Off-Season News

It's being reported that Beck's NIL deal at Miami will be $4m.

His deal for 2024 at UGA was closer to $1.5m.

He had additional deals at UGA that brought his total earnings close to $4m, but those were outside if the official university source. At Miami he will have those same outside deals so no matter how you slice it, the Miami deal will be much more financially lucrative. 

My thought on this is that this is just another gross example of where college football is right now. Beck was well aware of his draft evaluation before he ever declared for the draft - that’s why you pay an agent who is going to confer with numerous NFL sources/scouts/draft management, etc. to tell you where you are forecast to go in the NFL draft. Beck absolutely knew this when he declared, but I guarantee you that just like Cam Ward, he never had any intention of going the NFL. It wasn’t a “he realized he wasn’t good enough.” He was well aware that he was projected to go late 2nd, early 3rd round pick after being a pre-season top 5 projection. The move was to declare, then have schools come running at him with NIL offers, and that’s exactly what happened.

The NFL salary for a 3rd round pick is $5.5M over 4 years with a $1.26M signing bonus. So the options were - go to the NFL where Beck at best would have been a very late 2nd round pick or realistically, 3rd round pick and make $5.5M over four years, or he could go to Miami where they offer him $6M for one season, air it out in an ACC offense against cupcake ACC defenses for a season, up his draft stock and get back in the top 10? This is a no-brainer for Beck.

Beck leaves UGA as a 24-3 starter, an SEC Champion, and one of the better QBs we have had in our history. Does he earn the title DGD in your book?

The reality check is this, and why I'm not that upset over this move (nor do I really blame Beck): Beck is not the future at UGA anymore with his 1 year of covid eligibility remaining on a team that needs to do an offensive overhaul. If Beck returned, no doubt Stockton and maybe Puglisi enter the portal. Everyone knew this, and the decision was made at UGA for Beck to move on. Its just business now, and the business end of things swings both ways.

Its time to turn the page to the future.

As a side note: I'm eagerly awaiting the offseason news that Stacy Searels has entered the portal and we've offered Matt Luke a sweet NIL deal to come back to Athens.

To be honest, I don't know about the DGD title for Beck.

That's a high on and off the field standard for me, and I'm on the fence about it with him.

I don't believe I have ever used the phrase when talking about him, and NIL along with the transfer portal have given me a different perspective on things.

It's going to be tough for me to be thinking DGD when the announcement at the draft goes "Carson Beck, QB, MIAMI".

Trevor Etienne has reversed his position and declared for the NFL draft.

Oscar Delp will be returning for his senior season.