📝 Facilities and player development vs player salaries

[musso]

Looking back at the three previous signing classes (‘21, 22, 23), I could not help but notice this:

Only 4/13 total WR signees are still on the team, including only 1 surviving signee out of 9 from the ’21 and ’22 classes combined.

And only 4/14 DB signees remain on the team, including only 1 survivor out of 10 from the ’21 and ’22 classes combined.

How will top-tier athletic departments continue to justify the amount of money spent on recruiting, player development, and facilities if the centrifugal forces of immediate gratification and pay-to-play keep spreading the talent to any school offering more money and playing time? Will the athletic facility bubble finally burst, now that money is going directly to players and agents rather than to university planners, architects, contractors, etc? And is the "Built By Bama" slogan now anachronistic?

 

[Justneedme81]

Looking back at the three previous signing classes (‘21, 22, 23), I could not help but notice this:

Only 4/13 total WR signees are still on the team, including only 1 surviving signee out of 9 from the ’21 and ’22 classes combined.

And only 4/14 DB signees remain on the team, including only 1 survivor out of 10 from the ’21 and ’22 classes combined.

How will top-tier athletic departments continue to justify the amount of money spent on recruiting, player development, and facilities if the centrifugal forces of immediate gratification and pay-to-play keep spreading the talent to any school offering more money and playing time? Will the athletic facility bubble finally burst, now that money is going directly to players and agents rather than to university planners, architects, contractors, etc? And is the "Built By Bama" slogan now anachronistic?

COVID is the answer.