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Texas and Oklahoma went to the SEC because the TV money payout was obscene compared to the Big 12. Numbers don’t lie. See chart belowBut you had no knowledge of what NIL was going to do. You talked about it like it was going to be peanuts. Had you information from people who were going to be part of this new flow of money, like it was coming in Texas, you would have known better. When I stated what was going to happen, you dismissed it. I don't suppose you remember?
Oklahoma and Texas didn't join the SEC because they wanted competition. They chose to join because they were confident that the NIL situation was going to change the landscape of football. Both schools have so many silent billionaires surrounding their programs, and they knew they would get windfall money delivered to kids they brought into their programs, through outside sources. To put it bluntly, those two schools alone will more than likely have more NIL money to distribute than the rest of the SEC, if they choose to make it rain money.
I can also state that I have friends who are quite wealthy, who are Baylor grads, and will put up a mill each, to seed a large program for them as well. I don't know about A&M, but I do know there's a lot of them out there with oil money, so expect them to have the bucks as well.
Meanwhile, back in the Big 10, the rich will get richer, and the rest will pound sand.
Back to NIL. Yeah I though it was going to be less but not peanuts. The money is from Collectives which were never part of the discussion months ago. Big Fortune 500 money has been slow to enter the mix for multiple reasons and fact is a good chunk of that corporate $$ is also getting funneled to woman’s sports.
To say that Oklahoma and Texas will have more money than the rest of the SEC is a real reach, if they choose. Florida and Georgia collectives are well healed, same with Tennessee and Alabama. And yes even Kentucky Reality is the rich have been getting richer for decades, now it’s just out for the public to view.
