2024 college football offseason thread

Yeah, 60% of the settlement paid for by G5, FCS and non-football schools. The guys who might spend 1/5 of what the P4 pays for NIL.

 

I presume baseball is going to move from being an equivalency sport to a headcount sport. Is that right?
If so, there won't be many schools that can go from the dollar value of 11.7 scholarships to nearly triple that amount in two fiscal years.
That's a problem.

 

SEC can. Big Ten can if it wants to. Some ACC programs can.

 

The Big Ten is the really interesting one. In the SEC and ACC, baseball's part of the culture now. Benign weather. How many real (Midwestern) Big Ten schools will invest in a sport they've casually cared about?

 

We have entered the $1 million dollar NIL deal for a softball player era.

Stanford's biggest star lured to Texas Tech with $1 million deal

 

You'd have to pay me more than that to give up a Stanford degree, a 6-figure NIL deal and beautiful South Bay weather to move to fucking Lubbock.

Good luck to her. Can't even come close to seeing the ROI for the benefactors, but so be it.

 

I would say a top softball pitcher might have more impact than any other player in any other sport. QBs need a good o-line and receivers. Hoops players need to have talent around them so teams just don't focus on them. But yeah - A Stanford degree is a $1m lottery ticket - throw in the people you meet there - and I say this a a die-hard Cal fan who hates Stanford. Then again, who was the last college softball player who made $1m playing softball after college?

 

If she’s really smart, she’ll see if she can take and pass enough courses to stay eligible but not graduate from Texas Tech; transfer back to Stanford; and get the degree from there. I’m not sure this is plausible, but it’s worth a look.

 

They last made the NCAA Tournament in 2019, the only time since 2012 and six times total. They have never been to a Super Regional. The only time they finished higher than fourth in the Big 12 was a tie for third in 2001. They are on the their fourth head coach in six seasons.

She's probably worth it

 

Just not seeing how it translates into anything close to $1 million in revenue, just to break even on the deal. Especially since the NIL donation can't be used as a tax write-off.

 

They don't care about that -- rich oil men with wives and daughters who like softball want to see a kickass team that now doesn't have to deal with Oklahoma and Texas in the league anymore.

 

Rocky Johnson Field capacity: 589.

I need me some of Lubbock’s economic anxiety.