re: Ross Dellenger article on NIL and boosters(Kayshon Boutte is included)

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Nonsense. Jimbo specifically said that all of the 5 stars running to college station has zero to do with NIL. Saban has preached that NIL is being applied in a way that was never intended so you know his ethics and principles will prevent him from recruiting players using NIL in any manner other that it was originally intended. Gotta love these two. Saban basically calls out Jimbo/A&M for buying recruits, and Jimbo fires a warning shot across the bow by saying that Saban shouldn’t be throwing stones when they were both part of cheating when they were on the same staff. Saban doubles down on statements while trying to outdo Jimbo by tampering with potential transfers and finding his own innovative ways to misuse the intent of NIL.

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Next level chess by Jimbo and Saban

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LSU better have its shite together going forward.

The McKernon safety net isn't always going to be there, nor will Gordon alone allow us to compete with A&M and Alabama when it comes to NIL.

Where LSU finishes with the 2023 class will be telling.

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Louisiana has some high rollers, but we cant compete with the volume from Texas, Florida, and California.

Idk how Alabama is doing it, they arent much of a rich state.

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Idk how Alabama is doing it, they arent much of a rich state.

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per donor donation is pretty big. Bama fans are like Pentecostals donating to their church

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per donor donation is pretty big. Bama fans are like Pentecostals donating to their church

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Bama just lost the #1 RB from last year to the Portal. These kids are going to move as they want as long as the rules allow it. Money will not keep them anywhere. Recruiting is now day to day.

Any amount of money for a lot of these players and FAMILY, is way more than they’ve ever seen, so at 17, 18 yrs old kids don’t think about coaches, fans, tradition or team. You cannot blame these kids. People with money and wealth don’t talk about money, people without it well it enters EVERY conversation.

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Yes, some of it is on the players. Key players will renegotiate every year or walk.

You can't build programs around that and it destroys locker rooms.

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Agree 100%

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I question how sustainable this NIL stuff is.

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IMO The fix for all of this is the following 3 rule changes:

1) NIL deals have to come from legitimate businesses that actually sell a product or service. No more shell LLCs paying kids.

2) An actual service must be provided for the money. Whether that be an autograph session at the donors place of business or just the use of the athletes picture in ads. Some form of action needs to take place to make it a legit NIL deal.

3) The transfer portal should only be open for short periods during the year. For example, the portal would be open for 2 weeks following the NC, the first two weeks of May after Spring football is over, and maybe a week or 2 in August for last minute transfers. The rest of the year the portal is closed. This would curb the ability of one team to just poach a player from another team at any time like USC did to Pitt for the WR.

I understand wanting to put a cap on either teams or individuals but I don't see how you do that within the college football structure since the schools themselves aren't paying players based on profits.

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I'd rather them not play anywhere than Bama or TAMU or the like get a mercenary for a year.

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You do realize that LSU is "or the like" right?

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LSU doesn't have one guy that was some crazy one and done transfer pick.

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Tapp, Daniels, Bernard-Converse, Banks, and Noah Cain are all one and done transfers...