How can the Cajuns compete?

[LifeTimeCajun]

That just means there is someone else that Olahoma either isn't getting or doesn't have room for.... and that very goodplayer will go somewhere and create the same scenario.

A scenario to be repeated over and over and in the end, nothing will have changed.

Uh thats incorrect

[Turbine]

Uh thats incorrect

The only way this becomes worrisome is if they increase roster sizes. Still, then it would mean more work than worry.

[mxpxfr690]

It is a group of business owners/ alumni/ boosters/whoever has deep pockets and they put together NIL deal worth so much money that continues to pay university athletes for their NIL. For Example Texas has a collective In The medical field that is going to pay every offensive lineman 50 -60k a year to go to Texas for football…it is the loop hole around outright paying players to come to your school….the rule states that no boosters can have contact with coaches or recruits and offer them an NIL deal to come play for your school… so what these collectives are doing is making these announcements outside of the university to the media and drawing attention. It is all a shell game and until they enforce the rule it will only get worse. The biggest example of tampering is the WR from Pitt leaving to go to USC for an NIL deal, which is breaking the rules but the NCAA won’t enforce it nor do they have enough evidence to prove it. We all know it is happening and the NCAA to think that this wasn’t going to happen is naive.

[KajunKrazy]

We couldn’t compete with Oklahoma before the NIL deal came into place.

[mxpxfr690]

You say that, but we were on an upward trajectory to compete over the last 4 years and closed the gap… Now with NIL collective whoever has the money will now be able to buy better and more consistent players, steal from G5 universities in the transfer portal for their developed athletes and truly put separation and widen the GAP. Financially below is a list of who can truly separate themselves with NIL… just an Opinion.

Texas,Oklahoma, Tx A&M, USC, Oregon, Washington, UCLA, Houston, Wisconsin, Iowa, Ok St., Michigan, Northwestern, Ohio St., Penn St., BYU, Notre Dame, Clemson, UVA, Miami, UNC, NC State, Mich St., LSU, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, Auburn,SMU, Florida St., UCF. They all have many deep pocketed Alum that can affect change and are willing to get down and dirty in NIL. Again just my Opinion.

[olhardhead]

You say that, but we were on an upward trajectory to compete over the last 4 years and closed the gap… Now with NIL collective whoever has the money will now be able to buy better and more consistent players, steal from G5 universities in the transfer portal for their developed athletes and truly put separation and widen the GAP. Financially below is a list of who can truly separate themselves with NIL… just an Opinion.

Texas,Oklahoma, Tx A&M, USC, Oregon, Washington, UCLA, Houston, Wisconsin, Iowa, Ok St., Michigan, Northwestern, Ohio St., Penn St., BYU, Notre Dame, Clemson, UVA, Miami, UNC, NC State, Mich St., LSU, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, Auburn,SMU, Florida St., UCF. They all have many deep pocketed Alum that can affect change and are willing to get down and dirty in NIL. Again just my Opinion.

Sooo....are these players going to be on School scholarships also?

Looks to me like we'd be better off forming a two or three hundred team Pro league and just make everyone a Pro....

[LifeTimeCajun]

Sooo....are these players going to be on School scholarships also?

Looks to me like we'd be better off forming a two or three hundred team Pro league and just make everyone a Pro....

I assume most will be on
Some sort of aide. In fact P5’s (im sure some G5’s as well) are offering spring sport athletes using their 11.7 scholarship money, but paying the balance of what the scholarship does not cover with NIL money. So basically the majority are on a “full ride”. When it boils down to it, instead of every team having “X” amount of walk ons with no aide…some schools could have a roster full of scholarship/paid athletes. That is where the playing field will really no longer be the same

[CajunVic]

I assume most will be on
Some sort of aide. In fact P5’s (im sure some G5’s as well) are offering spring sport athletes using their 11.7 scholarship money, but paying the balance of what the scholarship does not cover with NIL money. So basically the majority are on a “full ride”. When it boils down to it, instead of every team having “X” amount of walk ons with no aide…some schools could have a roster full of scholarship/paid athletes. That is where the playing field will really no longer be the same

It is already there.

[Turbine]

https://www.si.com/college/oklahoma/...udent-athletes
How can the Cajuns compete?

Forget 71 and #1, beating a pro team was all the more fun.

[VObserver]

You say that, but we were on an upward trajectory to compete over the last 4 years and closed the gap… Now with NIL collective whoever has the money will now be able to buy better and more consistent players, steal from G5 universities in the transfer portal for their developed athletes and truly put separation and widen the GAP. Financially below is a list of who can truly separate themselves with NIL… just an Opinion.

Texas,Oklahoma, Tx A&M, USC, Oregon, Washington, UCLA, Houston, Wisconsin, Iowa, Ok St., Michigan, Northwestern, Ohio St., Penn St., BYU, Notre Dame, Clemson, UVA, Miami, UNC, NC State, Mich St., LSU, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, Auburn,SMU, Florida St., UCF. They all have many deep pocketed Alum that can affect change and are willing to get down and dirty in NIL. Again just my Opinion.

Better include Arkansas in that group as well. All those Tysons and Waldens have train loads of cash.

[VObserver]

I can't say this enough.

The P5 to G5 gap will not change.

Turbine, I have warned for years that the power conferences would make the stick and ball sports into head count sports and kill any chance any of the rest of us have to achieve sustainable elite status. NIL has done this, at least for the really rich schools.