re: Dominick McKinley's RPM has changed

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The reality of the situation is that very few schools have a guy like Gordon McKernan whose business is making an absolute fortune AND he has the ability to justify massive NIL spending as an advertisement expense. The “Texas oil money” thing is funny to me because small oil companies in Texas aren’t dumping a ton of money into NIL because they can’t really justify it.

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Every major university in the country(and most smaller ones) have a guy like Gordon. Don't mistake willingness with capability.
Oil companies don't have to advertise the oil company. But they do generally have other businesses tied into the oil companies monetarily that can be advertised. Besides, Texas has school sponsored collectives so the money can be donated that way or the old fashioned way of just washing it through something else. Rich people guise money transactions all the time. That's elementary stuff.

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If Texas and Texas A&M had as much money as they pretend

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They're not pretending. They do indeed have all that money.
TAMs endowment(though irrelevant) is up there with the largest in the country. The people behind that still have money they apparently are more than eager to spend.
Texas has all those types of folks as well. If you need hard numbers to back up their prolificity then just Google highest earning athletic programs for the past 20 years. They'll be right there in the #1 spot. That money is equal to crumbs for all intents and purposes. War chest money in Texas.