Can LSU compete in a money war

No we are finished. 7-5 will be the norm now.

GDP has nothing to do with it. Texas A&M has a ton of big money donors and they got on the NIL train before we did. LSU boosters will figure out a way to get players money. Last thing I’m worried about.

We've been doing it for decades. Players have always gotten paid. You think they came to lsu for free when bama and the like offered big $?

As indicated, we have lots of Tards who think that because we have some wealthy donors, we have unlimited resources…

Texas A&M has a ton of big money donors and they got on the NIL train before we did.


Those desperate figs have been irrelevant for 100 years. They see this as the only chance to buy a winner. They will reach very deep to finally have a contender. We can never match them dollar for dollar. Never

Watch how much money LSU slings around in the 2023 Louisiana class.

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California is nearly twice Texas

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So you're predicting a UC-Berkeley dynasty incoming?

There are rules
For one:Coaches can’t promise any money

Otherwise, the Nil market is going to be exposed this upcoming year. Players are going to know whether a school can provide national or regional money or both. On the surface, it appears that LSU will be only a regional market but maybe there’s national potential. Not sure how tho.

There’s also the illegal payments that will be made. Just because NIL exists, does not mean that money won’t be paid under the table.

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And there are no contracts with the team,

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no salary cap either

The big problem now is that the NIL rules allow schools that didn't/couldn't/wouldn't/ did know how/ to run the bagman game to now instead put it out in the open under the guise of NIL sponsorship.

To make matters worse, now they can disguise these amounts given by big money boosters as tax-deductable dontations to a nonprofit. So now we have big money tech and oil alumni that can use this as a tax writeoff on top of everything elss.

That being said, the SEC schools have no one to blame but themselves. Many non-SEC schools alumni remember Cam Newton and Johnny Football and their schools, the SEC and the NCAA's toothless responses to their blatantly getting paid.

Now since they have a more "technically" legal avenue to go about it, those alumni at other schools are going to take their shot. The problem now is that the SEC schools have a great regional recruiting hotbed with a longstanding tradition of $100 handshakes and playing the bagman game, but from a pure financial power perspective of alumni are going to lag behind many other schools individually and several conferences as a whole.

So can LSU compete in this environment? That is a great question. Can LSU secure 1-4M annually in donations set aside purely for the team itself (this is not even including individual NIL deals) Can this be done in a manner that will be completely selfustaianble annually without interaction with the LSU AD? Is it possible to set this up at this scale and make sure that none of the old habits of the baggame intrude into the NIL concepts?

The NIL is a problem because state law dictates a lot of what schools can and can't do.

There is a lot of issues out there tied to NIL, and if LSU doesn't want to get left behind the alumni, not the AD, have to driving this.