Re: How much is a 5 star recruit these days nil wise

Ga Tyger · 2024-11-25T03:04:43.253Z

Anyone know? QB going for what 8 million for 4 years? How is the deal structured? How about OL like Sanders at UT what is his nil worth? 5 million? What about a 4 star are they at 1 million a year???? Anybody in the know on nil drop some knowledge in this post. TIA

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Nov 25, 2024, 6:54 AM

I agree, but that's the market nowadays, and that's what you have to pony up to sign those players.

Let's say you need your house painted, but so does everyone else in your neighborhood. You think $15 an hour is fair, but all your neighbors are willing to pay $25 an hour. You can ##### and moan all you want that $25 an hour is too much, but those painters are going to work for the people paying $25. You can think it's ridiculous, but at the end of the year, you're not going to have your house painted.

It is no different here. The price of a top safety is apparently $350k nowadays. I think that's a lot, but we have to pay it if we want those players. The alternative is to go after 2 stars and 3 stars who are worth a lot less money, and hope we can find players that all other coaches and recruiting services were wrong about. I'll tell you that that's incredibly unlikely and that other than Renfrow and to a smaller extent Etienne, all of our stars during our dominant streak were blue chip recruits.

I don't buy into the "unproven" argument. Dabo and his staff receive about $20 million dollars. They better be able to evaluate high school talent to figure out which of these players are good and which are not.

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When you pay David Sanders 1 million per year, the other starters on the offensive line want 1 million apiece. Then the second string guys want pretty serious money cause there’s a 50-50 chance David Sanders doesn’t start a lot of games for UT this coming year.

Then the starting D linemen want 1 million apiece. They don’t want to get paid 200,000 a year when they’re going up against a guy in practice every day that’s getting 1 million a year; that wouldn’t make sense.

So you could end up spending 9 million per year for five starting offensive lineman and four starting defensive lineman. Then you gotta have some depth also.

Then you gotta have some difficult conversations when the four-star lineman doesn’t turn out as expected and the three star lineman turns out to be a stud. Gotta adjust their pay.

How much is a 5 star recruit these days nil wise