2026 baseball roster thread

ocalaman · Jun 23, 2025 at 7:41 PM

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The facility is an interesting point, not just to our baseball team situation, but represents another parallel in the SEC's success. Facility upgrades happened all over the conference in the last 10 years or so in large part to the TV contracts that funded coaches salary increases, stadium rebuilds, and better training facilities, the Heavener Football Center and the Condron Ballpark for one. Those TV investments have led to the SEC's dominance in so many other sports today. I'd be interested to know in sports that the SEC has a conference championship, how many NCs did SEC teams win this past season?

My point, is now that NIL and directly paying athletes is here, will the SEC start to funnel higher and higher TV contract money in other ways. As every sport eventually gets stadium upgrades, will the money players get eventually rise in other ways? The SEC will undoubtedly strive to dominate as long as possible. So where will the money take us. Amateur athletics be damned is the world we live, unfortunately.
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I don't know if you've seen this from the NCAA, but they try to take back control of the narrative and claim they will now have a Commission to oversee all of this, including NIL deals that hey say will not allow pay-to-play. That's BS because the NCAA has zero control over how private individuals and corporations invest in athletes and if they try they will lose in court. It's ALL pay to play now and I don't think there's anything they can do about it.
NCAA Revenue Sharing & NIL Estimates 2025

GatorLurker · Jun 23, 2025 at 9:32 PM

ocalaman said: ↑

I don't know if you've seen this from the NCAA, but they try to take back control of the narrative and claim they will now have a Commission to oversee all of this, including NIL deals that hey say will not allow pay-to-play. That's BS because the NCAA has zero control over how private individuals and corporations invest in athletes and if they try they will lose in court. It's ALL pay to play now and I don't think there's anything they can do about it.
NCAA Revenue Sharing & NIL Estimates 2025
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So they want it to be like it was before where they screw Cleveland State and turn a blind eye to Blue Bloods?

I miss Jerry Tarkanian.

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