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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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Posted
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.

Posted
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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