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How much longer will you care about whether your team has championship success if all it

Posted on 3/15/24 at 3:41 pm
Posted by nicholastiger
Member since Jan 2004
46844 posts
Posted on 3/15/24 at 3:41 pm
really means is that your collective spent more then your competitors.
I didn't even watch the Final Four last season.
Outside of football I don't know if I really care much about the other sports and I guess the playoffs will make football more exciting.

Won't it be kind of a hollow feeling that Team A won the title that was bought and paid for?

Kentucky is expected to launch a NIL fund on Thursday with the purpose of making UK basketball the top NIL destination in college basketball. The legendary head coach in Calipari is expected to be included in the launch.
Posted by BluegrassBelle
RIP Hefty Lefty - 1981-2019
Member since Nov 2010
101696 posts
Posted on 3/15/24 at 3:43 pm to
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Won't it be kind of a hollow feeling that Team A won the title that was bought and paid for?


Are we really pretending this wasn’t happening before the NIL?
Posted by Comancheria
Guntersville, AL
Member since May 2023
738 posts
Posted on 3/15/24 at 3:44 pm to
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Kentucky is expected to launch a NIL fund on Thursday with the purpose of making UK basketball the top NIL destination in college basketball.


Oh no, Kentucky is finally going to start landing top recruiting classes..
Posted by cas4t
Member since Jan 2010
71183 posts
Posted on 3/15/24 at 3:45 pm to
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Won't it be kind of a hollow feeling that Team A won the title that was bought and paid for?


Have you been in a coma the last 50 years?
Posted by Weagle25
THE Football State.
Member since Oct 2011
47032 posts
Posted on 3/15/24 at 3:49 pm to
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really means is that your collective spent more then your competitors.

If this is true, let me know who’s collective spent the most this year so I can fill my bracket out accordingly.
Posted by TN Tygah
Member since Nov 2023
5709 posts
Posted on 3/15/24 at 3:52 pm to
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really means is that your collective spent more then your competitors


This is objectively not true. You say you only care about football, OK fine. Do you think Washington, Michigan, or Bama spent more money than Texas? A&M had 5 losses and LSU had 3, do you think LSU spent more money than A&M?
Posted by GusAU
Member since Mar 2014
4027 posts
Posted on 3/15/24 at 3:54 pm to
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Are we really pretending this wasn’t happening before the NIL?
Are you saying that, BEFORE NIL, players were transferring with no restrictions to any school that outbid his current school? And then transferring again the next year if someone came in with a higher bid? Again, with no restrictions?

I don't really see how you can remotely compare today's current environment to what was going on pre-NIL.

Yes, players were being paid before under the table, but they were not able to just transfer multiple times with no restrictions.
Posted by Barstools
Atlanta
Member since Jan 2016
9913 posts
Posted on 3/15/24 at 3:55 pm to
And that's why the Yankees and Dodgers win the world series every year, because money buys championships. When was the last time a team other than the Yankees or Dodgers won the WS? Has to have been decades ago, right?
Posted by GoGators1995
Member since Jan 2023
2990 posts
Posted on 3/15/24 at 3:57 pm to
I'm sure LSU fans cared about basketball when Will Wade was still there. Wonder what changed.
Posted by SaturdayNAthens
Georgia
Member since Dec 2017
11506 posts
Posted on 3/15/24 at 4:00 pm to
I would feel fine. It wouldn’t necessarily mean that cheating had occurred. There are really no rules now.
What it would mean to my program is that our fans and supporting businesses cared enough to donate money thru NIL to make our team successful.
Schools who have fans who don’t care enough and are not willing to contribute won’t do well. It’s nothing new. Successful schools usually enjoy generous fan support thru donations and other programs like GT who have little fan support don’t
Posted by Dallaswho
Texas
Member since Dec 2023
1812 posts
Posted on 3/15/24 at 4:01 pm to
Better. With a real playoff and equality in payment schemes, cheating is finally off the table. This is the first time a championship will mean something.
Posted by Globetrotter747
Member since Sep 2017
4615 posts
Posted on 3/15/24 at 4:17 pm to
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Won't it be kind of a hollow feeling that Team A won the title that was bought and paid for?

The teams that have been winning for at least the last 15 years have done so due to money and the head coach. It has nothing to do with a bunch of guys going to LSU to spill their guts for the Tigers (or whoever).

The problem for fans is they want the players to love the program like they do - but also want them to be ambitious world class athletes from anywhere on Earth.

If Alabama fans want love, sign Timmy Threestar from Tuscaloosa. If they want to win, sign Johnny Fivestar from Los Angeles.

Don’t sign the mercenary for the sake of winning and then expect him to love you.
Posted by imjustafatkid
Alabama
Member since Dec 2011
53964 posts
Posted on 3/15/24 at 4:20 pm to
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How much longer will you care about whether your team has championship success if all it really means is that your collective spent more then your competitors.


Not sure. I've always enjoyed watching players develop over their years at Bama. Without that, I doubt I'll get as much enjoyment from the game.
Posted by SECdragonmaster
Order of the Dragons
Member since Dec 2013
16571 posts
Posted on 3/15/24 at 4:36 pm to
Op -

If you don’t really care, delete your username and account.

Watch your team on game day and then go back to other interests after the final whistle.
Posted by Mr Sausage
Cat Spring, Texas
Member since Oct 2011
13655 posts
Posted on 3/15/24 at 4:41 pm to
Is this a trick question for A&M fans?
Posted by TouchdownTony
Central Alabama
Member since Apr 2016
10204 posts
Posted on 3/15/24 at 4:49 pm to
Stop whining.
Posted by Smokeyone
Maryville Tn
Member since Jul 2016
18683 posts
Posted on 3/15/24 at 4:50 pm to
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really means is that your collective spent more then your competitors.


TAMU said WUT?
Posted by Tridentds
Sugar Land
Member since Aug 2011
21685 posts
Posted on 3/15/24 at 5:34 pm to
20 years ago….
Posted by DawginSC
Member since Aug 2022
6216 posts
Posted on 3/15/24 at 7:11 pm to
Just like recruiting before NIL you don't need to be #1. You just need to be amongst the top teams.

If that weren't the case, Bama would have won every championship the last 15 years. They won a lot of them, sure. But they didn't win all of them because simply having the best talent isn't always enough.

But you have to be close enough to be in the mix talent wise.
Posted by dchog
Pea Ridge
Member since Nov 2012
23769 posts
Posted on 3/15/24 at 7:59 pm to
The national champion Michigan has an endowment of $17 billion.

Texas has a $13 billion endowment.

Texas A&M has an endowment of $19 billion.

Alabama has a $1.09 billion endowment.

Washington has a of $4.9 billion endowment.

LSU has an endowment of $625 million.




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