Jimbo says NIL has not affected A&M's recruiting.

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“It didn’t affect recruiting at all. I’ll say this, and I’ll address it in my press conference,” Fisher told 247Sports’ Josh Pate. “This $30 million deal is a joke. That there’s some fund out there for all these things that went down, and it was written on BroBible by a guy named Sliced Bread, and all the sudden the country believes it, is a joke. It didn’t affect recruiting at all, and I’ll address the rest of it. The people who, as I say, want to make comments on that have no idea what’s going on. It’s insulting to the players who came here and the people around us. The transfer portal is a factor.

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“It’s funny because all the guys who are complaining about this use the portal and all these things more than anybody else. All the coaches in our league that are griping, and across the country, it’s amazing what goes on. It is a factor. I think it affects high school kids. I think the portal is affecting junior college kids, and I think it affects high school kids, the guys that are signed. … Listen, rules are there. I don’t know where it’s going to go. We’re in the first year of it. It’ll be interesting to see where things go, but obviously it’s here to stay.”

Fisher went on to say that anyone reporting on the alleged NIL fund at Texas A&M is “insulting” the coaches that put in the hard work to sign the players, as well as the recruits themselves.

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