Rick Neuheisel just spilled the beans on A&M’s NIL

... and they still don't have a top tier coach.

and anyone who has paid attention to aggy football knew that would be the result.

That seems both impossible and logical.

How dumb and wasteful would people have to be to spend that much money on football players? Players that don't really generate revenue personally for you?

But also, I think we're going to understand the impact of NIL as we go into the future. I can imagine (or at least hope for) a future where mid-tier players field more competitive, championship teams because they aren't spoiled, entitled 18 year old millionaires who party and play a sport at a college.

Many people overestimate the maturity level of high schoolers and college freshmen. They're - I know this is triggering for some - kids. They aren't adults. Even NFL players in their early 20s struggle with handling that much money. We're handing it to teenagers now? Their brains can't handle it. Of course they're going to struggle to compete.

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How dumb and wasteful would people have to be to spend that much money on football players?

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Serious question, is NIL donations a tax write off?

You have to take what Neuheisel says with a grain of salt. He's gotten loose with his facts over the past several years...I think he's been a member of the media for too long at this point. Not saying it isn't accurate, but I'd look for another source to verify the claim.

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They asked Bjork if it was true they really spent 35 million on that 2022 recruiting class. Bjork said that was false, they spent 50 million. Only to go 5-7 and 7-5. Wow.

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You guys can take all the shots you want at Texas A&M but next year they will beat McNeese and Bowling Green.

Interesting.. are these collectives' spending public info?

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Many people overestimate the maturity level of high schoolers and college freshmen. They're - I know this is triggering for some - kids. They aren't adults. Even NFL players in their early 20s struggle with handling that much money. We're handing it to teenagers now? Their brains can't handle it. Of course they're going to struggle to compete.

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They maybe kids, but it's the mommas, daddy's, aunties, uncles, grand momma's & agents that are handling that money.

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Bjork said that was false, they spent 50 million.

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So Basically, every player got $1.7M in that class... And they didn't even recruit a big time QB. Instead they relied on Max Johnson to carry their program.

The Neuheisels thing is just bizarre . . .it keeps morphing and changing and there are so many rubes like the OP that pass it along.

Here is the Notre Dame board quote from two years ago.

Nueheisel knows A&M Stuff

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I caught part of his SiriusXM program and he mentioned that he spoke with a Texas A&M alumnus at a wedding. The A&M booster told Neuheisel that his fellow alumni "got organized" and funneled roughly $30 million to the school in funds for the express purposes of payments to recruits and players under the guise of NIL.

Take it for what it's worth, but this is what we're up against.

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Here Neuheisel picked up that Bama dropped a cool million to entice a Utah Tight End but the kid stayed.

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On His Radio Show This Morning, Rick Neuheisel Said That Alabama Offered $1 Million For Utah's TE To Transfer To Bama.
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It's also been rumored on a Notre Dame paid board that they offered more than a million to ND's TE, Michael Mayer to transfer to Bama.

It's still kind of funny that people on Reddit or otherwise didn't see this happening with NIL.

Neuheisel was relaying a conversation that he had with Utah's head coach, Kyle Whittingham.

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Maybe there is a transcript around that proves this, but otherwise this is yet another in the long variations of silly rumors.