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re: Dominick McKinley's RPM has changed
Posted on 8/5/23 at 11:30 am to deuce985
Posted on 8/5/23 at 11:30 am to deuce985
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Texas endowment
Texas’ endowment has nothing to do with football or any sports. The endowment doesn’t fund athletics and is primarily from value attributed to their land holdings, which they lease to large oil and gas companies.
It’s the $$$ their donors have to contribute to their collectives or to NIL directly (whether through their companies or otherwise). They simply have more high net worth individuals in their network, so if they WANT to spend, they can find a way to do that… but these guys are savvy business professionals. They’re not going to get out of control for a single player or players outside of the market Norms, a La whatever the hell Florida was thinking with Jaden Rashada.
TLDR - if they want to drop a bag, they can. But I think the conversation is a little overblown given the absolute dollars for players and each university having wealthy donors of their own… just my 2 cents.
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Posted on 8/5/23 at 11:34 am to GeauxVU
Lsu staff has until Sept 1st I’m not worried yet
Posted on 8/5/23 at 11:51 am to GeauxVU
quote:
Texas’ endowment has nothing to do with football or any sports. The endowment doesn’t fund athletics and is primarily from value attributed to their land holdings, which they lease to large oil and gas companies.
It’s the $$$ their donors have to contribute to their collectives or to NIL directly (whether through their companies or otherwise). They simply have more high net worth individuals in their network, so if they WANT to spend, they can find a way to do that… but these guys are savvy business professionals. They’re not going to get out of control for a single player or players outside of the market Norms, a La whatever the hell Florida was thinking with Jaden Rashada.
TLDR - if they want to drop a bag, they can. But I think the conversation is a little overblown given the absolute dollars for players and each university having wealthy donors of their own… just my 2 cents.
Spot on
Posted on 8/5/23 at 12:19 pm to GeauxVU
That's the point I'm making. LSU isn't poor and LSU has been cleaning out the portal in their athletics alongside recruiting. They're probably a top 3 university in it among athletics right now.
If you think LSU is just going to lay down and let Texas come in to drop money bags on Louisiana recruits to steal who they want you're pretty ignorant. They're going to target who they have highest on their board. They stole Williams last year but LSU gained elsewhere. I'm not convinced BK and staff was high on Manning. He was overrated which should be pretty clear to anyone who follows recruiting. Manning was not even the best QB in the state last year.
Football is LSU's money sport. They will spend whatever it takes to stay at the top. I can about promise this though, if McKinely and Mack ended up leaving LSU will find someone on par or close to them as a replacement. Whether it's in the portal or recruiting. Their money will just go to someone else. LSU's expectations are compete for a NC. Texas expectations are not to suck like they have been since Vince Young.
If you think LSU is just going to lay down and let Texas come in to drop money bags on Louisiana recruits to steal who they want you're pretty ignorant. They're going to target who they have highest on their board. They stole Williams last year but LSU gained elsewhere. I'm not convinced BK and staff was high on Manning. He was overrated which should be pretty clear to anyone who follows recruiting. Manning was not even the best QB in the state last year.
Football is LSU's money sport. They will spend whatever it takes to stay at the top. I can about promise this though, if McKinely and Mack ended up leaving LSU will find someone on par or close to them as a replacement. Whether it's in the portal or recruiting. Their money will just go to someone else. LSU's expectations are compete for a NC. Texas expectations are not to suck like they have been since Vince Young.
This post was edited on 8/5/23 at 12:26 pm
Posted on 8/6/23 at 2:32 pm to GeauxVU
quote:
Texas’ endowment has nothing to do with football or any sports. The endowment doesn’t fund athletics and is primarily from value attributed to their land holdings, which they lease to large oil and gas companies.
It’s the $$$ their donors have to contribute to their collectives or to NIL directly (whether through their companies or otherwise). They simply have more high net worth individuals in their network, so if they WANT to spend, they can find a way to do that… but these guys are savvy business professionals. They’re not going to get out of control for a single player or players outside of the market Norms, a La whatever the hell Florida was thinking with Jaden Rashada.
TLDR - if they want to drop a bag, they can. But I think the conversation is a little overblown given the absolute dollars for players and each university having wealthy donors of their own… just my 2 cents.
Pretty accurate.
Endowments rarely fund sports. The current elite UT alumni aren't much different than a lot of the other "billionaire schools", they don't donate to athletics historically.
The Joe Jamail and Red McCombs days are over @ Texas & the new blood hasn't produced the same benefactors for the sports side of the University. Hell, it didn't factor in much anyways, Texas ADept was a fat pig needlessly feeding their bloated payroll for decades.
Right now the athletic dept donations & NIL @ Texas is very strong and being carried by tier 2 high earners, the masses of a huge alumni network and a strong local economy/interested businesses.
Texas won't drop a bag that would make a difference, they'll throw out an unmatchable NIL deal for the right guy though.
The elite money will be the downfall of anything we knew and loved about college sports.. The Texas/Dell Longhorns or Tesla Longhorns ain't gonna do it for me. Some form of corporate partnership/Euro pro soccer set up is sadly the future.
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