He’s likely to continue to say he is doing almost all of it and it isn’t sustainable. That will be the case into perpetuity. It was true last year and the year before in terms of capital contributed, but it’s not true this year and it won’t be in the future. None of this happens without him and he deserves a ton of credit, to be certain.
That’s if we’re talking about the same person and you’re welcome to DM me on it. There is only one guy that can credibly say that kind of stuff and, like I said and posted previously, the original goal of making this sustainable is now within sight.
I have now run into a ton of instances in which someone is claiming to be a driver of Texas NIL. I’ve listened to them talk and winced. If someone is giving something to TOF and/or Burnt Ends and programs like it, they are doing their part and we should all be grateful. That said, anyone that claims they’re leading it has pumped in 7 figures or they’ve helped invent the shit and/or run one of the programs or they are flatly full of shit.
There are some folks out there that have put in small amounts and like to tell people they’ve been running shit. Goes with the territory of this kind of thing. There are some big LHF donors, legitimate BMD, that have dropped in really low contributions to TOF who have then turned around and told people they’re running the shit.
On two occasions in person at random events - one was a kid’s sporting event and one was at an elementary school function - I have witnessed two different guys pontificate about how they’re handling NIL and football at Texas. In both scenarios, I’ve gone full Arnold Schwarzenegger/Bill Paxton True Lies fantasy death punch in my head and then said nothing, shaken my head, and meandered to less idiotic spaces for breathing. I really think that kind of silliness is hurting the continual drive for new capital and growth. I feel that way for two reasons:
1) It implies that everything is well in hand. It isn’t. We’re heading there, but there is always a steep hill in front of us and creating that notion that it’s all covered by loudmouthed guy at the ball field isn’t helping.
2) The kind of guy doing that isn’t going to be the kind of guy that inspires others to participate anyway. “Yeah, I’m following the blowhard. Where do I sign?”