Shea: Is LSU the team to beat for 5* DB DJ Pickett?

Got a feeling this going down to sign day with him. Hope we get him for 2025 class.

Absolutely

That’s some shite I’ll need to read into

I am optimistic but it seems like we will not be one of the highest bidders so that could mean we are out.

Bottom Line, we better pay if we want the studs year in and year out!! Are else they will go elsewhere for the $

Agree many boosters will stop spending so much. Less to do with foolish spending, more with political idealism in the short term. "Old" money is not on the side of the liberal agenda most of their proud universities cater to. Ask the Ivy League schools losing massive donors currently. But never discount men with enormous amounts of expendable money, enormous egos and lots of time on their hands. The lengths in which they will go for "pride" or "one upping" their friends or adversaries is incredible.
Think the revenue sharing helps due to contracts. That's all legal, very taxable money. Schools are gonna want guarantees on that money.
Title ix is the bugaboo. If it factors at all, revenue sharing is just a glossy way of doing nothing while appearing to. 20 mil is gonna be the average payroll of major programs. None left to disperse to those that didn't generate it. Rightfully so. If your sport is at a negative cost(woman or man), therefore no revenue to "share", sorry. But in America "deserve" or "earned" never apply in such cases. Bargained charity is the American way. Look where it's gotten us.

I think you're looking at it wrong. Boosters were donating money senselessly long before NIL ever happened. That's the point. You're also looking at it wrong in that they're getting nothing out of it.


LSU boosters for example, get contracts that make them money. Like for example, with the university. Anyone who follows Louisiana politics should know how it works by now.


You're also not looking at the fact every school will want an advantage. If it was all equalized from media money then nobody has an advantage. That's not going to fly for the university or the boosters so they're just going to keep doing what they're doing. That's how they get an edge over other SEC schools.


What it will do is solidify SEC as the most powerful conference and it will cannibalize all but maybe one other one as a super conference. It's not going to work like you think it will though. The rich will continue to get richer as they say.

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Title ix is the bugaboo. If it factors at all

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I fully expect Title IX lawsuits to pop up.

May be dumb question but is NIL contribution a company makes a tax deductible expense?
Also is there any limit to total NIL contribution etc. or could a super billionaire alumnus pay like 50 million
to team(s)

miami or oregon. leaning miami imo