Top 50 NIL Budgets for Football (Memphis makes the list)

[GMG24]

https://247sports.com/longformarticle/college-footballs-top-50-programs-ranked-by-nil-efforts-235181311/

 

We can bury our heads in the sand or we can face the ever changing landscape, but getting mad at young men for taking a giant chunk of money seems like the last thing we should be doing.   Yes, I contribute, no it isn't much.  I hope we can one day get to where we have a chance at retaining our best players and not losing them due to $

[FirefightnRick]

31 minutes ago, GMG24 said:

https://247sports.com/longformarticle/college-footballs-top-50-programs-ranked-by-nil-efforts-235181311/

 

We can bury our heads in the sand or we can face the ever changing landscape, but getting mad at young men for taking a giant chunk of money seems like the last thing we should be doing.   Yes, I contribute, no it isn't much.  I hope we can one day get to where we have a chance at retaining our best players and not losing them due to $

No one is mad at the players, we’re mad at the system and the bleak future it holds in front of us as a G5.  But you go ahead and waste and throw your money away.  To each his own.

 

Rick

[DeepGreen]

My guess is that Memphis receives a lot of financial support from Fed Ex.

[NT80]

54 minutes ago, GMG24 said:

https://247sports.com/longformarticle/college-footballs-top-50-programs-ranked-by-nil-efforts-235181311/

 

We can bury our heads in the sand or we can face the ever changing landscape, but getting mad at young men for taking a giant chunk of money seems like the last thing we should be doing.   Yes, I contribute, no it isn't much.  I hope we can one day get to where we have a chance at retaining our best players and not losing them due to $

It would be better if rent-a-players just put their requested fee for one year of football service on a site and we fans/coaches can decide who to go after.  Sorta like a ala carte menu of football players.   

NIL as it is now if totally non transparent and mostly under the table verbal promises is what I see.   

[Wag Tag]

55 minutes ago, GMG24 said:

https://247sports.com/longformarticle/college-footballs-top-50-programs-ranked-by-nil-efforts-235181311/

 

We can bury our heads in the sand or we can face the ever changing landscape, but getting mad at young men for taking a giant chunk of money seems like the last thing we should be doing.   Yes, I contribute, no it isn't much.  I hope we can one day get to where we have a chance at retaining our best players and not losing them due to $

The problem is we are donating to a moving target. I believe eventually NIL will be moved in house, players become contract employees, and donors will get a write off. This is what G5 needs to do ASAP!

[GMG24]

34 minutes ago, DeepGreen said:

My guess is that Memphis receives a lot of financial support from Fed Ex.

This as well as I believe these are operating budgets not necessarily NIL, seems to be a very misleading headline.

[GMG24]

31 minutes ago, Wag Tag said:

The problem is we are donating to a moving target. I believe eventually NIL will be moved in house, players become contract employees, and donors will get a write off. This is what G5 needs to do ASAP!

Without a doubt.  Just frustrating when people seem to get so upset at the current landscape, then openly say well I'm not ___________ whatever their counter point is.  Either accept that we will be 1 and done on any productive player every year or try to be part of the solution, however much you desire to be part. 

[MCMLXXX]

1 hour ago, GMG24 said:

https://247sports.com/longformarticle/college-footballs-top-50-programs-ranked-by-nil-efforts-235181311/

 

We can bury our heads in the sand or we can face the ever changing landscape, but getting mad at young men for taking a giant chunk of money seems like the last thing we should be doing.   Yes, I contribute, no it isn't much.  I hope we can one day get to where we have a chance at retaining our best players and not losing them due to $

Those are not NIL numbers but total giving to athletics.

Former Aggies athletic director Ross Bjork said last spring that Texas A&M athletes have signed NIL deals worth approximately $10 million. That number is now dwarfed by a $20 million estimation at his new school, Ohio State.

 

[Cooley]

This can't be accurate. Where are the Ponies?

[GMG_Dallas]

2 minutes ago, Cooley said:

This can't be accurate. Where are the Ponies?

"Only public universities were included in the findings."

From the article.

[Udomann]

Until contracts become a thing I will never donate a dollar to NIL. That's a horrible investment for a 1 year player

[Glory to the Green]

I give monthly.  Not a lot, but I give.  I think about how much enjoyment I get out of Saturdays, this board, etc. It’s worth it to me to get to enjoy my Mean Green play in the postseason. 

[MeanGreenZen]

17 hours ago, Wag Tag said:

The problem is we are donating to a moving target. I believe eventually NIL will be moved in house, players become contract employees, and donors will get a write off. This is what G5 needs to do ASAP!

How is it going to be a write off to compensate someone for their name, image and likeness?

Even if you move away from NIL and make their compensation straight salary, I don’t see how our government is going to allow paying college football players to be a write-off. With everything going on in the world, you are going to incentivize people with the tax-code to pay college football players millions of dollars? It’s not a good look. 

[TheColonyEagle]

Does anyone know how our NIL dollars compare? What is our NIL commitment $$$? Remember that article came out BEFORE this season. Those numbers will grow exponentially. If A&M is at $10 million we have to be around what? Are we even six figures? That seems unlikely. $50K? 

[JT Hammons]

17 hours ago, NT80 said:

NIL as it is now if totally non transparent

I am all for transparency but goodness you would have lockerroom fights if you publicized what one player was paid over another one.  I think you have to leave the amounts that are paid to the coaches.  If you don't trust the NIL to do the right thing then you have much bigger issues.

My problem with the Light The Tower or whatever it is called NIL for football is that a large portion of the donation like 20-30% goes to the Houston guys that run it.  I want all the money to go to the players.  That is why I choose not to participate in it.

[TheColonyEagle]

Just now, JT Hammons said:

My problem with the Light The Tower or whatever it is called NIL for football is that a large portion of the donation like 20-30% goes to the Houston guys that run it.  

What does that mean?

[MeanGreenZen]

At this point, if you CAN contribute to NIL and don’t, then why do you even still follow college football? Or atleast, why would you follow North Texas?
I’ve invested almost 30 years loving this football program. I feel like I have some ownership in it. This is the current system. No one is going to name any buildings after me, but I give to NIL. It’s not much, but it has to help some. And I do that because I want to win. 
Maybe we’re just a poor music and teachers school and our opportunity to have a winning football team is over? 
Well, I refuse to believe that. I wish more of you would too. And NIL is part of the game right now. Will you help us play?