re: TOP 20 NIL Collectives

Sure, College Football is where the money is at, but why does everyone assume the only measurement of success is a school’s football program?

I guarantee the (#18) Kansas University collective isn’t focused on football.

There are obviously other NIL programs that are beneficial outside of the official “collective”.
i.e. GetGordon, Cane’s, etc

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Lol I am not going to pay a kid to play football

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OK, but just keep in mind if LSU and all their followers had this same stance, LSU will finish with 4 wins each year. As much as it sucks, that's where we are at.

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MOST of the HS kids didn't go with most NIL money. Most left tens of thousands on the table. Development and dream school were top reasons. Only one kid they interviewed said he went with most money.

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A program that utilizes NIL effectively has coordination between the school program, the coaches, and the managers of the collective funds.

There are some situations where coaches don’t do a good job of evaluating talent and or character so they get players who are bad character, or talent and no one wants the player representing for them.
There are situations where the manager of the collective is interested in baseball and doesn’t give a damn about football.

With this new landscape, being a coach is a huge undertaking. They’re fighting for money from a collective representing the same school!

Then there’s the allocation of funds.

Take football for instance; if the money isn’t spread around to supporting cast, it’s not going to work. QB, RB and to some extent receivers are going to benefit from a solid OL. If it were my decision, I’d be paying the OL more than other schools. Same for DL. Get some solid talent up front and the DB’s benefit.

The manager of a collective is sort of like a general manager for a professional team but they have to oversea all sports…
Very convoluted.

There’s no legitimate way to truly rank these because who reports to who?

Who’s to say people aren’t still doing under the table deals?

I posted this yesterday, will give a little insight!

Right now, the money folks are stuck. They give X amount of dollars. The part the AD’s don’t like. If they are giving to NIL, they are taking that money away from the athletic department. They are still giving the same total amount, just that some of it is going to NIL. More Athletic Departments around the US are going into the red. LSU has been very fortunate, they have managed well. One person took care of a buyout, didn’t cost LSU anything.

All other sports are dwarfed by football. Nothing else matters so much.