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Programs that may benefit the most due to NIL/Expanded Playoffs - ClairtonPanther - 10-09-2021 07:24 PM
PAC 12
USC: location, location location plus their branding helps a lot. California is the 5th largest economy in the world with the help of techy companies in Silicon Valley. California just has a habit of putting players into the NFL. If USC doesn't become a national player again with all of these built in advantages, they probably never will again. Just a week ago, a hs game featured two teams with nearly 60 players of D1 interest.
Oregon: They have the corporate intests to compete with anyone especially with Nike backing the program and there's quite a few techies in the area. They lack recruiting in the backyard that USC has but stands the most to gain, especially if USC doesn't reach their glory days again.
To a lesser extent UCLA and Utah has potential to be powers, but not the same potential the aforementioned schools do.
SEC:
Texas: Located in a top ten economy in the world. Big oil calls Texas home. Recruiting backyard is very favorable for Texas. In fact, the recruiting territory is so strong that Texas, A&M, and Oklahoma can be top ten school simultaneously.
Florida: Has a very strong economy in it's own right as well as a strong recruiting backyard. Like Texas and USC, it has a strong history and tradition. Very favorable conditions for Florida to become a top 5 team to national champion contender on a yearly basis.
Tennessee: Nashville is developing into a very nice corporate hub. Tennessee doesn't have the recruiting backyard of a Texas or USC, but certainly has enough corporations via NIL to have them mentioned. I'm not sure if their potential is that of Florida or Texas, but they just might become a top 25 program again.
B1G:
Penn State: Pennsylvania doesn't have as many corporations nor as furtile recruiting as it did 30+ years ago. But Pa definitely still has enough in both categories for PSU to be a national player. Pennsylvania has the 5th or 6th most NFL players at 60 (believe Pa is tied with Georgia actually). And there's enough corporate backing whether its from oil and natural gas, or companies like Starkist as well as Heinz and US Steel to keep PSU competitive with OSU.
Michigan: I view them as a question mark. Tremendous loss of the corporate world and the Big 5 aren't nearly as prominent as years past. They could definitely become a national player again. I just have a hunch that the Wolverines best years as a program are well behind them.
ACC:
Florida State: just reread what I said about Florida. I'm too lazy to copy and paste.
North Carolina: this is tricky. North Carolina has a growing corporate world as well as a very solid recruiting backyard. The potential is here, I'm just not sure if they'll ever realize it. Same could apply to North Carolina State.
Pitt, Boston College, Syracuse... All have potential gains via NIL, but really lack the support needed to be annual competitors. All could make rare runs at a potential NC in the coming decades.
Biggest one to gain yet isssssssssss:
Notre Dame: I truly think that the Irish just could stand the most to gain. They don't have to join a conference and they play a national schedule. History, tradition and so on. The Irish are almost there already. This feels like a program that's about to go on a potential run.
Schools like Bama, OSU, Georgia and Clemson aren't going anywhere. But the field will be a bit more level, at the top.