
Potential NIL deals are all a part of the recruiting world now, and it’s absolutely okay. College football has to get past the stigma.
NIL deals are part of recruiting now, and it’s okay: Daily Cavalcade
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Sorry if this take sucks, it’s not my fault …
I live in Chicago and it’s February 2nd. I don’t have a slush fund, just slush.
The coach doth protest too much, methinks …
So did you hear the one about the college football head coach worth tens of millions of dollars pretending to be offended because a few other college football head coaches worth tens of millions of dollars pretended to be offended because someone on some message board posted some “irresponsible” rumor that there were tens of millions of dollars sitting there designed to entice college football players who aren’t worth tens of millions of dollars to go play at a school whose football program is worth hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars?
Yeah, so rival schools and coaches and fans were snipping and trolling because Jimbo Fisher and Texas A&M just got done bringing in one of the greatest recruiting classes ever …
Welcome to recruiting, son. It’s a contact sport.
By now you’ve probably heard, seen, and/or read about the Fisher rant. If you haven’t, I’ll sum it all up as quickly as possible.
The “garbage” rumor was that Texas A&M has some secret slush fund of about $30 million or so to go to players and prospective Aggies. Instead of blowing it all off as hoo-ha, laughing, and moving on, Fisher went off, honked at a few supposedly hypocritical coaches for questioning A&M’s recruiting practices, blasted away at anyone insinuating anything wasn’t right, and …
Yeah. It was basically just another Wednesday in the SEC.
Here’s my question. If it’s not true, why…
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