re: To fund the team we may have to

Completely understand people not wanting to pay their hard earned money to an NIL collective.

That said, I think you lose the right to complain about lack of success that’s directly impacted by a relatively lacking NIL collective. That starts with recruiting and transfers over to games.

Our fanbase is in the millions. If you took the capacity of Bryant Denny and had those people contribute $10 a month, that’s over 12 million a year. That obviously doesn’t even factor those that pay more and in some cases substantially more.

This is new territory for our middle class fanbase. Most haven’t contributed because we haven’t had to. FSU saw their membership jump 10x after the playoff “snub” and most are just contributing a few dollars. It adds up though. I’d never question someone’s fandom if they didn’t contribute, but at the same time I spend more than that in a day on vices if I really break it down and average it out. Many of us are probably paying that for a streaming service or gym membership or magazine subscription we barely use. If you aren’t going to add an additional expense, maybe look at your current expenses and consider reallocating. More money isn’t going to hurt the program, and until we get some guardrails on this, this is the world we’re operating in.