seems like we have confined ourselves to playing defense and just hoping we hold onto all of our best players...if we want to ever be able to have decent seasons in the SEC, we need to start getting in the weeds. We dont have the deep pockets of others, but we can pool some NIL funds and start targeting a couple players on some of the arkansas/kentucky/south carolina/ole miss type schools and see if we can outbid them.
Perhaps one way to build bigger pools of NIL cash would be to funnel donor dollars to NIL instead of TSF. Legally of course the school cannot do this, but we can find some loopholes. Maybe instead of a $1k donation or $10k donation or whatever for your seat/season ticket that goes to the TSF, the school says you must donate $10k to a charity of your choice and then provides a list of acceptable charities that are all of course Mizzou NIL-related.
With the huge new TV money coming in, there really shouldnt be a need for the donors to prop up the whole athletic department much longer. And if there is then we have two options... 1) cut out the bloat from the department. I am sure theres lots of this with all kinds of fake jobs people are paid for. (Ambassadors, HR people, etc) or 2) start cutting some sports. Only male sports we should be running out there are football, basketball, baseball and wrestling. Title 9 says we got to keep the female sports so we cant cut all those but thats fine.
I am sure others have some good ideas too.
Perhaps one way to build bigger pools of NIL cash would be to funnel donor dollars to NIL instead of TSF. Legally of course the school cannot do this, but we can find some loopholes. Maybe instead of a $1k donation or $10k donation or whatever for your seat/season ticket that goes to the TSF, the school says you must donate $10k to a charity of your choice and then provides a list of acceptable charities that are all of course Mizzou NIL-related.
With the huge new TV money coming in, there really shouldnt be a need for the donors to prop up the whole athletic department much longer. And if there is then we have two options... 1) cut out the bloat from the department. I am sure theres lots of this with all kinds of fake jobs people are paid for. (Ambassadors, HR people, etc) or 2) start cutting some sports. Only male sports we should be running out there are football, basketball, baseball and wrestling. Title 9 says we got to keep the female sports so we cant cut all those but thats fine.
I am sure others have some good ideas too.
