Hey folks - as a member of the DawgNation community, please remember to abide by simple rules of civil engagement with other members:
- Please no inappropriate usernames (remember that there may be youngsters in the room)
- Personal attacks on other community members are unacceptable, practice the good manners your mama taught you when engaging with fellow Dawg fans
- Use common sense and respect personal differences in the community: sexual and other inappropriate language or imagery, political rants and belittling the opinions of others will get your posts deleted and result in warnings and/ or banning from the forum
- 3/17/19 UPDATE -- We've updated the permissions for our "Football" and "Commit to the G" recruiting message boards. We aim to be the best free board out there and that has not changed. We do now ask that all of you good people register as a member of our forum in order to see the sugar that is falling from our skies, so to speak.
- Please no inappropriate usernames (remember that there may be youngsters in the room)
- Personal attacks on other community members are unacceptable, practice the good manners your mama taught you when engaging with fellow Dawg fans
- Use common sense and respect personal differences in the community: sexual and other inappropriate language or imagery, political rants and belittling the opinions of others will get your posts deleted and result in warnings and/ or banning from the forum
- 3/17/19 UPDATE -- We've updated the permissions for our "Football" and "Commit to the G" recruiting message boards. We aim to be the best free board out there and that has not changed. We do now ask that all of you good people register as a member of our forum in order to see the sugar that is falling from our skies, so to speak.
Options
Comments
I always spell it maconihay 🤣
@natejaws
”They are kids still, with life changing amounts of money being thrown at them, and you want them to stay committed?”
Yes. Yes I do.
“Old folks”, as you call us, and age have absolutely nothing to do with it. No one made these kids say yes to their original choice when they did.
How quickly they forget they will be "old folks" one day also..and it comes at an alarmingly fast rate lol
Well, Atkinson and Johnson, disappointing. But as it has been said on here many times, it's not official until they sign. We flip a lot of players too, one from AU this season, so I can't say too much about this flip except, when we flip someone it's usually for different reasons other than NIL money, I think.
Well said MACDAWG. Johnson was only "committed" for 2 weeks. If he was so unsure why not wait? The answer: $$$$$ Guys know if they holdout, someone with a bag will call them. That's the sleezy part of this game I don't like.
it’s not really. We are paying guys too. When we flip these guys we are playing big bully on the block too. We just aren’t coming over the top and blowing our **** like Texas or Miami has done this cycle
Texas Oil money strikes again. It is what it is and it ain't what it use to be…
Though maybe not great for this site, I'm going to use an NHL analogy. Yes, top athletes get paid a ton of money on every team, but I like to think of the Georgia culture/management like the Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers hockey team… players willing to take less (but still plenty) pay so the total payroll can be spread around to assemble a better team, reward all contributors, develop a more cohesive locker room, and make championship runs… versus other teams who pay out the **** for a few superstars. Go Dawgs!
Bottom line is coaches, AD’s, commissioners, the NCAA, agents, etc… have created these teenage monsters by stretching the so called rules of the Portal & NIL like Stretch Armstrong. They have no right to be crying about what’s happening or taking the holier than thou stance. “We build relationships”? Sure, as long as we have $40-$50 million to throw around. I certainly can’t blame the kids or the parents/guardians. If I was 17-18 yrs old & universities started throwing 7+ figures at me to sign with their program, I would be flipping like a gold medal gymnast during the Olympic floor exercise. The scary thing? If Universities like Texas are admitting to a payroll of $35-$45 million for the upcoming season, how much is truly being spent on their rosters that we don’t see? How long before we see an NFL salary cap of $279 million or more? Private equity, institutional, & corporate investments are next. You can say hello to the corresponding corporate ticket pricing & goodbye to the traditions of college football.
i think for certain guys and positions, we get a discount…others we have to pony up. I see guys like CJ Wiley and Talyn Taylor from last cycle and Jared Curtis from this cycle and see we have to pay top $ for certain guys.
This is the new reality in college football and Dawg fans better get used to it. The biggest lose to me is Atkinson, a Georgia kid, to Texas. The money has changed the calculus for kids who can play anywhere but would have stayed closer to home to play in front of their family but can now afford to fly or move their families close to them. Texas will always be able to out bid UGA and although I love Athens, having been there many times, I can definitely understand the lure of Austin for an 18 year old. UGA has to sell player development and the fact that they have the dominant program in football over the past five years and Texas hasn't won a NC since these kids were born. I'm old school and will miss the days when all this was under the table, but this is a true free market system. I definitely don't blame these kids for using their leverage in a free market system to get the most money.
”Committed” for three weeks…
Meaningless.
Scrolling top to bottom on these, it looks like somebody got their finger stuck on the vote down button 😂
At the risk of splitting hairs and belaboring my prior analogy, you absolutely have to be in the ballpark/band of top pay, but hope the players you want aren't gunning Only to be at the very top of that tier, but rather happy to be compensated beyond their wildest dreams (and make a little less than they otherwise could) while getting the very real benefits of big-time development, solid education, healthy lifestyle, tight relationships, championship rings, etc. I know the top 50 teams promise all this, but I like to think no one provides the full package better than Georgia. Go Dawgs!
Haaaaa! Funny how a comment about the responses to comments is off topic. 🤣🤣🤣