Caleb Williams is USC's quarterback of the future. But when he was still in high school, his father was already thinking about the imminent arrival of an endorsement-fueled college game:
So Carl and his business partners, who together own a D.C. area gym, sketched out their own plans with Caleb’s help while he was still a junior in high school. They compiled lists of brands, built pitch decks and wrote mission statements, all geared toward not only maximizing Caleb’s marketability but keeping him “above the chaos” they expected was inevitable when pay restrictions finally lifted.
Pitch decks? Mission statements?
Mind you, Caleb played a grand total of seven regular season college games while he was a freshman at Oklahoma last year and compiled a 5-2 record. He hasn't so much as taken a single snap as USC's quarterback.
There's nothing wrong with an entrepreneurial earnestness and drive. If he fails, then so be it. Why knock a kid and his father for striving to make the most of their opportunities?
As for his talent, he already knows Riley's system and he was on a couple of freshman all-American lists at the end of the season after ending 4th in total QBR. Bonus: He beat Oregon.
I assume you are the AODA counselor who will be billing Caleb Williams's OBUMMERCARE exchange health insurance policy for treatment in ten years (tops).
I'm more curious why schools that has not won the Conference Championship since 2017 or since 1998 think they will do better in another Conference.
USC, UCLA: $28M --> $100M (in a couple of years) in annual media income.
Can someone explain which PAC-12 school(s) wouldn't take that deal if the opportunity was presented to every PAC-12 school?
To finish fourth or fifth or lower in Conference.
A wealthy losing program is still a losing program.
Or in other words: "LOSERS"
Can't answer the question, can you?
Also, I guess you think lowly of Texas and Oklahoma for leaving the Big-12 for the SEC, eh?
More cannon fodder for Alabama.
It’s the money.
Like $100 million versus $25 million.
Name, image, & likeness rights are an overall win for the athletics participant matriculants, but that doesn't mean that we won't still see situations play out like ex-Columbus Blue Jacket Jack Johnson or ex-USC Trojan Todd Marinovich. In fact, with more money in play earlier, it's almost certain.
Marv Marinovich was a profit & I think you ought to listen to him.
"profit"
intentional?
Such a nice guy, Marv was. /S
Richard Williams, father of Serena and Venus, was said to have come up with an 85-page plan for their tennis stardom before they were old enough to go to elementary school.
Richard was not as physically violent as Marv, though.
More emotionally, intellectually, & psychologically manipulative, like a stage parent. He is lucky none of his kids ended up like Judy Garland.
jack johnson just had his name inscribed on the stanley cup.
Do his parents still pocket his playoff bonus?
Well, if he ever hopes to buy a house, he better cash in early.
I do feel sorry for all the guys who are ruining their brains, knees, necks, and shoulders and won't get a dime out of the NIL process, or a dime from the schools or the millionaire coaches who send them out on the field to be damaged. Most of them never will have a chance to cash in at any level (except to get an education, perhaps, for those who actually attend class).
There's always OnlyFans.
And yet, people discount the likelihood that reasonably promising teenage male athletes and their dads will draw up similar plans to hit the bigtime in women's pro sports.
Like Brittney Griner.
Look how she's thriving in the big money world of women's pro sport.
Certainly. Of course they don’t have to be overly complicated. “Ka-ching!” will often suffice.
Re: Williams’ so-far-meager career. If he doesn’t become big in the future, he can still cash in as a “USC player.” USC is the brand, not Caleb Williams (until he does become big). I forget, can they wear school uniforms in ads and such?
The Matt Cassell Theory.
This guy played in 11 of his team's 13 games as a freshman quarterback, and he played very well. The post makes it seem like this player is a nobody, which is very far from true.
He's the new Cody Kessler.
Kessler redshirted, then threw two passes the next year, then threw 20 TDs as a full-time starter the next year. This guy threw 21 TDs as a true freshman even though he won the starting job a few games into the season. Williams is more like Darnold, Barkley, Leinart, and Palmer.