Just More Evidence that the Gap between the FBS Have and Have-nots will grow in future years

https://gigemgazette.com/2022/01/06/texas-am-football-paying-price-2022-...

This article alleges that A&M spent between $25-30mil in "NIL" to get the top recruiting class for '22 and possibly all time with 6 5* and 19 4*. Just goes to show that NCAA f@#ked the dog by not getting ahead of NIL in the first place and allowing the wild west to reign supreme. When these kinds of things are allowed it's pretty clear that there will be those programs with mega-donors that will pull this kind of shit and then everyone else. I don't think that there's any football program in the ACC (except Clemson) that would pull something similar to this.

Edit: as noted by Joey25, the source of this is somewhat suspicious. That said, A&Ms '21 ranking was #8 and their '20 ranking was #6 with composite rankings of .9170 and .9111 vs .9461 in '22. Not much of a leap to figure out that something is fishy.

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