There’s not a whole lot out there right now.
If you missed it, some website called College Front Office came out and published “estimated” roster valuations and it’s been making waves in social media.
Do we think there’s much of anything legitimate about this? Probably not. It seems like a lot of hand-waving to come up with “math”. I also find it highly unlikely that Austin Mack is by far and away the highest paid player on the team. But hey, it’s the offseason, we might as well argue about something.
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Isn’t this fun? It’s like all the salary cap arguments you get while being a fan of the NFL, but without any real numbers.
Now, we do have number for the coaching staff salaries.
According to financial reports submitted by the league’s schools to the NCAA and obtained by AL.com through a series of open records requests, Alabama’s football support staff spending ranked sixth in the SEC. Vanderbilt was not included due to its status as a public school, not subject to open records laws.
The Crimson Tide spent $7.2 million on its football support staff during the fiscal year, which ran from July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2025, and included the 2024 football season. That number would have ranked second in the SEC during the 2023 fiscal year, when UA spent $6.7 million and still trailed only Georgia.
This is interesting. The Tide has increased staff spending a little bit since 2023, but have dropped from 2nd to 6th in the SEC in spending. I wonder what has got so many other schools rocketing up the spending over the last two seasons?
ABC, the unofficial home of Georgia and Alabama football. Georgia has played 19 regular-season games on ABC over the past two seasons (aided by SEC Championship appearances in both seasons). Alabama was second at 18 (again, including the 2025 SEC title game). The Bulldogs were aided by playing non-conference games against Clemson and Georgia Tech, ACC teams both whose rights are also owned by ABC/ESPN. Even still, seven of Georgia’s eight regular-season conference games aired on ABC in each of the past two seasons. All nine of Alabama’s SEC games aired on ABC in 2025, plus non-conference games at Florida State and home against Wisconsin. The Tide also played a road game that aired in Fox’s “Big Noon” window at Wisconsin in 2024.
We’ve been fully Disney-fied.
The University of Florida is one step closer to having a permanent university president after the search committee announced its pick following a months-long search.
The UF Presidential Search Committee announced it had selected Dr. Stuart Bell as the sole finalist for the next president of the university. The nominee must also be approved by the UF Board of Trustees and the Florida Board of Governors.
Bell most recently served as the President of the University of Alabama for 10 years.
“The Search Committee has put forth a candidate whose academic achievements and experience at a flagship state university makes him the obvious choice to lead UF going forward,” said Mori Hosseini, Chair of the UF Board of Trustees. “I fully support the committee’s unanimous recommendation.”
Congrats to Stuart Bell for landing a new gig after his decade at Alabama.
Congrats to Germie! The Steelers really got a good one.
In the legal filing, Sorsby admitted he previously gambled on his own team, but only did so with pro-Hoosiers bets and did not specify whether any wager on Indiana or college football ever exceeded that $50 amount.
“I rationalized placing those bets as a way to feel more connected to the team, to root for my friends, and to feel like I had a real ‘stake’ in the games that I otherwise was not involved in,” Sorsby said in the affidavit.
Sorsby did say he lost most of his bets, due to 2022 Indiana not being a “strong competitor,” and all of the bets were in favor of Hoosiers sports. He also clarified he did not place bets when he was part of the dressed team, only doing so as a scout team member without knowledge of the team’s gameplan, per the Lubbock Avalanche Journal, part of the USA TODAY Network.
“… I began placing small bets on the Indiana football team, typically in amounts between $5 and $50,” he wrote. “All of these bets were in support of Indiana. In other words, I placed bets on Indiana to win a game or score more than a certain number of points or for the quarterback to throw for more than a certain number of touchdowns or yards.”
Well… I suppose that’s one way to argue to try to get the NCAA to give some lenience. Sorsby has now sued the NCAA to try to get reinstated. And his main argument is that his team was just bad and he was always betting they’d be good.
