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

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But now all of a sudden we are absolutely scraping the barrel just for one NIL deal at the end of the recruiting cycle.

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Priority was getting rid of O

That's done & now we'll have this fixed for 2022 and beyond. Even with this, still got a nice class.

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&M has $13.5 Billion endowment
LSU has a $550 million endowment

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That is academics and most of that is due to Oil and Gas royalties from Texas State lands being automatically allocated to the Aggie Endowment. That is not a function of donor donations. Now, the NIL money is a function of boosters willing to pony up and try to buy a National Title something Aggie$$$$ haven't done since pre World War 2 (from the USA perspective), winning the 1939 AP title.

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Why pay for something unproven?

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A&M's class is one for the ages. Do that twice more and you've got a legitimate national title contender in College Station. If Nick Saban's taught us anything, it's that you don't need all the 5-stars...just a bunch of 'em.

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The FLa. schools are back in the game with legislation just like ours.

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Nope. They got their law, which was similar to ours, changed in December. They can now directly assist kids in setting up NIL deals. Woodward and our boosters need to pressure the state house to alter the LA NIL law in similar ways. What we really need is a federal law so everyone is playing by the same standards.

As for the “woe is us, we’re po” and fricking endowment size, it’s clear many of you have no idea what you are talking about with NIL. A&M’s boosters built an infrastructure of LLCs that multiple boosters could fund to pay recruits. Their laws aren’t that different than ours, but they worked around them effectively.

Texas went a different route. They set up non-profits and charities that work to pay players for their sponsorship of whatever that charity is. They are also paying players more equally across the board, rather than individually negotiating deals like A&M. Both methods have worked.

Right now, we have individuals or single companies signing deals with players. It isn’t that we don’t have alumni money. It’s that we don’t have the infrastructure to pool it together the way A&M does today. And just to be clear, it isn’t just LSU that missed this trick. Bama, OSU, Clemson and UGA didn’t do this either.

All of the other top programs will be scrambling to build similar NIL clearinghouses this off-season. It sucks that A&M and Texas got there first, but that’s really what this all boils down to. Yes, they do both have a lot of money and more than us, but they aren’t going to pay what we’ve seen this year indefinitely. Some have said both schools expect regulations to come soon that will limit what they are doing, so they both went all-in this year. It wouldn’t surprise me if that ends up happening when you have a guy like Saban out there publicly complaining.

Good Question

Endowment money can’t be used in NIL. A&M must generate a huge amount of alumni pride to get that sort of endowment. The alumni at A&M are likely more diversified and not primarily involved in the management of oil and chemical companies. The bigger question is where the main employers in Louisiana are based.

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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

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I'm not suggesting that we have as big a purse to use as other schools but lets not act like A&M is cutting multimillion dollar deals to all of their recruits.

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Everyone keeps tossing out that aTm is the biggest and richest. That might be true about their endowment, but that has nothing to do with NIL.

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It does when the businessmen responsible for the endowment is funding the NIL money too. The NIL money they're giving is probably something they can remake in a day or week.

Of course the endowment money can’t be used as the NIL rules forbid it.

The point is that the Texas A&M alumni have much deeper pockets than LSU alumni have. That’s not even debatable.

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But how is it that A&M can offer more to the ~15th best guy in their class than we can offer to one of our top 3-4 targets? Like... they've already shelled out WAY more cash than us, and they're still blowing us out of the water on every remaining target? Surely they don't have THAT much more money, do they? Based on the way this class has come together, it seems like we have about 10% as much money to play with as they do.

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aTm has waaay more money, boosters with money, and brainwashed fanbase to be able to easily write whatever check they want to to whoever they want to. Why do you think they didn't blink when they extended one of the already largest coaching contracts in history for a guy that was .500 in the league? Money is truely not an issue for those guys.