Who are our big money men?

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As much as I hate it college football is quickly turning into a pay for play league. I’m all for a player getting paid but the way it is set up now is going to ruin any consistency within a team structure. With that being said who are the people that need to get more involved for UT to spend with the “big boys”?
 
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People should look at charts like this one - and realize that, when it comes to big money, there may not be a way to compete with the "big boys." In terms of schools that do compete on the biggest college football stage, you've got Stanford, Cal, Michigan, Texas, Northwestern, UCLA, Miami, Virginia, and Notre Dame. I think USC would be on this list except they're private. Now obviously, and fortunately for UT and others like us, many or even most of these mega-wealthy alumni are not interested in donating, especially not to their athletics endeavors.

But Texas, Michigan, a few others? They are going to be the drivers. Competing with them may be a lot more difficult than some realize.


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JayHud said:
As much as I hate it college football is quickly turning into a pay for play league. I’m all for a player getting paid but the way it is set up now is going to ruin any consistency within a team structure. With that being said who are the people that need to get more involved for UT to spend with the “big boys”?
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How much do you contribute....or are you just advocating someone else spend "big money"? Nevermind, I already know the answer.
 
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JayHud said:
As much as I hate it college football is quickly turning into a pay for play league. I’m all for a player getting paid but the way it is set up now is going to ruin any consistency within a team structure. With that being said who are the people that need to get more involved for UT to spend with the “big boys”?
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We don’t have any big money people that are serious about college football. We can’t spend with the big boys. Which is why we won’t win a championship anytime soon. Just have to accept that and live with it. Our NIL is second rate.
 
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CAVPUT said:
How much do you contribute....or are you just advocating someone else spend "big money"? Nevermind, I already know the answer.
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Yeah you do know the answer because I’m not worth millions. If I was I wouldn’t be on this board receiving smart#%% responses to a simple question. I give what I can afford but obviously a random fan cannot contribute as much as a multimillionaire. I’m not advocating on how anyone should spend their money. I was just curious who had connections to the university that could; if they wanted to.
 
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They're already going to do the talent tax next year. Those fans are already contributing. I'd bet Ohio States fans didn't pay for their 20 million dollar roster. UT is going to either have to step up or get left in the dust. Maybe our big donors are cheap azzes. Or just don't want to tie that much money in a roster full of players that really shouldn't be getting that type of money. This system sucks. They need some sort of structure to this deal, rules and limitations.. Otherwise this is going to end up being the worst thing that even happened to college football..
 
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JayHud said:
As much as I hate it college football is quickly turning into a pay for play league. I’m all for a player getting paid but the way it is set up now is going to ruin any consistency within a team structure. With that being said who are the people that need to get more involved for UT to spend with the “big boys”?
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Our money men are Ren and Stimpy.
 
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zeppelin128 said:
I think we need to be realistic about so-called "big boosters". We just don't have them like OSU and Texas, etc.

Tennessee and Bama will take the more grassroots approach. We'll see how it works.
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And even then, if anyone on our roster can be bought at any time, what does pursuing a grassroots approach even do for a school? You could spend years developing guys through a grassroots approach, but at the first sign of big money, a number of them are going to bail.
 
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Voltopia said:
And even then, if anyone on our roster can be bought at any time, what does pursuing a grassroots approach even do for a school? You could spend years developing guys through a grassroots approach, but at the first sign of big money, a number of them are going to bail.
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It is a conundrum. I understand it is incredibly selfish of me to want players to stay at the university, and that isn't fair to them. I have, and will likely again I'm sure, left jobs for better opportunities and negotiated at existing jobs to get better pay and benefits. What gives me the right to hold it against these players for doing the exact same thing I did? My love for college football and my Alma Mater doesn't seem like a good enough justification to hold it against these guys.

As much as I want cfb to be like it was 20 years ago when I fell in love with it, those days are gone. I don't know what the answer is. There might not even be one.
 
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