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I don't know what defines "NIL-rich," but LSU got who and what it wanted in the portal this year and has made managing the new landscape a priority.  Once the kid that went to Michigan asked for more than they were willing to spend for one guy, they basically went Money-ball and scooped up a ton of value elsewhere. 

So "people" say.  We'll see what the results on the field are.

I don't ever rule out the possibility that a legislature as corrupt as Louisiana's won't find a way to forcibly extract NIL from the public in the form of state revenue, and I'm being serious about that.  LSU's/LA legislature's history of misappropriating public funds to benefit the flagship university's football team has a.....colorful....past. 

Curious what you’re sources are for these NIL listings. Lot of rumors and speculation. Not a lot of hard facts.

Also I just wonder if there aren’t some under table deals still going on just to avoid the spotlight.

They either don't have them or they haven't needed them.  In the old paradigm, LSU's Ath. Dept. was one of the most profitable in the nation in any given year.  The football program generates $ like almost no one else, and LSU has the added benefit of one of the only baseball programs that doesn't siphon off the football revenue.  It seems like a highly profitable AD suggests a base capable of highly lucrative NIL structure, but I haven't thought that hard about it. 

One of the problems LSU potentially faces at the current moment, indisputably, is that it's well-documented that LSU was slower than others to embrace and plan for the NIL world.  They were behind the curve for a couple of years, and it showed.  This most recent recruiting cycle is the round that transpired after the collective come-to-Jesus meetings between university reps and local businesses and the hiring of some personnel whose sole job is to focus on managing the NIL landscape.  They did markedly better. 

The two unanswered questions are:  1)  Is it enough?  Or will it be enough with continued progress?  2)  NIL-world is now kinda old hat, from what I understand, what with all this new stuff about universities directly paying players.  I don't keep up with all of it anymore and I'm not qualified to guess at outcomes, but it sounds like it's all changing yet again, so LSU's efforts so far may be irrelevant due to yet another paradigm shift. 

Da hell?

Is that just a cap, or something the rich schools anticipate as routine?  Pay 88 scholarship guys 20.5 mil and you've reached $1.8 billion.

Maybe Texas has that kinda $, I'm pretty sure LSU doesn't. 

In my view, the lawsuits would be shaky.

The whole argument for paying players in the past has been that they're due a share of the revenue they help generate, which the sport has seemed to either come to agree with, or at least ultimately caved to. 

So when non-revenue players start filing lawsuits, claiming they're entitled to a cut, I'd be looking at them and demanding they show how, exactly, they're generating any of this $20.5M they want a piece of. 



....I just ended two consecutive paragraphs with prepositions.  I can do better, but I don't feel like it, though it does make me a little sad inside.