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What if a multi billionaire decided to bankroll a college football team?
Posted on 12/29/24 at 4:39 pm
Posted on 12/29/24 at 4:39 pm
Couldn’t that multi billionaire build the best program in college football history?
Under the current rules
What is to prevent this from happening?
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Posted on 12/29/24 at 4:40 pm to Rohan Gravy
Done - Oregon
Posted on 12/29/24 at 4:41 pm to Rohan Gravy
Oregon
Posted on 12/29/24 at 4:41 pm to Rohan Gravy
Texas A&M already tried it. Epic fail.
Posted on 12/29/24 at 4:43 pm to Rohan Gravy
SMU
Posted on 12/29/24 at 4:45 pm to Rohan Gravy
TAMU, Ole Miss, Oregon, etc. it doesn’t work.
Posted on 12/29/24 at 4:45 pm to Rohan Gravy
Already happening. Who do you think bought Underwood for Michigan? Larry Ellison net worth is over 200B He bought it for like his 10th wife who’s a Mich grad as a bday present. CFB is so great now..
Posted on 12/29/24 at 4:46 pm to Rohan Gravy
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Couldn’t that multi billionaire build the best program in college football history?
We're extremely close right now. Knight is closest, but he still gives hundreds of millions to the academic side as well.
Ellison dropped 15 mil, but there's no indication he'll jump to do that again. It was just a Christmas present for his adolescent bride.
Yellafella said he'd open up the purse strings, but he's only sitting around a billion in assets and can't liquidate the way Knight can. He needs to sell off a company like Clay Travis or Dave Portnoy if he wants to compete.
It won't be long before one of the big ego guys just hands them a $50 million blank check and says "Go get me a championship."
This post was edited on 12/29/24 at 4:48 pm
Posted on 12/29/24 at 4:48 pm to Evolved Simian
College basketball is the sport you could easily do it
Posted on 12/29/24 at 4:49 pm to JayAg
Whoever got triggered by SMU doesn’t follow sports. There were 20 articles on it.
'Oh, s---, here come all the billionaires': How SMU came back from the dead
'Oh, s---, here come all the billionaires': How SMU came back from the dead
Posted on 12/29/24 at 4:51 pm to Rohan Gravy
quote:Tennessee has about 5 multi-billionaires funding them.
What if a multi billionaire decided to bankroll a college football team?
Posted on 12/29/24 at 4:51 pm to Smokeyone
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TAMU, Ole Miss, Oregon, etc. it doesn’t work.
Nick Saban and the elephants says hello. It worked quite a while for them. The difference now is the portal. The red elephant club could buy players and they were stuck there because of transfer rules. Now they can leave anytime they want. It will be hard for any team to build a deep and experienced roster like Alabama was sporting for years.
This post was edited on 12/29/24 at 5:12 pm
Posted on 12/29/24 at 4:51 pm to Rohan Gravy
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What is to prevent this from happening?
There is no return on your investment. If you're gonna do that, you might as well just buy an NFL team or start a new franchise.
Posted on 12/29/24 at 5:01 pm to Rohan Gravy
Whoever is downvoting all these would love to hear your take on how this is a good thing. Maybe there’s a silver lining in there somewhere. I try to keep an open mind
Posted on 12/29/24 at 5:15 pm to J2thaROC
Ok. No cap or anything? Whatever has the richest donors?
Posted on 12/29/24 at 5:17 pm to Rohan Gravy
Most major teams either have at least one if not several billionaires behind them already and/or a consortium on people $100Ms range.
Posted on 12/29/24 at 5:18 pm to Rohan Gravy
This is the best thread for the entire year of 2024
Rohan Gravy is a genius and is to be commended
I'm honored to call him my friend
Rohan Gravy is a genius and is to be commended
I'm honored to call him my friend
Posted on 12/29/24 at 5:20 pm to Rohan Gravy
It would frick up the overall dynamics that make it good for the majority of folks as much as everything else the billionaire is doing.
Posted on 12/29/24 at 5:25 pm to JayAg
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Whoever got triggered by SMU doesn’t follow sports. There were 20 articles on it.
I’ve posted about it here at least 3 or 4 times. Also said they made the playoffs too early because it’s only year 1 of buying a title. Give them some time to buy and build an actual roster.
(Not the first rodeo, by the way)
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