Are you surprised NIL hasn’t created a random recruiting powerhouse?

What if the tech billionaire(s) at Stanford or Cal suddenly decided they wanted to make the CFP and win the NC. They could simply purchase the best team money could buy for the school.

That would be random since I can't imagine Stanford or Cal having any die hard college football fans. I've been to games on both campuses. On game day, you hardly know there's a game that day.

Thank God they don't care about football or they would absolutely kill it in NIL

yes, they could run the sport. but most smart and wealthy people only care about stuff that matters. not football

I’m not surprised at all. Most places that have one or two major boosters and not a bevy of them are not going to be able to get those one or two to pony up all the money needed. NIL isn’t a tax right off like donating to the university is. The schools that will do well in NIL are the ones with a lot of boosters that can mutually benefit from the players. An example would be Arkansas. Arkansas has some of the richest boosters in the world but none of them really care that much about Arkansas football and paying just Arkansas players could negatively affect their national brands. They’ll never be great at NIL.

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I figured Oklahoma State and Arkansas would be two teams that took off because of NIL but it doesn’t seem like that’s the case.

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It’s 100% the case with basketball as the money is pouring in there from the Hunts. Now we just need them or someone else to shift some interest to football as we are lagging way behind there.

Not surprised.

It a team was going to spend that amount of money they'd probably be better served spending it on facilities and the program overall not just NIL, because I think that's what anyone who'd qualify for this thread would have to do to actually become a powerhouse

Easier said than done, you need more than just the players. Many factors are in play, such as academic standards, coaching staff behind the talent, facilities, large fanbase w/ support, etc. Though Stanford has been a west coast power in the 2010s, apparently they’re way behind on NIL and otherwise spending money for recruits, hence their downfall. Although, if they can get that together, land a coach that can develop and heavily recruit academic driven four and five stars like a Harbaugh, they’d have a chance of doing something.

Ehh with all due respect, Texas can’t get their shite together with the turmoil behind the scenes. They’ll need a Meyer or Saban level coach to orchestrate it.

Wonder if we will see a slow down in campus athletic room updates with so much money now going directly to individual players.