JerryAU

Bama just got a commit from the #1 Juco player WR (Malik Benson) and they got the Oklahoma kid (4* WR) Cole Adams last week I think + the portal WR's they pulled in the spring? They've addressed their WR guys so maybe they won't come heavy for English.

Yeah, ZC doesn't need to be rushed too much. He needs time to process and make solid decisions behind the line - and he'll need a solid run game to takt the pressure off.

PM wrote CBH off in February and had him fired/terminated/GONE the entire grueling week of that mess and he claimed it was "based on his sources." 😒 He has lost any connections he ever had within the athletic department, now all he has left is to regurgitate stale pablum from his past.

Really? A +$90million Arena, a lifetime contract for Bruce which ranks among the highest paid HC's in college ball and a brand new basketball-only-facility has been approved for construction. All that tells me Auburn PTB really care about basketball.

There are no rules. The transfer portal and NIL are turning college athletics upside down. The NCAA is spinning like a top with Emmeritt forced into retirement and now he's been silenced. There's no physical way to monitor stuff like this with NIL Collectives operating independent from the universities and the coaches. I did notice that quit few of the big school NIL's are comprised of lawyers (Miami/aTm) and I'd bet they're ready to throw a lawsuit on the ncaa if they try to punish a school. It's gotten comical at this point.

I'm sure the guy's just tellin the truth. 🤑💰

Could be time to cut ties? IDK, McGlynn's dang good at wheeling and dealing with the old NCAA - but the NCAA is about to be completely revamped. Emmert's been pushed into retirement and silenced since his announcement. (Hoorah!) A new group of guys will be leading the NCAA and Greg Sankey is a prominent fixture in the transition. The NCAA members schools have created a Transformation Committee (headed by Greg Sankey) and they are actually in meetings this week to review a new set of rules & guidelines ranging from coaching staff numbers to the transfer portal to new investigation procedures. For immediate consideration they are addressing the transfer portal. Supposedly - football coaches at NCAA member programs have proposed to have only 2 limited portal "windows" available for players to enter. 1st window > immediately after the regular football season has concluded and will line-up with the Dec early signing period for high school recruits. 2nd window> immediately after spring practices have concluded. The duration of the portal windows has not been released yet. But the proposal goes to the NCAA board tomorrow and is very likely to be passed. IMO having 2 short portal windows allows coaching staff's to better evaluate and manage their rosters and they'll have a better view of which holes to fill. The portal badly needs adjusting and regulating. The Transformation Committee has decided they need more time to address NIL compensation.....LOL!

Backed by parents, high school coaches, mentors, uncles, guardians AND now they have agents working the waters daily for the most lucrative NIL deals they can find. Everybody's got to get a taste.

It was a shocker and he still sticks to his guns on the subject even after the Fiasco in February faded to some extent. PTB rarely posts, and where the devil has McLoofus been?

Talk about creating curriculum opportunities!

This is historically impossible at Auburn. Nick Saban himself would not have been allowed to whip the numerous factions at Auburn into one cohesive unit all pulling in the same direction for the greater good of the school. Not happening. NIL is a year old and rumor has it our Admin (Roberts/Greene/McGlynn) are still sifting through the logistics of proper communications between the coaches & the boosters that fund NIL. Correct me if I'm wrong but we're currently running 2-3 separate NIL's right now? 1) NIL Auburn 2) The Plains NIL Club and wasn't there a 3) Friends of Auburn NIL mentioned recently?

I hope our coaches are in Greene's office everyday and if they don't get results go straight to Roberts about this. Our coaches are having to sit back and watch the rest of the conference operate, some like bandits (aTm/Tennessee/soon to be Texas) openly offering huge NIL contracts for to prospects while our guys aren't even allowed to have a voice in NIL Auburn? How the heck does NIL Auburn's administrators even know who needs to be approached for a contract? I'd hope Pearl is the squeaky wheel here - he has all the leverage and weight to push Greene & McGlynn to get this worked out. I just can't fathom what could possibly have taken this long (NIL is 12 months old) to iron out these details?

Players and recruits are allowed to have agents represent their interests for name, likeness & imagine negotiations. The fact that this idiot agent (a lawyer) just outed himself and his client and has broadcast that Miami and he claimed Florida collectives were in a bidding war for Rashada would render that kid ineligible to play. The NCAA has never changed it's rule that representatives of a school (i.e. boosters to fund NIL collectives) can have no involvement in the recruitment of prospective athletes, and that rule still holds the same weight today as it did way before NIL legislation was passed. That's why Florida had to make a public announcement rebutting Caspino's claims. It sounds like the agent has sour grapes because he was spurned by Florida's NIL so he steered his client to a more favorable Miami?

IMO a simple phone call to Greg Sankey at SEC headquarters would remedy the situation relative to our head coaches communicating with Auburn NIL. Simply ask Sankey for SEC guidelines and ask how other SEC programs are administering their lines of communication with their collectives. AND why hasn't Auburn publicized our current players NIL contracts? If a highly rated RB recruit sees that Tank Bigsby is being well taken care of then they may lean towards Auburn knowing they will be well paid once they get here.

It has changed the landscape tremendously in only 12 months. See the below comments from and Agent (California lawyer) claimed Florida had the absolute worst NIL program in existence and he'd never "steer my clients to Florida" and that his client (QB - Rashada) took an NIL pay cut to only $9million at Miami even thought Florida NIL offered him $11mill for the QB. Florida had to come out with a public announcement shooting down the agents claims.

I apologize if I go over the top in threads like this. It just chaps me that Auburn would stunt it's own growth during at time where the transfer portal & NIL are running unrestricted. If our own people choose to put up barriers with the current environment of college athletics and those same people go unchallenged by our own head coach's then something's wrong folks!

I don't think it would take CBH doing a dang thing, let Bruce or Butch voice their concern's about McGlynn throwing up compliance roadblocks and that would be enough to get this "issue" rectified. It's not difficult and all it takes a phone call to the Birmingham offices to get the most current rules and regulations regarding a school's communication procedures with their own NIL collectives. A single phone call!

Does this not have the feel of a bunch of excuses, on after another to you? Now we're hearing McGlynn has thrown up road blocks for NIL, but it's being "worked out" - when NIL has been in the works for a freaking year. It's almost July and we're being lead to believe that our coaches haven't been allowed to communicate with Auburn NIL due to Auburn compliance STILL vetting the rules for NIL. Has the Auburn Administration been sitting on their butt's all these months while other programs all around us operates in a Wild West landscape reeling in top talent but Auburn coaches can't communicate with our own people who fund NIL Auburn? Have coaches just sat back patiently, quietly and not questioned why they aren't allowed communicate with NIL boosters? This sounds so weak. Like a bunch of beta's are running this thing, operating from the backseat with no authority, initiative, strength or power whatsoever.

Being worked on by whom, AD Greene, Prez Roberts, Harsin, McGlynn? NIL has been a thing for a year now and the Auburn Administration finds itself currently working through the flow of communication between Auburn coaching staffers and the Auburn boosters that fund the NIL collective? Come on folks, it takes a phone call to NCAA or call Greg Sankey at SEC headquarters to get direction on the appropriate flow of communication. This is such

Excellent post Zeek! Our FOF while top notch is just not a major focal point because every other program has had them for years. Like you said, those things are considered normal now and don't really sway a prospect one way or the other anymore. The best way to market your NIL collective is to make big news & headlines with the deals your current players are getting. That stuff goes through social media like a wildfire and prospects know what programs take care of their players, they know what to expect once they're on campus. The fact that Auburn hasn't released the NIL contract with our highest profile elite player (Tank Bigsby) is a missed opportunity IMO. I'd hoped our Players NIL would've caught on and given us a publicity boost by now but I haven't seen much from it since it was initially announced. I believe Auburn may have the only "player directed NIL" out there, shouldn't it be getting a ton of attention?

P. Diddy just pledged $1million to Jackson State and Howard at the BET awards this weekend. Deion "Prime Time" is smiling. 😁

We've heard everything from "Auburn's NIL is fine" to "Auburn's NIL is tanking" to "Auburn's NIL collective has been revamped and is now under excellent supervision" to "Auburn Compliance is hampering Auburn's NIL efforts" ....blah blah blah. It's pretty obvious considering we do have some very good recruiters on staff, that Auburn's NIL is not currently in the same market as other programs and therefore it's not attracting top prospects even in our own State.

With NIL and the transfer portal wide open top recruits don't even know how long they will be around. A staff now has to re-recruit their own rosters daily right now, kids are jumping to the highest bidder through the portal. $$$$$ has a much louder voice than negative recruiting does these days.

A program has to be able to put OT's in the NFL or it becomes a readily available knock against the program on the recruiting trail. Fingers crossed this staff gets this thing turned around this year. 🤞

High quality olinemen have become a strange enigma for many years for Auburn. I honestly don't know what it will take to turn this thing around other than pay more NIL $$ to the big ugly's than any other program in the country?