Money ruins everything cause everyone Will do what it takes to chase it
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I would go even further.
Itâs mostly Football thatâs getting NIL with basketball being the second.
Everything after those two sports arenât getting any NIL exposure. In fact most other sports donât even get full scholarships with exception to 1-2 players per roster.
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The whinning fans have ruined it.
UH was in football siberia from 1996 - 2015, meaning we could have won every single game during that period and we still would have NEVER sniffed the National Championship.
The move to the AAC gave us a fighters chance. We were knocking on the door in 2016 and Cincinnati broke through shortly after.
Now we are in the Big 12 and in a 12 team âwin it on the fieldâ era.
Do I think college football is ruinedâŠquite the opposite. This is the MOST exciting itâs ever been and I believe we will see new levels of parity.
Organization and development will be of Paramount importanceâŠwe need to model what the Astros did.
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I agree with you. NIL hasnât changed anything. The money was always there.
What has changed is that the college football political elite canât use the NCAA as a hammer on the upstart schools (like us) that want to play with big boys.
But we dont have the money to play the NIL game at a significant level in FB.
Agreed, but I might put a yet after your statement. Houston has a lot of money. We will see but I agree with your point.
The city has money but do we have a deep base of donors with the money to play the NIL game as other schools do?
Not yet we donât. I donât know that we have ever made a compelling case to the money that is in Houston why college football is important to the CITY of Houston. If we can make the case of WHY, the HOW is pretty easy in Houston.
Why is a national championship contending college football team important to the city of Houston? How does college football fit in the fabric of the soon to be 3rd largest city in the country?
If I have money, why is funding college football more important to the city of Houston than building a new wing at MD Anderson?
Actually, we doâŠgive it 5-10 years and youâll see we have NIL advantages that 50-75% of the other Power 4 schools wish they had.
We are in a rich state, in a rich city with BIG time donors as in our alums are some of the wealthiest in the state.
Plus, we are in a city with a ton of marketing opportunities
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Well we have to sell a good product first
We have to win championships
Put it this way the City of Houston, for all it we play better Football superiority complex have won ZERO championships in the NFL and College Football combined.
Zero for the Oilers
Zero for the Texans
Zero for the Houston Cougars
Zero for the Rice Owls.
Houston is so BAD at football, none of those 4 have ever EVEN made it to a Super Bowl or College Football Championship even!!!
The casual Football fan in Houston has NO IDEA what is in store if we make it.
On thr flip side, the Houston Cougars went to TWO championships during thr Phi Slama Jama era and not only did Houston support that squadâŠthey turned them into a National Phenomenon. Imagine the NIL possibilities for that team!
Same wirh the 2015-2016 H-Town Takeover!
I stand by my claim, the University of Houston is a top 10% NIL University once we get our house organized.
The pieces have ALWAYS been thereâŠwe just need to prove we are winners.
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ehh⊠moot argument.
Dallas Cowboys havenât been in a superbowl since 1996, and they are arguably the most profitable franchise in the NFL.
Texans are most likely reaching a superbowl within the next 5 years (could be next season honestly) with the trajectory their on.
With that said, I agree UH could be an NIL powerhouse, but we have to continue gaining more notoriety especially in football.
I wish Tilman would do more to sponsor NIL. He has the brands and money.
I think we all wish he would. At the same time who is going to replace him? We need multiple Fertittaâs. I sue hope he does after his U of H official duties.
Dallas IS Americaâs TeamâŠApples and Oranges
Correct me if Iâm wrong here, but per my understanding, as a regent and booster, Tilman is forbidden from doing NIL stuff.
Fertitta is a unicorm
Probably one of, if not THE, wealthiest booster in the state of Texas
I would imagine that a few schools, ex SWC members also have multi $Bâs benefactors. What is great about Fertitta is that he promotes U of H by its donations but aldo his public statements.
We donât have old money or generational wealth like the Horns or Aggies.
It will take many of us new money alums to donate or set up NIL funds.
Even my Aggies coworkers are fed up with NIL with all the players transferring and recruits playing the bidding war the past few years.
That #1 recruiting class they had in 2022 really put a bad experience on them going all in in NIL.
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Texas did it right. They received a lot of criticism from their boosters and fans after A&M landed that unbelievably loaded No 1 class. I remember reading the Texas AD saying that Texas fans needed a little patience and that work was underway to the set things up correctly.
Whole A&M NIL was likely running afoul of NCAA rules (such as they were!). Texas set up its collectives legally right and has been more circumspect and targeted in how it uses NIL.
But man do they have some money to throw around. Again Iâm going from memory, but I recall reading that their 1st 2 football focused collectives raised something like $200M in a few weeks.
Not sure what they have in their collectives now. They have been using it to pay players well. From memory again, but I think each other OL and DL makes a minimum of $50,000 in NIL. Bijan Robinson is reported to have made $2M in his final year at Texas. Both Manning and Ewers have close to $2M NIL deals.
I figure there are probably 8-10 schools in the whole country that can compete with that kind of NIL money.
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