Then at least you are doing better than Kyle.
Are you still looking for the Haulcy tweets? Because I just found this article…
This article alluded the NIL offer wasn’t mind blowing. Hmm.
With the lack of transparency in NIL nowadays, who knows.
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There is that article, there are YouTube stories, and back when we had a whole string on this topic, and one guy thought Haulcy was leaving because of the new defensive coordinator, somebody posted a tweet quoting Haulcy as saying something to the effect that he now that he was leaving he was finally going to get paid.
Implying, of course, that he was NOT getting paid adequately or as much here.
Given that, I would take any claim that we are a big NIL school with GREAT skepticism.
We didn’t even have the NIL money needed to keep our best returning defender.
It was a well publicized bidding war.
He was asking for over a million, which we obviously couldn’t match.
So you have no empirical proof either way? Hmm.
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5 of the top 7 of those S16 teams didn’t make the final four. What’s the narrative?
I agree bc bought players don’t always pan out. I’d rather us get our usual 3 star players and just a few 4 stars and good coaching like willie is doing.
Texas for ex isn’t better off under nil bc they now have to pay for the same 5 star guys
I do think nil helps the have nots more than the blue bloods bc like I said UT now had to pay for the 5 stars where as before they wanted to go there free of nil.
Rick pitino mentioned that the school name and facilities matter less bc of nil.
Nil has been around for a few yrs and we’re doing fine.
Bb was sweet 16
Football had a great yr and beat LSU
From On3 & Pete Nakos
“Houston spent over $10 million this season, and sources expect that number could jump to $13 to $15 million. A source told On3 that the Cougars are ready to spend “more than ever” in the portal, with a top guard as their primary target.”
Do you like hearing yourself talk nonsense constantly?
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Your “sources” are hilarious. You do realize that NIL figures aren’t public right? If you didn’t realize that, consider yourself informed now and quit tossing out made up info and calling it “data”.
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I was hoping he’d get there himself… but he couldn’t even cross that low, low bar.
law even with presented with black and white facts will try to keep an argument going.
Remember he did it with Indiana. He can’t help it.
There is lots of reporting on that, as you found.
Any Google Search will talk all about that.
1 million + asking price that we obviously couldn’t match.
I was correct on Indiana.
Thanks to Cuban, they had a roster budget on par with other playoff teams.
HIGHER than Bama.
On top of being a full shares B1G member.
In other words….
They had all kinds of financial advantages that we don’t.
See here:
https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/college-football-playoff-2025-nil-spending-power/
Even CBS Sports agreed that Indiana was a SOLID SPENDER among playoff teams.
The problem is I am right seemingly all the time and the people fighting me who are wrong simply won’t look at the objective proofs I provide and stand down./stand corrected.
PS. Cignetti didn’t do it alone. He had help from a sugar daddy.
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Oh no what have you done!!
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Answer: encouraged me to repost the objective facts that proved me right on an issue that HE, not I, chose to bring up again here.
The problem isn’t that I won’t admit when I am wrong as he said. It’s that the people arguing against me won’t stand corrected when I post stuff showing I am right.
As for objective proof on this issue, I already posted it.
2024 data that shows us DEAD LAST in the Big 12 and near the bottom of the P4 in NIL.
If you believe that that situation has changed, then as I said.
Post 2025 or 2026 data to the contrary. I want real numbers showing we aren’t on the lower end.
So far no one has posted it. They claim it, but as YOU say, haven’t posted any objective proof to that effect. Anecdotally signing one or two top recruits isn’t proof.
I don’t think it exists, and even if it did, I doubt it would show us anywhere near the top
But I am open to being proven wrong.
Find it, post it, and I’ll stand corrected.
So far, no one has.
My question is:
How does one explain the abject failure of investment (NIL) of so many teams? I mean, if NIL is the answer?
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Notice how your “data” says estimated? Why do you think that is?
I’m sure that it’s hard to beg it to the exact dollar and cent.
Still.
I suspect it is pretty accurate. And as I’ve said before, no one has ever posted anything better.
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The information simply isn’t out there. You have Internet bloggers who make up lists that are based on rumors or their personal estimates.
Why put so much confidence in figures that can’t be checked or verified and vary significantly from source to source?
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