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re: Buying a national title
Posted on 1/11/25 at 10:14 am to BLG
Posted on 1/11/25 at 10:14 am to BLG
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All the SEC contenders, but if you seriously think that players getting $100 handshakes (or even a few players getting a car) is the same as openly spending 15 to 20 million to buy a team, you are naive at best
It’s just an amplification of the same thing. What bama could do building school gyms, handing out cars and money on the sly was just as insurmountable for a Washington State as it is between an Ohio State and Auburn today. It’s just fixing tiers, but now things like a hands-off state media, political protection and things like that have been replaced with just pure cash.
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Posted on 1/11/25 at 10:14 am to SEC Doctor
It’s always been this way baw
Posted on 1/11/25 at 10:14 am to Cool McCool
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It’s pretty sad that the two teams in the championship both ponied up a lot of money to purchase star starters off of other teams. That’s what the sport has become, who will spend the most.
UGA just bought 2.
Everyone knew Bama was paying the most since forever.
Amazing how all of sudden so many of the top players in FL wanted to go to Bama when FL players outside of the panhandle barely ever went there. SMH
This post was edited on 1/11/25 at 10:20 am
Posted on 1/11/25 at 10:14 am to SEC Doctor
This is the first year since NIL that the national champ's starting QB was not developed by the championship program. Calm down.
Posted on 1/11/25 at 10:16 am to Go Go Gata
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UGA just bought 2.
Everyone knew Bama was paying the most since forever.
Amazing how all of sudden so many of the top players in FL wanted to go to Bama. SMH
Everyone was buying players. Stop acting like this shite was only ever done by the big winners. Everyone else was just pure like the white driven snow, huh?
The time Alabama got caught buying a recruit, it was only because a half dozen other schools were in a bidding war and the Tennessee booster was mad he got out spent.
Posted on 1/11/25 at 10:24 am to TideSaint
Alabama at 16 
Posted on 1/11/25 at 10:27 am to Go Go Gata
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UGA just bought 2.
Everyone knew Bama was paying the most since forever.
Amazing how all of sudden so many of the top players in FL wanted to go to Bama. SMH
If your brainwaves get any lazier I fear a state of comatose for you. The gators were streaming to Urban Meyers's lair at an unprecedented rate. In the interim, you had Zook and Muschamp who couldn't win on nearly that level and they were still streaming to Gainesville. Pay for play was alive and well in the swamp long before NIL became a thing.
The real problem that you and others of your ilk struggle with, when you cast your jealous eyes west toward the mecca of college football, is simply RESULTS.
Nothing wrong with a good investment. But the BEST investors know how to make it pay off. My advice, do better.
Posted on 1/11/25 at 10:36 am to SEC Doctor
Well considering Texas spent more than Any other team it is harder than it looks
Posted on 1/11/25 at 10:41 am to Sizzle_DAWG
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I think a reasonable take is that a lot of southern Blue Bloods were buying players before it became legal (obviously), but even though it was somewhat happening up north it was a harder sell since college football isn’t QUITE as popular as it is below the Mason Dixon.
Then every SEC NC prior to 2020 is completely null and void.
There are other explanations besides this one, of course. Namely considering where NFL players come from per capita. But there can be more than one variable.
But your explanation requires we all discount college football prior to 2020.
Posted on 1/11/25 at 10:45 am to Pelican fan99
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Alabama at 16
Alabama is returning a lot of their snaps from the year prior. There are fewer gaps on the roster though they have two areas - QB and OT - that loom large over their ability to seize on a depth chart with a lot of game experience.
Posted on 1/11/25 at 10:46 am to Pelican fan99
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Alabama at 16
Alabama is only replacing something like 6 total starters, and the transfers coming in rank #4 in average rating per transfer.
Posted on 1/11/25 at 10:56 am to SummerOfGeorge
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Alabama is only replacing something like 6 total starters, and the transfers coming in rank #4 in average rating per transfer.
Furthermore, they fixed a big gap on the offensive roster: the lack of a taller, big body receiver and the general lack of a 3rd starter caliber receiver in an offense that wanted to base in 3WR. Also added some quality depth with starter experience on a defense that by the metrics was one of the best Alabama's had in years and is returning most of its snaps.
Ohio State didn't buy a whole recruiting class last year. They needed a quarterback of today, a quarterback of the future, and a starting safety. They filled their needs and paid their guys already on the roster who they wanted to stick.
That is the model for success imo. I think the journeyman roster is a recipe for inconsistency in performance.
This post was edited on 1/11/25 at 10:59 am
Posted on 1/11/25 at 11:07 am to Mohican
That’s nonsense. I said “a lot”, not all, and it’s merely a suspicion without proof to back it up. Not to mention other conferences were doing it but not to a large degree.
It’s only an opinion and besides, just because you can buy a team doesn’t mean you’ll be elite. Look at TAMU under Jimbo for example.
It takes coaching and building depth and schemes as well. Buying players is simply the door charge at the casino.
It’s only an opinion and besides, just because you can buy a team doesn’t mean you’ll be elite. Look at TAMU under Jimbo for example.
It takes coaching and building depth and schemes as well. Buying players is simply the door charge at the casino.
This post was edited on 1/11/25 at 11:09 am
Posted on 1/11/25 at 11:15 am to SEC Doctor
How is that any different from last champions? Just because the money is now public doesn't mean it wasn't changing hands for the last 50+ years.
Posted on 1/11/25 at 11:19 am to Go Go Gata
Mean old Bama.
You losers need someone to blame for your poor performance.
You losers need someone to blame for your poor performance.
Posted on 1/11/25 at 11:23 am to AHM21
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LSU is too poor to not go that route.
LSU offered underwood 1.5 mill a year. They got beat by a billionaire’s horse faced gf
Posted on 1/11/25 at 11:24 am to SEC Doctor
Was always that way.
Posted on 1/11/25 at 11:24 am to SEC Doctor
It is what it is, and it’s not going back to the way it was, which was all an illusion and was doomed once this became a jillion dollar business.
Schools will either have to play the game or fold, and eventually fans will see that it’s not going back the way it was and that the playoffs are here to stay (and are about to go to 16 teams) and will stop complaining.
Schools will either have to play the game or fold, and eventually fans will see that it’s not going back the way it was and that the playoffs are here to stay (and are about to go to 16 teams) and will stop complaining.
Posted on 1/11/25 at 11:36 am to Hornady7
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OP crying like a little beech
sweet diss broseph
Posted on 1/11/25 at 12:00 pm to Syd
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1 national championship 2 SEC championships I think that’s all since 2017
Lol….. 2020. Do we really have to go into this again?
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