I don’t know why it’s so hard to understand that if the Georgia tech alumni and Texas tech alumni haven’t really cared that much in the past why they will all of a sudden care more.
Again, I’m not a fan of NIL. It’s gonna hurt and help.
But it may move us to the bottom tier of college football. If so, I was wrong but I don’t think it’s going to affect MSU that much in the grand scheme of where we always have been.
Texas Tech alumni do and have cared. Their problem has been that while Lubbock has a decent population, they are in the middle of BFE and they have been a clear #3 in the state behind UT and A&M, and hell, even TCU often. And now their football players will be starting off with a $25k guarantee of NIL money.
On our current roster, we have Jalen Green, Marcus Banks, Sawyer Robertson, Hunter Washington, Canon Boone, Jakson LaHue. OUtside of Sawyer Robertson (which I think QB will be a special circumstance with Leach here), how many of those would have chosen us if Tech was offering $25k more out of the gate?
Georgia Tech alumni don't generally care, but it only takes a few with big money to make a difference. We have 9 players on our roster from Florida. 7 from Alabama and 6 from Georgia. What does it do to us if we lose a couple a year to Ga Tech that we otherwise would have gotten? We've had a lot of key players from those states in the past that were passed over by their local blue bloods and we were the next best option. If it's between us and making a little more money at a school that maybe is a little further away than they want or that is in the ACC instead of the ACC, that's going to hurt us over time. The people we can poach players from financially really aren't the type of players we need to poach financially, because we'd be pulling them largely from G5 schools anyway.