Texas A&M was not the "first" team to NIL. But if you want to put forth that claim, support it with actual fucking evidence.
They bought their entire "best class" of all time with fucking bags, becuase they got Jimbo Fisher and he rounded up enough boosters to throw bags at all of thsoe fucking kids. Not NIL. Bags. Jesus Christ most of aTm's class was in the boat before the announcement of NIL in June of 2021....which by the way I'm not sure how it could be "Months" faster than UT or anyone, because we spent fucking months working on it from the outset before we announced the Pancake Factory in December.
Saban accused them of buying their class, and Fisher responded that NIL had nothing to do with the class. Brownlow-Dindy's dad had a fucking church built for them. They marshalled their reserouces as never before to get Jimbo his class, and they failed to sign a fucking good class after it becuase, wait for it, Jimbo's on field product collapsed, their program collapsed and kids saw the writing on the wall, and then their enthusiasm for funding collapsed when Jimbo finally shit the bed, and then they had to marshall funds for the buy-out.
You have zero insignt into this, zero insight into aTm donors and how they operated, and zero fucking insight the Texas side of things as we were countering bag offers with legit NIL offers for players. aTm still doesn't even have their NIL organized under a 501(c)3 last we heard. Their board is still bitching about it. Meanwhile, we were getting calls from fucking attorneys at other schools early on demanding our blueprint for the Pancake Factory under threat of legal action. But sure, aTm figured it out fist .
aTm bought their best class, and then retroactively called in NIL becuase of all the fucking attention it got, it was good cover. They weren't first to fucking shit. Stop acting like you fucking know. You don't.