I went to MI a few weeks back(wife had a co-worker invite us up To Holland, to celebrate work Goals and enjoy some tasty bourbon) and one of the guys there was a scUM alum. He was a decent guy for the most part, and treaded talking ball much since he knew I was an OSU fan. But he brought up not liking NIL because it doesn’t make it “fair” for schools like scUM
I asked him what that meant, and he said that their school couldn’t afford to keep up in the NIL race. I started laughing, and had to compose myself before telling him:
“THATS YOUR FAULT AS A FAN AND ALUM! You need to start getting guys like yourself to start putting money where your mouths are, because that excuse doesn’t work, especially after just winning an NC. You all deserve no sympathy. You’re a stock trader, who knows other traders in this state, your school has Im sure MANY wealthy alum, tell them to get off their asses. Don’t get mad at OSU for stepping their NIL game up, they should’ve been doing this, and the $13mil that was rumored about, should’ve been $20mil. The kids deserve it, and the fans/alum realize that this is where we are as a sport, either adapt or die”
I didn’t realize that several people at the dinner stopped their convos to listen to me, but they agreed. ScUM has 3 straight wins against OSU, i hope OSU wins every game they play until the end of time. i want a close game to be within 3TDs. I hope scUM never gets their NIL shit together and Day curb stomps them until he retires and then the next HC does the same