We Need A Cajun Collective

[CajunT]

I read today that Texas A$M paid between $25-30 MM for their #1 class via the NIL. Contracts are set up as multi-year deals. If a player leaves, he leaves the money behind. Most of you know this already, but these bullets helped me understand the process.

How NIL works…

• A coach identifies a recruit that he wants to target.
• That coach tells a “point donor.”
• The “point donor” gathers other donors around him.
• Those donors create an LLC.
• The LLC, in turn for a commitment, sponsors the targeted recruit.
• That recruit, upon arrival on campus, receives money from the LLC.
• In turn, the recruit promotes the LLC and its “cause,” whether that be a charity or a business.

The Point Donor is your modern day version of the Bag Man that use to visit the locker room. It's all been legalized.

[ZoomZoom]

I believe thats what Gordon McKernan is doing for LSU

Gordon’s boy got a natty ring in ‘19. Sure daddy is all in.

[cjr3888]

Investigations are already starting. This will get messy real quick. Pay-to-play is still an NCAA violation. The Texas A&M Point Donor system is against NCAA rules and they're doing it out in the open fully knowing this. Question as always, will the NCAA actually do something or kick the can down the road?

https://sports.yahoo.com/ncaa-probes...213627746.html

[GreatestStory]

I posted this in another thread, but think it is relevant here as well.

NIL can't be used directly to recruit a player, but here is what Texas Longhorns are doing:

Boosters set up a program called "The Pancake Factory" which will pay offensive lineman on scholarship $50,000 a year. They are not targeting any certain recruit, but the word is out that "if you sign a scholarship to play o-line at Texas, you will get $50,000."

The program was set up as the first "charitable NIL entity" and the players will perform charity work for yet-to-be-disclosed charities. The organization said it hopes to expand the program to other football position groups and Longhorns athletes in the future.

SOURCE: https://www.espn.com/college-footbal...ritable-causes

SOURCE: https://www.actionnetwork.com/ncaaf/...-in-nil-system

[CajunJeaux]

I don't care how much money I ever have. I just can not envision any scenario where I'm willing to pay a teenager money to play on a team where I have no monetary return at stake - purely for entertainment and pride.

[Esqueleto]

I don't care how much money I ever have. I just can not envision any scenario where I'm willing to pay a teenager money to play on a team where I have no monetary return at stake - purely for entertainment and pride.

Same. This is all so ridiculous, and it has already rocketed out of control.
Another reason we have to start a men's soccer program. College football is on its death bed.

[TCbacker54]

I don't care how much money I ever have. I just can not envision any scenario where I'm willing to pay a teenager money to play on a team where I have no monetary return at stake - purely for entertainment and pride.

This is where I am at as well.

The system is broke. It's dumb and wasteful to invest in an athlete to come here to develop his skills on our dime only to go elsewhere once a better offer is on the table.

The Cajuns, like all other G5s and many lower level P5 programs are bringing a knife to a gun fight with top programs in the nation in this situation.

[Turbine]

The Cajuns, like all other G5s and many lower level P5 programs are bringing a knife to a gun fight with top programs in the nation in this situation.

When the P5 sucks ALL the oxygen out of the room ... a knife will be the perfect tool in a gun fight.

[BananaHammock]

Agree with most posters that I will NOT give money to directly pay athletes. If anyone on this planet thinks it is smart to pay kids like UT and the Aggies are, then they are crazy. The whole sport is eroding in front of us because of money. Started from the top down and now we are debating about paying someone money that has no vested interest in our university AFTER said person was given a scholarship.

College athletics was so loved b/c it was pure and not all about money. My how the times have changed.

[CajunEXPRESS]

I don't care how much money I ever have. I just can not envision any scenario where I'm willing to pay a teenager money to play on a team where I have no monetary return at stake - purely for entertainment and pride.

Clearly you, like myself, don’t have money enough to use Benjamin’s as toilet paper. Some do, and all their life. Others to show they got it.

[CajunEXPRESS]

Same. This is all so ridiculous, and it has already rocketed out of control.
Another reason we have to start a men's soccer program. College football is on its death bed.

Yeah, you can’t really believe any sport is exempt. Especially if it’s popular or becomes popular.

[CajunEXPRESS]

Investigations are already starting. This will get messy real quick. Pay-to-play is still an NCAA violation. The Texas A&M Point Donor system is against NCAA rules and they're doing it out in the open fully knowing this. Question as always, will the NCAA actually do something or kick the can down the road?

https://sports.yahoo.com/ncaa-probes...213627746.html

You may recall when the NCAA was told to shove it by the Autonomous 5. That year they essentially told the NCAA they would run things the way they wanted to. If they have different needs from the rest. This year the NCAA volunteered to back out of disciplining them. They will basically be their own judge and jury. The Autonomous 5 really is the Autonomous 20. These 20 football and basketball power schools run things and their conference mates can get on the back of the bus or get off. The rest G5 and Div I need to understand they’re on the byway not super interstate system.