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re: AJ McCarron says we have less than $20 million in NIL and other schools have double.
Posted on 9/3/25 at 10:11 am to _Hurricane_
Posted on 9/3/25 at 10:11 am to _Hurricane_
I do not care what everyone's NIL budget is and it may be a concern in the future. But NIL had nothing to do with our current roster and what happened on the field Saturday. According to everything out there we have one of the top rosters out there and yet we played like we are a walk-on squad.
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Posted on 9/3/25 at 10:48 am to RTRnFlorida
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Then don’t complain when we’re shitting the bed for years to come. If we want to be near the top at least we have to fork out cash and 25 dollar monthly memberships to yea Alabama won’t do it
Bro, it shouldn't be our responsibility to pay athletes that wouldn't even piss on us if we were up in flames.
If that means watching our program go down the shitter then so be it. If I'm giving money to someone, it's going to be someone who needs it, like an 18 year old single mom who can't afford rent or food for her kids, not some goddamn college football player who's already getting a full ride while I'm still paying off my student loans.
I'd donate money to an LSU fan that lost everything in a fire before I would an athlete that's already getting six figures in freebies.
This post was edited on 9/3/25 at 10:49 am
Posted on 9/3/25 at 11:10 am to PuertoRicanBlaze
I don't mind paying to go to a game, but directly paying players is just not something I'm going to do. It would be like going to the latest Mission Impossible and seeing Tom Cruise standing outside the theater with a hat in his hand asking for money. If donating to a fund that directly pays athletes is what I need to do to be a good fan then I'm not going to be a good fan.
Posted on 9/3/25 at 11:27 am to FairhopeTider
Correction... "WERE" the gold standard... not "WE'RE". You had a misplaced punctuation mark. Here is the proper use... "We're cooked." You're welcome.
Posted on 9/3/25 at 11:27 am to PuertoRicanBlaze
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Bro, it shouldn't be our responsibility to pay athletes that wouldn't even piss on us if we were up in flames.
If that means watching our program go down the shitter then so be it. If I'm giving money to someone, it's going to be someone who needs it, like an 18 year old single mom who can't afford rent or food for her kids, not some goddamn college football player who's already getting a full ride while I'm still paying off my student loans.
I'd donate money to an LSU fan that lost everything in a fire before I would an athlete that's already getting six figures in freebies.
To me at least, the allure of CFB was always "my tribe vs your tribe" kinda thing. It was either boys from Alabama OR boys who WANTED to be a part of Alabama vs everyone else.
When you saw players making extraordinary effort, they were representing you, your home, your school, etc and they were doing it for their team, coaches and FANS.
Scholarships werent payment for a service, it was a means to make it feasible for guys with talent to spend years of their life doing this. The payment was the pride, admiration, brotherhood of being one of the select few talents that could be the representation of the fans.
Ok so when I now have to pay someone to play or they leave, all of that is gone. I imagine the lingering nostalgia will keep me interested for maybe even years...but the interest definitely is fading for me. I certainly wont contribute my own time and money to contribute to what is ruining the sport for me
And to be fair to the players...it was always a reasonable question for them to ask "if the Universities can sell out tradition to enrich themselves, why must 'tradition' be used as an excuse not to pay me"
This post was edited on 9/3/25 at 11:34 am
Posted on 9/3/25 at 12:22 pm to CrimsonBoz
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I was asked my opinion on them raising entry to the Bryant Society this year and I almost laughed out loud.
I don't think my family gives anything close to yours but we are lifetime giving society and it's not just Bryant Society, they doubled all the levels under that too in July. Combine that with this early season loss mirroring the issues from last year and the timing couldnt have been worse. Donors already have fatigue and they just keep wanting more even after a lot of them signed 10 year commitments in 2020 for the new seating offerings.
That said I know for a fact if they were a little more hands on and personable with donors at this level they could get a lot more. We also give to CTF and Yea Ala outside of our ticket commitments and we hardly ever get reached out to by anyone down there.
This post was edited on 9/3/25 at 12:41 pm
Posted on 9/3/25 at 1:11 pm to touchdownattack
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quote: I was asked my opinion on them raising entry to the Bryant Society this year and I almost laughed out loud. I don't think my family gives anything close to yours but we are lifetime giving society and it's not just Bryant Society, they doubled all the levels under that too in July. Combine that with this early season loss mirroring the issues from last year and the timing couldnt have been worse. Donors already have fatigue and they just keep wanting more even after a lot of them signed 10 year commitments in 2020 for the new seating offerings. That said I know for a fact if they were a little more hands on and personable with donors at this level they could get a lot more. We also give to CTF and Yea Ala outside of our ticket commitments and we hardly ever get reached out to by anyone down there.
It was the worst timing ever and that was my feedback before they even thought about it. Donors are bailing. I got 4 more seats in our small area and that is non existent. Like people have to die, and 4 came up with no explanation other than they didn’t renew. I traded some other seats for front row, now I have 12 seats and didn’t even have to work for the extras. It’s crazy the amount of people leaving.
They should absolutely be contacting you. They have people at almost every level.
Posted on 9/3/25 at 4:11 pm to CrimsonBoz
The recruiting classes post NIL rank at or neat the Top in the country. Am I to believe Bama pulled that off with half the NIL money of many schools?
Im not buying it.
That information is privileged and i.doubt AJ has it. I also don't think we could pull Deboer facing such a huge disadvantage going forward
Im not buying it.
That information is privileged and i.doubt AJ has it. I also don't think we could pull Deboer facing such a huge disadvantage going forward
Posted on 9/3/25 at 4:18 pm to RiverCityTider
NIL bothers me 0 percent.
Guys who want to play ball will and those who don't won't.
Simple as that
Guys who want to play ball will and those who don't won't.
Simple as that
Posted on 9/3/25 at 4:29 pm to _Hurricane_
The House settlement allows for direct revenue sharing, which I guess they could use to offset NIL shortcomings. The whole thing is a disaster, though, and the logic of it all is flawed. If I am a researcher working at Bama (any school, for that matter) and invent something in the university's lab, the university gets the money for that, just like they get 95% of the tuition money for the class that a prof teaches. All the woke folk were so bent up about most of the players being black and making comparisons to slavery that they totally ignored the fact that the athletes weren't being treated any differently than anyone else on campus.
All that's bad enough, but the real cancer is the unlimited transfer rules. Like someone else said, why the hell would anyone with a brain invest money in a player who can up and leave before the bowl game. Moreover, how the hell do they expect a coach to be able to discipline/teach a team when the prima donnas can take their ball and go home whenever they like?
And I know that no one really takes them being college students all that seriously anymore, but they can't get degrees very easily when they can move around like that. Residency requirements and hour minimums make it virtually impossible to graduate unless you stay in one spot for at least two years. So now we have the NCAA penalizing the school on one hand if the teams doesn't have an appropriate graduation rate while, on the other, enacting policies that encourage players to move around, making graduation difficult or impossible. How that helped keep players from being "exploited" by universities is beyond the capabilities of the rational mind.
All that's bad enough, but the real cancer is the unlimited transfer rules. Like someone else said, why the hell would anyone with a brain invest money in a player who can up and leave before the bowl game. Moreover, how the hell do they expect a coach to be able to discipline/teach a team when the prima donnas can take their ball and go home whenever they like?
And I know that no one really takes them being college students all that seriously anymore, but they can't get degrees very easily when they can move around like that. Residency requirements and hour minimums make it virtually impossible to graduate unless you stay in one spot for at least two years. So now we have the NCAA penalizing the school on one hand if the teams doesn't have an appropriate graduation rate while, on the other, enacting policies that encourage players to move around, making graduation difficult or impossible. How that helped keep players from being "exploited" by universities is beyond the capabilities of the rational mind.
Posted on 9/3/25 at 4:52 pm to RiverCityTider
It’s close but not quite right. We also don’t have incredibly expensive players, anymore. Just food for thought. Our most expensive guy would have been Caleb Downs.
Posted on 9/3/25 at 5:49 pm to CrimsonBoz
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We also don’t have incredibly expensive players, anymore.
It shows
Posted on 9/3/25 at 6:19 pm to Diego Ricardo
You're not wrong
Posted on 9/3/25 at 6:38 pm to BamaGradinTn
I’ve given 50k+. And now Roughly 1,000 a month. I was contacted before when Isiah bond wanted big $$. A group of SW Florida fans from Sarasota to Naples were asked to come up with 1million. I gave 50k. It wasn’t much, and obviously didn’t get him to stay. So it went to keep Milroe.
Posted on 9/3/25 at 6:40 pm to TideWarrior
Chris Stewart says AJ is wrong.
Posted on 9/3/25 at 6:44 pm to RTRnFlorida
You got to feel the burn as well. Glad I wasn’t the only one.
Posted on 9/3/25 at 6:48 pm to RTRnFlorida
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I’ve given 50k+. And now Roughly 1,000 a month. I was contacted before when Isiah bond wanted big $$. A group of SW Florida fans from Sarasota to Naples were asked to come up with 1million. I gave 50k. It wasn’t much, and obviously didn’t get him to stay. So it went to keep Milroe.
Damn.
Posted on 9/3/25 at 6:49 pm to RTRnFlorida
I would be mad as frick. But I’m poor too
Posted on 9/3/25 at 6:57 pm to Woody4daTide9
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Chris Stewart says AJ is wrong.
From what I can find. Texas and Ohio State NIL is between 20-22 million this year.
Posted on 9/3/25 at 6:58 pm to KingOrange
I would imagine we are in the same club as most programs outside of 4 or 5 but I have nothing to base that on other than deductive reasoning
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