Interesting comments by Matt Rhule on the transfer portal - the $ cost of QB's

Nov 30, 2023, 7:27 AM

I found Matt Rhule's recent comments regarding the transfer portal interesting. Apparently Nebraska is in dire need of a QB and he was asked about getting one from the transfer portal. Here is is answer:

"Make no mistake that a good quarterback in the portal costs, you know, a million to $1.5 million to $2 million right now, just so we're all on the same page," Rhule said Wednesday while discussing the state of the program with reporters. "Let's make sure we all understand what's happening. There are some teams that have $6 [million] or $7 million players playing for them."

Pretty much follows with what we all suspected is happening and wish more coaches would be transparent about the money to transfer portal connections. I'm sure a lot of players don't get paid in the portal (the non-first stringers wanting a chance to play types) but guys like Riley Leonard who entered the portal yesterday is probably looking to get paid - and who can blame the young man?

As I understand it, schools themselves (i.e. athletic dept money/State dollars etc...) are prohibited from funding NIL payments to players and that NIL funding (particularly NIL collectives) is completely reliant on donations or business ventures (i.e. advertising endorsements) outside of the university/college.

That being the case these million dollar deals on individual college players just does not seem like a long term, sustainable system to me when there is no actual monetary return on investments from these player payments to the donors or NIL collective.

People are throwing money at the NIL collectives right now because they want to essentially bribe/buy the best players they can get because of some emotional "I want my school to win" kind of motive. But eventually - doesn't reality set in and people realize that even in the rare case where millions in NIL payments to players actually results in a championship team that the emotional high only lasts so long and there is no real monetary return on your investment??

I guess what I'm getting at is that won't the "money people" propping up this NIL system eventually get tired of throwing ridiculous amounts of money into a system of player payments that never provide a real monetary return/profit? Especially after several years of tremendous "giving" and their team still fails to win anything of consequence or the particular players they are paying fail to perform??

In the pro's - owners get a monetary return on investment for the salary's they pay players - that is a sustainable system. Without there being some kind of profit/monetary return to the people actually paying the college players - how long are they going to support these $million dollar player payments?

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At what point do the money folks providing all these dollars to the NIL say it is just not a good enough return on investment to continue this craziness.

The only payback these people can get is "wins" for their preferred college team - that is pretty much the sole motivation for giving all this money to the NIL collectives since there is no monetary return from their "investment". Only a select few teams will win a conference championship and only one will win a national championship. That's pretty low odds considering the total number of teams in college football. At some point I just can't see this system of massive NIL deals continuing when the majority of these teams fail to meet the donors "win" expectations.

As we are finding out - massive amounts of money that are essentially buying a roster (looking at you A&M) by no means guarantees on field success. These big dollar people aren't stupid and I'm wondering when they will say - "this investment is not worth the meager "emotional" only returns"...

I'm glad that he was candid about this

Interesting comments by Matt Rhule on the transfer portal - the $ cost of QB's

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Sam Hartman. 2 million bucks to ND?

In a round about way - you are hitting on my point...

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I think what you'll find is it will be increasingly more likely that elite/good

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I'm glad that he was candid about this

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