AA Confirmed to be back 2026-2027

[spiderinsider]

Just heard that he’s going to be back. Commanded enormous sum, but fought off Creighton who offered 900.

 

[Eight Legger]

Glad we could match a $900 offer. I would have kicked in $50 myself to put us over the top. Hopefully two of his conditions to return were a new coaching staff and band.

 

[*23*]

Conditions:
1. 850K. Home team discount.
2. No mooney
3. Change colors to black and gold and cut down 80% of trees on campus and more asphalt.
4. No Hardt
5. No weave
6. No guarding players 6' 8.5 " or taller
7. Fire 23
8 New fans

 

[Spider17]

I have no idea if spiderinsider is legit or not. I asked this account several questions and never got a response, even a response saying “I don’t know” or “don’t want to disclose that info”.

However, if AA did get paid $900K for next year, as much as I love what he’s done for our team and think he has the potential to be a fantastic player, we are grossly overpaying him by $400-500K. Even with an increase in our payroll this upcoming season, we still need to spend it wisely.

If this is true, part of me thinks we overspent to keep AA to save face because it would’ve been a terrible look for us to have kept Mooney and then have our best player transfer in what will practically be a complete rebuild next season.

 

[Spiders4ever]

Uh huh. Sure

 

[Section9_RowD]

I have no idea if spiderinsider is legit or not. I asked this account several questions and never got a response, even a response saying “I don’t know” or “don’t want to disclose that info”.

However, if AA did get paid $900K for next year, as much as I love what he’s done for our team and think he has the potential to be a fantastic player, we are grossly overpaying him by $400-500K. Even with an increase in our payroll this upcoming season, we still need to spend it wisely.

If this is true, part of me thinks we overspent to keep AA to save face because it would’ve been a terrible look for us to have kept Mooney and then have our best player transfer in what will practically be a complete rebuild next season.

Hope it is true - and for me with this crazy current model, he should get compensated for what the market dictates. Just read that High Point had something like 4M NIL to work with this year and hope we are at least at that level next year. And if so, would think that our best returning player getting 25% of so of that pot is reasonable.

 

[Spider17]

Hope it is true - and for me with this crazy current model, he should get compensated for what the market dictates. Just read that High Point had something like 4M NIL to work with this year and hope we are at least at that level next year. And if so, would think that our best returning player getting 25% of so of that pot is reasonable.

I don’t know the intricacies of the NIL market and all that goes behind it. Of course, someone’s value will be whatever a team is willing to offer. A player being good for a team is also relative and dependent on the expectations they have for the player. Maybe Creighton offered that much because they wanted a back-up PG and we offered that because we know he’s going to be a starter and the impact he has on our team will be greater than on Creighton.

All I’m saying is jeez, if AA is getting $900K from us, we are either greatly overspending or this is just how the market will be now for good players and getting great players will be even significantly more.

I don’t know the exact number but let’s say we are operating with $4 million. That $4 million needs to be distributed among the entire roster with maybe 75% of that going to the starting line up and like 90% going to the top 8 players. For $900K at the A10 level, we need to be getting 1st team all conference kind of production.