If you pay attention to college football and, in particular, college football recruiting, you’ve heard parts of the conversation about how NIL is changing recruitment. Some fans and pundits even claimed that NIL is the only reason why Texas A&M pulled off the top class in the 2022 recruitment cycle. Jimbo Fisher, famously, didn’t take kindly to that, saying, “It’s insulting.”
He’s not the only one who has been criticized, though. The Athletic has done a lot of reporting on NIL Collectives. In particular, they’ve talked about the now infamous Tennessee Collective.