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What teams will use NIL to become the "new" top athletic programs in the years to come?


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23 minutes ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:

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I know Tech will spend to win a bidding war, but is their full roster really funded to that level?

Also- don’t the Ags have an expensive roster (I know they have to pay Himbo and their 2022 recruit glass is to the wind; I thought they still had a rich donor base to mobilize, even if in idiotic manner)?

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4 hours ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:

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Polar Bear here.

Also why is texas getting dragged for spending so much when other blue bloods, and some that aren't, are as well?

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4 hours ago, statsman said:

I know Tech will spend to win a bidding war, but is their full roster really funded to that level?

Also- don’t the Ags have an expensive roster (I know they have to pay Himbo and their 2022 recruit glass is to the wind; I thought they still had a rich donor base to mobilize, even if in idiotic manner)?

I think there are a couple of tech tards here but supposedly they have oil money to spend 

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30 minutes ago, Drew said:

Polar Bear here.

Also why is texas getting dragged for spending so much when other blue bloods, and some that aren't, are as well?

Haters Gonna Hate GIF

4 hours ago, statsman said:

I know Tech will spend to win a bidding war

Big 12 aggy. Spend all that money to finish third or worse. 

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On 1/2/2025 at 7:57 PM, TXpride said:

It'll be interesting to see what happens with Oregon once Uncle Phil croaks. Does he leave a few billion for NIL?

Rumor is he's leaving $6b. I believe that's just for the athletic department. Probably more for the general fund. But it's not like I've seen his will nor has anyone I've talked to. Just a rumor. 

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3 hours ago, Drew said:

why is texas getting dragged for spending so much when other blue bloods, and some that aren't, are as well?

Because Kirk Bohls put a number out there.

This is how reporting works. No one has time or the means to figure out what the truth is. So what they look for instead is someone authoritative they can cite. This isn't limited to sports. War reporting is especially bad, but it's any topic, really. How many deaths were there in the battle yesterday? I don't know, but the Russian ministry of defense reports this many. 

Same thing happened with Ohio State last year. Before the season the athletic director says they'll have a payroll of $20m, so everyone in the world said they had a payroll of $20m. The payroll was well north of that. Closer to $25m. But that doesn't matter because the athletic director stated before the season in an off hand way it was $20m, so everyone in the world could quote that and be covered.

When people say Texas has a payroll of between $35m to $40m, they say according to the Houston Chronicle, and that's about the end of their fact checking. 

Nobody else covering a team has put a number out there, so Texas makes headlines. That's how it works. 

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1 hour ago, SL Xpress said:

Rumor is he's leaving $6b. I believe that's just for the athletic department. Probably more for the general fund. But it's not like I've seen his will nor has anyone I've talked to. Just a rumor. 

If he leaves the money directly to the AD, that could hamper them in the future in terms of that money's not being available outside the 20 million/yr. I wonder what he will leave in place to ensure "NIL" for athletes beyond what Nike would otherwise pay out in the course of normal business practices.

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It will be fascinating to watch the degree to which the willingness of billionaires from spend will destabilize the traditional blue blood pool of schools. Inarguably, they have gobs of money, but it is becoming increasingly clear that they don’t have all the money. SMU bought its way into the playoff and aren’t showing signs of retreat. BYU has surprised with its level of engagement. It will be interesting…

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1 hour ago, Magus Ossis said:

If he leaves the money directly to the AD, that could hamper them in the future in terms of that money's not being available outside the 20 million/yr. I wonder what he will leave in place to ensure "NIL" for athletes beyond what Nike would otherwise pay out in the course of normal business practices.

I don't know any details. 

It's going to hamper them regardless when he passes on. He's basically Oregon's PUF. Half the campus is named for him or a family member. 

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On 5/6/2025 at 3:02 PM, SL Xpress said:

Because Kirk Bohls put a number out there.

This is how reporting works. No one has time or the means to figure out what the truth is. ...

Nobody else covering a team has put a number out there, so Texas makes headlines. That's how it works. 

I like your take, except for the "nobody has the time or means ..." part. Lots of great reporting still out there, but it tends to get buried under the landslide of crap. And some media just have a lot more capability to kick off the landslide. Bohls is too much of a rock-kicker in a way that the original scattershooter, Blackie Sherrod, never was.

It's maddening, often infuriating, but at least this one had some good follow-up and we got a clearer story -- assuming the unnamed Texas source is shooting straight, which I believe is probably the case.

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It’ll be less than a decade of the “haves” 36-48 starting their own CFB League.  TV will dictate that and the rest will fall under the realm of the NCAA.  Kind of similar to when Division One split into 1-AA for the “lesser” schools.

The new league will be shaped similar to the NFL and playoffs structured similar.  
 

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42 minutes ago, msucolt45 said:

It’ll be less than a decade of the “haves” 36-48 starting their own CFB League.  TV will dictate that and the rest will fall under the realm of the NCAA.  Kind of similar to when Division One split into 1-AA for the “lesser” schools.

The new league will be shaped similar to the NFL and playoffs structured similar.  
 

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The Almost-Haves will argue strenuously that the greedy Haves are making them play for the mere love of the sport and ruining the good-old game in which a few more schools got to ride on the gravy train of Big College Football. Like Cody Campbell does now.

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To what degree does it bother anybody else that the fans are nothing more that props who have become absolute last consideration in any of this money based deal making?

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12 minutes ago, Satchel said:

To what degree does it bother anybody else that the fans are nothing more that props who have become absolute last consideration in any of this money based deal making?

It's entertainment business. Fans choose where to spend their money. Fans are getting what they want.

A individual may not, but the collective fan is just fine. 

Before NIL, the players were the prop and product generating billions and receiving 'an education'. That bothered me way more. 

 

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8 hours ago, Satchel said:

To what degree does it bother anybody else that the fans are nothing more that props who have become absolute last consideration in any of this money based deal making?

If we win, it doesn't bother me at all. If we are losing then it bothers me a lot! One thing CDC has done well is create a great environment across the board for fans. 

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8 hours ago, Satchel said:

To what degree does it bother anybody else that the fans are nothing more that props who have become absolute last consideration in any of this money based deal making?

Zero.  It hasn't mattered for a lot longer than the past 2 seasons.

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8 hours ago, Slacks said:

It's entertainment business. Fans choose where to spend their money. Fans are getting what they want.

A individual may not, but the collective fan is just fine. 

Before NIL, the players were the prop and product generating billions and receiving 'an education'. That bothered me way more. 

 

Yeah, this is it.  For all the grousing of us "true fans," the fact is that the fans are the ones paying for all this shit by paying for tickets, purchasing merch, and watching games on networks (and paying the networks, too, now).  No other aspect of fandom matters.

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45 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Yeah, this is it.  For all the grousing of us "true fans," the fact is that the fans are the ones paying for all this shit by paying for tickets, purchasing merch, and watching games on networks (and paying the networks, too, now).  No other aspect of fandom matters.

And Texas has the best fans. 145+M on football alone! 

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9 hours ago, Satchel said:

To what degree does it bother anybody else that the fans are nothing more that props who have become absolute last consideration in any of this money based deal making?

It annoys the hell out of me.

Buy Cotton Bowl tickets thru the University.  Sit 10 rows from the top of the stadium.  Maybe that’s better than getting shut out for the Sugar Bowl vers UW and forced to go secondary market.  But this has been the case for a long time.

 

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