Originally published at: https://pistolsfiringblog.com/report-kobe-hylton-withdrawing-from-transfer-portal/
Hylton started the Cowboys’ final eight games this past season.
Ok… welcome
Back ? I mean welcome back .
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Hmm….makes me think possibly nobody else may have been interested.
Hey champ
Hmmm… makes me think you’re illiterate.
" He took to the the portal following the blanket waiver, reportedly picking up interest from Michigan State, UNLV, Iowa State, Wake Forest and others before withdrawing from the portal."
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Just because he “picked up interest” doesn’t mean he got any offers.
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Like I said. Looks like nobody else was really interested.
Maybe NIL got involved. Who really knows.
Hehehe. Not sure how “picking up interest” translates into “possibly nobody else may have been interested”. Guess some get paid to literally troll……
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The fact he’s staying tells me that interest was slim to none.
Not necessarily. Look at the schools showing interest. Not many “southern” schools on that list. MSU could offer me a ton of money, and I would still have zero interest in spending my winters in Michigan. In the end, we’re getting a nice depth piece back. I’d rather that than us go an pick up some backup from Northwestern State to fill that slot.
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He’s exhausted all eligibility. We we’re all wrong.
Thanks for… trying ?
Always a Cowboy
I was curious if Coach Gundy had reversed his stance on not letting players return after they tested the waters. I don’t know what the right answer is in this environment. Seems like loyalty has a price tag.
I’ve wondered if any school has put together a performance based NIL system. It feels like we got stuck playing some guys because they had the biggest NIL deals, and some of them stopped playing hard because they were getting paid regardless. For others there is dubious incentive to out-perform your NIL, especially when the stars are slacking. The NFL players union has a system to reward over performers. I don’t know, just spitballing ideas to address last year’s dumpster fire.
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I disagree with this take. NIL is basically a string of 1 year contracts. Sure you could outperform the current deal, but you’ll make more on next year’s deal. The NFL, OTOH, has multi-year contracts, with rules about when they can be renegotiated. For example, even with a super bowl appearance and another conference championship appearance, Brock Purdy’s still only made $1M in salary this year.
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So you don’t think that some of our players were on the field because they had NIL deals? How would you address the issue of underperforming?
Gundy still has to be the coach. I said it during the Baylor game. If guys aren’t giving effort, you sit their butts on the bench. Period. That’s pee-wee coaching 101.
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You think NIL is effecting playing time? As in a HC is playing a guy becuase of how much money he is receiving?
Probably. It happens in the NFL all the time. Rookie QBs start that aren’t ready because the owner wants his investment on the field. I expect it’s worse in college because I don’t consider donors to be especially rational people and their feelings have to be coddled. If they shell out six figures for a player, and that player doesn’t play, you’re going to be spending time and energy placating that donor, “oh, we have a long-term plan for them,” or otherwise trying to help them rationalize that they threw all of that money–that you had to plead for with hat in hand–right into the trash. You start playing too many of the hard hat and lunch pail carrying walk-ons over the highly paid and lazy five star and your money base isn’t going to praise your ability to find and coach up hidden and rough talent, they’re going to start questioning your talent evaluation and use of their resources.
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Irrational Donors have always been around. But they arent influencing playing time in the NIL era. Those guys effect the AD’s or Administration in who they hire/fire. They arent influencing coaching decisions on playing time. This isnt the movies. Johnny Millionaire isnt strolling into practice telling Mike Gundy who should be playing QB based on the payroll. “oh we have a long-term plan for them”…thats where youre wrong. Everything now in the NIL era is on a yearly basis. Coaches/programs cant do anything in regards to “long-term” plans. You have a 1 year window with that specific payroll to win games. Then it re-sets. There are a lot of similarities between the NFL and college right now, but donors arent telling coaches who to take snaps with the 1st team. Thats a fish story
Rationally that makes sense, but humans are not rational creatures.
I never inferred that high-NIL players are dictating strategy and playing time to coaches. That’s a straw man fallacy.
What I am suggesting is an application of the sunk cost fallacy affecting the decisions of the coaches, wherein a person is reluctant to abandon a strategy or course of action because they have invested heavily in it, even when it is clear that abandonment would be more beneficial.