Same. I might give some of the money to the university to endow some scholarships for low-income families or something but no way am I giving any to dumb-ass NIL.
Not a fucking dime. I paid my tuition and have fielded calls for years from OSU to donate more. Bitch have you seen the facilities you have? You don't need anything regardless of my bank account.
I'd much rather donate to my high school.
I'm in the boat that the schools can afford to pay, if they could put a cap on what coached make.
Yeah, if I had an obscene amount of money, I would turn us into a juggernaut in a sport that doesnāt make any sense, just ācause. Like even if it wasnāt actually an NCAA sport. I would just churn out olympians or something.
āMany thanks to our new donor for his contribution of this state-of-the-art, world class. . . uh. . . bobsledding facility.ā
Honestly with 500 million Iām probably touring most of Europe. Everything is so close together in Europe. Thatās one of the things I love about it.
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If you invest about $20mil fairly conservatively, that should generate about $1mil per year, more or less indefinitely. And you get to keep the $20mil. I could see myself doing something like that, and then increasing or decreasing the amount based on how I feel.
Thank you for the first comment Iāve read in this thread that makes sense. The other answers only make sense if you donāt actually give a shit about college football.
For a small fraction of your net worth you could set up a trust that:
1. Allows your school to recruit/retain at least one good player a year.
2. Get permanent seats in a stadium suite or club level 50 yard line (or both?).
3. Get your name on a prominent building on campus.
With practical investments, $500 million will grow faster than any reasonable person would spend it.
Probably set up a trust thatāll grow over time. Idk like $50 million? Get my name on something, make the athletics department use some of the money to finance the athletic bands, the rest goes to NIL and athletic department improvements
Fiddy for lifelong season tickets in a top 5 quad of seats and 1mill to the school and coach to split every time they beat the university of Florida by at least 20
Iād try to get a long term contract for a box, but no donations. More than a decade of season tickets for the family, tuition for myself and daughter, is more than my fair share.
Nebraska? Not a thin dime. Until administration shows they have their shit together. South Dakota State? After getting myself lined out, that locker room would be chock full of 5 stars that otherwise would be at Georgia, Alabama, oSU, Michigan, etc..."wanna be a multimillionaire before your Junior year?"
I go to the new Chancellor and tell him Iām wiping out the stadium debt for a suite, two consecutive picks for AD (cuz the first is ron rivera and I might fuck that up) and right of refusal for the next 3 coaches in football and basketball each. The rest gets jammed into T bonds and the interest pays out NIL and my kids school I guess and maybe the mortgage.
I would start some sort of NIL business venture that allows me to be involved with players/donors.
School is FSU so they wonāt need too much of my help but would be more of a hobby/passion project. I would try to teach financial literacy and actually make a difference for the players. Would also invest some in actual academics/the school itself.
Me: āHello, Oregon, I have a half a billion dollars.ā
Oregon: āThatās cute.ā
Me: āHello, West Point, I have half a billion dollars.ā
West Point: āAre you Israel? Like, do you want an F-22 Raptor or something? Thatās more of an Air Force Academy booster thingā¦ā
Most of that money will go to the engineering school.
There are enough things around campus named "Cullen" that I think we can afford to name one of the most important academic units on campus the "u/Sup6969 College of Engineering"
Not a single cent. My answer has nothing to do with the kids getting paid, they absolutely should, but that shouldāve been taken care of years ago with TV dollars. The situation is so messy that itās hard to justify putting money towards NIL anyway. Most importantly, there are so many philanthropic endeavors Iād much rather put my money toward.
Football needs a team not 1 player, it will take time. Iād spend 100 million to basketball to get Jamal Shead to stay 1 more year. Then 400 million to myself. Iād imagine if I paid the bball program 100mil theyād give me free season tickets, so I donāt need to worry about buying that. Maybe Iād do a college football tour around the country and see great places like Ohio, Michigan, Oregon, Clemson, LSU night game, Penn st white out, FSU night game etc
Create a trust that covers the cost of attendance for 2 plyers each year so we can get around the 13 scholarship limit every year. Create another one just for the NIL and one to fund Kelvin and Kellen staff pool. Oh, and I would buy out the baseball coach's contract and force the AD to fire him yesterday.
Jack shit. The SEC schools already have a ton of NIL and I don't see a need to give them more at this point.
I'm not saying I wouldn't donate to the school itself, but it would go to, like, a scholarship program or something.
Iād invest around 200 million into a portfolio (in my name) and use the yearly interest from that to fund NIL. Doing it this way allows you to pull the plug at any time and still keep your initial capital.
lol, ZERO. If that makes me less of a fan or something so be it. Thereās better things to spend that money on than it going to unproven recruits for your schools football team. I love auburn but not enough to care that much to pay for these players.
Plus, Iām still paying on student loans. So, fuck them kids
Honestly, UT doesnāt need my money. They have enough BMDās to make it. But Iām giving Texas State enough money to turn them into a blue blood over night.
$0.
With $500 million, I would buy an entire street of houses in Valencia, Spain and move myself, my family, and my entire group of friends there. I would never even think of Starkville ever again.
Nothing for NIL, but might donate some for the new athletic building that is much needed in order to finish. The money would go towards my extravagant lifestyle, not that of some pre-professional kids that have the ability to earn big money if they prove to be good enough.
$500M should generate $40M per year with almost no risk or effort. Iād give $5M per year strictly to NIL (as long as I feel good about the leadership and direction) and use that to buy the best players we can.
I go to a random irrelevant school of about 1.5k students, it would be really funny to spend a couple hundred million to make them a sports powerhouse 200-300 million is probably more than I could ever spend anyway
Probably wouldn't. Today's athletes have no loyalty to a school (or coach or fan base) so spending crazy money on kids who may take it and walk away next year (or during the year, potentially) just isn't worth it.
I'd be more likely to dump a bunch of money into two year scholarships to community colleges to get kids the opportunity to get a lot of the prerequisites out of the way at a much lower cost and have them better prepared for a couple of years at college. It seems like have the requirements for a degree are designed to boost departments at a University that would otherwise be unable to support themselves. Like foreign language. You're not going to get a high level of proficiency out of two years of college language classes. You'd be better off spending the tuition money on outside foreign language classes than sitting there. College language classes exist to produce future teachers of the language, not to develop proficiency.
None on NIL. I would spend it on education and scholarships, which are a far more important aspect of society
Just kidding, fuck that, probably $50M in a fund and all the interest goes to NIL every year
Iāve attended five different schools with FBS football over the years, so Iāve got a lot of people asking for a cut of my hypothetical $500m, but Iām all about getting the most bang for my buck here. Iām taking $25mm apiece for my original school and the one that also paid me a paycheck and gave me time to do classes during the workday: Rice and UNT.
$25mm goes a lot further at Rice/UNT than it would at Baylor/Texas Tech/Texas A&M.
$0. But I for sure would do something petty like purchasing an led billboard in Austin near campus preferably near tailgating lots that just displays either visiting team things or replays the Crabtree catch.
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Tater Tot jump scare
Rare Tater Tot W
Something Ole Miss and Mississippi State fans can agree on
Ole Miss š¤ State Disapproval of Tater
When heās right, heās right.
Iām probably moving to the French Riviera so zero.
Same. I might give some of the money to the university to endow some scholarships for low-income families or something but no way am I giving any to dumb-ass NIL.
Alabama is already a football powerhouse. We will now be a basketball powerhouse.
Same but Bali
Same but Southern Appalachia
I lived in Boone for a year. Absolutely beautiful in the spring and when itās sunny out. When itās cold and grey, not so much.
Cold, wet, dark in the winter is tough but man itās home.
100 mil to the University of Idaho to get them to where they rightfully belong
Same for morehead a good chunk for cross country and track cause thats my sport.
I too feel like I would spend a lot of money on more head
Well we are the second cheapest public university in ky after an hbcu that i cant remember the name of and we aint got any money
Right behind my Idaho State Bengals after I pull your recruits out of the portal.
My tuition + interest (if theyāre lucky)
Not a fucking dime. I paid my tuition and have fielded calls for years from OSU to donate more. Bitch have you seen the facilities you have? You don't need anything regardless of my bank account. I'd much rather donate to my high school. I'm in the boat that the schools can afford to pay, if they could put a cap on what coached make.
100% the alum association has no shame. Fuck them dudes. I would buy AA deck season Tix though.
Itās brutal
Itās wild there is an area at Ohios field named after Ann Arbor.
Theyāre already asking me to donate in emails and Iām a freshman š
Iād pay a flat $20 for them to never bother me again
Why would I give my money when the oil rigs are pumping money straight from the ground into Kyle Field?
I wonder how much money it would take to rename Kyle fieldā¦
How much did Blue Bell pay to rename Olsen? "Kyle Field at Texas Tea Stadium"
What does a championship cost?
More than Jimbo's buyout
Are you sure about that? š that buyout is insane
Trust meā¦ weāve tried
All that PUF fund money the Aggies donāt deserve, coming straight out of the oil fields of west Texas.
TBF thereās also lots coming from east Texas as well (Eagle Ford and Haynesville gas)
Iād turn Florida State into a hockey powerhouse.
Yeah, if I had an obscene amount of money, I would turn us into a juggernaut in a sport that doesnāt make any sense, just ācause. Like even if it wasnāt actually an NCAA sport. I would just churn out olympians or something. āMany thanks to our new donor for his contribution of this state-of-the-art, world class. . . uh. . . bobsledding facility.ā
Chaotic good?
Michiganās curling program is about to get $50 mil just for the lols
I could be the first trillionaire and I wouldnāt spend a penny on NIL
Not a dime. Iām fucking off to Norway, watching the northern lights for part of the winter and spending the rest in Spain and Italy.
Spain and Italy are both great love to visit places. I would throw in Poland, Portugal
Honestly with 500 million Iām probably touring most of Europe. Everything is so close together in Europe. Thatās one of the things I love about it. Edit: words can be hard
Is what!? The suspense is killing me...
I see you havenāt met yoda before
Good food yes. Good food.
Hell even Hungary
Great minds think alike
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Welllllll it was about that time I noticed this ā5 star RBā was about 8 stories tall and was a crustacean from the Paleolithic Era!
As an ODU fan, I feel like my NIL money would go farther.
We're getting the pyrotechnics and moats
Definitely be dominating the sunbelt for the foreseeable future
If you invest about $20mil fairly conservatively, that should generate about $1mil per year, more or less indefinitely. And you get to keep the $20mil. I could see myself doing something like that, and then increasing or decreasing the amount based on how I feel.
If I was a Florida fan I would probably pay for fireworks for donāt back down so they will do it forever lol
Thank you for the first comment Iāve read in this thread that makes sense. The other answers only make sense if you donāt actually give a shit about college football. For a small fraction of your net worth you could set up a trust that: 1. Allows your school to recruit/retain at least one good player a year. 2. Get permanent seats in a stadium suite or club level 50 yard line (or both?). 3. Get your name on a prominent building on campus. With practical investments, $500 million will grow faster than any reasonable person would spend it.
Probably set up a trust thatāll grow over time. Idk like $50 million? Get my name on something, make the athletics department use some of the money to finance the athletic bands, the rest goes to NIL and athletic department improvements
I mean honestly I am more inclined to donate to app state than my buckeyes lol.
$12.5M at 8% would give $1M per year in perpetuity. I'd think that would be more than sufficient.
Weāre gonna run the sunbelt lmao
Fiddy for lifelong season tickets in a top 5 quad of seats and 1mill to the school and coach to split every time they beat the university of Florida by at least 20
Iād try to get a long term contract for a box, but no donations. More than a decade of season tickets for the family, tuition for myself and daughter, is more than my fair share.
Big donation to that (childrenās?) hospital that gets waived to wouldnāt go amiss either
Nebraska? Not a thin dime. Until administration shows they have their shit together. South Dakota State? After getting myself lined out, that locker room would be chock full of 5 stars that otherwise would be at Georgia, Alabama, oSU, Michigan, etc..."wanna be a multimillionaire before your Junior year?"
$1 million
Thanks for that Based Cougar šš
I'd be more interested in getting Mavs football up and at em again. Which means funding more women's sports for Title IX purposes. Win/win
Exactly, Iād give UNO $1 million. Plus help out and give them a major renovation to their Fitness Center.
None. Theyāve got enough money.
I go to the new Chancellor and tell him Iām wiping out the stadium debt for a suite, two consecutive picks for AD (cuz the first is ron rivera and I might fuck that up) and right of refusal for the next 3 coaches in football and basketball each. The rest gets jammed into T bonds and the interest pays out NIL and my kids school I guess and maybe the mortgage.
$0.00
Not a fucking dime lol
I would start some sort of NIL business venture that allows me to be involved with players/donors. School is FSU so they wonāt need too much of my help but would be more of a hobby/passion project. I would try to teach financial literacy and actually make a difference for the players. Would also invest some in actual academics/the school itself.
Teach financial literacyā¦ gets rich from lottery ticket
Uhh idk which FSU youāre a fan of man, but my FSU needs a couple hundred million rn to deal with this conference bs
Me: āHello, Oregon, I have a half a billion dollars.ā Oregon: āThatās cute.ā Me: āHello, West Point, I have half a billion dollars.ā West Point: āAre you Israel? Like, do you want an F-22 Raptor or something? Thatās more of an Air Force Academy booster thingā¦ā
Not a dime, Iām shelling out on student loans
Um... None?
Most of that money will go to the engineering school. There are enough things around campus named "Cullen" that I think we can afford to name one of the most important academic units on campus the "u/Sup6969 College of Engineering"
lol nothing. Iād set up some generous scholarships for journalism and history majors and other underprivileged scholars instead.
Not paying unless Iām getting a say. The Yella Fella got Auburn by the nuts. I think my family name might hold weight though.
Time to get a live Elephant mascot! How ever much that would cost me!
About tree fiddy
$1M per year to the collective and then situationally to get offensive and defensive linemen I really like.
0 lol. I'm moving to Melbourne, Australia
0. I'm not a tool
$0
Not a single cent. My answer has nothing to do with the kids getting paid, they absolutely should, but that shouldāve been taken care of years ago with TV dollars. The situation is so messy that itās hard to justify putting money towards NIL anyway. Most importantly, there are so many philanthropic endeavors Iād much rather put my money toward.
Football needs a team not 1 player, it will take time. Iād spend 100 million to basketball to get Jamal Shead to stay 1 more year. Then 400 million to myself. Iād imagine if I paid the bball program 100mil theyād give me free season tickets, so I donāt need to worry about buying that. Maybe Iād do a college football tour around the country and see great places like Ohio, Michigan, Oregon, Clemson, LSU night game, Penn st white out, FSU night game etc
Create a trust that covers the cost of attendance for 2 plyers each year so we can get around the 13 scholarship limit every year. Create another one just for the NIL and one to fund Kelvin and Kellen staff pool. Oh, and I would buy out the baseball coach's contract and force the AD to fire him yesterday.
Jack shit. The SEC schools already have a ton of NIL and I don't see a need to give them more at this point. I'm not saying I wouldn't donate to the school itself, but it would go to, like, a scholarship program or something.
Burn it to the ground. I'd get creative along with hiring people to get creative on how to do it.
Still not enough to get a good QB.
Iād invest around 200 million into a portfolio (in my name) and use the yearly interest from that to fund NIL. Doing it this way allows you to pull the plug at any time and still keep your initial capital.
Sorry but sink or swim to the lot of you.
Would probably do what Warren Buffet does for my school. Nothing. Because my school has made so many mistakes that it wouldnāt make a differenceā¦
$500 mil to the Akron Zips
500 million!! Heck the way things are going now I better put that back for myself
$0. I love watching UofM, but I didn't go there, and they make plenty.
Tree fitty
None. They arenāt my employees.
Yeah no
Not a fucking cent. I gave UGA plenty of money already and my identity and happiness aren't tied up in the success of UGA athletics.
$0.00
I'd probably want to put 25mil it in a fund that pushes interest into NIL in sports other than football and basketball.
As much as they spent on me none
Iād donate enough to the school that I could buy a suite at the stadium every season.
Not a penny, fans donating to NIL shpuld not be a thing imo
Not a single fucking pennyā¦
I offer to match any single donation another donor is willing to make
None. I would establish a scholarship at the school.
lol, ZERO. If that makes me less of a fan or something so be it. Thereās better things to spend that money on than it going to unproven recruits for your schools football team. I love auburn but not enough to care that much to pay for these players. Plus, Iām still paying on student loans. So, fuck them kids
Honestly, UT doesnāt need my money. They have enough BMDās to make it. But Iām giving Texas State enough money to turn them into a blue blood over night.
$0. With $500 million, I would buy an entire street of houses in Valencia, Spain and move myself, my family, and my entire group of friends there. I would never even think of Starkville ever again.
What is the cost to put my name on the HVAC building next to the water tower? Thatās how much.
0 for NIL but I would invest into the school so that it helped land new recruits and keep new recruits
0 college is a for profit business they do not need my ādonationsā Iāll spend plenty on gear.
$0. Iād get season tickets in a box and thatās it.
Iād rather buy the naming rights to a new basketball arena & fund a revamped student section
Nothing for NIL, but might donate some for the new athletic building that is much needed in order to finish. The money would go towards my extravagant lifestyle, not that of some pre-professional kids that have the ability to earn big money if they prove to be good enough.
None. Les has more!
Maybe a little?? Iād probably bankroll the Marching Band though, and then move to a mansion in the Alps
id go as much as tree fiddy
Zero... hell, I have a kid and twins coming.. I love the Utes but I will never be a donor even if i made 500 million
I pay off USF's debt from their new stadium (about $200 mil)
I'd pay Wisconsin $50M to fire Greg Gard. Yes, I know. This is the football sub, but still
$0
hahahahhahahahahahahhahahahahahhahahahahahahahaha
$1, Bob
I went to SMU, so I would have to spend at least half of it on NIL just to get invited to the big donor luncheon.
$500M should generate $40M per year with almost no risk or effort. Iād give $5M per year strictly to NIL (as long as I feel good about the leadership and direction) and use that to buy the best players we can.
0 lol
Not a dime more than the athletic department already gets from me
Nothing.
$0.00000 I love Texas A&M, but if the tables were turned (I mean they are), they wouldnāt do jack for me.
All of itš
$2
20 bucks exclusively for recruiting long snappers
$0
Unless the squatch teams need some funds, likely zero as my school doesn't do scholarships outside of hockey.
Honestly probably none.
The Husky Revolution is back on the menu
Iād share a little
I would spend it all to make sure nobody with any talent ever went to Florida. (UGA Grad)
Maybe 100k, solely because I would be transparent about creating an LLC that solely exists to pay a couple linemen.
Zero Dollars.
Nothing
My donations would go to non-revenue sports.
Game times are inconvenient with my future schedule and location and hobbies, so... absolutely fucking nothing!
Not a damn dime lol all those schools rich as shit and donāt need any of my money
I go to a random irrelevant school of about 1.5k students, it would be really funny to spend a couple hundred million to make them a sports powerhouse 200-300 million is probably more than I could ever spend anyway
They have won a lot of national championships with out my money. They can do it again
Not one damn cent lol sorry
$0
Anyone who donates to a NIL fund is a brain dead moron
I will spend the money developing a human cloning facility where I can continually recreate the 2005 natty team every 4 years
however much i spend on cincy light, and not a penny more
$0.00
$0
$0.00
Probably wouldn't. Today's athletes have no loyalty to a school (or coach or fan base) so spending crazy money on kids who may take it and walk away next year (or during the year, potentially) just isn't worth it. I'd be more likely to dump a bunch of money into two year scholarships to community colleges to get kids the opportunity to get a lot of the prerequisites out of the way at a much lower cost and have them better prepared for a couple of years at college. It seems like have the requirements for a degree are designed to boost departments at a University that would otherwise be unable to support themselves. Like foreign language. You're not going to get a high level of proficiency out of two years of college language classes. You'd be better off spending the tuition money on outside foreign language classes than sitting there. College language classes exist to produce future teachers of the language, not to develop proficiency.
Zero
Iām giving all the money to Swimming and Golf because we are a Swimming and Golf school!!
None on NIL. I would spend it on education and scholarships, which are a far more important aspect of society Just kidding, fuck that, probably $50M in a fund and all the interest goes to NIL every year
All of it. Every last penny. But only on the condition that Matthew McConaughey is exiled to a remote island off the coast of Madagascar.
Start a brewery & distillery, donate 100% profits to NIL for school and leave it in perpetuity.
e^1 amount of dollars
Not a single penny
How much money do you think it would take to outpace storm the field costs? Iād like to set up a public fund to undermine the NCAA deterrent fines.
Zero. I might travel to catch games, but that's it.
$0.00
Enough to get my name on something lolšš
Iāve attended five different schools with FBS football over the years, so Iāve got a lot of people asking for a cut of my hypothetical $500m, but Iām all about getting the most bang for my buck here. Iām taking $25mm apiece for my original school and the one that also paid me a paycheck and gave me time to do classes during the workday: Rice and UNT. $25mm goes a lot further at Rice/UNT than it would at Baylor/Texas Tech/Texas A&M.
They may have to name a building after me
$0
I'm pulling a Scott's Tots 
$0. But I for sure would do something petty like purchasing an led billboard in Austin near campus preferably near tailgating lots that just displays either visiting team things or replays the Crabtree catch.
A small percentage
Zero Monies.
However much is needed to get Satterfields buyout and hire Marcus Freeman away from ND
$0. Like wtf.
500 million. š„āļøšŖ
Zeeeeroooo. I would endow a chair of civil engineering with emphasis on geotechnical engineering.
No thanks
Noneā¦wtf. At that point Iām moving to Japan & forgetting everything about America
Iām only donating to get a suite
Iām a HUGE fan. But zero.
Iād donate it to the academies who canāt benefit from NIL and transfer portal like every other school.
400 mil, but would need a building named after me
Screw the football team, I'm getting a building named after me.