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re: Dominick McKinley's RPM has changed
Posted on 8/6/23 at 12:47 pm to Geauxld Finger
Posted on 8/6/23 at 12:47 pm to Geauxld Finger
quote:Like Derrick Williams?
He’s going to verbal to UT and will end up signing with LSU.
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Posted on 8/6/23 at 1:12 pm to SLAP99
To know some of the money folks, you only have to look at who paid one of the larger buy-outs to get a coach to LSU. Also who helped get Woody to LSU. That’s two that more involved within the Athletic Department.
They’re a number, behind the scenes. Gordon just gets the limelight.
LSU is more involved with NIL, LSU has taken a more sane approach.
Most fans have no idea as to what steps LSU has taken to assist the Student Athlete.
They’re a number, behind the scenes. Gordon just gets the limelight.
LSU is more involved with NIL, LSU has taken a more sane approach.
Most fans have no idea as to what steps LSU has taken to assist the Student Athlete.
Posted on 8/6/23 at 2:32 pm to GeauxVU
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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.
Posted on 8/6/23 at 8:57 pm to Forever
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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
Literally every single school with legitimate national title hopes has one of these guys at absolute minimum lmfao
Posted on 8/6/23 at 9:00 pm to LSUDad
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Most fans have no idea as to what steps LSU has taken to assist the Student Athlete.
Lol go ahead and enlighten us then - what are we doing “to assist the student athlete” that other programs aren’t? For baseball, we have Marucci—that’s a legitimately big deal—but what’re we doing in football that other schools aren’t?
Posted on 8/7/23 at 1:45 pm to BayouBuckwheat87
Well we wait until end of month see who throws out Crystal balls day before he commits on Sept. 1st.
Posted on 8/7/23 at 5:05 pm to BurntOrangeMan
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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.
How bout the Dirt Devil Longhorns since you guys always seem to suck.
Posted on 8/8/23 at 6:29 am to LifeAquatic
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For baseball, we have Marucci—that’s a legitimately big deal
He sold the company. We don't even have Marucci.
Posted on 8/8/23 at 10:29 am to LifeAquatic
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For baseball, we have Marucci—that’s a legitimately big deal—but what’re we doing in football that other schools aren’t?
Jack sold it for $200M. But the company is still involved within the LSU Sports.
The LSU Helmets are another piece. The clocking of speed.
But then you get into Gordon’s roll, but like I said, the names you don’t hear. A number of those folks, assisted the Student Athletes.
So many NFL players leave the Pro ranks with little to no money left. Players need to be educated within.
Kim Mulkey took a step within NIL, allowing one person to handle those deals, the coordination has had others looking at what is done and what needs to be done.
They know somehow something must be done other than the schools.
Like I’ve said before, Baseball and Womans Basketball has had a light shine on them, the exposure of those programs have been seen nation wide. That look has kids wanting to be a part of what’s going on at LSU. No other school in the Nation has gotten more exposure since the beginning of this year.
LSU is in the process of moving more money to assist the Student Athletes, in all sports. The AD is moving things in the right direction, this is long overdue.
Most folks notice a difference within.
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