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2 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

My best friend in Seattle went to the UW-tOSU game and sat with the Big Cigars.

He said that Jedd Fisch is going to leave Washington at the end of the season.  Even though Florida isn't open yet, Fisch has already expressed interest in other jobs, and the Big Cigars really hate him.  

I hope we hire Ryan Grubb this time.

He is apparently our top target.

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1 hour ago, Tex-19 said:

The crazy thing about college sports is that you could say this about pretty much any P4 school in the country. Look at Stanford - wealthiest alumni in P4 but they don't give a shit. Then look at Tech - one weirdo billionaire decides this is his life mission and now they're a major player.

I'm willing to bet lots of other "poor" schools have individual alums who could instantly vault them to the top of NIL without breaking a sweat if they wanted. CFB payrolls are peanuts in the grand scheme of the business world and people make insane money in a lot of random industries that don't require a Harvard education. Ex: Kentucky has a 9-billionaire from the founding family of Public Storage. 

It certainly helps your odds to be someone like Texas with lots of potential big donors, but the "it only takes one" thing is true a lot of places.

Tech’s billionaire is the outlier and he played ball there. Phil Knight made his name in athletics and is getting all kinds of return by making Oregon into a powerhouse. 
 

Most really wealthy people are going to find better uses of money than putting a nickel-back into a G-Wagen. You want your name on a building, you want to be toasted for funding scholarships. 
 

Here’s why the SEC bag-game worked: it was tons of decently wealthy but not tremendously rich folks who enjoyed the hunt and feeling a bit like a big shot. They could afford to part with meaningful but relatively modest sums of cash that, when pooled with other wannabe sports tycoons, were tremendously impactful to the mostly lower-income black athletes and their families.  
 

You could stretch a few tens of thousands of dollars into helping to lure a future All-American to the school. You felt like you saw a real return and enjoyed seeing it play out. And by and large these are the folks who are getting hit up for NIL. 
 

Actual titans of capital are just not interested in this stuff. 

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1 minute ago, Beau Vine said:

He's apparently upset that our NIL has come up short, so good luck with that.

"Come to UCLA, where all of your NIL concerns are a thing of the past."

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Posted
2 hours ago, Tex-19 said:

The crazy thing about college sports is that you could say this about pretty much any P4 school in the country. Look at Stanford - wealthiest alumni in P4 but they don't give a shit. Then look at Tech - one weirdo billionaire decides this is his life mission and now they're a major player.

I'm willing to bet lots of other "poor" schools have individual alums who could instantly vault them to the top of NIL without breaking a sweat if they wanted. CFB payrolls are peanuts in the grand scheme of the business world and people make insane money in a lot of random industries that don't require a Harvard education. Ex: Kentucky has a 9-billionaire from the founding family of Public Storage. 

It certainly helps your odds to be someone like Texas with lots of potential big donors, but the "it only takes one" thing is true a lot of places.

UK's main supporter is Joe Craft and some of the other coal guys and they put their money into men's basketball which is what UK is nationally relevant in. UK football is a lost cause though our current coach had a couple of good years but now it's back to normal.

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3 minutes ago, bluegrass said:

UK football is a lost cause though our current coach had a couple of good years but now it's back to normal.

Maybe aggy was right to revolt at the thought of Mark Stoops as their HC?

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3 minutes ago, DFW Horn said:

Maybe aggy was right to revolt at the thought of Mark Stoops as their HC?

I think they were right. Stoops took advantage of a down SEC East. He's quit trying at UK and constantly complains despite being paid 9 million to lose.

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On 9/29/2025 at 5:10 PM, 956 Worldwide said:

I had completely erased the McElwain era from my mind.  I saw him in a wiki article when I got curious after Napier crapped out against Miami and thought “oh yeah, they had that guy.” 

The guy wrestling with the fish

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23 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:

No one is lining up to calm Sarkisian by “kisi” 

Well, not until now. Kinda catchy. 

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Posted
2 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Tech’s billionaire is the outlier and he played ball there. Phil Knight made his name in athletics and is getting all kinds of return by making Oregon into a powerhouse. 
 

Most really wealthy people are going to find better uses of money than putting a nickel-back into a G-Wagen. You want your name on a building, you want to be toasted for funding scholarships. 
 

Here’s why the SEC bag-game worked: it was tons of decently wealthy but not tremendously rich folks who enjoyed the hunt and feeling a bit like a big shot. They could afford to part with meaningful but relatively modest sums of cash that, when pooled with other wannabe sports tycoons, were tremendously impactful to the mostly lower-income black athletes and their families.  
 

You could stretch a few tens of thousands of dollars into helping to lure a future All-American to the school. You felt like you saw a real return and enjoyed seeing it play out. And by and large these are the folks who are getting hit up for NIL. 
 

Actual titans of capital are just not interested in this stuff. 

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. 

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4 hours ago, Tex-19 said:

The crazy thing about college sports is that you could say this about pretty much any P4 school in the country. Look at Stanford - wealthiest alumni in P4 but they don't give a shit. Then look at Tech - one weirdo billionaire decides this is his life mission and now they're a major player.

I'm willing to bet lots of other "poor" schools have individual alums who could instantly vault them to the top of NIL without breaking a sweat if they wanted. CFB payrolls are peanuts in the grand scheme of the business world and people make insane money in a lot of random industries that don't require a Harvard education. Ex: Kentucky has a 9-billionaire from the founding family of Public Storage. 

It certainly helps your odds to be someone like Texas with lots of potential big donors, but the "it only takes one" thing is true a lot of places.

Tech has 4 or 5 billionaires funding their ascendancy. Campbell just hogs all the publicity.

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2 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

He's apparently upset that our NIL has come up short, so good luck with that.

He’s apparently a real asshole to boot. He wasn’t able to lure McMillan or Fifita to follow him to UW when he left Arizona.

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3 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Tech’s billionaire is the outlier and he played ball there. Phil Knight made his name in athletics and is getting all kinds of return by making Oregon into a powerhouse. 
 

Most really wealthy people are going to find better uses of money than putting a nickel-back into a G-Wagen. You want your name on a building, you want to be toasted for funding scholarships. 
 

Here’s why the SEC bag-game worked: it was tons of decently wealthy but not tremendously rich folks who enjoyed the hunt and feeling a bit like a big shot. They could afford to part with meaningful but relatively modest sums of cash that, when pooled with other wannabe sports tycoons, were tremendously impactful to the mostly lower-income black athletes and their families.  
 

You could stretch a few tens of thousands of dollars into helping to lure a future All-American to the school. You felt like you saw a real return and enjoyed seeing it play out. And by and large these are the folks who are getting hit up for NIL. 
 

Actual titans of capital are just not interested in this stuff. 

Yup, even Campbell is on a mission for a salary cap. OKST got a billionaire to build a stadium with his name on it, and have since gotten rich alum to build an indoor practice facility, baseball stadium, tennis facilities, soccer field, and gigantitron all with naming rights. We’re still looking for a softball stadium and wrestling facility. I think we’ll get enough payroll to fund a competitive Big 12 roster in football, but it’s spent and gone in a year with no legacy. It’s not a sustainable system even for the big dogs.

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44 minutes ago, LTtxfan said:

Jedd Fisch seems like a flake... always on the move

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Umm, yeah.  That’s how it goes when you are a position coach.  You move to get to a coordinator spot.  And then you move around from there to get in a good situation to grab a head coaching spot. 
 

Don’t look at too many resumes of coaches if you don’t like how that looks. 

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9 minutes ago, Vanilla Strange Gato said:

Umm, yeah.  That’s how it goes when you are a position coach.  You move to get to a coordinator spot.  And then you move around from there to get in a good situation to grab a head coaching spot. 
 

Don’t look at too many resumes of coaches if you don’t like how that looks. 

Several of those spots in the pros he wasn’t retained (typical) when the HC got canned. It is a brutal career when you’re trying to break in. 

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