Quote Originally Posted by Maverick91 View Post
This issue boils down to optics. As it has been said over and over and over again, our fan base is not only small, but we are more than likely lower in the middle class than most fan basses so the ease of excess money to throw at kids that aren?t our actual blood is a hard sale.

The things this admin needs to do is sale the benefits that out way the odds. They can start with me, while I have a baby on the way, excess money is going 100% to the needs of her for when she arrives.

Why would I throw any money at a program right now, that does currently have money. Do we have the war chest of bama, no! But we do have money. Also why invest more when it?s clear that our admin doesn?t care, Tater made a really good post about how bad the stadium atmosphere was Saturday. This also doesn?t include the abundance of meddling that is taking place from high boosters in our coaching staff.

The above doesn?t even factor in the free 4 year degree, room and board, meals, clothes, travel, fame, chance of a lifetime to get into the NFL. You want me on top of all of that to give my hard earned money to these kids to do what? Play pitch and catch? They already earn the fair trade items listed above to play pitch and catch. This was supposed to be about NAME IMAGE AND LIKENESS not just a check in their hands.

It?s hard enough to watch NFL because it?s all about the money and not playing a long good career. These kids in college are doing the same thing, they follow the money except it?s just give these kids money to come, at least in the NFL usually they have to prove they are worth a bigger check before that payday.

If the admin would fix their side of things, I actually would think about throwing a few bucks at it, but until then why? It seems to go into a money pit that like our football program will get mismanaged.
OK stay with me here but if the numbers we're being told are accurate, we're spending around $300-$400 thousand and KY & SC are spending $3 million. Hard to believe our alumni/donor base is less affluent than those. Intuitively would say those of significant means are responsible for that differential and not the general base. And maybe that's because Cohen did not embrace it from the beginning. But isn't that supposed to be one of Zac's strengths or is he not allowed to petition for NIL.