ClockworkOrange
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Return on investment maybe!! They have money cause they dont spend it on things that don't make them more of it. Just throwing it at some college kid isnt a smart investment.
What kind of return on investment did the booster get who paid $200 grand for Albert Means? Or any other under the table deal? $100K is barely a burp for a billionaire, and heck, now they can legally count it off on their taxes!
Other teams do too. What is to stop them from paying $1 million to have a stud record a single commercial saying, "I pump at Pilot" or whatever? Or heck, $100K?
Why isn't this happening all over the country? How is it different than deals with Pals or Moonshine Cookies, other than enormity of scale? Seems like it would be open season for boosters to have free reign to go completely nuts?
How is this not a strategy?
What kind of return on investment did the booster get who paid $200 grand for Albert Means? Or any other under the table deal? $100K is barely a burp for a billionaire, and heck, now they can legally count it off on their taxes!
So you believe schools are not using the NIL as a recruiting tool. The coach, who just quit at TCU, said TCU was at a disadvantage regarding NIL's and recruiting. Cheating is real and the NIL arrangements just make it legal now. The QB, at Oklahoma, was given a big Dodge Ram truck and a Dodge Charger for his NIL arrangement with a Dodge dealer in Norman. Wake up----it's real.NIL's still cannot be conditioned on signing with any particular school, so you could end up with an Eric Dickerson trans am situation, except with a million dollars.
Those are players who are already on scholarship you are talking about (and they can leave if they want, they aren't legally bound to stay). What I'm saying is there are still risks for somebody to give a million dollars to a high school kid. Of course those risks certainly seem more minor when it's not your money.So you believe schools are not using the NIL as a recruiting tool. The coach, who just quit at TCU, said TCU was at a disadvantage regarding NIL's and recruiting. Cheating is real and the NIL arrangements just make it legal now. The QB, at Oklahoma, was given a big Dodge Ram truck and a Dodge Charger for his NIL arrangement with a Dodge dealer in Norman. Wake up----it's real.
Autograph signing events are big in NIL so far. I'd think a ton of businesses in Knox/Tennessee will now start using UT players for promotion. Alontae Taylor's deal gets blasted across national television broadcasts and social media every game. I never knew the Moonshine Mountain Cookies place existed but now I'm willing to go and buy from them because of their deal with a UT player. We as fans can make the biggest difference, frequent places that use UT players and make sure and mention to them that you are there for that reason.