here is a better suggestion, the UTAD needs to allocate whatever money is needed to be used for NIL. It should be the number one expense on the budget. I mean, you just got outbid for the number one player in the nation living in your backyard by a team that has never done anything on the football field to warrant a class like this.. That is inexcusable. Deion Sanders just got two five star players at freakin jackson state. that would have been the equivilant of Peyton Manning signing with Maryville College. the only reason a player has to go to jackson state in a normal cycle is because no one else wanted them. I was afraid from day 1 that UT would bungle the NIL when it could have been a major weapon to improve this team, and they did not let me down. From the first day this was even an idea, UTAD should have been putting in infrastructure to be on top of this, figuring out ways to get the right people in touch with the right players. but all this bunch of idiots knows how to do is fleece fans out of another $500 a seat for season tickets. if you told me that $250 of that 500 was going in to a NIL fund, I would be a lot more willing to shell out the extra money. If $250 was taken out of each of the, say, 60,000 fans who buy season tickets, you have a $15,000,000 fund to start with. But i know, if you did that, how could the UTAD executives get the big raises and take the nice trips. can't have that stuff go away, now, can we?