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Maroon Eagle

All-American
May 24, 2006
17,752
7,458
102
Bugs Bunny doing work for SMU…

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Dawgg

Heisman
Sep 9, 2012
10,480
10,711
113
Fear not gents, our NIL is "fine"

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To be fair, SMU’s alumni base has enough money to keep their entire athletic department afloat for almost a decade while it takes in zero media dollars. We’re never going to beat them out when it comes to NIL and not many schools will.

That’s not a defense of our NIL situation. It’s just an acknowledgement of the current reality of college sports.
 
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Seinfeld

All-American
Nov 30, 2006
10,904
6,542
113
To be fair, SMU’s alumni base has enough money to keep their entire athletic department afloat for almost a decade while it takes in zero media dollars. We’re never going to beat them out when it comes to NIL and not many schools will.

That’s not a defense of our NIL situation. It’s just an acknowledgement of the current reality of college sports.
No doubt about SMU's wealth, but this kid is the 209th ranked portal kid from this class, so it's not exactly like SMU broke the bank to beat us our for a blue chipper.

If we cannot find a way to win battles for transfers that are not even in the top 200 nationally, we're going to have a very difficult time and our NIL is nowhere close to fine

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