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The good news is that only a couple of college teams will ever have that kind of potential for commercially-irrational financial dominance. It will be like the Dodgers and Yankees in baseball--operating in a different atmosphere than the rest of the teams (in which you avoid a soft salary cap by...

For teams that are seeking injunctive relief, you know the basic rule courts apply: one who seeks equity must do equity. Sometimes called the "unclean hands" doctrine. Since the transfer/NIL thing is, for some schools, looking to be a very dirty business, this rule of court might come into play...

We’re saying the same thing, I believe. I’m thinking how high a liquidated damages clause number could you put in a player contract that would likely deter tampering—and still be upheld by a court as not being unenforceable as excessive? I would think in Mensah’s case the amount of his two year...

The liquidated damages had to be a big number … one that will deter poaching (but still be one a court would enforce as not bring unreasonable and excessive under the circumstances). As you point out, if the liquidated damages clause is too low, it actually is just a buy-out number with a...

If the NCAA were in a better spot strength-wise, I could see a simple rule: if a school induces an athlete to breach a signed contract with another school, the tampering school's wins are disregarded (no CFP or post-season bowl permitted) for the number of seasons of the subject contract, and...

In many property value disputes, three appraisals are performed. Party A gets to name his appraiser, party B gets to name her appraiser, and the two selected appraisers pick a third appraiser. The average value of the two appraisals that are closest together is used as the final value. The value...

I think stars and rankings matter when the differences are of great magnitude; probably reliable indicators of relative football value. Five stars generally present more immediate football potential than three stars. But three stars are often simply underrated: best Gopher example is Antoine...

Check out the wins the top SEC teams are counting .... it's apples to apples.

To my mind, IU's stingy and opportunistic defense was more important than its offense in many key games.

Actually don't have many four stars, either ... I'm good with your math.

Really good question. Not really sure the irreparable harm “acknowledgement” in a kid’s contract holds up in cases of a poorly informed or misled kid. The differential in knowledge and bargaining power is quite inequitable if the kid is unrepresented. But who’s going to spend the money to...

That is what I believe. There is only so much revenue-sharing and NIL money. And it is concentrated at certain schools. It isn't unlimited. If the rich schools are spending big on 22-year-old, proven-production transfers (big $$$), they will have less to allocate for HS players that need...

Last year, Colorado went 3-9, 1-8 in its conference.

Interesting! Thank you. For those who care about this detail, I have been talking about the court/legal requirement that for a party to get a TRO it must show the court that it will suffer irreparable harm unless a contract breach were enjoined. Pompous rightly points out that Mensah, in his NIL...

After federal and Oregon taxes, more like $1.30 to 1.35 M to invest?

Might have lost those guys primarily over playing time or role on team? I think PJ was talking about straight up financial l over-bidding that couldn’t be close to matched.

Yes, a lot of good players are staying in college an extra year (at the top-paying schools) for the $$$. This is another factor clogging up the rosters of top-15 schools and pushing more 4* and higher rated 3* HS recruits to places like Minnesota. We get to see more talent. Maybe we lose some of...

Maybe one super-predator team might poach one player a year from a team that is funded at the Gophers' level (about $18M, mostly in House settlement B1G revenue sharing). The math just isn't there for wholesale poaching. The 15 or so super-predator teams have roster limits. And they already have...

Because of PJ's style, the Gophers play a lot of one score games each year. We win a few in ways that seem miraculous, and we lose a few in ways that seem to defy the natural order of the Universe. We will beat Akron and Eastern Illinois. I think we will beat Wisconsin, even though it will be...

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