If I was rich enough, I'd absolutely contribute to NIL but not to a fund, it would be targeted specifically on particular needs and individuals. Heck, I'm far from rich but I'd still consider donating something like $1,000 instead of going to a game if it meant getting a good place kicker or fixing a major issue. I do spend money on Alabama one way or the other, it might as well go to success.
I say this as someone that was probably the most anti-NIL poster here. I basically did a whole redo of my Hurts and I against the world posting thing where I was saying how bad it would be, how it's not good for the sport, how people are misstating the way the money works in college football and how it would only be boosters paying players that does anything with NIL. So I know what it is, and it's not good for the sport.
But it's here and either you treat the portal like Dabo does, which is you hold your ground and watch your team struggle, or you play that game. There is no other choice. I didn't want it, I made a huge fuss about it, I had people who now say how bad the sport is tell me how good it would be, I get it, I do.
I still want Alabama to succeed.
Edit: To put it in another context, the University of Alabama built a 47 million dollar golf practice facility. I think about 30 million of that came from the university itself, I'd have to look the numbers up. But either way, it was millions from the university, millions from donors, for something that only a select few will ever use. It was a lavish rich guy, money waster. I'm sure part of the deal is those rich guys get access to this investment which will see about 0 ROI as part of the deal.
So if these people with too much money (which includes the University apparently) can do dumb stuff like that, yeah may be help the team win football games while you're at it. They let Downs walk, but they had 47 million to practice golf...
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