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Well well

Would be an absolutely enormous win

Need

Guessing he’s down the list

brutal

Anything here on how the visit went? Do we have a realistic chance at getting him to flip?

Well. Time to rev up the dollar machine again

I get what you are saying I really do. But does anyone think those Navy teams with Malcom Perry or Wake this year was truly a national title contender? I’m a Wake Forest season ticket holder and go to every game- it was an awesome season and we still got smacked by Clemson and Pitt. That’s not competing at a national level IMO despite the win column number. You’re referencing pre NIL successes for different teams in mostly different leagues with post NIL successes. They’re two separate things. Army may well win 9 games next year but does that make them a national contender? To me the bolded is where we will disagree- DONU HAS to be at the very top 3-5 programs of NIL spending annually in order to be nationally relevant (CFP type team) going forwards. That doesn’t mean we can’t still have “successful” seasons at 8-4, 9-3, etc by not being in that group of NIL leader programs, but to compete at the very top we have to up our budget and translate this to the high school recruiting classes for it to really matter

$20M was directly mentioned by a sitting SEC coach as the number they’ll need to compete for SEC championships. That’s not bogus. I posted multiple deals for multiple players. You’re saying signing Mathis means NU is on the same page nationally as the Tennessee's and TAMU’s of the world and I’m saying that while signing him is fantastic it’s not even close to the same thing. We can agree to disagree here but NU still needs to take another step up in this space to truly become an elite nationally relevant program again

Mav. You are seriously missing the entire point of what I am talking about and using one player outcome (which I am obviously extremely happy about and have publicly stated that multiple times) to erase the entire larger picture. You’re going to tell me with a straight face what NU is doing in the portal is the same thing as what TAMU and Tennessee are doing with NIL in the high school ranks? TAMU just signed the greatest high school class in the history of the sport. We just had a recruiting class ranked 42nd in the nation. We’re renting a kid from TCU for the next 7 months and signed a kid who Texas recruited over at QB. Tennessee signed a 5* QB to an $8M deal and we’re going to lose Raiola to OSU. Yeah that all sounds about equal to me. As far as the reference to other schools’ amounts and how much NU needs in order to compete with them, I am using publicly available information to determine we are not doing enough. I also then posted the amount based on that publicly available information that in my opinion, NU needs on hand annually to have in order to compete nationally. I have posted exactly what is happening else where in the country with links to source it.. you’re on here on your high horse as usual trying to cherry pick bits of info in order to parade around as the czar of information on this site. You’ve given nothing but your opinion on this in response to factual information posted and then fail to tell me why you disagree with the information posted because “you don’t know and I don’t either”. We’re allowed to disagree and that’s fine but landing Mathis doesn’t change or impact my point as it relates to NU’s need to be competitive in the NIL space in the future.

Number 1 overall player available in the portal. Just a huge huge pickup at a massive position of need

HUGE pickup

Lol Mav- I said I dont think Nebraska has done enough overall to compete in this space. There is evidence of other schools putting together significant numbers and amounts of deals that exceed anything we’ve seen from NU publicly. It’s not crazy to think while we’ve got a good start (especially if the increased number to Mathis is true and we wind up landing him) that we also need to increase our overall commitment to land the highest quality talent out there. All I asked you to do is give me a number and you said “I don’t know” while continuously telling me I’m off base saying NU will need a larger NIL budget to compete. If collectives at UF and TAMU are already at $5M and publicly working towards $20M it seems reasonable that NU will need $25-$30M available annually to compete with that. Asking us to compete at a national level with smaller NIL numbers will not work- even if it’s enough to put together rosters to win 8-9 games a year. That’s the entire point of what I’m laying out here and yet you’re flabbergasted for some reason that that’s going to be a requirement going forward.

Shot Chaser

Let’s hope. We’ve missed this from our roster since Randy Gregory left

If this is indeed true I will be very very happy and my fears from the last few days will be subsided for now. The next step for us in NIL will be to translate it to the HS ranks but this seems to be an all hands on def k situation and I love it

Alright. I’ll pour a glass of Kool-Aid this AM.

Exactly. Of course NU is better for NIL for Casey Thompson than Texas- they went out and signed another QB to take his spot.

How could that be? I was told NU is doing great in this space? I mean we paid the guy who would’ve been Texas’ backup QB this year six figures- we gotta be doing something right!

God bless you Mav- you definitely know more about this than Billy Napier does. Florida doesn’t need to raise $20M- sounds like you should contact the NIL collective and head coach to let them know. What number is debunked that I posted? Texas A&M’s NIL collective funded deals in the single millions total directed towards the class of 2022 and is working to increase that. That doesn’t include any funds given to players already on campus or any comped goods and services either. Tennessee offered an $8M deal to the CA QB they have committed and the other figures come directly from the deals that are referenced in their articles. I’ll ask you the question that nobody seems to want to answer: How much money does Nebraska need in NIL funds available to them on an annual basis to compete at the national level?