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Posted on 12/5/24 at 4:52 pm to ROPO
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You should give up your season tickets if $20 a month is your breaking point. Win win for you and LSU
If you believe this, then you can't bitch about "death valley is dead." They have been pricing out the average joe for years and it's only accelerating
Posted on 12/5/24 at 5:44 pm to dstone12
Serious question is this and TAF tied together???
Posted on 12/5/24 at 5:49 pm to bulletprooftiger
He can't give his salary up for this lol.
Posted on 12/5/24 at 8:22 pm to dstone12
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Sounds like you’re not supporting LSU athletics for long, if I’m reading this right.
It’s not really going to be LSU athletics for long
Posted on 12/5/24 at 8:31 pm to ROPO
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You should give up your season tickets if $20 a month is your breaking point. Win win for you and LSU
How is it a win for LSU if fans not wanting to donate anything for NIL give up season tickets. Before too long LSU will have to drop prices to sell those all those seats if all similar fans gave up their season tickets.
Posted on 12/5/24 at 8:40 pm to bulletprooftiger
Cool. You have waived your right to complain about 1) quality of players, 2) lack of wins due to lack of quality players, 3) coaches coaching with lack of quality players, and 4) an annual trip to the Texas Bowl.
Posted on 12/5/24 at 8:42 pm to CanebreakCajun
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Cool. You have waived your right to complain about 1) quality of players, 2) lack of wins due to lack of quality players, 3) coaches coaching with lack of quality players, and 4) an annual trip to the Texas Bowl.
So will all the tards who won’t give $20. They can all shut up moving forward
Posted on 12/5/24 at 9:07 pm to dstone12
I’m thinking we need to TD podcast
Posted on 12/6/24 at 3:37 am to Itwasacleantackle
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But if more fans can understand how valuable even just $5-10 a month is, we’d be bringing in enough to pay for at least 1-2 more elite recruits a year.
1. Let’s define “elite recruit”… and we’ll all define it differently. NIL will be taking control away from the coaches and giving it to boosters, and some of them won’t be the most rational people or entirely committed to team success. What’s to say kids with money behind them won’t be able to buy spots on the team. Local yokels with money (like I would be) will be able to influence who gets recruited by withholding their money. No one will want to bring in out of state recruits even if they’re better than the Louisiana kids we know
2. This is Louisiana, a poor state. A lot of us don’t have $5-$10 a month. We’re trying to survive.
This post was edited on 12/6/24 at 3:51 am
Posted on 12/6/24 at 5:40 am to chalmetteowl
No one on this board would pay for a person’s services without either an employee/employer or contractor relationship. This situation is neither.
While it doesn’t make sense to me that a guy like Gordon McKernan would pay for these kid’s NIL, he is at least getting something for his money.
When you are part of the crowd from which this money is crowd sourced, you get nothing other than satisfaction. You have no control over where your money goes. you have no recourse if your money is misused. The player might not pan out/ get hurt/get arrested. How much money did high powered boosters blow on Lester Earl and his kid alone? And that “investment” hurt LSU way more than it helped. You don’t even get any access to the team.
In the meantime, players, coaches, AND ADMINISTRATORS get rich.
Everyone on this post who has criticized my opinion has said that the only thing not donating will cost me is my ability to criticize the program. (1) that is false. People criticize professional teams all the time without directly investing in the players. (2). Who cares? People who spend hours on here only complaining about everything suck.
While it doesn’t make sense to me that a guy like Gordon McKernan would pay for these kid’s NIL, he is at least getting something for his money.
When you are part of the crowd from which this money is crowd sourced, you get nothing other than satisfaction. You have no control over where your money goes. you have no recourse if your money is misused. The player might not pan out/ get hurt/get arrested. How much money did high powered boosters blow on Lester Earl and his kid alone? And that “investment” hurt LSU way more than it helped. You don’t even get any access to the team.
In the meantime, players, coaches, AND ADMINISTRATORS get rich.
Everyone on this post who has criticized my opinion has said that the only thing not donating will cost me is my ability to criticize the program. (1) that is false. People criticize professional teams all the time without directly investing in the players. (2). Who cares? People who spend hours on here only complaining about everything suck.
Posted on 12/6/24 at 7:28 am to Geauxgurt
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No. I am not donating to pay a bunch of spoiled athletes.
1000%
I have my own 3 kids to help pay for college for
Maybe the last thing in the world I would do is pay for some prima donna to come to LSU for a year, decide he’s not playing enough of being paid enough at 18 years old and then enter the transfer portal. Football is great and fun but it’s not helping us or our families out. If someone cares that much then good on them that they can directly help the program a bit.
Posted on 12/6/24 at 7:56 am to Captain Crown
Start it captain. I listen to AYS because its the best LSU podcast I have found.
Posted on 12/6/24 at 9:23 am to St Augustine
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I have my own 3 kids to help pay for college for
Exactly. I find it hilarious that some of us are worried about how to pay for our kids to actually get an education, while these athletes are bitching they aren't paid enough to get a free one.
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Maybe the last thing in the world I would do is pay for some prima donna to come to LSU for a year, decide he’s not playing enough of being paid enough at 18 years old and then enter the transfer portal. Football is great and fun but it’s not helping us or our families out. If someone cares that much then good on them that they can directly help the program a bit.
Also a major point. I am sorry that their loyalty has nothing to do with the university and almost all of them (not all but almost all) are using money to dictate their decisions. Some even holding the team "hostage" and they suck like Sage Ryan.
The sport is basically dead because of the actions of these athletes, coaches and ADs.
Posted on 12/6/24 at 11:09 am to SouthlakeTiger
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It would be interesting to know what percentage of donations actually go to players and how much to their administration
If people haven’t figured out this is a scam of epic proportions then that’s on them. There is 0 transparency, you have no real accountability of how much money actually is raised and where it goes. Who ever is running these collectives are getting rich
Posted on 12/6/24 at 11:14 am to Tigerzfan76
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Other fan bases are donating. That's literally where NIL funds come from.
That’s what these grifters want you to believe. There is 0 proof on any of these numbers. Texas is counting on the little guy they have mega boosters writing real checks.its not a regular Joe using his extra 8.99 a month to make Texas a school with money.
Look at SMU they have real boosters we have fans being conned.
Posted on 12/6/24 at 11:19 am to chalmetteowl
The only thing making LSU competitive in NIL is it produces a lot of money in athletics and boosters. Fans technically are already supporting NIL by going to games. They will find a way to start funneling money legally out of the athletic budget towards NIL at some point.
I can't really blame LSU fans for not dumping into this collective when you already had things like TAF. The bigger problem LSU has in this new era is there's not a lot of opportunity in Baton Rouge Louisiana.
You automatically are at a disadvantage to what some programs can sell because they have built-in advantages like they can sell their market towards NIL. In other words, they're getting money and bigger opportunities for sponsors in larger markets.
LSU athletes have done a good job marketing themselves it's not really the advantage Louisiana or LSU present in NIL in the market. In other words, in larger markets it's easier to sell yourself sponsorship something Louisiana will never be able to compete with in NIL.
I can't really blame LSU fans for not dumping into this collective when you already had things like TAF. The bigger problem LSU has in this new era is there's not a lot of opportunity in Baton Rouge Louisiana.
You automatically are at a disadvantage to what some programs can sell because they have built-in advantages like they can sell their market towards NIL. In other words, they're getting money and bigger opportunities for sponsors in larger markets.
LSU athletes have done a good job marketing themselves it's not really the advantage Louisiana or LSU present in NIL in the market. In other words, in larger markets it's easier to sell yourself sponsorship something Louisiana will never be able to compete with in NIL.
Posted on 12/6/24 at 11:24 am to dstone12
Not if I was a billionaire would I give a dime to paying college athletes. I was a 40 year season ticket holder, LSU grad who went to my first game back in the fifties. All you folks ( mostly the under 50 crowd) in favor of this just don't understand how life works. You have to earn your way in life, not have it handed to you on a silver platter.
This post was edited on 12/6/24 at 12:09 pm
Posted on 12/6/24 at 11:27 am to damnstrongfan
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Not if I was a billionaire would I give dime to paying college athletes. I was a 40 year season ticket holder, LSU grad who went to my first game back in the fifties. All you folks ( mostly the under 50 crowd) in favor of this just don't understand how life works. You have to earn your way in life, not have it handed to you on a silver platter.
I hope all the other fanbases feel the way you do.
But if this is an LSU problem, only, then bye bye lsu football.
I read here where Ole Miss has 3000 donors that offer 100 a month.
We have three hundred.
Will continue to see ole Miss be competitive with us if that’s the case.
Pretty sad.
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