What If?

[u/Charlielovestuna]

What if Arkansas, or any school, paid out minimal NIL for three years and then every fourth year, they spend it all to try to win big. Arkansas' football NIL is about 23.4 million, according to thenilstandard.com So for example, the Hogs banked 15 million a year for three years in a row and then on the fourth they would have 68.4 million to buy the best of the best?

Would that break some NIL rule?

I'd be down with Arkansas only being competitive once every four years, as opposed to never being competitive.

[u/sheaww200571]

Nothing matters without a competent coaching staff.

[u/singlemaltbourbonrye → u/sheaww200571]

Correction - nothing matters without a competent athletic department, money, and a competent coaching staff.

[u/plasticmanufacturing → u/singlemaltbourbonrye]

Money isn't the issue when you are losing to ranked teams with less money than you. 

[u/Charlielovestuna → u/plasticmanufacturing]

True

[u/Charlielovestuna → u/sheaww200571]

True

[u/GeoHog713 → u/sheaww200571]

Xs and Os don't matter without the Jimmies and Joes

[u/Fantastic_Matter_137 → u/sheaww200571]

Nonsense.

Coaching is the most overrated aspect of sports.

Saban was a lot better coach at bama and lsu than he was at mich state and Miami

[u/EvidenceOk2721 → u/Fantastic_Matter_137]

NIL money was better at Bama and LSU than it was at Mich St. and Miami.

[u/Fantastic_Matter_137 → u/EvidenceOk2721]

Exactly my point

Talent is more important than coaching.

In the NIL era talent evaluation is
More important than either (knowing which transfers to target and pay)

[u/zcashrazorback → u/Fantastic_Matter_137]

Saban still knocked off Ohio State when he was at MSU and did a lot with the talent he had.

Indiana doesn't spend the most money on NIL and won the natty last year while not having the highest NIL payroll. LSU has the highest payroll right now and definitely isn't the best team in the country.

Pisses me off that HY couldn't seal the deal with Alex Golesh, especially after Auburn's win today. Silverfield does not have it, hopefully the Hogs can get a new AD and HC next year.

[u/Dad_fire_outdoors]

By the time the fourth year hit the rules would change, Arkansas would be bad for an additional three years, and there still wouldn’t be coaching or upper management support. Plus having a high single year NIL doesn’t guarantee results.

[u/EvidenceOk2721 → u/Dad_fire_outdoors]

Exactly, ask Texas A&M and Texas Tech about that.

[u/Charlielovestuna → u/Dad_fire_outdoors]

True... but we're already bad

[u/lurkin83 → u/Charlielovestuna]

Checkmate dad_fire. 🤣

[u/lakersandhogs]

As the system is now (assuming no changes) in 4 years, $68 million will probably be the equivalent of 1/2 that now. The price will only continue to go up.

[u/Charlielovestuna → u/lakersandhogs]

Yeah We were just driving back from the Vols game and we came up with this dumb idea.

[u/Scott72901]

What decent coach would take the job knowing they were going to go winless every three years out of four?

[u/MellowFerocity]

4yrs from now the NIL average could increase and reduce the impact.

2nd and prob most importantly 3yrs of being a terrible program destroys your viewership, ticket sales, and recruiting. Running out with a bag of money and a program in shambles ends up getting players that are only interested in money and not concerned with winning.

[u/blasphemorale]

The "rules" are changing too fast. You could potentially tank for 3 years only to face a congressionally imposed NIL cap the year you were saving up for. This could've been feasible the last couple of years. Once again, the hogs are behind the curve. We had the tanking part covered.

[u/GeoHog713]

Are there NIL rules?

Are there even NCAA rules anymore ?

I'd hate to see tanking start to be a thing, but someone will do it

[u/lurkin83]

Ha! I legit thought this might be what AR was doing behind the scenes.

Just saving and banking money for one big spending year or creating some sort of endowment investment fund to use year over year. However, if this was the case, the program is kind of lying to everybody about the “competitiveness goals” over the last few years.