(01-24-2023 03:22 PM)chess Wrote:  

(01-24-2023 03:13 PM)bryanw1995 Wrote:  Miami is like a homeless man's Nebraska. They've both had great success on the field, but Miami's was longer ago and they've been ho hum since joining a real Conference. Nebraska has top 10 level fan engagement, Miami brags about it when they can crack the top 25% (aka top 35) in game attendance. I'll be honest, I don't get the enthusiasm some in P2 circles have with Miami, they can't buy their way back to the top anymore and they aren't big enough to build it up from the ground floor. They don't need a better Coach, or more athletic revenues, they need a miracle.

Spot on about Texas though. As much as it galls me to say it, they'd be the #1 pick.

Miami is going to love the NIL. It may be a great decade for the U.

Miami loved the NIL the same way that Saban loved the NIL before it was actually ok to do it. It's a whole lot more fun bidding on players when ND, or UCLA, or Wisconsin, or Nebraska AREN'T bidding on them. But now Miami has to openly bid against UF, FSU, Alabama, Texas, Auburn, Texas A & M, Georgia...anybody with aspirations to compete in the South. Not to mention new SEC schools like OUT who really want to make a splash as they prepare to enter the league. Good luck competing with the furniture salesmen in bama, much less the oil money in Texas.