NIL ruined college football

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See I’m skeptical of that.

We do indeed have some noteworthy super rich donors that support our program.

But it takes more than what we have to be an NIL powerhouse.

You need 1) a large number of wealthy donors who also 2) give enough of a fukk about sports to feed the NIL honeypot.

Stanford has plenty of #1, but apparently not so many of #2.

Schools like UT and aTm have lots of BOTH.

Not sure about UH. Seems like we have a few super wealthy donors that give very generously.

But nowhere close to the numbers of UT and aTm.

Sure wish that could change!

I agree on Bama though. Saban saw the NIL handwriting on the wall, and quickly put in his retirement papers.

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We are year WHAT in the NIL era? and tomorrow afternoon we will find our basketball team is ranked #1 in the nation.

NIL definitely works for UH when we have a winner.

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I think we will still be lagging due to the lack of old money and generational wealth among our donors.

Many of the UH first generation graduates are still building our personal wealth before donating back to UH or to NIL.

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But for how long? What I’m concerned about SEC and Big 10 using their massive financial advantages to start throwing money into MBB NIL as well.

I don’t think SEC and B1G will be happy letting the Big 12 rule MBB. Once they got CFB settled their way, they’re going to start focusing on MBB. Just you watch.

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Was it Jim Nantz that mentioned it a few years back? Since

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I don’t think this will happen. Any money spent on Basketball is money not spent on Football, which means falling behind in the arms race. In an era where the only thing that matters anymore for the P2 is the CFP and the National Championship, that effectively means opting out of national relevance in Football. Some schools – Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana – will probably take that option, but I’m skeptical that the P2 will as a whole.

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NIL can never cone from the school, or the media deal, it has to legally be independent of the University, hence a "collective "

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We should expect that the P2 will change the rules (including NIL) more into their favor over time.

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What you say would make sense if all parties had the same revenue. But with the P2 increasing the revenue gap, they can easily afford to outspend the Big 12 in football and still have plenty leftover for MBB as well. There is a lot of money to be made in MBB and the P2 aren’t going to pass that up.

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Only true currently. A proposal has been floated to let universities pay or structure NIL deals themselves.

But even with that being as it is currently, the P2 thanks to their revenue gap (already it’s looking like $30M at least) they enjoy over the others, they can steer alumni to fund more NIL and from that they can pay football and basketball players.

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The Athletic: Michigan football player offered $1.75 million to transfer (msn.com)

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Some kids need all the help they can get now because the future isn’t too bright for all. Here’s an example.

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I wonder how he passed his freshman science class.

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From Photoshop on an IBM 1960’s mainframe…

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Well…it’s ironic. By being in college, he is just taking up space

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You know what they say:

“If you can’t get your grades up, get your guns up.”

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Oh man

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The IOWA Collective is dumb if they didn’t have terms of the agreement.

I fully expect the NIL deals to get more sophisticated as we move on.

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Bottom line is we will be getting poached just like the other have not.
Bring in a 4 star like Golden, develop him for two years and boom, he gone.

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