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How much are they going to pay a kid like Norton? 10k? 5k? Is that worth uprooting yourself, making your family fly across the country or drive 10 hours every weekend to see you play Florida Atlantic or UAB? Are they transferring just for the prestige of getting paid something? I wonder how many portal kids are happy after their transfer, versus those who are delusional, and regret not "dancing with the girl that brung them"? I'll bet it's well over 50% at the G5 level. In the end you've been to 4 different schools, made no lifelong friends...just been a football mercenary, have no real university to call your own...got $12,230 total dollars in NIL money after taxes...and after their eligibility has expired still need another 21 credits to get a general studies degree. Steve Spurrier used to say - "The hardest thing about recruiting is convincing a kid that has no business going to college to come to yours." Now you just need to wave a couple bucks at them and they're yours.

I’m coming tonight & bringing 10 friends 💪😤💪

https://wvmetronews.com/2025/01/13/morgantowns-sharron-young-enjoying-the-moment-in-freshman-season-at-akron/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1nuTEBxt673uwTzKQYtSpnSPvc2W00J-pYp72x9ZEpHdF-Noqp7o_yHxw_aem_2toQ7GFvqL5pfF9L8tIqow

Edit: Added schedule to first post so it would be at the top of this thread.

When Flo Akron is bundled up on the couch with a glass of wine on a January Tuesday night binge-watching House Hunters, she's also nearly impossible to displace.

The people who are planning the bingo have to be clowns (ZAB), this school just loves to shoot itself in the foot.

And remember, Friday night's game will be up against the Al Campbell Invitational Track meet in Stile! That'll knock attendance down by about 20 people 🙃

The game is indoors.

Alright I retract my prediction about the crowd. I just saw that tonight at 7pm in the student union is the welcome back bingo event for students. Maybe the biggest student event of the spring semester. It is unbelievable how student life always seems to schedule these events at the same exact time as big time athletics events. Bud Wentz just echoed this on twitter the other day.

A big game for groce to keep his home non conference win streak alive

creative marketing sighting!

I hope you're right, but I'm skeptical. Sans last week's sparsely attended Tuesday night tilt the Zips have been out-of-sight-out-of-Ohio since early December. I fear they've slipped off Joe Akron's radar and the JAR will be 35% capacity. Friday night will be a little different...I predict 50% capacity. Regardless, two of the eight walk up tickets sold will be to GA fans who will be sitting in my reserved seats when I arrive.

According to Instagram, Zips picked up a transfer F/M from Old Dominion. Junior from Denmark, had 6 goals and 3 assists in two seasons for the Monarchs. https://www.instagram.com/p/DE0D_S3sGL9/?img_index=4&igsh=ZWhnMGRuZGdwbmxx

Coaches are running a 120+ person organization. To get paid 6 or 7 figures to do this is fair compensation.

Pul-leaze! However correct you are you run the grave risk of having this go to the Capt's head. Very risky!

This is a hall of fame level post. It totally lays out the ridiculous delusion of NIL and TP for 90% of student athletes.

Could never be reslife just saying

Having enjoyed watching his outstanding skills I would have thought he would receive P4 offers higher up the food chain. Memphis is the only offer that is respectable and they aren't P4.

Just make sure we're not getting punked and it's actually this guy. 😊

It actually couldn't mean any less if it wanted to

They are good. 104 NET. Close-ish losses to Ole Miss and TCU, wins vs Ark St and JMU. They have not been blown out by anyone like Akron has so I would presume this to be a competitive game.

This is cool

I’m sure South Florida, Memphis, and East Carolina are offering $. They supposedly have three of the bigger NIL presences in their conference. Unfortunately for us, AD has signed with an agent. So little to no chance of him returning.