re: Arkansas NIL issues

The Waltons don't care for sports unless it deals with art or bike trails.

JB Hunt and Tyson are doing the most work.

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I thought their collective would be for all sports and not individual funds for each sport.

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I am taking it you are not part of the grove collective?

First question it ask is "Choose a sport(s) you want your donation to benefit"

Plenty of people were mad at Bianco last year and threatened to give the money to basketball. I believe Cleary went out and raised a pile of it for us to be able to compete but still way behind LSU and Arkansas on the baseball NIL money.

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I would think between Jerry Jones, Walmart and Tyson there would be NIL money flowing.

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I have no real knowledge on the innerworkings of NIL, so I'm just kind of spit balling here. But I feel like it might be harder to utilize NIL deals for national brands?

Small to Midsize companies typically have business targeted towards a specific region or areas - which can sometimes align with the footprint of a certain university. It might not be practical for a national brand like Walmart or Tyson to have a advertising campaign with just KJ Jefferson (for example) when they can just develop a more generic one they can use all across the country?

Maybe if Arkansas had a winning team with a Heisman Trophy contender. but they dont... (had to throw that in)

In short, money drys up quick when your bad.

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congratulations to folks who live in other places that kind of suck but have good football teams?

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Does the sec have more than 1 or 2 good teams this season? There doesn’t appear to be from what I’ve seen. So, iow, many here lead a double suck life.

Really though, it’s like pro teams now…only the salary cap varies wildly based your donors’ appetite and depth of pockets.

Need to call Walmarks.

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You know anyone could move to NWA and still root for a good football team right? You don't have to live in the town of your alma mater/ college you root for

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:raises hand from Bentonville:

We appreciate the graciousness of our rival’s donors

Word is that the Hunts specifically won't give much to football a) because they love hoops and 2) because th2y know Pittman is not a good HC and don't eat to piss away $$ in wasted investments.


If a really badass FB coach were ever hired who the Hunts saw as legit, they would pony up bigly, just like they currently do in bball.

Arkansas hoops probably has top 3-5 NIL in the nation. Football supposedly has more than ppl think, but not nearly enough to actually compete.

If a Chadwell or Jonathan Smith took the helm, Hunts would probably start dropping many more bags for FB.


Also, the university seems to openly and purposefully do a shitty job promoting and aligning NIL. There really are no non-billionaire collectives like Ole Miss and many others have.

Justin Moore could be out there giving a 'free' concert every year that requires a $50 'donation"to NIL funding, but he's jot doing anything of the sort. That's telling. No one has any longterm faith in Pittman.

They know he was a stop-gap and that's it.

They already called and it went straight to voicemail.

The Arkansas administration and big donors don't align on the same goals for good reason.