re: Portal Extravaganza - you’re the Best around, nothing’s gonna ever keep you down edition

I don't know if it was JGT, it might have been Hoke or someone else, but someone was def putting the $30 mil number out there.

JGT doesn’t know shite

I never said he did. But he denies ever saying Auburn's NIL chest is 30 million. I spent time and effort typing out what hokanson said.

Looks like for now we are working with (25 million to 30 million)

Rejects- an "insider" said we paid Arnold 1.3 million, Deuce 850,000, and AD 200,000.

He said Bryce Brown's base is 3.5 million

All I know is we are a losing program since 2020.

There is always player turnover with a new staff.

I’d be fine with the rest of them staying, but they are checking out their choices too.

It’s not personal. It’s business. For everybody.

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we paid Arnold 1.3 million, Deuce 850,000, and AD 200,000. He said Bryce Brown's base is 3.5 million

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I guess it’s hard to have 2 highly paid QBs on any roster.

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In the grand scheme of things if money was no issue you would want all of those dudes back because youre allowed up to 105 scholarship players on our roster- not just 85.

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Question: Who foots the bill if we put 105 on scholarship? General Athletic Dept funds?

The reason I ask is because I follow softball closely. They are allowed 25 on full scholarship, but the team settled on 23 (even cutting 3 returners from last year). It's even lower now at 22 because one player had to medically retire.

Starting to think this is a pattern and almost no roster on any campus will be maxed out.

I'm referring to athletic scholarships, not NIL. We are hearing people say "the age of the walk-on is over," and now we are seeing clear examples of rosters not reaching their max. Just makes you wonder.

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Good stats in limited action last year

Regarding the 21 million in NIL budgeted by the school portion. All SEC schools have that, and the bigger programs outside the SEC. That means there is about 4 times the money chasing the same amount of players.

We lost a lot to the portal, but all that money is not extra to be spent, because some of it was spent to keep the remaining players out of the portal. An extreme example, Atkins, his pay probably tripled at least and deservedly so. Im certain many got raises to stay put.

Then the portal opens and we say, spend the money we paid Deuce on OL, it aint there. We are spending 2 million more on the QB room alone, without Deuce.

Seems the coaches have done a very good job filling holes. Edge is a concern but we have Jared Smith, Faulk, Phillips, and Wilkes there so it isnt completely bare. But the big concern is OL hopefully that is fixed in the next week.