And don’t like what they are hearing about their NIL. Guess it struck a nerve.
It's absolutely pure comedy to see and read and hear OM fans on the radio or message boards try to pretend like they have one inkling of an idea where we are NIL wise. They remember how slow of a start it was said we had when Cohen was here. They remember reading about the boost we had to have when Cohen left and we finally got over 1k subscribers to the BI and how much of a jump that was for us (which was pathetic at the time). That's been a year ago. They don't have one F'ing clue where we are now. They like to boast and brag and act like they're sitting on a mountain of cash and we're down at the bottom with Vandy with like $1M for our NIL. They like to act like they've got $10M in liquid assets sitting in their NIL "war chest" (funny, I know). They've got enough delusional dumba**es that think they have and that it takes $10M+ to compete in NIL in football. That's hogwash. Places like Bama and UGA and LSU and TN and A&M might have that. But no one else does. I've got about as good of a source on this as can be. It doesn't take that much money. It takes a hell of a lot of $$ to still compete with the programs in our neighborhood of the SEC (OM/Auburn/USCe/UK/Mizzou/Arky) but it doesn't take $10-15M. Anyone can claim to have however much they want to. It's something that can't be "proven" so they just lie and build there's up publicly to create the perception that "we're way ahead of them, come here where you'll get paid because they don't have any NIL in Starkghanistan" (which is funny that all those years they liked to type out M$U because it made them feel better when losing a recrutiing battle but now we don't have any money). We choose not to do that because well anyone that has common sense knows it's a bunch of overinflated lies. We started out terribly with NIL. There's no getting around that. We got rid of that problem and his dumba** sits in Auburn, AL now. Selmon, Charlie, the coaches on campus, and people like Terry Prentice in the AD have been busting their asses for the last 8-9 months. We've added great assets in Marcus Grant and Emmie Perkins to the BI staff. We've made monumental strides in what we have in our NIL war chest. We're absolutely competitive with those schools now. We have the $$ set aside to go get a big time portal QB, knowing it will cost high 6 to low 7 figures minimum to get one. We're right around the amount it takes to compete in football. We've had multiple big, BIG $$ donations made in the last 3-4 months. Been having plenty to compete in basketball (Tolu and Andrew Taylor say hi & thanks BI). We've just got to have a damn coaching staff in here that gets our foot in the door and gets the attention of some big portal names for us to be able to utilize it now. If we knock this hire in football out of the park & we get a good football staff in here, I imagine a lot of people's (including a ton of our fans') opinions on what we can do and what we have NIL wise will change.
Rant over.
It's absolutely pure comedy to see and read and hear OM fans on the radio or message boards try to pretend like they have one inkling of an idea where we are NIL wise. They remember how slow of a start it was said we had when Cohen was here. They remember reading about the boost we had to have when Cohen left and we finally got over 1k subscribers to the BI and how much of a jump that was for us (which was pathetic at the time). That's been a year ago. They don't have one F'ing clue where we are now. They like to boast and brag and act like they're sitting on a mountain of cash and we're down at the bottom with Vandy with like $1M for our NIL. They like to act like they've got $10M in liquid assets sitting in their NIL "war chest" (funny, I know). They've got enough delusional dumba**es that think they have and that it takes $10M+ to compete in NIL in football. That's hogwash. Places like Bama and UGA and LSU and TN and A&M might have that. But no one else does. I've got about as good of a source on this as can be. It doesn't take that much money. It takes a hell of a lot of $$ to still compete with the programs in our neighborhood of the SEC (OM/Auburn/USCe/UK/Mizzou/Arky) but it doesn't take $10-15M. Anyone can claim to have however much they want to. It's something that can't be "proven" so they just lie and build there's up publicly to create the perception that "we're way ahead of them, come here where you'll get paid because they don't have any NIL in Starkghanistan" (which is funny that all those years they liked to type out M$U because it made them feel better when losing a recrutiing battle but now we don't have any money). We choose not to do that because well anyone that has common sense knows it's a bunch of overinflated lies. We started out terribly with NIL. There's no getting around that. We got rid of that problem and his dumba** sits in Auburn, AL now. Selmon, Charlie, the coaches on campus, and people like Terry Prentice in the AD have been busting their asses for the last 8-9 months. We've added great assets in Marcus Grant and Emmie Perkins to the BI staff. We've made monumental strides in what we have in our NIL war chest. We're absolutely competitive with those schools now. We have the $$ set aside to go get a big time portal QB, knowing it will cost high 6 to low 7 figures minimum to get one. We're right around the amount it takes to compete in football. We've had multiple big, BIG $$ donations made in the last 3-4 months. Been having plenty to compete in basketball (Tolu and Andrew Taylor say hi & thanks BI). We've just got to have a damn coaching staff in here that gets our foot in the door and gets the attention of some big portal names for us to be able to utilize it now. If we knock this hire in football out of the park & we get a good football staff in here, I imagine a lot of people's (including a ton of our fans') opinions on what we can do and what we have NIL wise will change.
Rant over.
