No, NIL started in 2021, and Bama has had a top 2 recruiting class ever since, Bryce was making 7 figures in NIL money while at school. The shortcomings the last couple of years were coaching issues, not talent issues.
You trying to argue with an agenda led bias, and a man that doesn’t have the capacity to have a genuine conversation
nikkas swear nil all of a sudden made every team rich over night, the reality is the same schools who had money before have it now, you may get a few more donations because it’s not illegal, but not substantial enough that you got a team from no where jumping into the top 10 Syracuse or Maryland didn’t wake up flush because now folks can donate money legally
Nick spoke on getting the paperwork out front so nikkas knew what these numbers really were vs old wives tales of (insert recruit here) getting millions, nikkas was eating but it was over 4 years not per year. What we’ve also seen is the push back on nil, folks not dropping millions of dollars in collectives and you not see a return on the investment, a lot of these kids aren’t panning out or as good as advertised, so a lot of schools have a very limited budgets because the money says nah we may donate but not like that, and not til they ball, which is why Nick told y’all money, you see what it took to get Travis, we need y’all to get your money up, when we identify really good talent.
But if nikkas want any proof of his greatness, nick has brought in and jettisoned and brought new 5 stars/top 100 kids plus portal kids too, and was an overtime away from being in the national championship
They were pissed off because the playing field became even since everyone was allowed to legally pay players now with their own respective budgets. And these kids aren't making millions through NIL but I'm comparison to getting paid under the table you're right, it's more money.
We talked about how kids for the most part are not getting paid, i think the field has gotten even because of the portal, teams can’t afford (literally and figuratively) to stockpile talent, and kids will not sit the bench for year(s) which i understand some what(but why go to Bama/uga/osu, and sit when you could go to ole miss, Maryland, South Carolina and start from day one more than likely) so the talent is spread out but not as significant as we think, it ma be a kid or two here or there, (which adds up) they eventually chip away at developed talent or quality depth but they still cracking skulls and are significantly better than 90% of cfb
