Arkansas Razorbacks coach Sam Pittman said Wednesday he didn't think the Hogs' NIL deals as large as some other schools across the SEC ahead of Florida International game on Saturday.
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00:00 compared to your peers, like Ole Miss, Missouri, Auburn,
00:03 et cetera, so on and so forth,
00:04 do you feel like Arkansas has the NIL resources
00:07 and NIL programs that allow you to compete
00:10 on a similar level when it comes to players?
00:13 I think there's no doubt, Trey,
00:15 that we have the resources and all that.
00:18 It's hard to know everybody's budget.
00:20 You know, it's hard to know all budgets.
00:24 I don't feel probably that our budget is as big
00:27 as a lot of the schools in the SEC,
00:29 but it's hard to know that because you really don't know.
00:33 You just know what other kids,
00:35 where they come in recruiting,
00:36 of what NIL can do for them at other schools, you know,
00:42 and it's a lot more than what you could imagine,
00:48 to be perfectly honest with.
00:50 Would you be in favor of legislation
00:53 to make that more open and, you know, put caps on it,
00:57 or are you fine with the way it is now?
01:00 Well, I'm not fine with it at all, the way it is now,
01:06 but I think there has to be some type of, you know,
01:10 if we're going to be an NFL-type franchise,
01:13 we probably ought to look at what the NFL's doing
01:15 with their incoming -- with caps, incoming players,
01:22 because there's some guys on the team, Trey,
01:25 in all honesty, that came in without NIL,
01:29 and so the NIL is certainly a big part of recruiting,
01:34 and you've got guys on your team
01:36 that started for a while or whatever,
01:37 and it's just like the NFL,
01:39 where they had a starting left tackle,
01:41 and then a rookie a long time ago came in
01:43 and made a heck of a lot more money than he did.
01:47 It's just -- it's wild, to be honest with you right now,
01:51 and so there's something that has to give in legislation,
01:57 because I remember two or three years ago
02:00 when the kids at Texas, if they played O-line,
02:06 you know, got $20,000, you know, in NIL endorsements or whatever,
02:13 and I remember at the time going,
02:14 "Man, we can't recruit at all,"
02:17 and now that's a drop in the bucket, you know,
02:21 so it's rapidly increasing.
02:24 It's not monopoly money, and so we're in trouble across,
02:31 in my opinion, across the NCAA with --
02:35 because it's not monopoly.
02:37 It's real money that's being paid out there,
02:39 so, yes, I'd be all for somebody
02:43 putting some type of restrictions on it,