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re: What would stop a school with huge donors from having a 100,000,000 dollar NIL fund?
Posted on 11/20/25 at 2:13 pm to Mid Iowa Tiger
Posted on 11/20/25 at 2:13 pm to Mid Iowa Tiger
Agree. A single billion earning a mere 5% yields $50 million. You could donate/spend $50 million per year and you still have your billion dollars.
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Posted on 11/20/25 at 2:15 pm to 1BIGTigerFan
Harvard, Princeton, and Yale return as football powerhouses.
Posted on 11/20/25 at 2:16 pm to 1BIGTigerFan
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What would stop a school with huge donors from having a 100,000,000 dollar NIL fund?
The first program to spend 60-100 mil and it backfire (recruits/players don't pan out or cash it in) will make programs second guess how much $ they give. Sam Bradford and Jamarcus were two QBs who benefited from the draft slot before the CBA negotiated a more fair rookie deal to not over spend. We are heading to a point in College Football where there will have to be a CBA type thing to limit the amount of $ being dished out and put caps on it.
Posted on 11/20/25 at 2:17 pm to 1BIGTigerFan
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Is this thing unlimited? The top 5 schools with all the donors will get all the best players?
great question!
I read that the NCAA now requires schools to regulate these NIL deals to make sure they are legit jobs and compensation is just fair and fit
I have no idea how that works but the numbers we're seeing, my gosh
Posted on 11/20/25 at 2:20 pm to 1BIGTigerFan
That is not a small number 
Posted on 11/20/25 at 2:25 pm to 1BIGTigerFan
Kind of like the Yankees when they used to out spend everyone and the Oakland A's had to have Moneyball. LMAO
Posted on 11/20/25 at 2:26 pm to Alatgr
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It’s gonna be cool when they impose a salary cap so we will basically just be watching the NFL in different uniforms.
We essentially are there. This revenue sharing nonsense is a salary cap, they just don't call it that because they refuse to admit it is pay for play.
The NIL Clearinghouse is supposed to prevent NIL deals from secretly being pay for play deals, which is the same thing the pro leagues do.
The difference in college, though, is these Collectives. They are basically allowing a fan club to pay athletes NIL money to endorse the fan club. Those are clearly pay for play deals, except that the athletes have to actually participate in marketing to get the money.
Posted on 11/20/25 at 2:36 pm to 1BIGTigerFan
It's an arms race that the richest public schools will win. (ETA: Strike that - have already won.)
Meaning the University of Texas will be the Alabama of the 2030s.
If you look at public university systems' endowments - Texas is #1 (and would just behind Harvard overall - :letthatsinkin:), aTm is #2 and combined they outvalue the next 4 combined - which are also wealthy public schools (Michigan, Cal, Virginia and tOSU). LSU does not even have 1% of the combined wealth of the top 6 schools.
It is not an arms race we will lose. It is an arms race we have already lost.
#Itiswhatitis
Meaning the University of Texas will be the Alabama of the 2030s.
If you look at public university systems' endowments - Texas is #1 (and would just behind Harvard overall - :letthatsinkin:), aTm is #2 and combined they outvalue the next 4 combined - which are also wealthy public schools (Michigan, Cal, Virginia and tOSU). LSU does not even have 1% of the combined wealth of the top 6 schools.
It is not an arms race we will lose. It is an arms race we have already lost.
#Itiswhatitis
This post was edited on 11/20/25 at 2:37 pm
Posted on 11/20/25 at 3:03 pm to 1BIGTigerFan
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What would stop a school with huge donors from having a 100,000,000 dollar NIL fund?
Return on investment?
Rich people don't exactly love setting their money on fire and giving millions of dollars to unproven 17-19 year old kids, annually, is essentially lighting money on fire.
Posted on 11/20/25 at 3:22 pm to 1BIGTigerFan
Just think what $100,000,000 could do
Posted on 11/20/25 at 3:25 pm to 1BIGTigerFan
Just think what $100,000,000 dedicated to academics could accomplish.
Posted on 11/20/25 at 3:31 pm to HenryV
Sorry for the unfinished post. See the complete one above.
This post was edited on 11/20/25 at 3:35 pm
Posted on 11/20/25 at 3:31 pm to HenryV
Sorry for the unfinished post.
Disregard.
Disregard.
This post was edited on 11/20/25 at 3:39 pm
Posted on 11/20/25 at 3:47 pm to HenryV
Is it true that with the schools now paying 20 million or so max, that collectives can still pay unlimited NIL amounts to a kid in high school in order to get their commitment?
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