Quote Originally Posted by Todd4State View Post
If we're middle of the SEC in NIL funding that was partially on Lemonis. We have how many MLB players and former MLB players all highly invested in the program? I wonder how many of those players he contacted? I love Jake Mangum and Tanner Allen but guys like that are not going to help us with their minor league salaries and MLB minimums.

We've seen Clark and Palmeiro come back plenty. How often have we seen Papelbon? Maholm? Frazier? Renfroe? Etc? Not to mention we could probably get some NIL from people like Roy Oswalt who Lemonis pissed off because he wouldn't let him work with our pitchers after we fired Foxhall. Just a few of those players alone could buy us an elite team without putting much of a dent in their pockets not to mention what our fans donate already.

And what our fans donate would likely go up with a hire of an elite coach. I think O'Conner, Backich,Waz, and etc. would be able to generate that kind of excitement pretty quickly.
You are way off base here, that wasn't on Lemon that was on your former AD who the majority of them hated his ass. He did so many dumbass things with these guys before and when he was AD and I can't blame them. We have a few coming back, two of them are the ones that have put the majority of the money for the buyout up and they are also helping with the new staff. But the majority still don't trust the new admin yet, hopefully is slowly changing. We have players that didn't make it to the show have done very very well for themselves in life and will be a significant help along with the ones who you mention.