Giving money to any program that employs Nick Charlton is literally just lighting it on fire. And I'd argue giving money to a program where the head coach thinks he needs P5 players to beat Utah State and FIU is also lighting money on fire.
Referring to CT Post JMU article
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I agree about this year for sure. Clearly for the future all G5 programs will have to pay their players as well if they want to win. Which is why all of this is looking more and more like a fool’s errand. College football has always been an expensive arms race. A nightmare for the average egghead college president. For those who plan to sit back and hope someone else will write the check, say bye-bye to your program’s aspirations.
I absolutely believe that as OC Petrino could fix our offense immediately.
I hope this is a no-brainer.
Remember when Chris Murphy and the governor were saying UConn is not a broke athletic department? No one asked them to chime in, but they did and showed their ignorance to the reality of the situation. Without competitive NIL programs are going to be DOA at most places. Any players you develop are just going to get poached right off your roster. Basketball is no different, if you can't pay em, someone else will.
I would hope that in their political lane they were stating indirectly that sports are important to UConn’s identity and health (and the state’s for that matter). And that a $30 mil or so AD deficit should not be of concern to the legislature in the grand scheme of the UConn budget. NIL is of no consequence to them. That belongs to the market - the overall interest in UConn athletics - of the few, of the many, whatever.
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I would remind you however that NIL will infect D3 if it has not yet already. D3 simply means no scholarships.
Primarily a combination of two things: the quality of your head coach and how flexible admissions will be with the academic qualifications of football players.
You people are crazy. Folks must have forgotten the scores of games before he got here. Good luck convincing a better coach to sign up for this. "You'll have no money to pay assistants, and forget about NIL money, now go get em coach".
More to it than that. Look at the size of the rosters of the NESCAC schools and Trinity generally has a larger roster. Trinity just played Bowdoin. Trinity has a roster of 105 athletes and Bowdoin has a roster of 85 athletes. Huge competitive advantage especially in a league with no redshirting.
We got massacred this year by teams who pay their coaches a third of what we pay ours and who objectively have less talent. Charlton gets almost as much as JMUs head coach. They don't even have a full allotment of scholarships yet and it's their second year in FBS football. Their recruiting classes have been 50 spots worse than ours and they have very few transfers. Their coach isn't complaining about NIL in the press conference, he is complaining that they aren't ranked by the CFP committee because of a rule that prohibits them from a bowl game in their second year, which he has done with far less University resources than Mora and while being paid a third of what Mora is paid.
It's not the number, it's the poor pass rush, it's the abysmal tackling, the slow foot speed of DB's & LB's compared to opposition.
New coaches come in all the time a jump start a different offense almost immediately.
Nothing new under that sun. Even within the NESCAC there's value to how good your football team is and even they know it.
More than 25% of their roster is transfers but hey don’t let facts get in the way.
LOL. Sure. That and the shiny palace known as the Civic Center.
First of all, you can recruit. You can’t give scholarships. Though a recent Wesleyan report showed that the percent of athletes getting aid was far higher than the general student body, so there is that.
Well Uconn's numbers are final....when his OC is in the bottom of CFB ( 117th & 121st ), 2 years in a row, he might be on to something..
In D3 you can/could recruit. In NESCAC, however, they are (or were) more restrictive and could not/cannot recruit. Not sure if the rules have changed, but back a couple decades a coach could not even talk to a potential SA after a game. Visits to campus were allowed however as long as they were not paid.
I can tell you back in 1999 they absolutely do phone calls.
They seemed to be almost all on jersey numbers 1-40 which would be their skill players plus DBs.
Amazing having those two coaches around for such a long time. Remember Miller running a fun offense. Had a QB drafted in the NFL... Current coach had lost 20 games in 16 seasons. Just a wonderful football tradition. The Courant used to give them decent coverage.
As someone who never cared about the Whalers, let me defend their fan base. An owner doesn’t get to spend decades not caring if they are fielding a competitive team, and then blame the fans for eventually not caring either.
Competed D3 in the 70's. Spoke with current coach who felt he was going to lose an All American athlete due to financial aid cut, and Dad going on disability Asked him about putting together an NIL for 3-5k, he said it was legal, but administration not on board.