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re: Find it hard to believe OM can pay 30-40MM in NIL
Posted on 11/20/25 at 12:40 pm to TheRouxGuru
Posted on 11/20/25 at 12:40 pm to TheRouxGuru
Yep. And no school in the SEC can touch the money that Texas and Texas A&M can come up with. This thing about which school has richer boosters ends with LSU and Ole Miss not that far apart compared to the TX schools.
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Posted on 11/20/25 at 12:41 pm to rutiger
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Kelly came out and said LSU spent $18 million on the roster this season, can he show us a quote from Lane about how much they spent? Im not holding my breath waiting.
You mean the coach that publicly complained about how much LSU spent leading up to the game?
Well, that coach obviously got at least $20 million. He has every year.
Posted on 11/20/25 at 12:42 pm to ClintonTigerMS
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Yep. And no school in the SEC can touch the money that Texas and Texas A&M can come up with. This thing about which school has richer boosters ends with LSU and Ole Miss not that far apart compared to the TX schools.
The Texas schools are definitely pacing this race.
Posted on 11/20/25 at 12:42 pm to Yaboylsu63
It's not sustainable for them. In a perfect storm, yes, but not consistently
Posted on 11/20/25 at 12:45 pm to Yaboylsu63
I’ve been posting about this for a couple of weeks. OM has one of the most aggressive NIL programs. Well funded, partly by the fans contributing significantly.
Posted on 11/20/25 at 12:45 pm to RB10
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You mean the coach that publicly complained about how much LSU spent leading up to the game?
You got a link?
And Kelley was either using the Rev Share total (to hide the amount of NIL they have) or that 18 million is on top of Rev Share to make it 36 Million LSU spent on their roster.
This post was edited on 11/20/25 at 12:47 pm
Posted on 11/20/25 at 12:46 pm to 03 West CoChamps
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This doesn't mean what you think it means. Let me educate you. Each conference school gets 18 million to pay salary for their athletes. No NIL requirement. Show up and get paid. NIL is on top of that and was formerly run by collectives. Now the collectives help guide NIL deal to players. They are the go between. NIL and Rev share are 2 different pools of money. If you can't figure that out then you need to go back to 9th grade. These contracts pools these school are claiming are Rev Share +NIL combined to make the number look bigger.
Thank you! And NIL deals will have to be run through a clearing house. No one is getting $3mm to show up on a billboard. All the talk about 40-50mm NIL or insane numbers people throw around just prove who doesn’t have a fn clue what’s happening. The draw to a bigger school is because Lane feels (as do many others) that it may be quickly going back to the hand full of super programs and “everyone else” because the draw will be the huge crowds, facilities, brand, exposure etc NOT JUST CHECKS!
Posted on 11/20/25 at 12:47 pm to GeauxBall
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And NIL deals will have to be run through a clearing house.
That started in August. It won't last when it gets challenged in court though.
Posted on 11/20/25 at 12:50 pm to FistFest
I have several close friends that are both die hard OM fans and boosters. The delusion is next level when it comes to NIL and on campus resources. Nutrition center , indoor practice facility , analytics , support services , etc are all second tier. No one from the NFL shows up at OM to tour their facilities to get ideas on how to build a better mousetrap. (Locker room, training room, VR practice tool). NFL teams visit and collaborate with LSU every year on these resources. This doesn’t even get into the academic support system and resources in place.
Can they compete for a NC any given year —yes. Can they contend every year — no. If you are content, it’s a great place to coach for the remainder of your career. If you want to be the best every year or have a chance to do so then you have to find a different program.
Can they compete for a NC any given year —yes. Can they contend every year — no. If you are content, it’s a great place to coach for the remainder of your career. If you want to be the best every year or have a chance to do so then you have to find a different program.
Posted on 11/20/25 at 12:52 pm to Alt26
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It doesn't eliminate NIL
It doesn’t, but theoretically it is supposed to put an end to pay-for-play and direct payments from collectives. It remains to be seen how stringently/effectively that will be enforced.
Posted on 11/20/25 at 12:54 pm to Yaboylsu63
I always thought that wealthy families from Texas, Alabama, Tennessee & Georgia who didn’t go to state schools sent their kids to OM.
Their out of state enrollment is nearly 70%.
I think they have plenty of money if they want it, always assumed the problem was buy in & investment from the people with money.
Just my perspective from the outside looking in.
Their out of state enrollment is nearly 70%.
I think they have plenty of money if they want it, always assumed the problem was buy in & investment from the people with money.
Just my perspective from the outside looking in.
Posted on 11/20/25 at 1:00 pm to 03 West CoChamps
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It won't last when it gets challenged in court though.
Nothing in the original court rulings was intended to allow for pay-for-play. Regulations to ensure that NIL is really NIL should not run afoul of the courts.
Posted on 11/20/25 at 1:01 pm to 03 West CoChamps
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You got a link?
LINK
OM was heavy into the transfer portal when LSU wasnt. LSU decided to step up its game and immediately passes OM in the rankings with less players. Lanes comments regarding our NIL spend this year
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“These guys have one of the best rosters in America,” Kiffin said at his press conference on Monday. “They’re heavily financially invested in the portal. And it shows.”
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“They were heavily recruited and probably the three most expensive portal DBs in the market,” Kiffin said. “And they got them all. So, they did a great job with that.
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“These guys got premier, premier players,” he said. “Now, they’ve added three premier NFL draft picks in the secondary.”
Posted on 11/20/25 at 1:04 pm to RB10
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Ole Miss cannot sustain $20+ million a year, every year for the roster, on top of another $20 mil a year, at minimum, for Kiffin and his staff
And how exactly did you reach that conclusion? Are you assuming that just because we're Ole Miss, we don't have wealthy alumni and major donors? That our NIL collective - one of the top in the country and among the very first established, led by Walker Jones - somehow doesn't have deep, long-standing corporate partnerships that have been in place for years while other schools have been playing catchup?
Posted on 11/20/25 at 1:05 pm to Yaboylsu63
It’s hard to believe deez nuts.
#YEAR7
#YEAR7
Posted on 11/20/25 at 1:06 pm to Pickle_Weasel
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And how exactly did you reach that conclusion?
Common sense. LSU outspent Ole Miss this year and didn’t spend $20 million.
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Are you assuming that just because we're Ole Miss, we don't have wealthy alumni and major donors? That our NIL collective - one of the top in the country and among the very first established, led by Walker Jones - somehow doesn't have deep, long-standing corporate partnerships that have been in place for years while other schools have been playing catchup?
Cool. Ole Miss jumped out in front and then was almost immediately passed up by the bigger spenders.
Congrats, I guess?
Posted on 11/20/25 at 1:09 pm to Mobiletiggah
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I’ve been posting about this for a couple of weeks. OM has one of the most aggressive NIL programs. Well funded, partly by the fans contributing significantly.
Lots of folks don't seem to realize that there are certain things we do right. We even have a liquor brand where portions of the sales goes to our NIL.
Our NIL is extremely well run and has lots of different streams for revenue.
Posted on 11/20/25 at 1:38 pm to Pickle_Weasel
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Are you assuming that just because we're Ole Miss, we don't have wealthy alumni and major donors? That our NIL collective - one of the top in the country and among the very first established,
*Was one of the tops in the country
You're near the bottom in the SEC in Football revenue, program valuation, and recruiting spending.
247 ranked you 35th in NIL efforts in the country and 13th in the SEC with LSU being 7th in the country.
Posted on 11/20/25 at 1:47 pm to More beer please
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247 ranked you 35th in NIL efforts in the country and 13th in the SEC with LSU being 7th in the country.
247 knows less than dick about ANY NIL spending by ANY school because none of them have to make anything public. On3 and their ilk try to make guesses based off of THEIR valuations of a player, but nothing is from any official sources. I can assure you these schools are not giving these websites that info.
Ole Miss got a $20m donation two weeks ago into the NIL/Retention pool.
This post was edited on 11/20/25 at 1:48 pm
Posted on 11/20/25 at 1:55 pm to Billy Mays
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Ole Miss had a $10-15M roster last year when there was no rev share.
And failed to make the playoffs
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