Who decides how collective funds are allocated?

Good question. Seems like Downs would be worth funding.

I thought John Parker Wilson left the booth to do something with NIL and collective. Whatever position he took he said was because NS asked him to do it and he said he could not tell NS no

Yea Alabama is more like a front man for the collective. It's where your average everyday joe can go donate their $20 a month and get some exclusive content from Aaron Suttles. The real movers and shakers in the NIL world aren't going through Yea Alabama.

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Yeah, $20 a month from 6,000 subscribers isn’t going to put a dent in the problem. That maybe covers the monthly overhead for the organization.

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That’s over $1.4M. That’s a big amount, but we don’t know who is getting what.

Their site claims 100% of the fees go to the athletes, so I don’t think it’s going to overhead. They shouldn’t have much if any overhead anyways. It’s just a website and Shopify store.

I’m also not of the belief our NIL is as far behind as people are claiming. I don’t think our basketball program could be recruiting as well as it has been if we didn’t have significant NIL support.

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And the part that makes me hesitant to give is that I want my dollars going to football, not gymnastics or tennis.

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Or even if it’s all going to football, how is it allocated amongst players on the team? Does Milroe get a lot as the QB? From a marketing perspective that would make sense, but from a competitive one, I doubt he’s one of the guys you have to fight off a lot of premier teams to keep.

Exactly. It’s one thing to give for facilities, access to tickets, etc. It’s another to chip in to make sure a kid has rims on his new on his new ride or that his handler gets a cut.

It would be akin to the PGA Tour asking for us to sign up to give money to make sure guys don’t go to LIV.

This sport really is broken.

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JPW and Suttles are working for Yea Alabama and I presume they aren’t working for free.

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It says on the website that the staff is paid from separate funds.

Pretty sure when Nick was here, and I doubt that has changed based on the mass exodus.

The NIL collective splits the proceeds evenly among all the players on the team as to not create discourse.

The office also helps players get deals outside of the school, but it is not paid directly by the collective.

Probably explains the mass exodus after Nick retired. He was keeping them together, most of the big name guys were taking less money to stay.

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That’s over $1.4M. That’s a big amount

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That’s absolutely not a big amount these days in the NIL world.

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GTFO me sending my money to "buy players" while the AD/University is puling in $200+ mil a year.

I will watch, buy merch and tickets if we go 3-9 or 15-0. I have been doing it since 1997. No way will I ever give to a collective.

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I don't know how ADs can do it but they probably need to figure out how to legally take budget surplus and funnel it into the collective. The general fund at UA is accustom to receiving that extra bit of sugar but I don't think it is viable anymore if they can do such a transfer. The marketing/recruiting beast of football is too important to the bottom line.