Mestemaker is putting up incredible numbers at North Texas. I have just seen the highlights, but I have not watched a full game. He is only a RS Freshman. He is probably going to fetch big money in the portal. I would love to see Northwestern take a run at him. Walerius has ties to UNT, it would be sweet if that connection could pay off. With our struggles at the QB since Thorson left, I would like to see as much competition in the QB room as possible. Anyone seen him play?
Drew Mestemaker and UNT
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Good luck with that. I heard a rumor that Indiana has already offered wheelbarrow of $$$ to him.
Im not against it, but the Ryan family we need to open their pockets to sign one of these seven figure QBs.
That would be illegal because no contact is allowed until the player is in the portal.
If a private individual wants to offer him $$$ for use of his name, image, and/or likeness, what's the problem?
According to google,
Yes, a private individual can offer an athlete NIL money, but it is illegal for that offer to be a
recruiting inducement.
That’s really odd, because I was told on another thread that our big ten peers (I.e. non blue bloods) weren’t engaging significantly in NIL beyond the base level rev share. Someone should get on the phone to let Indy know that big ten teams aren’t doing that!
Oh Google said that, did they? Then it must be true.
I'm sure there's nothing on paper that ties a NIL deal to the school they're expected to attend. And some players have taken a NIL deal, then "sat themselves" due to "injury" to preserve a year of eligibility, then transfer to another school for another NIL deal. They don't have to give back their NIL money.
I’m just saying that it’s not legal to contact a player who is not in the portal, in order to persuade him to transfer. How well this is being enforced, I have no idea.
I genuinely laughed when I read this comment because I thought you were making a joke about it, then i read your other comments. Nobody, and I mean nobody at any level, pays even the slightest attention to this rule in any way that makes a functional difference.
Eric Morris article (free) from ESPN. Didn't know about his influence on Cam Ward. I would have snapped him up if I were Penn State or Florida but I guess only Okie St was interested?
www.espn.com
North Texas' Eric Morris and Drew Mestemaker aren't worried about the future yet
Eric Morris has tutored QBs from Patrick Mahomes to Cam Ward and John Mateer. How he mentors them is key to their successes and his.
www.espn.com
UConn football has been one of the worst programs in the country for decades (on top of being saddled with a basketball program that very much can’t move to another big conference) and Mora making it actually decent is why he’s getting a better job. Note thay Colorado State is an upgrade. UConn is not remotely a major conference program.
If conferences made any geographic sense anymore it’s too bad the Big East football conference no longer exists. For both football and basketball they could have a conference with Syracuse, Pitt, U Conn, Rutgers, BC, Temple maybe even Va Tech, and could have basketball members Gtown, Villanova etc.
I don’t disagree categorically, but I’m too busy being grateful NU ended up on the winning team in realignment - and hopeful we properly leverage this into a strong position - to be upset about how realignment went. We won.