I get Texas at #2 and A&M at #4, but SMU #7? TT is #9
https://twitter.com/bluebloodsbias/status/1692600717981487569?s=20
Wasn’t there a TT alum who had a successful oil business that did a large NIL deal for the whole football team?
He actually worked with a group and put together a “collective” that facilitates NIL deals for several sports. That collective is why they’re top 10.
This list is suspect. No bama, lsu or Georgia?
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Cody Campbell is the guy you’re thinking of. He builds up O&G businesses and sells them.
Tech’s collective offers $25k/ea to all 120 rostered football players.
SMU’s collective offers $36k/ea to their 85 scholarship guys.
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SMU paid a whole lot more than that to Eric Dickerson & Craig James, et al…~40 years ago.
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They certainly did .
No…Bama and LSU are in very poor states with limited marketing opportunities and tons of T-shirt fans that have no money.
Look at their endowment figures…their alums just don’t have the money to give to their school.
I’ve been saying since day one…that the NIL is a game changer for UH. We should be in the top 20-25% of NIL schools.
Large rich city and state full of tons of marketing opportunities + many alums who have done very well.
I fullly expect our endowment to balloon as more alums leave something in their wills
Rich city doesn’t mean anything in this equation. We are not getting NIL deals from Fortune 1000 companies.
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Sure we are…look at all of the NIL deals the basketball team is getting. We have tons of businesses here and they ARE investing in NIL deals for UH.
Alabama just doesn’t have as many business and marketing opportunities.
Their fans are poor t-shirt fans that didn’t even attend the school
Oil money!!! Why you think theyre able to recruit better than UH in football for the last 5 years.
I can’t believe United sponsors USC the way that they do.
Mattress Mack is not a Fortune 1000 company. I don’t think TDECU is either.
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There is truth to this, but how do you explain Auburn in the top 10 and not Alabama?
The truth is, all you need is a few filthy rich BMDs who have nothing better to do with their money than support the athletic program. Lots of worthwhile charities out there. These BMDs have a special allegiance to their university. UH is trying to build that special allegiance by focusing on additional student housing and making campus life more memorable. The fact that UH is in Houston, and “there’s plenty to do in the 4th largest city” is great, but those great times are not directly attributable to UH, so as to build that special allegiance, in my opinion.
I never said “fortune 500/1000” company.
I said Houston is a rich city with TONS of marketing opportunities.
Its one of the top % cities…IN THE WORLD in number of millionaires…many of which are UH alums.
That is NOT the case in Baton Rouge…or Tuscaloosa
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Top 10 NIL collectives…
Fair enough on the F1000 but that is part of what makes it a “rich city”
The difference is that a VERY high percentage of the “millionaires” in Baton Rouge are LSU fans. Not so much with UH and Houston.
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