re: “If you can’t beat them buy them” Leave it to both Texas schools to ruin this great sport

I'm actually upvoting a stephen post.

Send help.


There's a difference, at least to me, in allowing guys to make money off of their name/image/likeness on their own and telling a recruit that companies that support that school will have big NIL deals waiting for that recruit if he goes to that school. Texas is doing the latter.

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I'm actually upvoting a stephen post.

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You agree with the OP? If so, how?? Do you think Saban and the Bama program have been 100% squeaky clean this entire time? Cheating is cheating, some have been better at it than others. Now its no longer cheating or harder to "cheat" given its legal

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There's a difference, at least to me, in allowing guys to make money off of their name/image/likeness on their own and telling a recruit that companies that support that school will have big NIL deals waiting for that recruit if he goes to that school. Texas is doing the latter.

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I just caught your edit so I'm responding. What you just said, to my knowledge is completely legal.

I didn't down vote you lol

In all seriousness, the methods and ways this is happening are very different.

Jimbo is just going completely unhinged with the bag game and has dropped an eye popping number on recruits this cycle from the handouts of the army of rabid insurance agents in their alumni base. It's almost like he has an impending sense of desperation, or the fact that he has the identical record as Sumlin. Only his platform shoe guy knows for sure.

Texas donors never wanted to get into that world en masse, so NIL is something that they can use to support the program.

More importantly, Ohio State, LSU, Bama, etc. are not going to be able to come in to Texas with impunity and take all of the top players out of the state like they have for the last decade. Personally I like seeing Ohio State get the pimp hand from Texas the most today.

LSU does similar things for the most part with Louisiana kids and is super aggressive about keeping schools out, although I sense that Bryan Kelly may open the borders a bit with his faymily approachability and jettisoning of stud coaches.

I think the NCAA will fix this. Texas, BYU, Miami deals are all pay-for-play. They don't even try to hide it.

The NCAA didn't have a lot of restrictions but one was that an NIL deal can't be used as a pay-for-play scheme or to entice players to a specific university. By giving all players at only a specific school deals, this violates both.

Also, the IRS will be very interested in what Texas is doing.

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Faggies my buddies at Texas are planning to tell recruits to get your best offer from A&M and we are going to give you a little card with a number and X after it and that’s the number of times we double their offer.

They just paid 4 million for back up QB. Everyone on Texas football team will make 1 million and up if they stay 4 years next year and they will increase as needed (250k a year)

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Fine by me.
Get all the offers out on the table, so we can know with what we’re working and how to counter it (if we’re even interested in doing so).
As many on this board have so often said to us ... money doesn’t buy championships.

It's not pay for play any more than any other NIL deal is. We are assigning a baseline market value to NIL for a player coming to TX. They can go out and get stuff over and above that on their own. Just because a kid knows that their position group will have a reasonable NIL deal walking in the door doesn't change a ton. Ask BYU how it helped their recruiting this year.

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What Texas is doing is completely legal and they will actually pay taxes, the players that is versus what was going on with cash payments and bag men. So IRS is going to do much better with this system.

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Yes, players will pay taxes. That wasn't my point.

By making it a "charitable organization" the donors can deduct the donations which are used to pay the players.

That is not a legal use of a charitable organization.

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That is not a legal use of a charitable organization.

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I agree. Boosters should not get tax deductions for the money they are spending in this regard. It seems calling these charitable non-profits is pretty fraudulent.