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BB RECRUITING Class of 2025 Board

For the women's 2025 recruiting ratings I see there are plenty of top 25 player ratings, but very few team rankings. Would like to see how the Lady Raiders recruiting class shows nationally, especially with the addition of Dominguez.
Wish player or team rankings would expand beyond a top 25 listing. Like to see a top 50.
Very easy to place a team in the top 10 because they get one 5 star player.
I wish there was an outlet that ranked wbb recruits like that. Even ESPN only does top 100
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BB RECRUITING Class of 2025 Board

For the women's 2025 recruiting ratings I see there are plenty of top 25 player ratings, but very few team rankings. Would like to see how the Lady Raiders recruiting class shows nationally, especially with the addition of Dominguez.
Wish player or team rankings would expand beyond a top 25 listing. Like to see a top 50.
Very easy to place a team in the top 10 because they get one 5 star player.
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Reactions: MTOleBlue

UNLV NIL Fiasco

Our athletic budget in 2023 was 40.8 million. The median FBS budget was 83.6 million.

We are not competitive with the top 1/2 of FBS. We are not competitive in NIL.

This NIL story demonstrates how messed up this system is and how MT won’t be successful in this system, especially with M&M in charge for at least a few more years.

We have to subsidize 2/3 of our athletic budget with student fees school funding. This is just to remain not competitive FBS. The worst budget in the SEC, Mississippi State, subsidized their budget with $0 from student fees and school funds.

There’s no way a reasonable person can look at the budget and results then say our it’s worth it or our “leadership” is meeting their fiduciary responsibility.

We had a narrow path to success to make the FBS move make sense and we let M&M pilot the ship.

We are not with the P4. Why subsidize at this rate to stay in the G6?

We should drop back to FCS for football, cut our subsidizes significantly and refocuses our resources where we can be competitive.

UNLV NIL Fiasco

Failing for who? Small G5 programs that don't turn a profit? If so, I agree. That's the result of a free market. There are always market corrections, and they are typically drastic. End of the day, money always wins. As an MT alum and fan, it burns, but we missed our chance. Simple as that.

As far as being "not smart enough", he is smart enough to cash in while he can. Optically, it's not a great look, but another school is going to pay him. He will have over 100k reasons to not care about the optics. Like it or not, he is maximizing his earnings window. He will be the first of many to do this.

These TV contracts changed the business model. I don't have a problem with players cashing in. They are the product. Coaches have made a career of out leaving for more $, why can't players? Because of loyalty to the school? That's just not the real world anymore.

I realize I'm in the extreme minority, but this is why I just don't see the ROI in investing in G5 football anymore. We are steam rolling forward into just being glorified minor league football. Any P5 talent we get will leave as soon as a more lucrative offer comes along. It's almost impossible for us, or similar schools, to be relevant on a national scale.

IMO, we need to be the Butler or Wichita St of the southeast. Be a national player in basketball and baseball. Again, I realize I'm in the minority. Just feels like we are spitting in the wind on this, and it's only going to get worse.

I 100% agree and I’ve said the same things for quite a while now. Just put the football program out of its misery and focus on basketball. Fire McPhee, then Steve smith, then McDevitt. Find new basketball coach, maybe a new AD. Then just go all in on basketball. It’s our only chance.

I have no interest in being a glorified JUCO program. I don’t want to watch our best players leave every year and we get Rutgers 3rd stringers in return. Sorry, not interested.

I don’t care if another division is made for us or not. I still don’t want our best players leaving every off season. Imagine if Richie James, Kevin byard, reed blankenship, Kerry wright, dwone hicks, etc. all just left after their break out years. Not only would that have royally sucked, but imagine how much worse our teams would have been.

Who the hell wants to your best players leave every off season? In what other sport does that even happen? Every other sport that I’m aware the star players get long contracts and are usually there a long time. Might get traded but then that team gets a star or good draft capital in return.

CFB has lost its way and it’s simply untenable for G5s and only going to get worse as more and more money floods into the sport. I don’t understand how any G5 fans/followers are enjoying this
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