Or make shitty deals where RU gets a tiny fraction of what other schools get.
OT: Phil Knight providing Oregon with unlimited NIL Resources
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The Home Depot guy, Bernie Marcus, is dead.
But Al's songs have been rumored to raise the dead.
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Thank you, VKJ. I didn't know that. It makes me feel a lot better about Phil Knight, even though I still don't really like having a subsidiary of Nike in the Big Ten.
When allowed, the hidden hand of money can ruin anything and everything, in sports and beyond. That's progress...
That may be true of private money, but I think there are legitimate questions about whether states and public institutions should be spending public money and tuition to float college football programs, scholarships and facilities for athletic competition that is not played on a level field. There need to be some reasonable guard rails to keep this a sport and not just commerce.
aren't you a part time Maryland fan or do I have that wrong? I'm old enough to remember when certain posters, including Al, said UA money was going to make Maryland the next Bama
true, some people are never content taxing or spending other people's money
should we also regulate how much schools can spend on science departments? Should we make all states fund their universities equally?
Yea and they still haven’t won a championship despite hundreds of millions invested. Finally may do it this year. A&M throws money around like water too and they haven’t even made a playoffs yet. Many other examples as well. Money is very helpful, increases the odds of success and you’d rather have it than not but it’s not a guarantee of anything.
There’s always the focus on the money rather than the actual ends going on in CFB. The field is as level as it’s ever been and opportunity is as good as it’s ever been. We’re seeing things that haven’t happened in a long time or ever. As a fan that’s all I care about and having hope going into any given year. Fans from many schools, including lower status ones, can feel they have chance to achieve some meaningful good accomplishments in any given year. That’s a good thing.
absurd comparison. Colleges exist to educate and do research. The acceleration of outside money is making football less recognizable as a fit in the same institutions.
The Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland conducts tons of cutting edge research and treats reams of patients each year. Yes, funded with big dollars from a certain Phil guy.
And paying off middle aged men to buy clothes and get country club memberships.
Right?
You left out that part.
Billionaires should be trying to cure cancer instead of paying off middle aged men to take private jets to woo said teenagers.
The Home Depot guy, Bernie Marcus, is dead.
But Al's songs have been rumored to raise the dead.
Dam, I didn't know that...RIP
Just got done reading an article SMU
Basically SMU's Board Chair organized a meeting of 12 donors - collectively worth $15B. So a far cry from Oregon dollars, but they invested in the program to propel it to the playoffs.
From the article, “It’s a couple hundred million dollars,” Miller, the founder of EnCap Investments, an oil and gas private equity firm, told Yahoo at the time. “I’m not losing sleep over it.”
Yeah, that's what we're dealing with. Without deep pockets, there is no hat in the ring. A couple hundred million dollars. While we have destitute fans who complain about overpriced hot dogs and smuggle in water bottles to avoid paying the stadium surcharge.
Basically SMU's Board Chair organized a meeting of 12 donors - collectively worth $15B. So a far cry from Oregon dollars, but they invested in the program to propel it to the playoffs.
From the article, “It’s a couple hundred million dollars,” Miller, the founder of EnCap Investments, an oil and gas private equity firm, told Yahoo at the time. “I’m not losing sleep over it.”
Yeah, that's what we're dealing with. Without deep pockets, there is no hat in the ring. A couple hundred million dollars. While we have destitute fans who complain about overpriced hot dogs and smuggle in water bottles to avoid paying the stadium surcharge.
The competition, almost universally, has substantially better coaching, philosophies and schemes. And it's not even close.
You are just too blind a fanboy to be capable of having an objective thought so it always comes back to NIL / Fieldhouse.
First off, he’s dead. Died a couple months ago. Secondly, he never gave two shits about Rutgers University and probably didn’t leave us a penny. Pretty sure he never gave a penny to the school after he left either. If I recall correctly, most of his money went to Emory University outside of Atlanta.
Just think of all the Rutgers Screws he had to deal with in his time at Rutgers-Newark.
That's not entirely true or predictable.
When they have a national championship for biology lab, then it should be regulated.
Jersey Mike's owner just sold the company for 8 billion.
There will be increased pressure both from the schools in the big conferences and probably from media conglomerates to add regulation, rules and process to the current situation. The overall health and competitiveness of the sport will require it. Having a sport that gets monopolized by a handful of schools because of unlimited resources isn’t going to be sustainable over the long run.
College football is great!!! It's just like the NFL. Except for the minor issues that it has no one in charge, no salary cap, no restrictions on player movement, no draft, and illogical money losing obligations tied to fund women's sports. Who wouldn't want to give even more of their hard earned money to players who transfer every season. Great thread once again Al!!!!
Your just cheap and use Al making sense as excuse # 39000. It’s not new that this fanbase has never given more than an opinion.
Oregon is the more relevant comparison, if Kevin Plank can get UnderArmour turned around.
That seems silly.
Like saying your constant "Where shud I move" posts have made the act of moving less appealing.
Urban Meyer could have chosen just about any Defensive Coordinator, but he chose Greg Schiano because his schemes are as good as anyone else’s.
For two years of the three years Schiano was there, Ohio State had a top notch defense. Schiano’s third year OSUs defense was hit by graduations and kids leaving for the NFL. Similarly, Greg Schiano had top notch schemes and players at the University of Miami. In 2000, Miami deserved to play for the National Championship, but they were passed over by FSU.
So how could Schiano’s schemes and philosophies work so well at Miami and Ohio State, but not work so well at Rutgers? It’s the talent. An old coach who used to post would say, “It’s the alignment, not the alignees”.
Miami and Ohio State fans have provided the support to recruit top notch players for decades. Football success isn’t as important to our fanbase, and that’s just the way it’s going to be.
That's fair to call me out as a hypocrite. You got me.
However, what Nike does for Oregon is of a different magnitude from what any corporation is doing for any college athletic program -- certainly from what UA does for Maryland.
If I had my way, there wouldn't be any of this corporate sponsorship, but that ship sailed decades ago.
Have a great Christmas...
Another NIL story, SMU almost wins the ACC in their first year with NIL from Texas Billionaires
sports.yahoo.com
Texas billionaires made a $200 million bet on a college football ‘laughingstock.’ It’s paying off with a championship run
The support of the deep-pocketed donors has quickly launched the program from mediocrity to national relevance.
sports.yahoo.com
That's my issue with the GS philosophy of having a beans-n-franks offense that's supposed to limit turnovers while dynamic defense drops the hammer. Great defenses don't grow like weeds. RU is always a group or two short - not to mention lack of depth. DBs are the most consistent but after that its a flea market. Defense needs more athletic types but a few of those have to be heroes (like Ed Reed on GS team) who flash when you expect them to and then when you dont. Just "executing" only works in high school.
that is actually a stupid comparison- if the fieldhouse was all in a single thread- all is good.
And even my buddy Al knows my personal feeling on NIL and why and that I agree with others that bringing up a new fieldhouse on new and different threads mult times is annoying to many of us.
But it did matter and our coach caused the loss and then instead of taking it on the chin he doubled down and said it was the right decision.
That’s hilarious - do you have any idea how much billionaires actually pay in taxes? The billionaire borrowing loophole is one of the biggest scams in tax history.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/taxnot...llionaire-borrowing-a-new-kind-of-wealth-tax/
