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re: Is There Anything That Could Stop Someone From Straight Buying a Championship?
Posted on 1/3/26 at 6:14 pm to UAClassOf22
Posted on 1/3/26 at 6:14 pm to UAClassOf22
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That was way back in the day when teams were buying HS players.
The new model is to buy your team from the portal - way more effective.
Exactly. High school kids are an unknown, higher risk proposition.
Sit back, wait 2-3 years, empty the piggy bank on all the top players. It's possible. But even rich people probably realize that not only is it a dumb waste of money, people care less about college football than they did twenty years ago for exactly this reason.
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Posted on 1/3/26 at 6:28 pm to captdalton
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Let’s just say one of the Walton heirs, worth in the $90-95 billion dollar range,...Let’s say it cost them $150 million. So what, that is the equivalent of someone making $125,000 spending $2,000.
Cap'n, I agree somewhat with your intended point, but your math is off, as is the comparison. $125,000/$2,000 = 62.5, but $90,000,000,000/$150,000,000 = 600. You're off by almost a factor of 10. More importantly, someone with $125,000 who gives away $2,000 has $123,000 left, Someone with $95,000,000,000 who gives away $150,000,000 still has
$94,850,000,000 left.
Posted on 1/3/26 at 6:42 pm to captdalton
College sports has become unregulated free agency so I would say no.
Posted on 1/3/26 at 7:17 pm to captdalton
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Is There Anything That Could Stop Someone From Straight Buying a Championship?
Yeah keep whining since your monopoly on college football was broken up by this new era. Cope gump!
Posted on 1/3/26 at 7:18 pm to captdalton
not enough money
Posted on 1/3/26 at 7:29 pm to captdalton
No, there's nothing to stop it, and it will happen to some extent, if not outright as you suggest. People with several/tens of billions don't necessarily think a/every $150M investment should render a return, esp when that "stroke" to the ego has a very decent chance of occurring because it can be applied so directly. Hope it doesn't come to that, but human behavior is what it is.
Posted on 1/3/26 at 7:31 pm to SEC Doctor
Surely you jest, Kim. What team won a 10 game conference schedule, won the SEC, won two playoff games, and brought home the trophy?
I’m sure you’d like to forget the 55-17 thrashing of yo boys at B-D West.
I’m sure you’d like to forget the 55-17 thrashing of yo boys at B-D West.
Posted on 1/4/26 at 12:23 am to Kashmir
Bogus Covid abbreviated season, I love how yall defend that like it’s your child because you know it was all bullshite too but you HAVE to have #18 for your small dick ego
Posted on 1/4/26 at 6:48 am to captdalton
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Posted on 1/4/26 at 6:49 am to captdalton
All you need is a couple billionaires and cut you lose with blank checks.
Posted on 1/4/26 at 6:53 am to wadewilson
quote:Corndogs are so obsessed with Bama....
Alabama sure was able to convince a shitload of 5 stars to sit on the bench for a long time.
Posted on 1/4/26 at 7:13 am to captdalton
It never stopped alabama.
Posted on 1/4/26 at 7:49 am to captdalton
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Is There Anything That Could Stop Someone From Straight Buying a Championship?
The Irony.
Posted on 1/4/26 at 8:41 am to EulerRules
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Cap'n, I agree somewhat with your intended point, but your math is off, as is the comparison. $125,000/$2,000 = 62.5, but $90,000,000,000/$150,000,000 = 600. You're off by almost a factor of 10. More importantly, someone with $125,000 who gives away $2,000 has $123,000 left, Someone with $95,000,000,000 who gives away $150,000,000 still has $94,850,000,000 left.
Good catch, all the zeros ran off my phone when I tried to divide; I was one short.
Check my math:
150,000,000 / 95,000,000,000 = .00158
.00158 x $125,000 = $197.50
So it would be like most of us spending $200.
Makes it seem even more possible it could happen.
Posted on 1/4/26 at 8:43 am to RollTide4547
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Corndogs are so obsessed with Bama....
It is clear from this thread they are not the only fanbase to have severe emotional trauma. ADS, Alabama Derangement Syndrome, is real.
Posted on 1/4/26 at 8:54 am to captdalton
If the amount of total NIL money were to keep increasing, at some point the amount per player means less, and instead its the amount of cars, houses, vacations and virgins offered.
Posted on 1/4/26 at 9:05 am to RollTide4547
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Corndogs are so obsessed with Bama..
I believe the Bama obsession has officially ended.
Bama was exposed as a fraud by the Longhorns. Your minions will cess any further Tide worship.
Posted on 1/4/26 at 9:06 am to captdalton
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Is There Anything That Could Stop Someone From Straight Buying a Championship?
Rich people love money and aren't in the business of setting it in fire for an 18-19 year old kid that can turn on them after a year.
Posted on 1/4/26 at 9:28 am to Blizzard of Chizz
To be fair happiness is worth some cost...you pay for internet, TV, Most of us have subscription to Netflix or Hulu.. When you are insanely rich like them $150 million is like us normal people going to a movie basically. So if they choose to spend money to make a Football team better it is a drop in a bucket to them. Insane how wealthy they are.
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Posted on 1/4/26 at 9:42 am to SEC Doctor
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Bama did it for years leading up to its last title in 2017.
Just about everyone in the SEC, prior to NIL, was buying players for at least two decades. Alabama, LSU, Auburn, etc. Alabama just had the better head coach more seasons than not.
But this whole "Alabama was the only team buying its roster" is just dumb. Ed O was even belovedly referred to as the Bag Man.
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