Shelton resigns, cites lack of NIL resources

If a person were to know Shelton, it'd be very interesting to hear off the record comments on just how much he was hearing about $$$ from potential recruits. I'd bet with the 4 and 5 star kids it is quite common, and a school with our 30+ year reputation is going to have a tough time talking a kid into coming here, especially now that "payment" agreements are legal.

What will be curious will be to see if OSU might be able to step up on this.  About 15/17 years ago Hawaii's Colt Brennan came out with heavy facilities criticism after a record year.  Locals (I lived there then) were stunned and there was outrage that the University wouldn't step forward.  I think his message got them soap in the showers and maybe laundry service for the gear.  www.espn.com/college-football/news/story?id=2860712

On piece of advice I got early in my career when I was going to make a job change that I have since given to people switching jobs is "make your departure classy" - don't say or do anything that could come back to haunt you, it's a small world, paths cross more often than one thinks. The coaching community is small, and I suspect this advice would apply in the coaching field of endeavor as well. I don't know if Shelton followed this advice. He could have gushed about the mountains in Colorado or something and left it at that....

Also, the NIL is altering the collegiate athletics landscape in ways that eliminate many avenues for me to relate to the athletes competing on behalf of my school....."they *wanted* to come to OSU and be a Beaver", "oh, they are majoring in CS also!", "oh, they are sitting in Valley Library cramming for finals just like I did". Harder for me to relate to "oh, they are here because the NIL was favorable". If some reform doesn't occur, I suspect my interest in college ball will wane (it already is).

Interesting times now, and ahead.
Go Beavers!

Or making a complaint about an issue many schools have might have been the classy option if he wanted to get out of here? It's an obvious issue the athletic department has to deal with and many people's heads are buried in the sand. He really didn't talk bad about any part of the athletic department, coaching staff or players. Maybe it's his attempt at doing something "productive" on the way out.

Hopefully there is significant reform, it might be even more difficult for OSU to match recruiting and retention with the wealthier schools who are utilizing NIL to it's fullest if not.

Really! If we can't pay the kids, how do we pay your greatest of all time coach? NIL will be the disintegration and downfall of college sports, especially of the non big daddy schools. The Daddy Warbucks like Nike U. USUC, Notre Dame and the like will be left standing, playing in a national conference of about 20 schools.  Like everything else, the road of good intentions is littered with pot holes.. The truth of this is disheartening to all who still like the somewhat level playing field of college sports.

I was all for NIL, and still am to a lesser extent, but my thought was that players could earn money marketing themselves for endorsement. i envisioned that players like Damien Martinez could, for example, endorse a car company for a free car and cash or get a paycheck if a video game used players' NIL.

I was naive, to say the least, to not think that it was going to instantly morph into a pay-for-recruits program.

I’m replying mainly to get closer to sophomore status by football season. Tim wasn’t as smart/shrewd as he coulda/ shoulda been. Hard to recruit in the PAC, esp w/ NIL. Work harder, dude!