Could our UT do what the Other UT is with this NIL deal?

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Well! Someone could. Ain’t there someone like a huuuuge big wig that donates millions to the AD dept? You know. Ummmm???
 
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We can, just need private business and/or individuals to step up. The problem is whatever is done is in addition to whatever they give to the university so they either have to back that down or pay even more. Texas has more NIL money than we do currently from what I’m told but this is all still relatively new and I believe we will have our first seven figure NIL deal soon with a flashy QB commitment coming.
 
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I’m sure Danny white is working on something behind closed doors. I hate what’s being done to Neyland but aside from that he’s been one hell of an AD so far
 
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hUTch2002 said:
We can, just need private business and/or individuals to step up. The problem is whatever is done is in addition to whatever they give to the university so they either have to back that down or pay even more. Texas has more NIL money than we do currently from what I’m told but this is all still relatively new and I believe we will have our first seven figure NIL deal soon with a flashy QB commitment coming.
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This is just stupid = how are teams like Bowling Green, Tennessee Tech, and others ever supposed to compete ? They can't - It's major league baseball without a draft and without a salary cap to keep things somewhat fair. Which one of you guys have an extra $8,000,000 lying around that you want to donate for linemen for the next 10 years. Do you not realize that we would never be able to compete with some of the schools ?

Let's say we come up with a idiot or group of idiots that will match Texas $800,000 annually for linemen. They would just raise what they pay to $1.6 M annually. You are going to end up with 6 or 8 super teams that purchase all their players and then everyone else. This is no way to run a railroad.
 
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Fullfillmer said:
This is just stupid = how are teams like Bowling Green, Tennessee Tech, and others ever supposed to compete ? They can't - It's major league baseball without a draft and without a salary cap to keep things somewhat fair. Which one of you guys have an extra $8,000,000 lying around that you want to donate for linemen for the next 10 years. Do you not realize that we would never be able to compete with some of the schools ?

Let's say we come up with a idiot or group of idiots that will match Texas $800,000 annually for linemen. They would just raise what they pay to $1.6 M annually. You are going to end up with 6 or 8 super teams that purchase all their players and then everyone else. This is no way to run a railroad.
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I don’t disagree. The sport is already well down the path of being over as we know it. It’s a shame too. I guess all things change in time.
 
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I grew up very poor and definitely would’ve gone where the money was. You can’t blame the kids. This will ruin college football although it will probably keep a bunch of juniors from jumping to the league prematurely
 
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vollygirl said:
We saw this coming. If you didn't, you weren't paying attention.
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And this is just the beginning. Schools and donors are still working out the operational details of this new reality. Linemen getting 50k..? We're already seeing entire teams getting monthly salaries, "Star" QB's who are already millionaires, etc, etc.
Fullfillmer said:
This is just stupid = how are teams like Bowling Green, Tennessee Tech, and others ever supposed to compete ? They can't - It's major league baseball without a draft and without a salary cap to keep things somewhat fair. Which one of you guys have an extra $8,000,000 lying around that you want to donate for linemen for the next 10 years. Do you not realize that we would never be able to compete with some of the schools ?

Let's say we come up with a idiot or group of idiots that will match Texas $800,000 annually for linemen. They would just raise what they pay to $1.6 M annually. You are going to end up with 6 or 8 super teams that purchase all their players and then everyone else. This is no way to run a railroad.
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How are those schools supposed to compete..?? THEY AREN'T...unless of course they pay better than the competition.

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I don’t disagree. The sport is already well down the path of being over as we know it. It’s a shame too. I guess all things change in time.
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YUP...IMHO, in a few years...you won't recognize NCAA Football ( or Basketball either for that matter).
 
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Texas is smart. Moving to the SEC, they know the pull of upper level SEC teams will have on Texas recruits and JUCO. You can talk about your skill players from here to eternity, but if you don't have the dozers and graders to pave the road for the trucks, it means very little. If our UT has a mere ounce of sense, we will do something along these lines, and do it now to not be caught flat-footed.

Hail capitalism, and to heck with fair play and decency. Right??? Seriously, this just shows any system, whatever it is, or you want to call it, can be manipulated in all kinds of ways, good or bad.
 
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Every major school has big donors. It is becoming a bidding war like it is for coaches.
 
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1Big_Orange_Fan said:
I grew up very poor and definitely would’ve gone where the money was. You can’t blame the kids. This will ruin college football although it will probably keep a bunch of juniors from jumping to the league prematurely
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Players were already getting paid its just open now. The same players geting 100s/thousands+ in NIL were getting it in Mcdonald bags years ago. Its always a running joke with Bama and their players with new cars but that was a nationwide thing.

What will ruin CFB is the current exponential growth of coahing/AD salaries. 10 years ago for an AD, HC and his staff you could get away with 7-10 million. Now its 20+ million and only going up. Hard to argue not paying players when their coaches and admin are getting this kind of money.
 
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PickleRickBarnes said:
Players were already getting paid its just open now. The same players geting 100s/thousands+ in NIL were getting it in Mcdonald bags years ago. Its always a running joke with Bama and their players with new cars but that was a nationwide thing.

What will ruin CFB is the current exponential growth of coahing/AD salaries. 10 years ago for an AD, HC and his staff you could get away with 7-10 million. Now its 20+ million and only going up. Hard to argue not paying players when their coaches and admin are getting this kind of money.
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The coaches are just trying to keep up with inflation.
 
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So this charity, how much of the money they raise actually goes to helping people in need and how much goes to paying football players?
 
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