Vander Ploog, 2025 4 ⭐️ TE, Fullerton (Troy), CA. (DECommitted AFTER PSU PLUNGERED FISH)
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That's on UW
You'll never get it. Neither will UW
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I completely get it
You’re operating under assumptions that aren’t in play
Pay DeBoer more … sure that sounds great
Was the money there to do that?
UW doesn’t have unlimited resources
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Even if UW offered $11 million or $12 million, Alabama would have matched it. And you don't hire SEC super agent Jimmy Sexton to sign an extension and stay in the PNW.
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Just shocked. I'm stunned that Fisch blew this. Good thing I'm sitting down.
Can't wait to hear more excuses about it UW's NIL in the next press conference.
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Probably gotta win some recruiting battles you're not supposed to if you're going to take it to the next level and build through high school.
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Which means you're going to have to prioritize some NIL dollars for players that have yet to prove it through production
That's something that to my best knowledge UW has yet to do as of yet
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Ploog is too young for Fisch. And too small.
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Do we know if UW is low in NIL in this particular situation? There's a lot of reasons for a recruit like Ploog to take the Oregon route here so I would think you would have to be willing to outbid them significantly (not easy) here. Being part of a rebuild has always been a bit of a tougher sell and now you throw in another program can pay you more or even the same and it makes that an almost impossible sell unless the guy has some connection to the program.
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It's still the wild west and Phil Knight is willing to outspend anyone. IIRC, the House settlement doesn't come into play until next year and part of that is a 3rd party commission to analyze / vet NIL deals to see if they are actually what the market will actually play. Until the new rules come into place, Knight can pay recruits as much as he wants. Even if UW was willing to pay him, say, $500k as soon as he signed a deal, Knight would beat it by 50-100%.
If there's a silver lining, it's that this is as bad as NIL will get since there aren't rules yet. We can only hope that the new rules will not allow them to pay top dollar for so many portal players and recruits.
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there is no clearing house for a professional athlete to justify their nil. this seems destined for further litigation.
