And those titans shouldn’t be interested. They didn’t get to where they are by being stupid with money.
If they donate big money and have an endowed scholarship in their name forever, or their name on a new building for the next 30-50 years, that ROI is solid.
If they donate to NIL to or football or athletics in general, it’s not clear what they are getting. Bringing in a teenager who might change his mind next year about where he wants to be, or might get in trouble with the law and get booted from the team, or might blow out his knee and be done for a year or forever?
Or be asked to donate money to buy out a coach who just wrecked his Harley after banging his employee/side piece at a roadside park?
And for what? Bragging rights? To be able to brag in the sauna at the Billionaire Boys Club that his alma mater’s football team had scoreboard over somebody else’s Alma Mater’s football team?
If I’m a billionaire, I don’t need to brag about anything. Because I’m a billionaire.
And I’m sure never whipping out the checkbook to payoff a Strong or a Herman because some jackass A.D. from ASU decided to give them a stupid contract.
Every CFB message board for every school has idiot fanboys who think big money donors are just sitting around waiting to write checks to cover mistakes by the A.D. I don’t believe that’s the case.