Robert Wright III with the buzzer beater. BYU is going to be tough to beat in March. He's the transfer PG from Baylor who BYU funded with NIL money.

You say that like every roster isn't NIL funded

bobinator said:

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You say that like every roster isn't NIL funded

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Yeah, but BYU took it to another level, similar to TTech in football..

sincereag said:

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bobinator said:

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You say that like every roster isn't NIL funded

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Yeah, but BYU took it to another level, similar to TTech in football..

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For the record I don't think tech even has a top 10 funded roster in football.

If Tech and BYU aren't among the top spenders in NIL, then they're doing a hell of a good job finding the right players to fill out their tosters.

sincereag said:

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If Tech and BYU aren't among the top spenders in NIL, then they're doing a hell of a good job finding the right players to fill out their tosters.

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their filling up their tosters with bread!

It is interesting to me how much college coaching staffs are going to have to adapt to succeed in the present NIL free agency era.

From roster building, to roster retention, to having to coach, motivate, and develop young professionals with some substantial money in their pocket, with agent representation, who may feel like they already 'made it'….it must be a very different coaching world than it was 5 years ago, and light years different from 10 years ago.

I was thinking about Bucky, who not only has never coached at this level but is presumably now coaching some players getting paid more money to play than he has ever coached before, and how well he'll roll or not with those different challenges in a Year 1.

Or watching Pope over at Kentucky with a reported $20+ million roster - where the sum thus far has been significantly less than expectation given the parts - and the local UK media and fan talk right now that there seems to be an 'effort problem' from some of those players getting paid millions.

LSU football famously imploded this season despite a very expensive NIL roster. It one thing to have adequate money to compete, and that is certainly important. But still incredibly challenging and complicated to get a good return out of an investment in terms of a successful sports season.

Wow is Michigan rolling. And they don't have a game where they're favored by less than 13 (on Torvik) until Jan 30th

Somebody good may get them on a bad day but i don't see them losing any games . They have no holes.

I watched Florida -UConn last night . Both really good teams especially on the interior . I watched Florida earlier in the season and their guard play was not remotely as good as last yr but they are developing there . Definitely improving . They are only 5-4 but have played a meat grinder schedule to date . SEC play may be a drop off in their schedule .

The TCU loss is not great but at Arizona, Duke and essentially a home game for Connecticut are tough places to play.