Oklahoma State head coach Mike Gundy got honest about how player retention works.
Anybody who follows college football understands how whonky the sport is becoming. For a casual viewer, it's becoming much, much more difficult to follow. The player movement with the transfer portal combined with demand for money wtih the arrival of NIL -- rather than picking a program based on the fit, future and education -- has changed the sport drastically.
“Player retention is based on money,” Gundy explained. “I’ll give you an example. If you’re playing on our team and we go 3-9 and right now you’re making $12,000 and we say, ‘Hey, if you come back we’ll pay you $250,000.’ What are you gonna do? Player retention is probably 90 percent built on money now. Not other things. It’s changed.”
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