re: Bobby Tard here...

Arkansas is not 14th in NIL.

HY farmed NIL to blueprint sports (the agreement was recently terminated) they used they template to create Arkansas edge (same as Maryland one, etc).

Blueprint Sports' NIL payment structure involves a revenue-sharing model with schools, where the company receives a percentage of profits from NIL deals it manages. This includes a fixed management fee, a profit-sharing split based on performance, and a contract administration fee. For example, in an agreement with Oregon State, Blueprint takes 75% of the net direct revenue between a baseline fundraising target ($750,000 in year one) and $1.15 million, and 50% of the revenue above $1.15 million.

So Arkansas only had 14th in the SEC money to pay due to the deal HY worked out to not be bothered with dealing with something he never wanted in NIL. They real number of NIL fund raising was far, far, greater than what was available.

Key components of the payment structure
Annual management fee: A fixed annual fee is paid by the school to Blueprint, such as the approximate $284,000 the school pays Blueprint annually.
Profit-sharing based on revenue:
Baseline target: Blueprint's share is based on a guaranteed fundraising baseline, which increases annually.
Tiered revenue share: Blueprint takes a percentage of revenue above the baseline.
For revenue between the baseline and a set amount (e.g., $1.15 million), Blueprint receives 75%.
For revenue above that amount, Blueprint receives 50%.
Contract administration fee: Blueprint also receives a percentage (e.g., 1.25%) of all NIL compensation it administers.
Example of total payout
If Blueprint generates $3 million in net direct revenue in a year, the total payout to Blueprint (including management fee, profit share, and administration fee) could be over $1.5 million, or slightly more than half of the generated revenue.

Knowing this HY went to the LR TD club and publicly claimed the program was broke in NIL and could not compete money wise, know that was available was roughly half of what was raised.

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I get being skeptical, but there's enough substance here to at least be willing to make him the backup guy in one of the most crowded coaching carousels I can ever remember. We're 14th in NIL investment in the conference yet he's created a top 3 offense out of that. He's not getting the credit he deserves from some in that regard at all.

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His top three offense wonder weapon coughed the ball up late in 4 games we had a shot to win. The last two games, against fellow bottom feeding programs, it utterly self destructed late in the game. It vanished at the end of the 1st quarter against Notre Dame.

If you are a booster. If you are someone who might pump up that NIL money. Would anything you've seen out of Petrino convince you that "by God we keep losing with him, but if I threw even more money at him we could turn the corner!"

Yes, there were some bad calls against us, but Bobby's temper tantrum and the team meltdown that followed it has put paid to him being the next HC barring Petrino miracles us to three wins to end the season. Even then I think the big money donors are ready to see him ride off into the sunset.

To borrow a line from Star Trek. "He's dead, Jim." Lets not spend a season dragging the corpse around.

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His top three offense wonder weapon coughed the ball up late in 4 games we had a shot to win. The last two games, against fellow bottom feeding programs, it utterly self destructed late in the game.

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And literally none of this would be an issue if we didn't have to be damn near flawless and score 40 points every single week to even have a shot at winning the game.

I'm sorry but if you look at this team and think the main issue is Petrino's offense, I can't take you seriously. We average 35 points per game and have two wins. Both Alabama and Georgia average less than that and are a combined 14-2 with middle of the pack defenses.

Offense is not the problem.

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And it was roughly half of what was raised.

So Arkansas had roughly 10million to spend in NIL, of they handles this in house that number to spend would have been 20 mil which is on par with Alabama.

HY did this himself, then blamed the fans and boosters for the amount being low.

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You'll get no argument from me here. I'm no fan of HY and have always believed we should/could be better in the NIL game. I'm just talking from the perspective of what funds were ultimately available for the staff to use.

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The point I was making was that Petrino made a top offense with one of the cheapest rosters in the conference. That's it.

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0 SEC wins

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And if the program had all the money raised a defense could have been paid for and we wouldn't be looking at coordinators to be the next HC.

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Exactly.

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we wouldn't be looking at coordinators to be the next HC.

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We really need community notes under your posts

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Thank you for proving my point.

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lol I didn’t prove anything except that it was a bad comparison. But you can wake up every morning with a stiffy now, bc Bobby isn’t gonna be the coach.

Hope the coach we get is half as good as Bobby, though I highly doubt that will be the case. We’ll end up with some mid major coach that’ll go 3-9, 5-7, 6-6, 4-8 then get fired. Rinse and repeat.

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Again, the side of the ball Petrino had no part in recruiting/developing.

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