Thanks, Cappy. Excellent. I have to believe that in terms of recruiting areas (to the extent this is even relevant these days) the Big Ten's are as good as any. I wonder about the money game - maybe the Big Ten is late by a year or two - but if the SEC is advantaged that will end soon enough. Maybe it comes down to what you say, good coaching hires coupled with a bit of good fortune.

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Early start today. Cats leading 2-1 after 5 innings.

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Sheffielder said:

First of all, to those who are criticizing the kid for splurging...he's getting MILLIONS on top of whatever he got at Georgia. It would be a misnomer to automatically assume he hasn't already put plenty away. He probably has more in the bank working towards his retirement than I do.

Second...not that it matters, but do we think he already had a girlfriend at Miami before he transferred there?

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He's been dating Cavinder, a famous Miami athlete and instagram model/influencer, for about a year, so yeah, he already had the Miami GF in place. Their relationship is like Brady/Giselle in that in crosses the line from pure WAG tabloid fodder into a sports-business relevant power couple that touches on a lot of different parts of the sports income sphere.

This is a dumb conversation. If I had over $10 million in income by 22 and lived in Miami while dating a famous model/athlete, I'd also probably buy a lambo, and I'm EXTREMELY frugal and don't care much about cars. If he's got a million worth of chains and dropping $50k every weekend on bottle service then we can talk.

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Sheffielder said:

First of all, to those who are criticizing the kid for splurging...he's getting MILLIONS on top of whatever he got at Georgia. It would be a misnomer to automatically assume he hasn't already put plenty away. He probably has more in the bank working towards his retirement than I do.

Second...not that it matters, but do we think he already had a girlfriend at Miami before he transferred there?

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There are a lot of taxes that have to be paid in those windfalls so what he has working for him is likely a lot less. Plus at this point he likely has an agent and they take a chuck as well. And if his first expenditure as not on a good financial that doesn't take him for a ride, he may not be investing as much as you suggest, Plenty of stories about how these kind of windfalls disappear pretty quickly

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ohiovalleycat said:

Carson Beck should not have to worry about his car being stolen. At the same time, it does feel like he is misspending what could possibly be once-in-a-lifetime money. Even if it is $5 million, he should be thinking long-term as it is true there is no guarantee he is going to make it in the pros. This reminds me of a cousin who won close to $400,000 in the lottery after taxes back in the 90s. She was just in her early 40s at that time and squandered the money within a year-and-a-half. I got up one morning during summer break with a note from my Mom with $60 to go bail the cousin out of jail for getting drunk and disorderly when she was out the night before. Beck may not face a similar fate, but he need to be careful about big money going out when it is not clear that big money is going to continue coming in.

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If he got that all in one year, there would be almost $2 mill in taxes due so now the Lambo represents 10% or more of what he got, But potentially gone now so he might not have to pay for the $10k oil changes. As you say pretty dumb as it indicates that that windfall rather than being able to provide a lifetime income will more likely be gone in short order

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For the Big 10, we don't have quite the same level of success, but we have a lot more longevity.

7 of the 18 current coaches have coached their current team to their best ranking in the Kenpom era (Izzo, Painter, Cronin, Hoiberg, Pikiell, McCaffery, Collins)

7 of the 18 have coached a previous team to their best ranking (Sprinkle - Montana St., McCaffery - Siena, Musselman - Arkansas, Pikiell - Stony Brook, Underwood - Stephen F Austin, Willard - Seton Hall, May - Florida Atlantic)

12 of the 18 have coached a team to their best NCAA tourney seed (Sprinkle - Utah St., Collins - NU, McCaffery - Iowa, Siena, Musselman - Arkansas, Pikiell - Rutgers, Stony Brook, Hoiberg - Nebraska, Altman - Oregon, Creighton at the time, Underwood - Stephen F Austin, Illinois, Painter - Purdue, Southern Illinois at the time, Willard - Seton Hall, May - FAU, Izzo - MSU)

5 of the 18 have made the Final Four (Izzo - 8 times, May, Painter, Cronin, Altman - 1 time)

9 of the 18 have coached a team to the Sweet 16 or better (Izzo - 15 times, Painter - 7 times, Altman - 5 times, Cronin, Musselman - 4 times, Gard - 2 times, Hoiberg, May, Underwood - 1 time)

6 of the 18 have been a head coach for at least 20 years (Altman - 35 years, Izzo - 30 years, McCaffery - 26 years, Cronin - 22 years, Painter - 21 years, Pikiell - 20 years)

4 of the 18 have no notable positive achievements at the D1 level (Diebler - 1st full season, Woodson - 0 for NU, Johnson - likely no tourney in 4th season; first Gopher coach since Dan Monson to do that, Rhoades - broke VCU's streak of making NCAA tourney 7 years in a row

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He seems like such a great dude. I don’t think we need to worry about him leaving.