Ohio State believes it needs $13 million in NIL money to keep its football roster together
My favorite quote (Cheat... but just cheat a little... not too much to get caught):
“If the speed limit’s 45 miles per hour, and you drive 45 miles per hour, a lot of people are going to pass you by,” Day said. “If you go too fast, you’re going to get pulled over.”
So that’s the middle ground Ohio State said it wants. What is that? Maybe 53 miles per hour? Maybe 57 if the weather is good and the roads are empty?
I'm simply salivating at the thought of beating them next year at their place. They might spontaneously combust. Ryan Day might start getting overtures for the NFL and consider them. There might be a seismic shift in recruiting with Cincy rising up, UM and ND on the upswing, and Mel Tucker pooping his pants mid-3rd quarter after eating a burrito from Panchero's... (i know i know it doesnt exist anymore)
Wait Panchero's closed? This is bullshit.
The real BS is East Lansing getting a Raising Cane's before Ann Arbor. If you've never had their chicken fingers and Cane's sauce, you're missing out. The two best things to come out of Baton Rouge are Fred Jackson and Raising Cane's.
Raising Canes was in Columbus when I left in 2011. Their chicken is fresh and the sauce is defintely big time, but it's not something that you HAVE to try, in my opinion. Dallas has In and Out which is a Cali staple and it's as much hype as Cane's. Throw whataburger in there while at it. I loved them when it was this noveau thing, but it's just sort of meh now that I'm too old to be buying drunken burgers at 3am.
Now, if you've not sampled the Velvet Taco franchises that are all over Texas...you in fact are missing out
The quality of chicken is way better than BK or McDonalds but the batter is subpar and the sauce is a spicy ketchup/mayonnaise mixture. Popeyes, KFC, and Chick fil A all have better overall chicken and sauce combinations. Only thing that made say the trip to Raising Cane’s wasn’t a wash was the Texas toast.
Their sauce they put on everything is gross and a deal breaker for me. I want something legit spicy that is pepper based or tomato based, not this mayo based crap.
Just a second there professor...
I live in Austin, and I like Velvet Taco but $5 a taco is approaching usury.
Ever try Torchy's Tacos, I just love 'em!
Fuego Taco in College Station is worth the drive from HTX, I can tell you. It's also the only reason to ever be in College Station.
The Raising Canes drive though by me overflows out of the parking lot, into a side street and then onto a main highway.
So I took the leap and decided to see what the fuss is all about.
If you've never had their chicken fingers and Cane's sauce, you're missing out.
Missing out on soggy, flavorless, glorified Chicken McNuggets? And artificially colored mayo passing as a "sauce". Nah. Hard pass.
Same with the shitty fries which are basically the Kroger's brand crinkle cuts you can get at the store.
The Texas toast is the only thing worth a damn.
You don't happen to live in Fort Collins do you?
And agreed, it's not worth the hype or lines. Zaxby's sauce blows it out of the water.
Longmont
Pretty sure it's still there unless it very recently closed
Wait - then im misremembering the name.
Did anyone go to school in the 90s. What was the burrito place on South U across from the chinese place and sorta next to the brown jug? it was chipotle before there was a chipotle. I didnt love it, but people made it an orientation "must go"
That was def Panchero's - and Panchero's still exists in AA. It may have moved though - not sure
Pretty obvious and I hate to say this, but unless we get our NIL shit in order, it'll get even harder and harder to beat them, or any one of the high powered NIL teams.
You're basically competing against a much higher payroll. And can you blame the players? Ryan Day says the going rate is 2mil for a top QB, 1 mil for top DE's and tackles. That's life changing money for many, especially at age 18.
I'm still happy the money is finally flowing to the actual players on the field, but this is plain capitalism. Either get with it, or you're going to be left behind, fast.
But ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh the sanctity of the block M
Even with a good coach I don't see U Cinci getting any Ohioan that OSU wants. Not in the foreseeable future, anyway.
I thought this was a foodie sub thread. Ohio comments are below!
Pancheros has not closed
Day and OSU fans want the Buckeye football team to be among college football's elites. All Day is doing is stating what will be necessary (lots and lots of $$$) going forward to get there.
I don't really have a problem with that. The current environment is what it is.
(on a side note: the unspoken expectation is definitely that Buckeye boosters go well beyond that $13MM number)
To put into comparison, Ryan Days salary next year is 9.5 million dollars.
He's saying 13 mil will keep the roster together.
Living here in Delaware Ohio (25 miles north of Columbus), take my word for it, they'll get every penny they need. OSU football is like a cult following in Ohio. Half of these crazy bastards around here would commit suicide with their beloved Suckeyes not being a top 5 or 10 CF team every year.
I don’t blame players for getting what they can, but this will ultimately ruin big time college football.
I believe that the times of the 1960's, 1970's and 1980's where players would get real degrees, not merit badges, and possibly go to law or medical school are gone forever. The NFL is big money, even if you only go from team to team. NIL is big money. While I don't agree with the changes, change is inevitable. You have to change to survive. Big cahones to jim for saying otherwise, but guess we'll see if teams that don't pay to play can make it big.
Too often you focus on the correction as the problem instead of the actual problem. In a billion dollar industry, the workers starting to share the profits is not going to ruin things. Even in the "wild wild west" Day and Harbaugh will continue to make as much as or more than all the players on offense or defense ...... combined.
Ryan Day on what it takes to keep his 'Nuts.
Can't stand Ryan Day or Ohio State, but nothing he said is a lie. At least he's being upfront about what's going on. But now that Ohio State has chimed in about NIL being the wild west, that covers all the teams everyone knows were paying recruits. The only thing is he's now pissed that 57 mph in a 45 increases tailgaters on his ass.
They also don't seem to be big fans of competing with small schools or schools like Miami, which have fanatical super-wealthy boosters.
I hate Day much less now that he is the coach that we broke the streak against. He's still very much sitting on 3rd base, but since he is very clearly beatable, I think Harbaugh is licking his chops. Especially since he game planned 2 wins over Urban that bounced the wrong way.
Exactly.
The great enemy of Michigan football in the day, but Woody Hayes is rolling over in his grave regarding NIL.
Very little if any difference between NIL and pro sports leagues before salary caps and luxury tax, etc. Yankees and other big market teams can overpay while A's are relegated to Moneyball to compete.
Their owners can afford to compete too. They choose not to.
Makes you wonder what the point is of having athletes maintain a given GPA? If it's all for the school to make money, who cares if they attend classes at all? It takes away from practice time.
The term "student-athlete" will be a thing of the past in 5 years. College football - as we knew it - sure was fun but it's on the way out
Was it "fun"? The exploited work force would disagree.
Alternatively, tOSU could send me $13 million and I promise to write nice letters to each of its players urging them to stay in Columbus.
I'd probably conclude it this way: "...also, I suggest that you think about where you can get the best education."
Surely Mr. Day and Nuckbutts would approve.
Downvoted for your use of 'tOSU'... Why? Why give them any of the respect they crave?
I know some have complained about tOSU in the past, and I may misunderstand how this disrespect thing works.
But I always thought that making fun of someone's name was disrespect of the highest order. ESPECIALLY when it's a pompously inflated name cobbled from that ungrammatically pretentious "the."
I don't understand how mocking their name is giving them respect. I know for damn sure anyone associated with that SBU (school beneath us) would consider it disrespectful.
tOSU != TOSU
How about we make it Tosu
ive called them tofu for a while. About the same consistency as their OL and their DL.
Cute but beside the point.
"Tosu" is simply flipping our (my?) use.
"TOSU" would be a problem, giving them respect by using initials that accurately reflect the pretentious title they adopted.
But "tOSU" denies them the capital-T "THE," undercutting their desperate urge to seem important.
Hard disagree. Typing out the T at all denies them nothing. They're Ohio State fans. Most of them can't read, but in your view they really think that deeply about capital letters?
Nah. They'll read that (if they can) and be like "TTUN FANS USE THE T BECAUSE WE OWN THEM," not "DISRESPEKT!!"
This is a Michigan board. We all have the mental ability to read "OSU" and work out whether it's Ohio, Oklahoma, or Oregon State. Those erstwhile amateurs in Columbus and their inbred fans can bitch and moan about how they're the only OSU, but we all know they're not and they don't deserve that title. They are, literally, AN OSU at best.
I personally like calling them Leslie Wexner and Jeffrey Epstein's "less illegal" band of high school all-stars. Because the Epstein connection to OSU (see? everybody knows who I'm talking about) go far deeper than anyone in the sports world has really mentioned.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/business/jeffrey-epstein-wexner-victorias-secret.html
Okay. I may have to bow in obeisance to the hive mind but "OSU" seems respectful to me, "tOSU" exactly the opposite.
As for the they-can't-read, I'm thinking beyond the jokes of a rivalry. The school insists on its teachers and officials using that ungrammatical "The," so a lower-case "t" annoys them.
Ungrammatical: "the school's football team" configured by their pretentious title becomes "the The Ohio State football team." It's as if they're translating badly from another language into English.
What about aOSU for AN Ohio State University?
Your points are fair and we can agree to disagree! We can have different shit-talking styles. :-)
Thank you for being gracious about our difference of opinion.
How about TOFU for The Ohio Flu University?