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I tell me kids not to look to transfer high schools to try to get more attention in their sports and the same applies with these kids in college. Short term gain for very little of them many times equates to long term pain.

Some of these young men are making millions of dollars by leveraging the best NIL deals. That's not short-term gain, that's never having to worry about saving for retirement, or never being saddled with crushing debt, or buying a house and having millions left over for school, your kids going to school, your parents' mortgages, etc. It's not Elon Musk money, but we're talking big enough numbers to change the complexion of your life.

Don't blame the players for being forced to deal with the same system that makes us frustrated. They're also athletes, and I'm sure they'd rather not be worrying about NIL and transfers during the postseason. This problem is way bigger than that.

pezsez1 wrote: Sat Jan 10, 2026 3:20 pm

I tell me kids not to look to transfer high schools to try to get more attention in their sports and the same applies with these kids in college. Short term gain for very little of them many times equates to long term pain.

Some of these young men are making millions of dollars by leveraging the best NIL deals. That's not short-term gain, that's never having to worry about saving for retirement, or never being saddled with crushing debt, or buying a house and having millions left over for school, your kids going to school, your parents' mortgages, etc. It's not Elon Musk money, but we're talking big enough numbers to change the complexion of your life.

Don't blame the players for being forced to deal with the same system that makes us frustrated. They're also athletes, and I'm sure they'd rather not be worrying about NIL and transfers during the postseason. This problem is way bigger than that.

Very few will make that money and I guarantee many will blow it. Some won’t and good for those few that get million+ and don’t blow it. The idea of team is mostly gone and the individual is everything now. That is not good for college football.

How many of the Oregon players in the portal will make millions? How many would lose millions if they just stuck it out through the playoffs? Not many if any will probably make over a million and they gave up playing in the playoffs with the team to get a week or 2 or 3 head start in the portal? If they truly demanded million+ or truly life-changing money, it would’ve been there after the playoffs.

And where did say there weren’t other (or bigger) problems too? Of course there are. What I’m talking about is the shame of players choosing to leave their team in the middle of the playoff for what they believe to be in their best interest (guarantee it isn’t always in their best interest and why I appreciate Jay Harris so much).

pezsez1 wrote: Sat Jan 10, 2026 3:20 pm

I tell me kids not to look to transfer high schools to try to get more attention in their sports and the same applies with these kids in college. Short term gain for very little of them many times equates to long term pain.

Some of these young men are making millions of dollars by leveraging the best NIL deals. That's not short-term gain, that's never having to worry about saving for retirement, or never being saddled with crushing debt, or buying a house and having millions left over for school, your kids going to school, your parents' mortgages, etc. It's not Elon Musk money, but we're talking big enough numbers to change the complexion of your life.

Don't blame the players for being forced to deal with the same system that makes us frustrated. They're also athletes, and I'm sure they'd rather not be worrying about NIL and transfers during the postseason. This problem is way bigger than that.

lol that's because you are thinking like an adult, and not an 18 year old who will buy a Bentley and then wonder where all his money went!

One thing that is hard to wrap around my head this morning................That's it guys, it's over. The season is over. It will be what, 9 months now? WOW, the season sure raced by!!!

Trust Dan. Trust the process. Look at the big picture.

Through his first 56 games:

Dan Lanning: 48-8 made the CFPB years 3 & 4

Kirby Smart: 44-12 won the Natty in year 6

Swinney: (54 games - not counting 2008 interim) 36-18 won natty in year 8 (again, not counting 2008 interim)

Saban (52 games, only counting LSU record after 5 years as an HC at MSU) - 39-13 - won national championship in year 4

DeBoer (only counting UW and Bama, not Fresno or lower levels) - 44-12 - two playoff appearances yrs 2 and 4

Cig (counting only JMU + & taking out COVID year) - 45-8 with 3 playoff appearances in FCS and a Bowl game after move to FBS.

Remember, Smart, Saban and Swinney all did that during the pre-NIL, pre-portal era, where they could hog all the blue chip talent and depth pieces couldn’t leave.

Dan is building a sustainable program, the right way and this year’s team is ahead of where they should be.