SMU is holding serve on NIL salaries, and they haven't even gotten any TV revenue money in yet. Didn't they forego it for like 5 or 10 years, something absurd, to join the ACC? I'm not Lashlee wants to be at SMU long term, and I'm not sure he's going to have SMU consistently winning, even in the ACC. But I can make a case it's better positioned to show up in the playoffs than fucking Arkansas. And maybe once they get TV money, life gets easier.
Well, old man, maybe y'all shouldn't have guaranteed Lincoln Riley 100 million dollars to gargle your collective balls at USC. Something tells me if he'd turned it around, instead of spending much too much time tanning his aztec sun belly tat, you'd be signing a different tune.
18 year old players were getting paid by a lot of teams before now. Just not as much as now, and under the table. I'm sure you forgot all about Reggie Bush's transgressions, but big time HS recruits that got paid also busted, ala Albert Means.
Basically like all old people, you can't handle change.