Stewart Mandel
@slmandel
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Husband. Dad. I write about college football for The Athletic and talk about college football on The Audible. Tips? Compliments? Email [email protected].
Sunnyvale, CA
Joined March 2009
Hopefully more figures like this come out, bc it will be fascinating to see how different schools allocate their $20.5M.
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OK then, so we’ve established “fair market value” for a stud OL is $1.7M/yr.
NEWS: Five-star OT Felix Ojo, No. 20 in the ESPN 300, has committed to Texas Tech. His agent Derrick Shelby tells @ESPN that Ojo will join TTU on a fully guaranteed, 3-year, $5.1 million revenue share contract, believed to be one of the largest guaranteed deals in CFB history.
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24 hours later, it’s wild how many of the replies are from fans in the two conferences saying “No, we don’t want this seemingly common-sense thing.”. Mind you, it was just for fun and is never going to happen anyway.
This week, a Mailbag reader suggested a six-team conference swap that almost makes too much sense.
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RT @samcehrlich: So starting in 2030-31 FSU and Clemson can bolt for the price of one (1) Jimbo Fisher.
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Interesting. @MattBakerCFB got the finalized ACC-Clemson/FSU settlement, which lists the new, decreasing exit fees by year. But also, an interesting wrinkle if "at least six members want to leave the same sport" to join a "single sport league.".
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This week, a Mailbag reader suggested a six-team conference swap that almost makes too much sense.
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RT @BruceFeldmanCFB: New Audible: @slmandel and I dig into what we're most excited about leading into Week 1, LSU-Clemson, Ohio State: Cuse….
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In this week’s Mailbag we discuss how schools are already getting creative about exceeding the salary cap, pick apart Tony Petitti’s CFP sales pitch and more.
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Also, people in college sports seem to think they can still define for themselves what is "real" NIL vs. "fake" NIL. They're four years too late. Whatever NIL was intended to be, this is what it became due to complete lack of foresight and planning.
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It's not an "inflated" market. It's what the market has established is these players' values to their team. Which is what NIL became whether or not people liked it.
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Today in, they don't teach college econ in college athletics.
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Today is the first day in the history of college athletics that schools can pay their athletes above board.
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Believe this is his first time going on the record and acknowledging they want to start doing their own 3 vs 6 and 4 vs 5 play-in games.
Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti defends CFP proposal with 4 automatic bids for Big Ten, SEC.
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In this interview, Joel Klatt brings up a proposed CFP format of a 4-4-2.5-2.5-1-2 model where the 3rd-place Big 12 & ACC teams play one another with the winner getting a 3rd AQ. Petitti: “Send us whatever you want to send and we’ll look at it. The 5+11 or (the 4-4-2.5-2.5-1).”
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So as the House salary cap era kicks in Tuesday, the starting point is already $15M above schools’ rev share cap just for football. Best of luck to the fine folks at Deloitte in stuffing it all back in the tube.
NEW: Top football squads like Ohio State will be paid up to $35 million next season. But the amounts that star athletes are pulling in could soon crash back to earth. Here’s why:.
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RT @Bachscore: NEW: Top football squads like Ohio State will be paid up to $35 million next season. But the amounts that star athletes ar….
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I’ve been to three of their games so far with the fam and the fan engagement the team does from start to finish is just remarkable. (And no I have not yet caught a Sephora parachute.).
The Valkyries officially win for BEST PARACHUTE DROP EVER. SEPHORA GIFT CARDS?!?!?
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Notable development in Provo.
As Jake Retzlaff seeks the dismissal of a sexual assault lawsuit filed against him, his new filing could have eligibility implications for the BYU quarterback.
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RT @ChrisVannini: So what's the deal with Sacramento State?. @slmandel visited campus and @chriskamrani talked to school officials to figur….
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RT @MattBakerCFB: Sacramento State is a really, really interesting program. I enjoyed reading our look by @slmandel and @chriskamrani .abou….
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