Will LSU players have less opportunity for NIL money because baton Rouge is small?

Well College Station is a piece of shite and look what they did. Alumni base is all that matters. LSU has a pretty massive alumni/fan base

By your logic, Bama, Georgia, Auburn, Tennessee, Ole Miss, Texas A&M, Florida, and everybody else will struggle with NIL because we are bigger than all those towns. By your logic, Vandy will kill it in the NIL up in Nashville!

Baton Rouge is not Tiny.

By your standards then why doesn’t Vandy football players make bank since they are in Nashville

That’s not an issue. In fact, if you flip it around, the money LSU and most SEC teams pay out goes a LOT further than it would in a larger market or on either coast because of the lower cost of living and lower taxes though most of the south.

Kids aren't raising a family here.

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Alumni base is all that matters. LSU has a pretty massive alumni/fan base

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And a desire to pay.

By the OP's logic a school like Washington (in Seattle) should dominate NIL relative to a school like Auburn, which is located in a small city in east Alabama. The difference, which is all that matters, is the wealthy Auburn folks care much more about college football than the greater number of wealthy people in Seattle. You will have more money in Seattle. But that doesn't matter if those people don't want to spend it on NIL.

It really comes down to rather their are businesses or businessmen that want to operate in the NIL space. We haven't seen a ton of that in BR, outside of Gordon, ....yet.

A really great AD at a place like TCU or SMU, with a very large city, could work wonders to turn a program into a powerhouse just based on the amount of businesses in the area. Time will tell if it happens.

OMG, this is just plain idiotic

Is Baton Rouge small? It's the 3rd largest city in the SEC in terms of population behind only Nashville and Lexington (2nd in metro area population behind only Nashville). And I don't think we're too worried about Vanderbilt or Kentucky.

I'm not saying there isn't any validity to your point but it's based more on the size of the state and the economy of the state/city-- not the size of the city...

BR is NOT a tiny city compared to other SEC cities. In fact it might be one of the biggest.