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ChattaTNVol said:
On NIL -

Sankey has said, “what we’re seeing is straight pay for play.”

Kirby Smart has said, “recruits are going to the highest bidders.”

Saban has said schools are paying for their entire teams.

Spyre Sports told the Athletic in February that NIL deals are up there at the top among considerations recruits are looking at in choosing where they will sign.

Elite player for years have openly stated in their recruiting process that where they end up is a business decision.

It was reported that Jordan Addison was offered around $3.5 million and the use of a luxury home if he ended up at USC.

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NIL isn’t really all that big of a deal and obviously the reports noted above back up that assertion. /snark

Saban is whining because by his own admission last year he only had $3 million in NIL opportunities to offer his team. Alabama is a broke-ass state. If prices rise too much they are not going to be able to compete.

There’s not a single billionaire in the entire state of Alabama, same for Mississippi, so you know where Kiffin is coming from. For Ultra-High Net Worth households in the state (>$30 million wealth), Alabama and Mississippi are at the very bottom of the conference and they have to compete in state with Auburn and Mississippi State, as a minimum. Alabama and Mississippi also have the lowest number of millionaires by state in the conference, by a long shot.

In contrast, Tennessee has at least 10 billionaires and over 3 times as many UHNW households and twice the number of millionaires and Vandy hasn’t yet offered any real instate competition from a NIL perspective.

Back in the day, Tennessee had a tremendous advantage in recruiting because we were among the very few with the absolute best facilities. Then we had a facilities arms race and a lot of schools now have elite facilities. NIL is the new arms race.

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engineerVOL said:
Is Lawson entering draft? And I do wonder what Steenstra does… hopefully he can stay on with us and win that 3B job.
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I would guess Lawson leaves, although not a guarantee. Steenstra has already graduated and while he could stay, he won’t factor into who they bring in. TV has shown that he will keep bringing guys in.
 
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Dudley Smith said:
Exactly. Or just focus on Saban’s hypocrisy and disingenuousness when he says he is worried about parity. Saban is absolutely worried about losing his competitive advantage in recruiting because he know the Bama network won’t be able to keep up under the new system. Saban is like the local bookie complaining about the casino with the legal sportsbook that opened up across town. Instead Jimbo has to go all “I never lie and I never cheat” and all these fine young men just came to College Station because they love Aggie tradition.
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Saban saying cfb had any existing parity still makes me laugh. It had the least parity of pretty much all major sports.
 
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VolGee4 said:
My dad used to do that but with just regular milk.
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My great grandpa used to crumble it up and snort it dry. Uncle Lester would let it sit in rancid milk until it decomposed into some type of gooey substance and do it intravenously.

#WeirdWaysOurAncestorsConsumedCornBreadAndVariousDairyProducts
 
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Orange_Crush said:
everyone correct me if I'm wrong, but since when has the argument ben either (all) or (none/micro)?

Hasn't the inverse argument been that NIL is a huge deal, but not the only deciding factor? i.e. A player may actually take a lower NIL deal if a school checks off other important checks on their list?
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You're not wrong. I don't think anyone (I haven't seen it) has actually claimed it's "everything." It's a lot of things, and it helps us level the playing field in recruiting. But it's not everything.

If money was everything, we'd have hired some coaches that ended up turning us down. It's the same thing.
 
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BigOrangeTrain said:
So I am confused. We have some posters on here that continually spout NIL is the only factor in recruiting. The only reason a team gets a recruit is because of NIL. Relationships don’t matter now. But here we have Jordan Addison, one of the best WRs in the nation, turning down much better NIL deals to play with Caleb Williams at USC.

USC WR Jordan Addison received higher NIL offers from other programs, per report
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I guess since its on the internet ,its true? If you think SC is not paying him a ton of money then that is on you. I guess you really believe Nolan was offered more money from Tn but chose to take less to go to A&M ? SC and Addison trying to make it look like there was no tampering.
 
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DeepPurpleFloyd said:
My great grandpa used to crumble it up and snort it dry. Uncle Lester would let it sit in rancid milk until it decomposed into some type of gooey substance and do it intravenously.

#WeirdWaysOurAncestorsConsumedCornBreadAndVariousDairyProducts
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Not really sure I can top this one. Not really sure I want to try and top this one. LOL.
 
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