OT - Rumor Texas A&M allegedly paid 25-30 Milly for recruits

Dude, this was posted yesterday.

Michigan boosters must begin organizing and develop a superior NIL system for our great university. 

I have read several comments that Texas A&M's record will be similar but I am willing to bet they win a national championship. Jimbo Fisher is a good coach and they beat Alabama this year. Anyone who still has trouble concluding that talent matters needs to explain how Hugh Freeze was able to lead Ole Miss to beat Alabama in back-to-back years while they were paying players.

The future ESPN 30 for 30 on all the NIL stuff is going to be epic and must-see TV.  You know there will be one.  We'll get to learn about all the big time donors and how they're pissed off that they're not getting any returned value for their large investments.  There may be some success stories as well.

This ought to do wonders for team unity - where a few guys have gotten millions and the rest peanuts.  Not to mention the obvious favoritism the highly paid guys will get from the coaches and staff.  It places really negative incentives to favor the "bigger investments" on the team.  Don't be surprised to see this team badly underperform to their talent level.  

This is a great idea until these same kids think they are out performing their contracts and they threaten to sit out big games without a bonus. It’s going to get ugly. It’s the Wild West in recruiting.

TAMU has a bunch of oil/gas baron's funding their entire program via supposedly illegal pay for play through shell companies. This is what every top program is doing and the fact that Michigan hasn't done this yet means we're behind

I have always thought the kids were being taken advantage of, but this will get even more ridiculous over time.

I think we are almost at the point where we should stop treating them as students.  Forget making them go to school.  Just pay kids to come play for you like you are a semi-pro team.  If they WANT to go to school and get a degree, then go for it.  

I don't see this all ending any way but bad.  What we are heading to is a situation where you have the NFL, but you have no draft, no rookie contracts.  Everyone every year is just a free agent on a one-year contract and whoever pays the most for the player will win. 

IMO it is going to suck.

Imagine being a sophomore in that locker room.

Insane money if true. And as someone who lived in Texas for quite some time, this is exactly what I’d expect from aTm.

Like others have said, this just seems shitty, and while college athletics has never actually been about student athletes playing for the love of the game, this is outright pro sports money.

The way the sport has changed in the last 10-12 years is crazy, and I’m not sure it’s for me sometimes anymore.

I wish the NFL would just make a damn farm league for teams in cities without NFL teams. Give the best high school athletes a chance to go pro right from high school and let them worry solely about the sport instead of the facade of schoolwork and being a student.

I'm halfway convinced the NCAA will collapse before the start of the next football season 

It was obvious that this would happen with NIL. I created a thread last summer about this exact scenario and suggested Michigan should get ahead of it by advocating aggressively for official player compensation rather than allowing boosters at schools like TAMU to manipulate the NIL system this way.

I got like a net of 24 down votes for that thread. I think it's fair to say Michigan will be very much left behind in this professionalization process.

I hope it all collapses in on itself, then the NFL will be forced to set up minor league teams and pay for it. Those high school players that want to go play on these minor league teams, make a few dollars, aquire no education, and get cast aside when they are hurt or aren't panning out can figure out life like the rest of us. The ones that want to play football and get an education, more power to them

From the NCAA website:

"NIL opportunities may not 
be used as a recruiting inducement or as a substitute for pay-for-play."

If A&M, or anyone else, is dangling NIL deals (with a dollar amount attached) in front of a recruit to gain their commitment, It seems that would cross into "inducement" territory, no?  That said, it doesn't seem any easier to enforce than when it was under the table.

So they are trying to be the Yankees of NCAA football? 

Someone should let them know how that's going..

when’s the Michigan money cannon going to play a role? 

WHY DOES EVERYONE BELIEVE SOME GUY TWEETING WITH LIKE EIGHT FOLLOWERS

Smart.  UM wont engage because its uncouth.  

Bing Bong, Maybe their also doing McDonald’s bags too. 

This is what Mich should be doing but they won’t because “leaders” or whatever.