4GX
Well-known member
What do you mean "country"?And how many other country are truly capable of doing this? Again, you’re bent out of shape over nothing.
As for being bent out of shape-- wait until NIL changes the competitive landscape in both college and HS sports-- then there will be a lot of others a lot more "bent out of shape" than I ever will be. "College" sports have effectively become minor league professional sports-- with a loose affiliation with some school. When Phil Knight (with $65 Billion-- nearly 7X more than Lex Wexner, who is currently OSU's wealthiest alum) decides to buy all the best lineman, linebackers, receivers, quarterbacks, etc. for his alma mater (Oregon)-- and give them ALL Nike NIL contracts to funnel the money to them, people at Alabama, Clemson-- and yes, even Ohio State-- are going to be crying in their beer about "the good ol' days". Phil Knight could spend a BILLION dollars a year on this activity (~10X the entire OSU athletic department budget)-- and not even BLINK.
And, BTW, Knight could do the same thing for Oregon's basketball team-- and there is NOTHING that Kentucky could do about it to match that. In fact, Knight could do it for EVERY SINGLE Oregon varsity athletic team-- and (unless Warren Buffett decides he wants to back Nebraska's teams in similar fashion), there really aren't a lot of equivalent deep pockets that could put up a fight.