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Is Roster Budget an Excuse?
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Is Roster Budget an Excuse?

Level-setting on the state of coach expectations, as they related to roster spend in the second year of the House settlement.
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Cohost emeritus Steven Godfrey joins Richard and Alex on this episode for a discussion what the player pay market has done to coach expectations.

  • 5:07: The price of the brick (or of Jesse Legree or Kamario Taylor) goes up: What does a mid- or low-budget program do when a superstar emerges?

  • 13:47: How much longer can coaches use NIL as an excuse?

  • 22:01: Why different people in the same program will give you a different number for their roster spend

  • 32:36: If coach pay isn’t going down, what does that say about what we can reasonably expect from coaches without a ton of roster cash?

  • 43:23: Dissecting the season’s three big-budget disasters so far: Oregon, Michigan, and Texas A&M.

Producer: Anthony Vito

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