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re: 2025 Football Recruiting
Posted on 12/6/24 at 2:46 pm to Rabern57
Posted on 12/6/24 at 2:46 pm to Rabern57
Rabern, the next 5 yrs is gonna be off the charts. Just think of the fallout from incoming Fr making more than Jr/So and that fallout. the money hungry dad’s turned agents gonna lose it
Corch, if u r paying that much for instate tuition something is wrong. It’s only like 10k/yr and bama is pretty much free with decent grades
Corch, if u r paying that much for instate tuition something is wrong. It’s only like 10k/yr and bama is pretty much free with decent grades
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Posted on 12/6/24 at 2:46 pm to BrounHaller
I don’t think anyone is asking anyone to sacrifice their retirement savings to contribute to NIL 
This post was edited on 12/6/24 at 2:47 pm
Posted on 12/6/24 at 2:46 pm to Weagle25
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I want us to win. I’m well off financially. But paying money towards a fund that pays players vs putting that money in the market is not a line I’m even close to crossing.
But you’ll waste the better part of daily life on a message board complaining about a crappy football program. I’m sure that $17 of extra investment per month is gonna make your great great grandchild’s life so much better.
Posted on 12/6/24 at 2:47 pm to GoCrazyAuburn
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Why? That’s seems like more than a reasonable request if we want to compete regularly.
A lot of things you should be doing with your money before ever considering giving it to players in hopes of your favorite football team competing.
If you can’t quit your job right now and be fine for the rest of your life, you should not be donating.
Posted on 12/6/24 at 2:48 pm to GoCrazyAuburn
No one will without a say in who they are buying with the money.
Posted on 12/6/24 at 2:48 pm to Weagle25
Jesus Christ 
Posted on 12/6/24 at 2:49 pm to attalla
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Corch, if u r paying that much for instate tuition something is wrong. It’s only like 10k/yr and bama is pretty much free with decent grades
You’re wrong. That’s the expense. Obviously I’m not actually paying that full amount because of scholarships and such. But base and living on campus is about 27k at bama and about 29k at AU. That’s food plan, dorm, tuition etc
Posted on 12/6/24 at 2:51 pm to Rabern57
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No one will without a say in who they are buying with the money.
That’s fine. Then no one should be complaining about the players we do and don’t get, which is my main point.
Posted on 12/6/24 at 2:53 pm to Weagle25
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If you can’t quit your job right now and be fine for the rest of your life, you should not be donating.
Some of us could quit our jobs. Or like me have multiple streams of income.
Everyone has passion projects. Auburn athletics is mine. I don’t hunt. I don’t go fishing tournaments anymore. I don’t gamble. I don’t drink.
I feel perfectly fine donating a tiny amount to OTV in hopes my little amount helps with something I truly care about. Auburn athletics.
Hell I’m not even an Auburn alum. I went to Montevallo
Posted on 12/6/24 at 2:56 pm to CorchJay
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Some of us could quit our jobs. Or like me have multiple streams of income. Everyone has passion projects. Auburn athletics is mine. I don’t hunt. I don’t go fishing tournaments anymore. I don’t gamble. I don’t drink. I feel perfectly fine donating a tiny amount to OTV in hopes my little amount helps with something I truly care about. Auburn athletics. Hell I’m not even an Auburn alum. I went to Montevallo
Great. I said nothing about you donating.
Posted on 12/6/24 at 2:57 pm to CorchJay
It's unfortunate but some of you guys are going to have to come to realization there is nothing we can do to compete with the top dogs in NIL. Your 12 dollars a month are whatever is like a squirt gun against the uzis and bazookas of the Phil Knights and Texas oilmen etc.. of the world.
From a recruiting standpoint, unfortunately, this is probably the peak for us. Good news is that with proper scouting and development and the right guy at QB it's still good enough to make runs every so often.
We are never going to be able to bid with the top teams and it's a shame normal people are willing to part with their money for some 17 year, likely slap dick, to come to your school for a minute and who will almost certainly exploit the situation every year and uses Auburn as nothing more than leverage for a bigger deal, often somewhere else. F them kids and F this system. It's not even college football anymore.
melt [on] off
From a recruiting standpoint, unfortunately, this is probably the peak for us. Good news is that with proper scouting and development and the right guy at QB it's still good enough to make runs every so often.
We are never going to be able to bid with the top teams and it's a shame normal people are willing to part with their money for some 17 year, likely slap dick, to come to your school for a minute and who will almost certainly exploit the situation every year and uses Auburn as nothing more than leverage for a bigger deal, often somewhere else. F them kids and F this system. It's not even college football anymore.
melt [on] off
This post was edited on 12/6/24 at 2:58 pm
Posted on 12/6/24 at 2:57 pm to GoCrazyAuburn
Laugh all you want. It’s my opinion.
I’m not going to waste my money. I don’t think other people should waste their money.
I’m not going to waste my money. I don’t think other people should waste their money.
Posted on 12/6/24 at 2:58 pm to CorchJay
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But you’ll waste the better part of daily life on a message board complaining about a crappy football program.
Exactly. Quit bitching if you’re not contributing.
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I’m sure that $17 of extra investment per month is gonna make your great great grandchild’s life so much better.
Right? I decided that basically 1 trip to McDonalds a month wasn’t too much to ask for me to quit seeing a shite product on Saturdays.
Posted on 12/6/24 at 3:00 pm to Weagle25
By your own logic, you do waste your money though. That’s why I’m laughing. It’s an absurd opinion because it assumes there is no such thing as discretionary income.
Posted on 12/6/24 at 3:01 pm to Weagle25
But the point still stands. The power is with the fans. Either they fight it or embrace it.
For years 90 percent of fans have said the players deserved to be paid, they were basically starving, couldn’t even take their girlfriends out on dates. Blah blah blah. Well now the fans got their wish. The problem is most of the dumbasses complaining about the players getting paid just wanted their NCAA gaming back with “real” players. lol
Sometimes you get a lot more then you actually asked for
For years 90 percent of fans have said the players deserved to be paid, they were basically starving, couldn’t even take their girlfriends out on dates. Blah blah blah. Well now the fans got their wish. The problem is most of the dumbasses complaining about the players getting paid just wanted their NCAA gaming back with “real” players. lol
Sometimes you get a lot more then you actually asked for
Posted on 12/6/24 at 3:04 pm to RandySavage
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It's unfortunate but some of you guys are going to have to come to realization there is nothing we can do to compete with the top dogs in NIL
Maybe. Hard to know for certain though when they also have triple and quadruple the fan contributors we do. Hell, if we tripled our fan count to 9k, I think we’d be competing quite well. At the I think minimum monthly level of $20 I think it is, that’s an additional $1.4M per year. That would still be a lower fan count than the guys we claim we want to compete with. They are all generally in the 10k+ range.
This post was edited on 12/6/24 at 3:07 pm
Posted on 12/6/24 at 3:06 pm to GoCrazyAuburn
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By your own logic, you do waste your money though. That’s why I’m laughing. It’s an absurd opinion because it assumes there is no such thing as discretionary income.
I get a direct benefit from everything I pay for. You do not get a direct benefit for paying NIL.
We could have all the money in the world and still suck. See Texas A&M.
So you’re basically just throwing more money in a bucket. While other fans of other schools are doing the same thing to make their teams good. Never ending cycle. And unless you got thousands of people to do it, it wouldn’t even be a blip. Even if you got thousands to do it, the other schools’ fans would likely up how much they give. So we end up in the same spot.
Not for me.
This post was edited on 12/6/24 at 3:10 pm
Posted on 12/6/24 at 3:07 pm to CorchJay
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For years 90 percent of fans have said the players deserved to be paid, they were basically starving, couldn’t even take their girlfriends out on dates
I was one of those basically starving athletes who couldn’t afford to take their girlfriends out on dates. It sucked, but I survived it.
One of my sons asked what I thought about the players getting paid now. I told him that it’s gotten way out of hand. It’s gone beyond giving the players spending money or paying them for jersey sales.
This; this is pro football without a salary cap. This is unsustainable. There has to be some form of regulation or, before long, the players will be making more than the coaches.
Posted on 12/6/24 at 3:10 pm to GoCrazyAuburn
You know most of those schools also have double our enrollment and alumni base too right? It's a simple numbers game. Alabama is also a poor state overall with a modest population and another bigger football team in the state so it's not like we are getting much windfall from the random sidewalks, excluding corch obviously. Again, the numbers just don't work
This post was edited on 12/6/24 at 3:12 pm
Posted on 12/6/24 at 3:11 pm to Placekicker
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This; this is pro football without a salary cap. This is unsustainable. There has to be some form of regulation or, before long, the players will be making more than the coaches.
Major overhaul is going to be needed. I don’t know if it is a salary cap or what. The way it is mixed with transfer portal can’t last.
I do think we are in a weird period where there are a lot of money people trying to see a national championship before they die, and are paying for it. Curious how long that lasts.
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