OT: Texas steps up NIL game

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Prominent U of Texas donors, former Texas athletes and sports marketer Nick Shuley are launching Clark Field Collective, which has secured an initial pledge commitment of $10 million for Texas NIL activities. “It’s the game changer,” Shuley told
@On3sports
 
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As I said when it was announced, NIL was going to bury us.

It just gives the big bag dropping schools legitimacy. Our kids get NIL deals from local mom and pop Miami stores. Texas / Alabama etc kids will get NILs from multi-nationals.
 
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Have a program consistently built on game changers, is game changing in itself.

IMPORTANT QUESTION: Has Texas raised the bar though?
Maybe, I think OSU was the biggest "game changer" though. This will end up a bidding war and I am not a fan of it all. Paying kids is one thing, competing against schools that have endless pockets is another. They just legalized the bag game.
 
Prominent U of Texas donors, former Texas athletes and sports marketer Nick Shuley are launching Clark Field Collective, which has secured an initial pledge commitment of $10 million for Texas NIL activities. “It’s the game changer,” Shuley told
@On3sports
Brilliant by Texas and not unexpected (I think a few of us talked anout this when NIL bomb went off).

They are establishing a corpus (and like other Uni Endowments*, the bug must become bloated with blood) to likely guarantee every single UT player an NIL disbursement.

Dan "I'll beat your aśś" Lampert already did this for our Hurricanes on a 1x basis.

"Come to Texas young man and you will get $xx baseline jingle on top of whatever other deals come. your way!! "

Texas is establishing a fund to do it inperpetuity.

*calm down I'm speaking in broad generalities for ease of discussion... some Uni might even call it" The Athletic Media Support Endowment" or some other such innocent sounding name
 
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As I said when it was announced, NIL was going to bury us.

It just gives the big bag dropping schools legitimacy. Our kids get NIL deals from local mom and pop Miami stores. Texas / Alabama etc kids will get NILs from multi-nationals.
Should've been common sense for people on here. I think people simply don't take the time to understand something before they speak. Our network isn't even on par with these blue blood or old boy network schools. We've got some whales that swim in our pool. It's enough for the kids who really want to come here and getting some level of nil money eases that decision. But for the kids who simply see this as a business and don't consider the spot in the meantime we aint on that. For the schools on that other end of the spectrum, were simply minnows.
 
Only difference is now the kids have to pay taxes for the bags
 
Eventually, every college worth a **** with have its own NIL deal for players. We can see that's where this is all heading. Boosters will be able to legally pay players.

If Mario does come here, along with Zo, I'll be very disappointed is we didn't have other NIL deals doing the same thing
 
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