re: Jacoby Matthews has decommitted.

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A&M beat us two out of the last three years and is viewed as rising.

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Give me a freaking break! Every decent LSU fan considers the 2018 game to be a felony. It definitely isn't a legitimate A&M victory. And let's not forget about the mega arse kicking LSU handed A&M in 2019.

Meanwhile, in the 2020 game, had LSU started Max Johnson, as opposed to TJ Finley, LSU would have won that game easily.

You can view A&M as rising, but I don't.

You're entire post sucks!

I was think the same think, he is scared of competing with Thomas.

Sorry he’s a great player but not a starting quarterback or the face of the team. Stingley had to earn that on the field and Bryce Young is the starting QB of a multi national championship team. Texas A&M’s best player got a NIL deal with Cane’s for less than Derek got and the next two players for A&M got 10k each. It’s not as big as you think bro. Only the best player on each SEC team will make anything noteworthy. I honestly believe he will eventually stay at LSU. Everyone thought he committed to early anyway. Mason Smith the recruiter will make sure he is purple and gold. I trust in Corey Raymond and Dorante Jones he already said how much he loves Daronte Jones. Honestly LSU just has to have a good season and you will see the in state kids stay

I don't think any school is actually close to taking him however, I do believe him taking UOVs to schools does have something to do with this. Probably visits but as I said I didn't like it when he was visiting A&M with the LA Boys because that's the second time he's done it.

This is why I quit following recruiting!!!!

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Jesus we have grown arse men in here melting about an 18 year high schooler. Look folks it will be ok either way. Last time I checked the safety room looks pretty good now

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We’re still favorites to land him.

It’s July for Christ sake

fricking relax guys

This is really not a very difficult concept to understand, it is just a matter of do you want to take your head out of the sand and view reality? Or instead continue to stick your head in the sand in the hopes that none of this is real?

Here it is real simple, in black and white.

With NIL’s the college game with all of its history, traditions and academics, as it was known for, are gone forever.

This is now strictly a business and in business, money talks and everything else walks. Players that were die hard fans of home state schools will forego those allegiances, when it comes down to getting paid.

So in business when there aren’t any rules, the companies with the deepest pockets usually win, it will not be any different here. What the Supreme Court did was insure that college sports going forward are only for the rich.

In the NFL they have salary caps, that is so the big team markets don’t out-spend the smaller team markets and create a monopoly where you only win if you have the deepest pockets because you buy all the talent.

They don’t have that in the NCAA, so that simply means the richest schools “deepest pocketed alumni” will succeed and EVERYONE else falls by the wayside.

The formula is really that simplistic, with no rules in place to protect the smaller universities enabling them the chance to compete on equal financial footing, the smaller institutions are doomed there will be no way for them to compete, their market share “their recruiting base” will be raided constantly of all the good players because they will be paid more to leave. No longer is it about education, it is only about athletics. So sad.

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Jacoby Matthews has decommitted.
Who do you think pays for LSU suites? It's not personal money. It's people running stuff through their business. And who said anything about small businesses? I know a contractor who gives well over $500k to LSU over a 4 year period and his company does $160MM in revenue a year. A&M has dozens of guys like that. Any booster owned O&G company can sign an endorsement deal with a kid and not make them do a damn thing to earn it. This is the world we're in now.

As far as taxes go, all of these schools have set up departments to handle them for the kids and their parents. That's what O was bragging about saying LSU was prepared for the NIL. I do think some kids will end up not complying and have the IRS up their asd at some point. That's a given.

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What type of businesses are you talking about? A Partnership, which is taxed at the Individual level. S Corporations up to 100 Stockholders. Yes, so if the company agrees to buy a suite, they are paying for a service, the right to use the LSU suite and use it to wine and dine customers. The Corporation or say Sole Proprietor (shareholder of 1) engaged in an arms length transaction, paid $$$$ for the right to use the LSU suitie.

All above board and perfectly legal and easy to account for. LSU sets the price to to rent the suite for 4 years a company agrees to purchase it Corporations have bylaws and as you get more Shareholders a Board that makes such decisions.

No one said anything about a public corporation. You're full on potato making up fictitious scenarios and arguments to argue them. There's nothing stopping a privately owned business from signing you, me or jacoby Matthews to an endorsement deal if they want to.