Welcome to the Annie Staples show.

It's an NIL edition, and usually that means you're going to sleep.

But David Ubbin wrote an NIL story that people actually paid attention to and read,

and we're like, holy cow, look at that.

Because it's not an NIL story, Andy, it's a recruiting story.

That's right.

Yes.

It is actually kind of a, this is the new world, get used to it, get over it, story.

The number that pops off the page is $10 million because you said you followed a one of these NIL

collectives this is one that works with Tennessee or or they don't work with

Tennessee any no no all right works around Tennessee yeah plausible deniability

leans heavily on precise language I feel like I needed I need to know exactly what

every state law's exact wording is.

Yeah, it's crazy, man.

Yes, so this is a Tennessee-centric one.

Yeah.

We've profiled the one that works with Florida.

We've profiled the one that works with Texas.

There's a lot of these.

But basically, you wrote that the good ones are going to be spending about $10 million

a year. This year. On deals for players this year. That number is going to go up in the very near

future. Oh, yeah. And you're looking at it. Oh, my gosh. That's insane. Or, or you can look at it like, wait, so for an entire elite college football team, it only cost the same as a half-decent veteran right tackle in the NFL?

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