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Kind of ….premature, dontcha think?  


https://twitter.com/mattmosley/status/1955474595131392303?s=61

I think some teams could reproduce what FSU was able to do back in the 90s.  Winning the NC these days is unlikely no matter how good your team is.

I don't know any Texas fans saying this.

Mediots say stupid shit all the time.

With the portal and NIL as it is now, I don't think anyone will be able to reproduce what Saban did at Alabama, ever again.  So it would be silly to call ANY team "the new Bama."

Correct me if I’m wrong, but there is no cap on NIL , correct ?  The cap applies to the $20 million to athletes from the university. 

There's no cap on what the committee is now considering "legitimate" NIL opportunities. The kicker is that those opportunities now have to be what you'd consider as fair compensation for selling your "name, image, or likeness". That is, what would the market bear for you appearing in an advertisement, promoting a product, or marketing T-shirts with your face on it? There's an accountant clearinghouse that's required to validate all opportunities over, I think it is, $500 or so. 
Compare that to the "collectives" who gathered money to donate to players in the name of supporting a charity or some such. In these scenarios, everyone knows the players aren't actually appearing in legitimate advertisements, and that their association with this business (non-profit or otherwise) is nothing more than a paper referral to gain a payment. Usually, these charities, while complying with IRS guidelines for donations etc did nothing more than pay players. The NCAA lent its blessing to all this.

There's no cap on what the committee is now considering "legitimate" NIL opportunities. The kicker is that those opportunities now have to be what you'd consider as fair compensation for selling your "name, image, or likeness". That is, what would the market bear for you appearing in an advertisement, promoting a product, or marketing T-shirts with your face on it? There's an accountant clearinghouse that's required to validate all opportunities over, I think it is, $500 or so.
Compare that to the "collectives" who gathered money to donate to players in the name of supporting a charity or some such. In these scenarios, everyone knows the players aren't actually appearing in legitimate advertisements, and that their association with this business (non-profit or otherwise) is nothing more than a paper referral to gain a payment. Usually, these charities, while complying with IRS guidelines for donations etc did nothing more than pay players. The NCAA lent its blessing to all this.

The collectives have not been disallowed.  Because legally there's just no way to separate the collectives from "legitimate" NIL.

The very fist time the 3rd party consulting firm attempts to block an NIL deal from the collectives or anyone else, it's going to get challenged in court, and it's going to get blasted.  Because without collective bargaining agreement from the involved parties, you just can't arbitrarily limit their earning potential.

If anybody can get close to duplicating Bama's recent successes, Texas fits the bill.

But, that's a TALL order.  I think any of us would take 1/3 of their success, and be happy as a lark.

why Texas over UGA?