Amarillo Tide

I’m thinking LSU? I seem to recall we’re tied for #3 at $30 million.

None but it doesn’t take a genius to see we appear to be broke.

The more, the merrier. If the O line improves, I don’t care if they have to hire a dozen assistants.

I understand what you’re saying about retention and to a certain extent, it makes sense but we have to have at least some good players signed out of HS, otherwise in a couple of years we have zero depth.

I hate to see us whiff on literally every good player out there other than Haven and Seaborn. Yes, I understand there’s not going to be a big signing class but holy cow, this is a weak, weak class.

I hope this gamble works out.

Jerry Rice only had so so speed, so it’s still possible to be highly effective.

Simmons is IMO wildly underrated. 2000+ yards receiving is impressive regardless of what level competition.

I’d be ecstatic signing him and Osami Gayles.

I hope you’re wrong. I know CKD and the staff are good at finding diamonds in the rough (e.g. London Simmons) but we run the risk of becoming MSU if we start only signing guys that may or may not pan out.

Read this article and have mixed emotions.

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On the one hand, he's right. NIL is gigantic and I get the sense that great facilities and coaching simply aren't enough to consistently attract the best players. I hate to say it but with 90 per cent of these kids, it's all about the $$$$$. Personally, I think that's a bit short sighted but I'm old school and a lot of these kids come from back grounds where they don't have pot to pee in or a window to throw it out of. It'd be hard to turn down that kind of money.

Then again, I refuse to chip into the NIL collective because A.) I'm not wealthy and B) I know we can't force the tooth paste back into the tube with NIL but the whole obsession with the almighty dollar by some players just rubs me the wrong way.

I don't have a clue where you would find this data (if it even exists) but I would be very curious to see a breakdown of the dollar ranges of donations each school gets for NIL (e.g. "20% gave $100,000 to 200,000, 5% gave $200,000-500,000). I would guess that schools like Texas, A&M and Texas Tech have most of their donations chip in over $100,000.

And I would be very curious to see where Bama's NIL contribution ranges fall.

I considered LSU but even though they've been spending like drunken sailors with NIL and had a massive upgrade in terms of coaches, it's still Lane and he's prone to doing something absolutely insane at the most inopportune time that will cost them dearly in a close game.

I feel like his nutty play calling at some point will cost them at least one game, maybe two every year.

Wow, big arm on that kid. He's also bigger than I originally thought he was. Hopefully, South Carolina isn't making a move on him. I'm sure they're telling him he could be the next LaNorris Sellers. Trouble is, there's a good possibility that Shane Beamer won't be there in a year or two.