TheRealTigerHorn

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Kentucky is outbidding a lot of people

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Question about bags: We've all heard the $30M number. Is that in addition to or including the $20M revenue share from the university?

If the former, then with a $50M total budget I would think we would be competitive.

If it's $30M including the $20M rev share, well, Texas is spending $10M on Arch and Cam alone, so I can see how we're being outbid.

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People look at Indiana, their players, and their stadium that sits 50,000 as a cinderella. They deserve it but it wont last long. Their model will be duplicated. Any team that can fit 25 Chad Baker Mazaras on the roster will win.



This has been BYU's model for 100 years.

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It's kind of lost in the Pavia Mania, but Vandy has had more grad transfers and Sr transfers than almost anyone else in the SEC the last two years. This year, 7 of their starting 11 on O and 14 of their O & D two-deep were grad students.

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He and UI just beat the frick out of Ohio State for the Big 10 title and Bama in the Rose Bowl. Who cares about the early season exhibition games all teams play.

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I was referring to 2024, not 2025. They gelled the team in '24, going 11-2 and losing to the only two teams with a pulse that they played, tOSU and ND. Take that same team to the SEC, and the record is worse.

In '25, they had a more veteran-led team with a few key xfer pieces (7 of their starting 22, one of which was Mendoza). They played only two ranked teams (Iowa and Oregon) in the regular season, which again gave them plenty of time to gel the team and pad stats. Compare that to the gauntlet that AU faced.

The problem is that the selections committee cares very much about your overall record - see Texas and Vandy for two examples from this year - who could have been one loss teams at worst against IU's schedule.

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After Curt Cignetti was hired as the Indiana football head coach, a significant number of players entered the transfer portal, with reports indicating 39 players left the program in that offseason.

This high number was part of a major roster overhaul, which also saw Indiana bring in a large number of new players via the portal. Cignetti notably brought 13 players and several coaches with him from his previous job at James Madison.

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Just keep in mind that Cignetti played something like the #60 schedule that first year. He had multiple cupcakes to gel his team against and get them playing together. Transplant that group here last year, and they're probably 8-4/7-5 IF the SEC refs let them, which is an improvement over where we were, but not what he did at Indy.

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cheaper


Its why they also have plastic oil pans.

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Wrong. Plastic oil pans are lighter, quieter, and far less leak-prone than stamped steel. The only difference is if you high center hard enough to break it. The same event would dent a steel pan badly enough to impair oil flow in a modern car because there is absolutely no margin for extra depth in the pan like there used to be (regulations at the bottom of this). Either way, the engine either shuts down immediately (holed plastic pan, oil pressure to 0) or dies slowly (dented steel pan). In the former case, you MIGHT have a shot to save the engine.

WRT to rubber belts, running the oil pump with them is far lighter duty than the rubber timing belts a lot of cars - mostly foreign - used to come with. If you change oil remotely on schedule, you should get 200k out of an oil pump belt. 99.9% of first and second owners never hit 200k.

PS - VW Group, Stellantis, Kia and Hyundai also use wet belts.

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Daddy was dirty.

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For telling a MSU booster on tape "I'm not gonna send my son where he's going to be a rented mule" ?

Did you get all your facts from that bama moron who was on the radio during that time until he got shut down because the stations were about to get sued out of business? Was it Redfish?

Harsin, and it's not close. At least Barfield brought in some talent, and Freeze brought in far more than Barfield. You have to go back before 1957 to find comparable to Harsin.

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"Oh, you graduated from Auburn, well step to the front of the line!" said no hiring manager ever. Our HR loves grads from Georgia, Alabama and Ole Miss, and says they're generally better prepared to succeed in a team environment. Unless you're building rockets or curing cancer, social skills are every bit as important as ACT scores, and there's not many people building rockets or curing cancer. If that's your bag, Georgia Tech and Emory are probably your best best. That's where the smart kids go.

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Cute. Ever heard of Tim Cook? Or Jimmy Rane? Harbert Construction?

You're just digging your hole deeper. Auburn men and women have gone into space, built successful companies, run Fortune 500 companies, and yes, we built rockets (von Braun directly credited an AU grad with enabling the success of the Saturn V's F-1 engines) and we might have some people working on curing cancer. We have more astronauts than the three schools you listed - combined. If your HR really has that preference, then they're as moronic as you are. Go ahead, dig some more.

Interesting numbers across the conference. Some observations:

1. Although Auburn has great OOS scholarships on paper, the total cost of attendance is still higher than most in-state options with NO scholarship at all. This is the case for Texans when comparing UT and ATM to AU. Some other SEC schools throw more at OOS students.

2. Texas and ATM have the state's automatic admissions criteria controlling their enrollment. They have to take the top x% of Texas HS students each year. "X" was originally 10% but now floats at around the top 5-7% for both schools.

3. Back through the 1990's, AU and Texas were screaming bargains in higher ed. I think if you could find data from the '80's and '90's, you would see larger percentages of OOS students for both. That would also be true of other schools that were bargains at the time. Texas as late as 1991 was something like $330 per semester for a full load IIRC, but it has been a long time.

4. Alabama has made a conscious effort to recruit the NE and MW as part of their drive to increase enrollment, which shows in their enrollment breakdown. Others can make the case whether that is good or bad. It is a mixed blessing at best.

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Dupree is from Philadelphia

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Yep, I remember that now. For some reason, I was thinking someplace near Bham.