re: The elite teams moving forward.

Dumb thread is dumb.

Sad you had to put LSU in there because you are needy for upvotes. Georgia, Texas, and Alabama..not LSU

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The three elite teams in the SEC moving forward in the NIL era will be UGA, Texas, and LSU.

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As an LSU fan, I really do appreciate the shoutout. I do however think, we should wait and at least see if there is improvement of product on the field first.

Also, until Bama proves that they are no longer Bama, I just do not think they do not belong in that list.

True..if programs like Stanford, Northwestern, or Southern Cal start funding sports majorily...we are all screwed

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It only lasts as long as the billionaire's do. I hope people don't stop liking Chicken with extra Cain sauce.

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Fan collectives, which are largely funded by wealthy donors, are just one part of NIL. A whole lot of the numbers you see reported for players like Arch Manning or Cam Coleman aren’t from Texas’ collective or rev share. But from legit marketing deals that Texas can tap that few others can. Because Texas has both one of the biggest brands in college football and Austin is a big town with a lot of big companies and it doesn’t have a pro sports team for those companies to spend money one.

It’s an advantage because Texas also has a large collective. It’s also important if and when the clearinghouse starts reviewing deals. Fan collective deals are subject to scrutiny. Deals with Vuorii, Warby Parker, Uber or Red Bull aren’t.

Three buckets.

1. Rev share — no scrutiny. Everyone has $20 million they can spend across all sports. Most put 75 percent into football.

2. Fan collectives. Subject to clearinghouse scrutiny. Can be less reliable due to donor fatigue. Big donors and $50 a month guys chip in for this.

3. Third party deals. This is where Texas has the advantage. Austin businesses. Texas is a top 3 national brand. Can Coleman knows he’s going there a lot more money from legit NIL marketing deals at Texas than he would at some podunk SEC town that might get him a car dealership or sunflower seed sponsorship. That isn’t going to cost Texas or its boosters a penny. Bet he does some commercials with Manning.

Texas lost recruits for years due to schools like Alabama, Auburn, LSU, etc dropping bags. We said we didn’t and the proof was the recruits we lost that would not happen if we were paying like others were. Ain’t so much fun when the rabbit has the gun, is it?

Some of you miss the good old days when a sack of cash to an uncle and a Dodge Charger could buy you a 5 star.

Pre NIL, when a top 5 Texas player had strong interest in Oregon, LSU, Ohio State, Alabama, Fisher's FSU, Fisher's A&M and Auburn, every Texas fan that knew anything knew we had zero shot.

I hate OU more than any team on that list and it is not close and Texas has not had a bigger nemesis than Bob Stoops. After Big Red Motors in 2005 -- which was pretty tame, just no show jobs -- OU was clean. I hate A&M second most. A&M under Sumlin and Sherman were very clean, they only started cheating like crazy when Jimbo and his staff of awful assistants whose only benefit were being bag men arrived.

The teams bitching the most about NIL are the poor former bag droppers. Rich former bag droppers like Oregon and Ohio State do not care.

Every team's alumni dropped the proverbial $100 hand shake. But dropping $100k or more bags for 5 stars, it was a select group.

Texas pre NIL could recruit pretty well. It could not assemble talented rosters like it has since NIL started. And the proof is in the pudding.

Texas NFL draft picks by year:

2025 - 12
2024 - 11
2023 - 5
2022 - 5
2021 - 5
2020 - 3
2019 - 2
2018 - 4
2017 - 1
2016 - 1
2015 - 1
2014 - 0
2013 - 3
2012 - 2
2011 - 4
2010 - 6
2009 - 4
2008 - 5
2007 - 7
2006 - 6
2005 - 3
2004 - 4
2003 - 4
2002 - 2
2001 - 3
2000 - 1

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True..if programs like Stanford, Northwestern, or Southern Cal start funding sports majorily...we are all screwed

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Hell, imagine if MIT decides they don't care about enrollment requirements and decides to field a team.

Or Harvard or Yale decide to go Div 1. Harvard has 127 alumni billionaires... no one in the SEC has even 20. If half of those Harvard alumni decide to push for it, they'd easily dominate the sport.

But yes, Stanford is the current FBS program with the highest number of ultrawealthy alumni. They could easily decide to just say "frick it" and if money is the only object easily kick everyone's arse. They have 93 billionaires as part of their alumni.


But this is what everyone wanted... "parity".

Anyone who thought NIL was going to make football "better" was really just wanting to see the system burn because they weren't winning in the current one. Now they can blame being outspent instead of being outplayed or outrecruited.

I’m not counting any team out in the NIL transfer portal era.