who has the most money? where are they? NIL talk

[Eric Ramon]

The Oregonian reports that Kayvon Thibodeaux has about $400k in deals at the moment. He just signed some sort of thing with United Airlines.

It got me wondering. I would think that USC and maybe UCLA can use NIL to their advantage. There's more money in Southern California than in Eugene, Oregon. It makes sense that recruits will go where the money is. There's cash in New York but I don't think anyone there wants to spend money on Columbia.

Besides SoCal...Texas? Florida? I'm asking about big money. I know there are rich people and corporations everywhere. But where's the most lucrative areas for players?

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Post by Eric Ramon
The Oregonian reports that Kayvon Thibodeaux has about $400k in deals at the moment. He just signed some sort of thing with United Airlines.
It got me wondering. I would think that USC and maybe UCLA can use NIL to their advantage. There's more money in Southern California than in Eugene, Oregon. It makes sense that recruits will go where the money is. There's cash in New York but I don't think anyone there wants to spend money on Columbia.
Besides SoCal...Texas? Florida? I'm asking about big money. I know there are rich people and corporations everywhere. But where's the most lucrative areas for players?

The question would be -- who has a supporter who has tons of money AND a desire to raise the level of the team. A rich alum might not care about a team. A rich alum who cares a lot, could make a huge impact. The NIL money could be paid for almost anything, so the justification doesn't have to be very good.

I would think Stanford would have quite a supply of rich alums, but how many of them care about football? I think we may see an "SMU-like" explosion or two in the next few years. Some school no one expected who suddenly has someone with a deep purse trying to bring in major talent.

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Post by Eric Ramon
The Oregonian reports that Kayvon Thibodeaux has about $400k in deals at the moment. He just signed some sort of thing with United Airlines.
It got me wondering. I would think that USC and maybe UCLA can use NIL to their advantage. There's more money in Southern California than in Eugene, Oregon. It makes sense that recruits will go where the money is. There's cash in New York but I don't think anyone there wants to spend money on Columbia.
Besides SoCal...Texas? Florida? I'm asking about big money. I know there are rich people and corporations everywhere. But where's the most lucrative areas for players?

That's a great line of thought.

Personally, I think this ruins college football. But I think the super conference does as well. I'm an old Big 10/ Big 8 guy and I wish everyone would GTFOML.

[xyzzy]

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Post by Eric Ramon
The Oregonian reports that Kayvon Thibodeaux has about $400k in deals at
the moment. He just signed some sort of thing with United Airlines.
It got me wondering. I would think that USC and maybe UCLA can use NIL
to their advantage. There's more money in Southern California than in
Eugene, Oregon. It makes sense that recruits will go where the money is.
There's cash in New York but I don't think anyone there wants to spend money on Columbia.
Besides SoCal...Texas? Florida? I'm asking about big money. I know there
are rich people and corporations everywhere. But where's the most
lucrative areas for players?

That's a great line of thought.
Personally, I think this ruins college football. But I think the super
conference does as well. I'm an old Big 10/ Big 8 guy and I wish everyone would GTFOML.

IAWTP. I never though I would miss the days when you had to read the tiny
font in the Sunday sports page to get scores from outside your region. Then
it got better when you only had to wait for the score scrolling at the end
of the 11:00pm Saturday SportsCenter. Or when you had to go to the sports
bar to watch your team play if they weren’t local.

Sometime between then and now, when CFB was still regional but info and
viewing was getting easier to come by, was the peak of CFB IMO

#getoffmylawn

[The NOTBCS Guy]

Post by ***@yahoo.com
Personally, I think this ruins college football. But I think the super
conference does as well. I'm an old Big 10/ Big 8 guy and I wish everyone would GTFOML.

IAWTP. I never though I would miss the days when you had to read the tiny
font in the Sunday sports page to get scores from outside your region. Then
it got better when you only had to wait for the score scrolling at the end
of the 11:00pm Saturday SportsCenter. Or when you had to go to the sports
bar to watch your team play if they weren’t local.

I don't miss the days when I had to wait until Monday morning to see who won Saturday night's game at Hawaii, assuming the paper remembered to print the score, or when ABC had firm control over what teams were on TV, or when everybody in a sports bar was looking over their shoulder to see if somebody from (choose one: Comcast, DirecTV, the NFL) was going to come in and pretty much shut the place down because it was showing an NFL home game that was supposed to be blacked out ("Why didn't they just get NFL Sunday Ticket?" Because games on that service are still blacked out in the home teams' local areas.)

We are long since past the days of "college" football at the top level - in fact, this sort of thing predates sound movies. In fact, the NCAA may have come to this conclusion as well, depending on what comes out of the current "Constitutional Committee" meetings. Proposals will be announced in early November and voted on at January's NCAA convention.

[The NOTBCS Guy]

The next name on the dotted line from Alabama: freshman DB Ga'Quincy "Kool-Aid" McKinstry has cut a deal with, well, I'll put it this way, not Crystal Light.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/32045155/alabama-crimson-tide-freshman-kool-aid-mckinstry-signs-nil-deal-drink-company

Question: has anybody heard of any players asking to be released from their scholarships (because they make enough NIL money to cover everything, and it frees up a scholarship for the team)? Note that a partial cut is no good; in FBS football, the limit is on the number of players on scholarship.