“That would have been the dumbest business deal in the history of ball,” Fisher said of the rumor when speaking to the donor group Saturday morning at a presentation detailing the planned facilities. Fisher told them to call the recruits and ask what kind of deals they were actually getting. Heck, some of Texas A&M’s current players believed it and asked coach Jimbo Fisher why they weren’t getting those kinds of deals.
A vice president at Notre Dame believed it. That post got aggregated on a site called, and lots of people believed it. Bread declared that Texas A&M-adjacent groups spent $30 million on the 2022 recruiting class? Don’t worry. Were you one of the people who believed an Oklahoma fan site message board poster (whose handle is slicedbread) when Mr. It is run by some of Texas A&M’s biggest donors, and as of Friday night, some of them were worried that they were falling behind the NIL collectives working on behalf of the rest of the big-money schools in the SEC. In accordance with Texas law, it is not officially affiliated with the school or the athletic department. Gill’s willingness inspired the idea that the student body is the “12th man” for the Aggies.īut at the same time, some of the donors to the capital campaign met among themselves inside and away from the official program to discuss their roles as investors in what they, with tongues planted firmly in cheek, call “The Fund.” This is the marketing company - set up as a for-profit limited liability corporation - that manages NIL deals for Texas A&M athletes. King Gill - who served a spotter in the press box in the first half - standing ready in uniform for the second half of the Dixie Classic as the injury-ravaged Aggies upset favored Centre College. *The campaign gets its name because this year is the 100th anniversary of Texas A&M student E. Shovels can go into the ground immediately on a group of projects estimated to cost $235 million by the time they’re completed.
As of Friday night, the 12th Man Foundation already had $27 million of that in hand. The “quiet phase” of the $120 million Centennial Campaign* - which will fund a 140-yard indoor football practice facility, a new academic and nutrition center for all athletes and a new indoor track - netted $88 million in pledges to be paid over several years. The weekend certainly answered that question as far as the Aggies are concerned. The 12th Man Foundation, Texas A&M athletics’ fundraising arm, had put together this weekend celebration to launch a new capital campaign, and that seemed as good a time as any to answer a question: In the age of name, image and likeness (NIL) deals, when college football players can essentially be paid for any reason (except, oddly, for being football players), will donors still give to the athletic department for facilities and other expenses? At least one had made a $10 million pledge that, instead of paying over the customary five years, he made good on with a single wire transfer.
Several had given eight figures in lifetime donations. These were the heaviest hitters in a moneyed fan base. This evening kicked off the 12th Man Foundation’s Champions Council Weekend.
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