Memphis getting huge NIL Deal. Congratulations Tigers

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From FedEx.

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Now they just need a coach

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Good for them. I like their blue.

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Exactly.

Until they get a new coach nothing else matters.

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Thats a lot of money. I’d be pissed if i was a shareholder.

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$5 million a year spread across football, mens and women’s bball and other sports.

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Is calling them the wildcats a joke I’m not getting?

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Lol

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One of the administrators did that, so I changed it back. Don’t know why, I had intentionally misspelled Memphis.

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You people went Mudcat

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Wow this is BIG because its only from Fedex. Imagine boosters and companies around Memphis.

Fedex has money because they slave their workers. At least UPS gave their workers a nice bump in pay.

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Nothing has changed except it is on the top of the table now.

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Probably comes from their marketing budget. They are just choosing it to use to advertise wirh the local college

Same as with a Houston area Fortune 500 using NIL $ to advertise wirh UH.

The fact we are talking about FedEx…is the whole reasib why they did it.

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The founder of FedEx is basically Memphis’ version of Tilman. So this is really nothing new. FedEx money is what got them a BE invite back in the day. Didn’t work with the B12 tho lol

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Might be less than what was under the table. Penny didn’t get all top recruits cuz he can coach.

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I’d be pissed because its a bad investment in advertising. Spending $125 per memphis alumni and god knows if the athletes will do a single commercial.
$25 mill could get you some real advertising and a lot broader base.

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25 mil but they can’t build their own basketball arena on campus…update the Liberty bowl? If they are….ignore my comment.

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So this is why FedEx costs so much more than UPS.

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If you are an investor and you didn’t know the University of Memphis and FedEx are tied at the hip then you didn’t do your due diligence in researching a company you invested in.

Same wirh Nike shareholders if they announce a NIL deal with Oregon or North Carolina…that should surprised no one.

In fact, FedEx offered money to the Big 12 to try to get Memphis into the conference.

I thought this was common knowledge

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Huge for Memphis.