re: NIL free for all

See but a lot of that is just purely pay for play. And I’m not saying it doesn’t happen everywhere to an extent but it is possible to have a legit NIL program and even to enhance recruiting using it.

The way you entice with NIL without promising NIL is by having a proven, high profile NIL program. Jayden Daniels already had some pretty good deals even before he hit the big time along with many of his teammates. LSU women’s programs have some of the highest earners in the country.

And it doesn’t stop once they go pro. Two former LSU WR’s are appearing right now in a national commercial, together. And it doesn’t even stop once they retire. A former LSU basketball player is right up there with the all time biggest athletic endorsers in the world.

That’s how you recruit using NIL.

EVERY school cheats
One way or another. Some are just Better at it lol.

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Texas has been waiting for the day they could pay players legally like all the little brothers have been doing illegally for years (sniff, cough A&M, OU, etc) . Now you get to see who your Daddy really is and you don't like it..

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What a lazy (somewhat expected) response… never change, simp.

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Teams like UGA and Bama will pay some but not going to fork out like the lower schools who are desperate.

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Bama hasn’t been playing by the rules for a long time. They have been laying kids for years. There have been recent Alabama players to admit they got paid to go to the school, prior to NIL. So yea, that seems pretty desperate to keep the Competive edge.

Now the NIL made it harder in teams like Bama to stock talent on the each for years without playing them. It’s obvious that Bama hasn’t been the same team the last 3 years of NIL compared to the 5 years prior to NIL. The landscape became to much of a grind and it forced Saban into retirement, he said himself that the game and this year was to much of a grind now and he can’t coach the way he wants to without it taking its toll mentally and physically on him.

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Set back and play by the rules and maybe try and retain your own players.

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Like Ohio State? It’s being reported they are in for $13+ million right now just to retain there team, and add only 6 portal guys. You can be desperate and be a big program also and just to retain your team is going to cost.

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Tenn had got a top collective at almost 20 mil a season

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Tennessee goal with Spire sports is $25 million a year revenue. Right now Tennessee has the #1 collective in the country according to On3 and 247sports. The thing you’re not realizing, Tennessee is also a top 10 school historically and actually #10 in all time win %. Even though they have been down from 2007-2022 basically, they are still considered a Big time schools with the facilities and resources alone without adding NIL. Adding NIL has helped Hueple turn the roster over littler easier and to dig out of the shite he entered into. Tennessee isn’t approaching the portal like Ole Miss, and Colorado. Yes they looking for good players, but they also are truly look for fit, and a kid that has multiple years left. Most of the kids got in the Portal this, has 2-3+ years. He’s not looking for the “best” player for 1 year. He is using the portal to develop and build a team he can win with if the portal rules changed tomorrow. Some of these teams would be stuck, if they done an overall of the protal, and put limits on how many you could sign per year.

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Cheat using collectives

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I like how you worded playing by the rules “legally. It’s not going to get better. In fact it’s getting worse as we speak. The NCAA is currently considering letting the athletic departments and schools directly pay the players. When that happens these Collectices will have an office inside the facilities and then it will be who truly has the most money. Imagine a university being able to broker the deals themselves. You have schools like Vandy that has more money than every university in the SEC. Once you start letting schools pay players directly you will have schools with endowments of $900million+ making deals and then the sky will be the limit and small schools will truly be out of the running then. Some athletics departments make more money a year than some universities do as a whole.

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Unfortunately... As much as the noble Texas program tried to keep their players from being paid... Guys like Tony Degrate and Chris Simms said that they got paid.

But I'm sure they were the only two.

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I'm sure Texas players have been paid in the past, maybe it is all of them. The difference, from what I can tell, still happens today to a certain extent.

Texas (Sark) will not go after a player who is only about the NIL. The Evan Stewart's, Walter Nolen's, etc. You rarely see Texas sign kids like this..

Quin Ewers is different. He grew up loving Texas and he originally committed to Texas. Then Herman did something (not sure he did) that pissed him off and so he decided to take the money from Ohio State (perhaps this part was about money). Either way, he wanted to be at Texas. I have seen some stupid numbers thrown out there for him, and maybe I am wrong and he chased the money, but even if that is true, he isn't only about the money. But this is just my opinion, and others will argue I am wrong.

At the end of the day, 95%+ of what anyone posts here is pure speculation. My team does ____ better than your team. Blah blah blah. Texas pays players. We all pay players. Some schools are still offering bags of cash, and maybe Texas is too, but I haven't heard anyone say that. To my knowledge, there really isn't a need to offer a bag these days..

All that being said, I do believe it needs to be regulated, but then we will just have more teams offering bags, and then we will be back at where we started. Oh wait, that could be a good thing. My bad, carry on.

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OU will never be relevant in the world of NIL. And even if there are rules in place they won’t be relevant.

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with or without the rules OU is already relevant …. I don’t know who fricked your wife but don’t take it out on OU fans …. OU has a good collective …. Just not forking out 20 nil a season for players … most athletic departments have compliance people who have to answer for where the money goes and how …. It’s not as simple as some of you like to think it is and there are receipts for every payments . The rules are there just not everyone is following them and so far everyone who is paying for players outright has been shitty at best. Miami A@M UF supposedly payed out the most early on and have been horrible . Tenn hasn’t done anything wrong to show so far for the money spent .

I also find it funny how everyone think there school is paying this or that but in reality I havent seen a legit deal posted on on3 that shows how much someone is making per deal …. It just shows an estimate … hell they have Malachi Nelson for misc making 800k at Boise state …. Do you think for one second that’s accurate ?

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most athletic departments have compliance people who have to answer for where the money goes and how …. It’s not as simple as some of you like to think it is and there are receipts for every payments . The rules are there just not everyone is following them and so far everyone who is paying for players outright has been shitty at best.

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First, clown, NIL is not part of the AD budget. NIL collectives do not report to AD compliance department on how they chose to spend the money.

Second, just more butt hurt from OU fans that other schools are now doing what OU had always done before.. pay for players. You just don’t like that the playing field has been leveled. OU has one of the dirtiest most penalized football programs. And you lost that edge.

Hilarious.

An oU twat whining about teams "cheating" when oU built their entire program on actual, real cheating.

Switzer brags about it.

Self-aware much? FFS

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play by the rules

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What rules?

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EVERY school cheats
One way or another. Some are just Better at it lol.

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not anymore.

Enjoy your time in the desert.