amercer said:

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It's going to ruin the stupid athletic departments run by good ol boys and old athletes.

A&M needs to get some wall st quants in here asap to moneyball the NIL/portal system

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Maybe this is where the good ol boy could finally work, cause it sure as hell didn't work in the other system.

Scholarship limits no more. Only roster limits for all sports. 105 scholarships for FB starting in 25/26.

Cost of Attendance not sure if this is going away or not.

Revenue sharing.

NIL

They're still gonna play the games, but you can bet it's only gonna cost more to attend a game and watch them on TV...

Didn't they just sign a top 3 class??

This is like Cruz begging for money when Alred's wife won't even vote for him

Is there anything stopping a player from signing then go directly into the portal?

Why was bama able to buy so many championships pre-NIL?

Seems A&M is behind whether the money is under the table or on it.

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45-70Ag said:

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What I keep expecting to happen is for a super rich billionaire to exploit the system, endow an NIL fund with $10 billion or so, and just say we are buying all the best players. There’s nothing to stop that right now. A rich dude could literally buy all the top 85 players and put…

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) December 18, 2024

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Clay, we tried this in 2022

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We should have also bought Saban

Seems like a good free-market economics lesson.

Maybe football players think they're worth too much?

Bama, like a few others spent all their NIL money on HS kids and pissed off the current starters who are getting way less So they're bolting

Who handles the nil planning and negotiations for us?

Agvet12 said:

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Bama, like a few others spent all their NIL money on HS kids and pissed off the current starters who are getting way less So they're bolting

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Roster mgmt not having players out and "recruiting" outstanding transfers is going to be the key to success in the next couple of years and it's going to take more than the biggest bag of cash

Football progs make plenty of money to pay players. Ppl paying for players without receiving rev share or equity are fools

45-70Ag said:

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What I keep expecting to happen is for a super rich billionaire to exploit the system, endow an NIL fund with $10 billion or so, and just say we are buying all the best players. There’s nothing to stop that right now. A rich dude could literally buy all the top 85 players and put…

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) December 18, 2024

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So basically a LIV football league. Just take college out of it and overpay the top players to play a minor league football league.

Not sure how they got this class. They pay way below market value. That was one of the reasons they hired Deboer he has a GM that handles all the NIL deals who has made it clear he won't pay news guys more then the ones in the lockeroom. Sure maybe he does but he might be the only one on record saying he won't. I'm not aware of any middle man here saying it. AD knew Bama didn't have the money and NIL philosophy was a big part of the hire. Once the revenue sharing starts idk how that changes things but the collectives will still be in business so they will still be way behind.

"we are Alabama".

He misspelled "were"

Conference salary caps?

With Billions. Lots of options are possible. Not only paying people to play for you, but paying people NOT to play as well (on your team or not). Positive NIL payments vs Negative NIL payments. Could be the wild west.

what the ROI for the donors? What do they get out of it? Surely its not tax deductible, is it?

I cant imagine writing huge checks for a team in which I have 0 vested interest lose 4-5 games every year. God bless them.

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At Alabama, we've not measured ourselves against our competition. We are the standard, and that measurement is against the mirror and against a rich and proud history, but it's impossible to ignore what is taking place in college athletics. Hungry fan bases are acting decisively to give their respective programs competitive advantages. We must respond. We are

Alabama.

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This arrogance sounds familiar. If you change "Alabama" to "Texas" in this press release, you get the same drivel spewed from the 40 Acres but with far fewer football national championships to back it up.

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amercer said:

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It's going to ruin the stupid athletic departments run by good ol boys and old athletes.

A&M needs to get some wall st quants in here asap to moneyball the NIL/portal system

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Yeah, you can't just buy the best players. It's just prohibitively expensive at this level.

Kozmozag said:

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Who handles the nil planning and negotiations for us?

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don't ask don't tell

LuoJi said:

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Football progs make plenty of money to pay players. Ppl paying for players without receiving rev share or equity are fools

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there is truth here