To fund the team we may have to

I think a half empty stadium would hurt the team as well.

Alabama’s problem is not NIL funding. They’re at the top and the very top (Horn and Aggy) is not attainable by any of the other blue bloods.

How about just envelops on seats and receptacles near gates. That's half a mill a game at 5 bucks a patron.

Just raise his salary every year.

Hell Cameron Arena was built in 1940. Even added A/C in 2002.

It's not the arrows, it's the Indian's.

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.

NIL wasn't intended to be a collective of rich boosters paying players. It was intended to allow athletes to get paid from doing ads and making appearances locally and nationally. It has been twisted and basically put fans at a disadvantage because we have to basically enter an auction to get players. Long run, the players will lose because too many fans with money are going to choose to do other things with their Saturdays.

OK

85 players receiving 4,000 per month= 340,000

1,000 for new car and car insurance
1,000 for taxes
2,000 for spending (30 day average cash per day is 66.00)

Total cost for Bama for one year 4,080,000

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When does Oats get tired of being strung along about getting a new arena?

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I feel like the we’ve seen less big facility projects announced nationwide since NIL got going.