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2026 Calvin Russell III

305407cane said:
No one actually thinks that’ll be the case. It’s a message board and it’s the offseason. So just sparking debate. And even if we got 105 now it doesn’t mean we can afford both. 2 five star receivers is pricy
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Who is “we”? Stop spending or “saving” other people’s money.

“We”…what a ******* joke.

We won’t lose either of these guys over money. If we don’t get them, it will be for completely different reasons.
 
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1murhurricane said:
Funny how we deflate players when we don't believe they're going to come here. Make no mistakes this kid is the goods but as someone else on the board put it more eloquently allocating resources and roster construction/management are now a big part of CFB. I hope he ends up a Cane but I am leaning towards not a Cane.
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This.

Miami could and should be allocating towards a balanced, championship level team.

Syracuse might be devoting 75% of their NIL salary budget to Russell.
 
OrangeBowlMagic said:
Not much more important in today’s game than elite outside WRs.
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True, but the challenge is if Syracuse wants to make a statement and offers him $7M a year, then we have to beat that. And then we have to give huge raises to the current WRs, or at least the projected starters. Ditto with our OL. And Bain. And others. And now you’ve set the new floor with Keys as well.

And suddenly you’re spending money that’s closer to an NFL team.
 
OrangeBowlMagic said:
And so was Jeremiah Smith. Of course it does. I’m not having this moronic discussion for the 8 billionth time. The teams who win the most sign the most elite players. It’s not that complicated. I hope they sign Russell, he’s got a chance to be really special. Thankfully the staff agrees and they’re being very aggressive with him.
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You can lose with elite talent, but you can’t win without it
 
GojiraCane said:
This.

Miami could and should be allocating towards a balanced, championship level team.

Syracuse might be devoting 75% of their NIL salary budget to Russell.
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They can't even land their hometown guy in Hampton who left to Oregon, but they are supposed to pull an even higher rated WR thats 1000 miles away in Russell
 
AtlAtty said:
My post about NIL resource allocation was actually from reading between the lines of things you have written. So let me continue to extrapolate and I’m not asking you to confirm or deny anything you can’t or don’t want to.

UM may not be willing to allocate the same resources to Russell as some other schools. And to take it a step farther, UM may not believe in allocating the level of NIL resources to the WR position as some other schools.
And before people freak out, please remember that UM simply may disagree with the valuation other teams are placing on the WR position. This happens in sports all the time.
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They'd be making a mistake to decide that the WR position is not "worth the value" in general. They'd be bucking basically every other team in College and the NFL level who had dozens of people looking into the analytics for this as well. Usually its the best bet to just look at the broader data and see how everyone is allocating their money. Sure you can be a little more/less for some positions in general, but if there is a major difference, you're likely not making the correct decision.

This is from last years NFL data and adjusted to match a $30M NIL budget... but basically this is the general breakdown of how the NFL as a whole allocated their salary cap:
Average is just the total average spend, Elite is like top 5-10 pay, starters are like the top 64 (depending on position, like Center/QB is just top 32, DT it's 64, etc), and so on...
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But anyways You could see that WR in the NFL gets basically the highest cap allocation on average. Now Obviously you have to factor in that usually teams have around 6 WRs on the roster, so 6 WRs making 12.42% of the cap vs 4 OTs making 9.63%... So the final Column shows that like the average cap % per player on roster goes: QB >> OL > WR > EDGE > DT > TE > S > CB > RB > LB...

But you can also see where how the Elite Players at the position gets allocated: QB >>> WR > DT > EDGE > OT >> CB > TE > S > iOL > LB > RB... This is how we should think about attacking 5 star talent in HS/Portal. Basically go all out for the 5 star WR/DL/OTs. They are worth the price.

Obviously having said that you can A) Determine any specific player isn't worth that value because you can have a different grade on them obviously. B) You can have a high grade and view them as worth that value and still lose the recruitment, not like other teams don't have money and good recruiters also... The Keys recruitment should be a difficult recruiting win for us compared to LSU imo. C) Some other program may view them the same as you but because they don't have traction with other recruits, could dedicate a much higher portion of their budget to obtaining that player, basically just outspending you. That's the thing - even programs that spend less on average can outspend you on any given recruit if they choose to...
 
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CIS saying Russell isn’t elite makes me think he may be the next Reggie Wayne.

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P-Tizzle said:
CIS saying Russell isn’t elite makes me think he may be the next Reggie Wayne.

For reference:

www.canesinsight.com

Mark Pope senior clips

www.canesinsight.com www.canesinsight.com

www.canesinsight.com

Freshman Friday Welcomes Mark Pope

A common theme across the country as well as for the Hurricanes over the past couple of years is that freshman can and will make an impact immediately. We can expect that trend to continue as Richt’s highly touted Storm 18 class quickly gets acclimat
www.canesinsight.com www.canesinsight.com
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This kid is elite, don’t let them fool you lol
 
Odysseus said:
Yes every situation is different and unique but we'll see soon tho
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I'm not saying you're wrong. That may very well turn out that way. Just a simple facts that not everyone has the same criteria. The same mindset the same approach. People are going to make their own choices up based on whatever is relevant to them not to y'all.
 
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