re: Genuine question, not melting at all - Why are we unable to match other schools' in NIL?

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TAMU has biggest and richest alumni assoc. they have 70,000 enrolled year in and year out.

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Right - i understand this much. That's the reason we can't match them overall in terms of money spent.


But it doesn't make sense that they've already spent probably 20x more money than us on this class and can STILL easily outbid us on the final couple guys.



I understand and expect that we are not going to be able to compete with them on NIL overall - but it doesn't make sense to me that we can't even compete with them for ONE GUY.

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Maybe this will open more voters eyes to the real state of LA and they will quit voting for Dims that don't create shite for the state

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Dims and Repubes has been fricking this state for 100 years. Its not going to change

Other schools?

You mean A&M?

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I guess i just don't understand why we're NOT, then.

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It’s probably hard to keep going back to the same guys to 1) buy Orgeron out, 2) pay for Kelly and staff, and 3) NIL for recruits when we are literally just 2 years removed from going 15-0 and fielding the greatest college football team of all time. We won 3 NCs and played for another in the past 18 seasons—we are not as desperate as A&M.

But the coordination is also a huge part of it. They had their ducks in a row a long time ago. It’s too rushed for a lot of Baton Rouge businesses to have had time to properly vet all this.

Lol it’s absolutely that we can’t match! Our fan base keeps celebrating the little Gordon deals while the Aggies have billionaires lined up to outbid.

There’s much more resources there for alignment

Just to echo what some others have said - it’s not just a matter of having a wealthy alumni base. Stanford, Duke and probably Vandy have collective alumni wealth that could swamp just about any other P5 program. Just the Stanford alums at Google could fund NIL deals into perpetuity that no other program could match.

Here’s what makes A&M unique - there’s a sizable and committed group of Aggie alums with 7 to 9 figures of net worth (the Ags don’t have many billionaire alumni; UT swamps them there) willing to do whatever it takes to win a National Championship. Further, the Aggies have been really aggressive and progressive in their collective NIL strategy. They’ve even found ways to pool small dollar donations for NIL. LSU and many other schools are way behind, but we can catch up.

I’m particularly intrigued by small dollar-funded NIL programs. Small dollar donations via digital platforms has transformed fundraising in politics, and it could be a strategy for less-affluent alumni bases (like ours) to get on par with others.

When your alumni run the likes of Exxon and ConocoPhillips,their resources are unlimited.It’s the NFL with zero salary cap.

A&M base is willing to dish out the cash to win a national championship. Long term I don't think they give out what's going out now. Most LSU fans have seen multiple national championships in their lifetime so they're not as Gung ho. A&M is a school, by all metrics, should have done far more than they've done over the last 20 years.

The numbers A&M is promising these signees that I heard thrown around by someone on tv yesterday is insane if true. We definitely would not be coming up with that kind of money. Apparently, even the big pay schools from pre-NIL like Bama and Georgia don’t have it set up like A&M either right now.