Who is the second highest paid UW player?

There's not an obvious candidate at the moment and it's kind of weird they can't fill a top slot or two with a big time portal guy because the candidates are currently:

-Kodi Greene - incoming true freshman who hasn't played a snap a position that takes the longest to develop
-Jordan Clay - incoming true freshman mid range 4* at the position which is easiest to find guys like that
-John Mills - true sophomore OL and a 3* coming out of HS
-ZRS - local midrange 4* at a very limited position in modern football who came in with a torn acl
-Colman-Brusa - local mid range 4*
-McLaughlin - their best proven returning player but more of a glue guy
-Roebuck - hasn't announced his return and assume he's negotating more

They also lost every big money guy other than Demond - Coleman, Boston, Carver Willis, Tacario Davis. Makes zero sense they can't bring in more, unless all of those guys' money is just going to Demond.
 
Yeah that’s point. In theory we should have a fair amount of money freed up. We put mostly it into the recruiting class I fear.
 
I'm thinking it went into the recruiting class which is a weird gamble. One of the college football twitter dorks had a good point that no one on a roster is more of a burden than a highly paid 5 or even worse 4* guy. They take up a ton of money and won't likely peak for years, and now they can bail or hold you hostage in two years, and you think those guys will ever take a paycut? Even if they're middling they'll go find some desperate other program to negotiate against you. It really seems like mostly building in the portal is the way to go now.
 
WoolleyDoog said:
I'm thinking it went into the recruiting class which is a weird gamble. One of the college football twitter dorks had a good point that no one on a roster is more of a burden than a highly paid 5 or even worse 4* guy. They take up a ton of money and won't likely peak for years, and now they can bail or hold you hostage in two years, and you think those guys will ever take a paycut? Even if they're middling they'll go find some desperate other program to negotiate against you. It really seems like mostly building in the portal is the way to go now.
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Tried to tell you old timers that the game changed
 
Over/under in the class that just signed, will they be on the 2028 roster? 7.5
 
Bob_C said:
Over/under in the class that just signed, will they be on the 2028 roster? 7.5
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Probably low, especially with Jedd's future uncertainty. I've seen some recent numbers on Oregon and Ohio State and the lack of guys left in some of their recent classes, but the truth is they can afford to just keep the handful of blue chip recruits who pan out, cast the rest off, and then pair them with proven guys in the portal. That's the current and future.

I don't hate having a class like UW is bringing in, especially when the top two guys are local guys, which helps them care about the program and not want to bolt, but I don't know if it helps UW break through the ceiling of upper-middle Big 10 unless they're bringing in half a dozen legit portal guys every year.
 
WoolleyDoog said:
There's not an obvious candidate at the moment and it's kind of weird they can't fill a top slot or two with a big time portal guy because the candidates are currently:

-Kodi Greene - incoming true freshman who hasn't played a snap a position that takes the longest to develop
-Jordan Clay - incoming true freshman mid range 4* at the position which is easiest to find guys like that
-John Mills - true sophomore OL and a 3* coming out of HS
-ZRS - local midrange 4* at a very limited position in modern football who came in with a torn acl
-Colman-Brusa - local mid range 4*
-McLaughlin - their best proven returning player but more of a glue guy
-Roebuck - hasn't announced his return and assume he's negotating more

They also lost every big money guy other than Demond - Coleman, Boston, Carver Willis, Tacario Davis. Makes zero sense they can't bring in more, unless all of those guys' money is just going to Demond.
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