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Yeah. My program is an event on the Australasian Tour in comparison to LIV.  Your OSU issues? #firstworldproblems

I'm not saying OSU has issues. I'm saying the playing field is more level now, which is good for the Buckeyes (and other northern teams). Money wins over proximity.

So for this to be true, the owner or managing partner at Lamborghini of Austin, would be a University of Texas alum, right?  Or at the very least, on the list of large money donors to the University? 

If you can prove that, I'll concede the point.  If you can't, then we'll all know yer full of shit.

Now that right there is funny I don't care who the hell you are !!!

I'm not saying OSU has issues. I'm saying the playing field is more level now, which is good for the Buckeyes (and other northern teams). Money wins over proximity.

I wouldn't say it's more level now, it's just shifted to the wealthy schools serving larger markets that were previously reluctant or unwilling to get involved in the bag game, but are perfectly willing to take advantage of the new "above board" opportunities provided by NiL.

Some of the old-school bagman teams will be able to shift paradigms, some will not, and some new players will enter that weren't previously contenders in the pay-for-play scenarios.  

The field isn't any more level than before, it's just tilting in a slightly new direction.

That's the thing about tilts - you can get back to even just by tilting in a new direction, at least for a while.

Can you, though?

I feel like the portal is creating NIL chaos vs. the inverse. If the NCAA put their focus into something (I know that's a stretch); changing the 24/7 365 free agency that currently exists through the portal would be the greatest opportunity for improvement.

I agree this would be an improvement for the fans who preferred the status quo, but it's certainly NOT an improvement for the athletes themselves, who've always been held to a different and unfair standard that doesn't apply to coaches, or even to the other non-athlete students around them.

I am curious on how the NIL spend through these collectives will affect other University fundraising efforts down the road. Will this impact fundraising for stadium upgrades, academic centers, etc? Or are the NIL donors a completely different subset?

I can only speak for Texas, but right now at UT the latter statement is true.  In fact, it's been extremely difficult to get the REALLY large donors engaged in NIL-- they prefer to have their names on buildings and gain access to the presidential suite at the football stadium.

Currently the NIL donors at Texas are from sort of a mid-tier of businessmen that are not the billionaires, and also just the common fan donating $25/month to the collectives.  If Texas ever got the truly wealthy boosters involved in NIL, it would be an entirely different scene.

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Currently the NIL donors at Texas are from sort of a mid-tier of businessmen that are not the billionaires, and also just the common fan donating $25/month to the collectives.  If Texas ever got the truly wealthy boosters involved in NIL, it would be an entirely different scene.

Even if i had a lot more I'm not paying them to have fun.That coin goes for me to have fun

just think what A&M could be paying players if they weren't paying their coach to go away

https://247sports.com/college/texas-am/article/texas-a-m-athletic-department-reports-record-operating-revenue-surplus-for-2023-fiscal-year-225981974/#:~:text=Those%20documents%2C%20which%20were%20sent,netted%20a%20surplus%20of%20%2484%2C495%2C486.

he Texas A&M athletics department had its highest operating revenue and surplus totals on record for the 2023 fiscal year, according to a financial report GigEm247 recently received through an open records request.
Those documents, which were sent to the NCAA earlier this month, show that A&M reported an operating revenue of $279,188,334 for the 2023 fiscal year. Their reported operating expenses were $194,692,848, meaning they netted a surplus of $84,495,486.
Since the NCAA started its current financial reporting system in 2005, A&M has never tallied higher operating revenue and surplus numbers than its 2023 fiscal year total. According to USA Today, A&M surpassed $200 million in operating revenue only three other times during that span: 2017, 2018 and 2019.