Snowden

I’d move jobs to double my salary and currently at the best job of my life, even commute to Provo. Just sayin’.

Good for the kids who can garner such a fortune. I do wonder what the money people expect for a return on these high profile investments which are so short term and to be able to then turn around and do it again. That kind of disposable cash boggles this simple mind. School pride? Tax write offs? For Kicks? A better perch at the game? Notoriety and ego?

Let’s put tamper proof lids on them. They’ll never figure it out.

Is he valued at more than $1mil based on play? I don’t think so (but it’s not my job to decide). But if tspp wants to pay him that much they can f**k themselves in doing so

This is the reality of the current environment. Utah will flounder if we can’t compete on NIL. BYU appears to have the advantage because they’ve got a few billionaires allegedly backing them. I won’t hate on em for it. I hate the game, but can’t blame them for taking advantage of it.

This is the reality of the current environment. Utah will flounder if we can’t compete on NIL. BYU appears to have the advantage because they’ve got a few billionaires allegedly backing them. I won’t hate on em for it. I hate the game, but can’t blame them for taking advantage of it.

If this is public knowledge why isn’t there any recourse if it’s tampering?

Here’s why the extra money to go to BYU isn’t as obvious a choice as you might think

Last 20 years of Utah DBs (i.e. Snowden’s lifetime)

1. Eric Weddle, 2nd Round Pick, 14 years, 5x All-Pro, 6x Pro Bowl, 115 AV
2. Sean Smith, 2nd Round Pick, 9 years, 47 AV
3. Brice McCain, 6th Round Pick, 9 years, 21 AV
4. Robert Johnson, 5th Round Pick, 2 years, 2 AV
5. R.J. Stanford, 7th Round Pick, 4 years, 4 AV
6. Brandon Burton, 5th Round Pick, 4 years, 1 AV
7. Keith McGill, 4th Round Pick, 4 years, 4 AV
8. Eric Rowe, 2nd Round Pick, 9 years, 24 AV
9. Dominique Hatfield, UDFA, 2 years, 1 AV
10. Marcus Williams, 2nd Round Pick, 8+ years, 39+ AV
11. Brian Allen, 5th Round Pick, 4 years, 1 AV
12. Marquise Blair, 2nd Round Pick, 4 years, 2 AV
13. Jaylon Johnson, 2nd Round Pick, 5+ years, 1x+ All-Pro, 2x+ Pro Bowl, 31+ AV
14. Julian Blackmon, 3rd Round Pick, 5+ years, 22+ AV
15. Terrell Burgess, 3rd Round Pick, 4 years, 3 AV
16. Javelin Guidry, UDFA, 3 years, 2 AV
17. Clark Phillips, 4th Round Pick, 2+ years, 4+ AV
18. Cole Bishop, 2nd Round Pick, 1+ years, 2+ AV
19. Sione Vaki, 4th Round Pick, 1+ years, 1+ AV

And BYU’s last 20 years

1. Dan Sorensen, UDFA, 10 years, 23 AV
2. Kai Nacua, UDFA, 3 years, 2 AV
3. Michael Davis, UDFA, 8+ years, 28+ AV
4. Zayne Anderson, UDFA, 4+ years, 2+ AV

Now to their credit, several undrafted BYU DBs have done well, but Utah has a MUCH stronger history at the position. You have to go back to 1993 to find the last time a BYU DB was drafted.

There’s definitely positions where I’d be more inclined to trust BYU’s development. DB is most definitely not one of them. Even with Hill there, not until I see it. If it’s about my career, I’m going to trust proven results over strong hopes

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If this is true, and Utah doesn’t come close to significantly matching the BYU offer, then I don’t really see a pathway for Snowden to stay with the Utes. No one in their right mind turns down a job in the same geographical location paying double the wages UNLESS they have sincere philosophical differences with their prospective future employer.

For a guy like me, BYU could offer me a trillion dollars and I’d still tell them to go p**s up a rope because I wouldn’t feel comfortable in such an LDS-exclusive environment.

Is this story really true About Snowden?

BYU’s main objective is destroy Utah. I’ve heard stories like this before. IMO as a religious school, they’ve sold their souls to the devil for money. I believe sooner or later, what goes around comes around, usually 10 times worse. They bragged in the media all day long about their billionaire money and didn’t care that they were intentionally going out of their way to target their rivals players regardless if it seemed unethical or immoral doing it anyway with not a care in the world and denying any accusations of tampering when it clearly is just so they’re not labeled or looked at as criminals. IMO, the portal and NIL is not sustainable and will ultimately come crashing down hard and fast! Could take all of college football down with it

This is dumb.

First, the PAC 12 dissolves for money and we have to join the same conference as TSPP.

Second, we all drink the Koolaid, then go on to have two of the most painful years I can remember, filled with injuries and inexcusable coaching.

Third, we have a football landscape where just when you get to know and like a player, he is purchased out from underneath you.

Fourth, we now have to watch as our most despised rival comes into money and comes after the players we discovered, developed, and emotionally invested in.

Fifth, costs have gone up for tickets and viewing platforms.

If I have to watch TSPP rise at our expense, it may be too much for me. This is really testing my threshold for pain.

If true why didn’t he leave during the last portal? Seems like he would have been more of a priority than Tanuvasa ? Ohio St nil was at 20 mil, allegedly that’s the going rate for a natty.. 22 starting players on a team .. breaking down each position being the most important QB , rising pulled 1 to 1.5 million , give or take .. so what’s Snowden’s value ?… if 20 mil is the going rate .. which seems low in the grand scheme of stupid money being throw out there .. this number shouldn’t be impossible to obtain.. little bit of summer elbow grease should do it .. summer car washes with the sorority girls and whitts calves should get us close ..besides whit and harlan still owes back pay for the last two seasons.

Who else will they come after when spring semester ends? I doubt it will be just Snowden.

good chance this is my last year of college sports, NIL has ruined it. time to find new hobbies!

Why not go after their guys?! They want to play dirty- let’s out dirty them. Go after their biggest playmaker? Or raise the prices on their nil donors.

Utah pays market value. They have a policy of not overpaying and it not because they don’t have it. Utah’s NIL fund is in the top half of the Big12.

BYU on the other hand will way over pay to get players especially if they come from Utah.

Over paying players creates discord between players and between players and coaches and boosters.

Utah just needs to point out to Snowden he’ll make a lot more in the nfl after playing at Utah than he will after one year at byu.

BYU has zero player development and he’d be hurting his draft stock by going there. He’s stepping over dollars to pick up dimes.

I did that once in my career, wasn’t quite double but it was nearly a 70% increase, and within one year I was on the cusp of cracking 6 figures. I wasn’t even 30 years old yet, so it was pretty exciting. But after 18 months, I left to return to my prior company for a different, not nearly as good of a position for a 20% pay cut because I was f’ing miserable. Yes, I ended up better at my old company than when I left salary-wise, but it’s hard to say what would have happened had I stayed because I was never again as happy as I was before I left. Also there were opportunities that I missed out on because even after I returned to the company, I was no longer in the same line of progression. Moral of the story, at least for me, is the money was not worth the misery.

At the end of the day who cares? Give me guys who want to be a Ute! If Snowden wants to go to BYU for extra money then so be it! Snowden won’t fix their O line or D line which is by far their biggest area of need going into next year.

With or without Snowden, Utah will have a top 25 defense …

The issues for Utah falls completely on their health! If they have a healthy year i expect Utah to be in contention come November!

The issue with Utah last year was QB play … and the fact that one of Utahs captain was negotiating with our rival for more NIL. Yep, before the season even ended! Give me dudes who are bought in and want to be here!