Mississippi State University quarterback Kamario Taylor will return to play next season. Such is good news but check out the price tag. On3 Sports reports:
Kamario Taylor is finalizing a new deal to return to Mississippi State next season that will make him college football’s highest-paid quarterback, On3’s Chris Low and Pete Nakos report. The deal is worth $7.5 million and, with incentives, could climb as high as $9 million. Taylor had season-ending surgery for turf toe on Oct. 28 and has said repeatedly that he would finish his career as a Bulldog.
After a solid freshman campaign in 2025, Taylor exploded out of the gates as one of the top quarterbacks in the country in 2026. His stellar start resulted in a 4-0 start to the season for Mississippi State, which catapulted the Bulldogs to No. 16 in the AP Poll following a win over No. 19 Missouri. Rest of article.
This is simply not sustainable. It was two years ago when Bryce Underwood shocked the college football world by signing an NIL deal for $3 million a year. Now that is chump change. Progress!
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All this just for MSU to go either 5-7 or at best 6-6. Unreal
I may not be representative, but I have taken the exit ramp and am moving away from college football. One must be willfully ignorant or self-deluded to think that it is a good idea to make millions of dollars available, without conditions or guardrails, to teenagers/young people with under-developed brains.
Should have spent some of that money on offensive linemen
Just Because It's A Bad Idea, Don't mean It Won't Be A Lotta Fun...
Too much for 1 player-any player.
NFL farm teams propped up by taxpayer dollars.
Absolutely ridiculous!
The NIL and it's consequences...
Excellent comment, 1:10
Why is it madness? The players provide a product that for decades made everybody but them a ton of money. No players, no product. They should have been paid long ago. Don’t like it, don’t buy a ticket or otherwise don’t watch. Simple.
I checked out a few years back when they priced the average working family of 4 out attending games.
KF, you're exactly right in that it is not sustainable. If the reports are correct, Trinidad is making over $5 million, and next year, K1 will make $7.5 million.
Plus, most families can not afford to pay for expensive tickets, parking passes, donations to schools' NIL funds, tailgating, and travel expenses.
For decades, I bought football season tickets and made donations. However, I lost complete interest when the NIL and transfer portal took off. I doubt if I have watched a complete college football game on TV in several years.
I miss the days of watching State and Ole Miss play against other teams and each other at Memorial Stadium. Simple, but good times.
1:27 is right. They should have spent money on O-linemen.
2:09, Games at Veterans Memorial were only good for people who lived in Jackson and were not enrolled in either school, but wanted to see the game without having to travel.
In other words, Jackson games were good for the Jackson-based boosters.
As as an Ole Miss student at the time, Jackson games sucked.
They ruined college sports. Money rules everything now. And by the way, they owe SMU an apology.
You won't find any leghumper fans complaining. They would have been furious if State College let some other school pay him 7.5 million. Probably would have fired the AD. But if they don't get someone to block for him, it will be 7.5M pissed away.
There is probably more to this story than is being told, but it will save the head coach his job for another year at least.
Sure, this kid is great when he's healthy ... but what happens if he gets hurt in an early 2027 game against some weak opponent ?
7 million dollars wasted.
Should that happen, the MSU college of "Turf Grass Management" and the "School of Milk Cows" just lost at least 500 thousand bucks each.
Wholeheartedly agree with 1:10PM
Kina tells me colleges no longer need financial help. Just like in the NFL, paying one man over $60,000,000/ year! Couldn’t he squeeze by on less? I don’t blame them for taking it, but the fools paying it are nuts.
The current state of college sports is one where the governing institution is ingrained, arrogant, inconsistent, and, yes, even corrupt. Ray Charles could have seen that NIL would occur once the Supreme Court got the case. College athletic departments were becoming wealthy on the backs of 18- to 22-year-old players. Players were told they couldn't make a few bucks by appearing with local merchants, etc. Coaches' salaries are absurd, and the judiciary does not like an imbalance. So, now everyone can be rich in football, while amateur college sports die.
I blame the NCAA for 100% of this greed-driven, semi-pro athletic programs.
That is all.
RMQ
3:09 for today's win - especially his comment about the apology to SMU.
"The sky is the limit over here in Oxford. We in it for the win. Can't nobody top us....NOOOoooooo-Baddy". (You see what I did there?)
College Football is Done..the product on the field does not live up to the hype. ESPN has ruined college sports, It’s ironic that they’re pushing Wrastlin on us now along with The NBA and the WNBA…I’m OUT!
I guess Kimario’s mom can afford a new Cowbell😂
These massive college football stadiums will house Homeless people in the future
How could one organization (ncaa) screw up thing so badly. Nil and transfer portal has messed up college sports!
Two things I oppose: (1) paying college athletes to play a sport, and (2) private school vouchers. using taxpayer dollars. I will vote accordingly where I can.
Who comes up with $7.5 million to pay a kid who can’t spell.taking General Studies online at your university play for your football team? Yet, if those same donors were asked to come up with $7.5 to fund the Chemistry or English Departments, they would balk. Do cowbell ringers really think this one kid is going to finally take them to the promise land? I am not a State or Ole Miss graduate. I love college football and would love to see both of them do well. But after decades of watching State and listening to State fans, they are totally predictable. They always come up with an excuse for every shortcoming and they have terminal OMDS (Ole Miss Derangement Syndrome). Paying this kid $7.5 million may get them to the Pop Tarts Bowl next year.
Great article in USA Today about how insane it is for State to do this.The guy has 8 starts. He is 4-4 as a starter. He is 3-4 against power conference teams. He is 2-4 against SEC teams. He is yet to play a full season. Yet, he is now the second highest paid player in college football history. Will some MSU fan please respond and justify paying $7.5 million to this kid so the rest of us can understand?
I don't and I don't. Use to, but now it is simply high paid prostitution.
I can hear Larry Gillard saying, "And, all I got was a discount on some clothes."
Before some leg humper responds with a Trinidad Chambliss monetary comparison, I’ll save you the trouble. I’ll be the first to say that it also ridiculous to pay Chambliss about $6 million.
However, at least he is a proven commodity. He is 17-5 as a starter. Only regular season loss last year was to Ga. by 8 points. Got Ole Miss to CFP.. Won 2 playoff games including payback win over Ga. in Sugar Bowl victory. Missed going to National Championship game by 5 points. Two of three losses this year are to #1 and #6 team in nation. Has not missed a game since being named starter. I think MSU would dream that KT would provide a similar return on investment, ignoring how insane it is to pay these kids this kind of money.
The whole thing is insane, but what else are they going to do? The folks dragging State for paying him are the same folks that said "He'll be gone when fill-in-the-blank school pays him!" Now State has paid him and those same people are acting like its an overpay. Could it turn out to be - absolutely. But as a State fan I am comfortable saying that we will have a .01% chance of having a quarterback with his potential again any time in the near future. Its not like we have a stable of 5 stars waiting in the wings, as evidenced by the teams performance since he got injured. It could be a swing and a miss, but if we are going to swing I'm glad we're at least swinging for the fences.
The last time we wouldn't pony up the cash for a qb, he went to Auburn and won a national championship...
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