Drink Wits

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Well of all the positions a coach can take on the transfer portal era of college football, this certainly is one.

You may want to hide Damon Wilson from any future press conferences, Drink.

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  3. I encourage everyone to watch the video clip and not judge solely by the one quote that’s been plucked out and put in the tweet. There’s more to it than just those one or two sentences.

    That said, one of the things he mentions is financial literacy for players. What’s stopping him from helping his players with that? As a parent, I hope I instill some of financial literacy in my kids well before they get to college, but I’ve also never had to worry about the implications of million-dollar NIL deals.

    • Great point. Wilson, unfortunately, has not received good guidance during his whole saga. If what is out there is true, it has to be frustrating as hell for Mizzou considering they supposedly gave Wilson the money to reimburse UGA and he never paid it to Georgia.

      The problem is a lot of most of these kids come from situations where no one is equipped to handle these type of financial decisions.

      • This will go on until some school or collective has the balls to sue a player and his agent to get the money back. Make the players sign a binding contract and enforce it. If they won’t do it don’t take them.

  4. More of the same paternalism coaches and administrators have spread for decades when discussing the distribution of the revenue college sports generates. He was saying, “They will spend it all on weed and tats” without saying the words weed and tats. No power 5 coach would stand for athletic staffs resisting paying market salaries with the argument that “You won’t spend the extra money wisely. ”

    Maybe Sharrone Moore teaches the universities that they should better control coaches’ spending (sarcasm.)

    Tampering may be a legitimate issue that does not need congressional legislation to solve. The universities control the NCAA. Give the NCAA the green light to investigate and punish tampering with scholarship reductions or show cause orders.
    I suspect that there is no big drive to do that, however, because everyone wants to tamper.

    • Scholarship reductions would hurt the team’s future, but the coach could be gone before the hurt sets in. Scholarship reductions also would just increase the tampering tempo…to compensate.
      Instead, punish the coach…forbid him (and any staff he may employ, even at future schools ) from contacting HS kids directly or indirectly for three years.

  5. When we complained about tampering (cough, cough … AD Mitchell … cough, cough), we were told there’s no crying from the yacht.

    When Missouri complains, it becomes a big deal.

  6. NOBODY is tampering with Missouri players, nobody can even name one. Drink is just trying to soak up a few drops from the CFP Media pool. Just watch come SEC Media Days, he’ll crow about keeping all the players nobody tried to poach as some contrived flex for the culture he’s creating.

  8. Good remarks. I noticed he wasn’t specifying one solution.

    I wish schools would create a degree program in Football or Basketball. Teach them all aspects needed to succeed in the industry of football/basketball, including financial literacy, management, nutrition, physiology, Xs and Os, public speaking, etc. Give them everything they need to succeed in that industry. It’s no different than any other industry.

    Oh, and we need contracts that bind the schools and players. If the player moves or the school doesn’t keep them on the team there should be consequences.

    • Contracts with guarantees and buyouts? Wherever would the kids get that idea from? And did Eli mention reverse coaching tampering? You know, like when ADs fly someone else’s HC in to chat during the season.

      Reform starts at the top, not the bottom. The kids are just following the examples set by the so-called adults in the room.

  9. Part of the solution will come when the IRS says we want our share of all these millions of dollars of NIL and buyouts and whatever. If Mizzou gave DW $300,000 to repay UGA and he kept the money, think the IRS doesn’t have their eyes out for Uncle Sam’s cut.

    • The IRS will go after anybody who gets paid to play. If he kept the money and didn’t report it, he’ll be playing for Federal Pin team somewhere.

  10. What is that weird thing he does with his tongue? Is that some kind of nervous habit? Or is he moving his dip of snuff around in there?

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