Interesting to say the least…

That appears to be from the 2023 season fwiw..

 

[Rocky Mtn Bob]

The Waltons (as a whole) are just plain greedy, so I doubt they give anything to Arky for NIL.

A good friend was closely associated with Sam Walton ... and now his kids. I know things about the Waltons which you can read in my friend's book ... if he ever finishes it.

Rob (Robson) Walton owns the Denver Broncos; don't expect him to be shoveling money to Arky.

The rest of Rob's siblings have their own pet causes; I don't believe Arky football is on any of their lists.

 

[Evil Crimson Dragon]

The clock's ticking until that one person is a Saudi who buys an entire AD or conference

Could you imagine Bama being sponsored by Qatar?

 

[colbysullivan]

I saw an interesting stat about billionaires that was amazing. If you had $5B you could spend $100,000 per day for 100 years and still have well over a billion leftover. For reference, Musk is worth $240B so he could spend $4.8M per day for 100 years and still have billions left.

Me: There’s no way that’s true…

The math: It’s true

 

[4Q Basket Case]

Me: There’s no way that’s true…

The math: It’s true

Numbers don’t lie.

They might tell the story you like. They might tell the story you oppose.

Either way, numbers are heartlessly objective.

What is subjective is the definitions.

Depending on what you want the numbers to show, you’ll find both the devil and God in the definitions.

Lies. Damned lies. Statistics. All in the details of the definitions.

 

[irvingtontide]

So how long is this portal window open for?

 

[DzynKingRTR]

Me: There’s no way that’s true…

The math: It’s true

Yep, I actually did the math.

 

[CB4]

A good friend was closely associated with Sam Walton ... and now his kids. I know things about the Waltons which you can read in my friend's book ... if he ever finishes it.

Rob (Robson) Walton owns the Denver Broncos; don't expect him to be shoveling money to Arky.

The rest of Rob's siblings have their own pet causes; I don't believe Arky football is on any of their lists.

Yeah Alice Walton is busy PO’ing the entire international art world by attempting to make Crystal Bridges in Bentonville “The Louvre of the Ozarks”.

 

[B1GTide]

So how long is this portal window open for?

Until the 28th.

 

[Bpilktree]

Duce Robinson WR from USC has entered portal. We were on his final list as possibility coming out of high school. Be a great pick up.

 

[RammerJammer14]

The coaching staff said many things after losses that have me concerned going into next season

Personally I hope we trade out some coaches in the “transfer portal” as well. I’d like to believe this was an ad hoc staff and now DeBoer can do a bit more analysis and get better guys in.

 

[cdub55]

I did not know about the Hunt's. Arkansas has the Walmart name and logo on a facade on the inside of the stadium and Tyson's name and logo on both ends of their field but they obviously don't contribute much to their NIL program.

I hear they make a good pizza at the truck stop...

 

[cdub55]

If we play by those rules, yes; but someone will figure out a way to compete without having the most money. The A’s did so in MLB until the rest of the teams started using analytics too and bid up the price of on base percentage so that Oakland could no longer get it on the cheap.

Alabama has to do now what Oakland did 25 years ago, and then keep innovating once others catch on, as they will. Oh, and don’t let Michael Lewis write a book about it…

No offense and I see what you are trying to say but to compare Alabama Football, the most dominant dynasty in all of the land, to the lowly A's is a stretch at best. Oakland was playing with a much more severe deficit. To be more detailed, Oakland spent 40 million in 2002 and the Yankees spent over 120 million. Multiple other teams also spent over 100 million. Will we be the top NIL allocator to athletes? Doubtful. With that being said, we will be close enough that for the athletes that have the right intentions and see the compensatory advantage Bama should give them on the back end, we should be fine.

 

[Bamabuzzard]

It's not about just paying athletes; it's about paying the right ones. I would venture to say that most of the ones paid will not live up to the money they are paid. This is common in the NFL, guys "get paid" and fall off the map, then some excel. It's a gamble. But in the college football world of hits and misses, there will be more misses than hits when it comes to dumping money into an 18-22 year old amateur athlete.

 

[cdub55]

It's not about just paying athletes; it's about paying the right ones. I would venture to say that most of the ones paid will not live up to the money they are paid. This is common in the NFL, guys "get paid" and fall off the map, then some excel. It's a gamble. But in the college football world of hits and misses, there will be more misses than hits when it comes to dumping money into an 18-22 year old amateur athlete.

In major college football, freshman are rarely instant impacts. The transition we will see is more and more of this money is going to be allocated to the transfer portal athlete and less and less to the HS incoming freshman. Why pay a highly touted athlete 4 million to stand on your sideline for a year or two when you can get him a year or two later for maybe a little more money but he has been developed. What this will do is lower the execution and level of our game. Transfers can help a team, but if you want to see something special let a kid be inundated in a system for 3-5 years, where he knows the in's and out's like the back of his hand. To keep from writing a manifesto and get on my soapbox, I'll leave it at that for now.