I wish I could call it worse than that. It was pure propaganda. The financial circumstances are what they are, and they certainly mean little or nothing to me. I'm not worried that Jerry Kill had his salary cut in half, and he no longer gets to make six hundred thousand, and only makes 350 thousand instead, because sorry ass NMSU has less revenue for some reason, which was never really explained. And so he quits in disgust, coaches' exorbitant salaries being one of the worst excesses of the CFB racket, and NIL doesn't cost the schools anything anyway.
Nor do I care about the plight of G5 programs in the bigger picture, as the article falsely and misleadingly romanticized their situation with an almost insultingly tendentious piece like that. Nobody cares about New Mexico St. or even Boise St. The so-called P5 conferences have always had huge advantages over them, and nothing has changed, in spite of that article distinctly portraying matters as if only on account of these new circumstances, the twin evils of NIL and the transfer portal, that such a dark cloud now looms over them. And clearly the main purpose of this article was to undermine the legitimacy of NIL and the transfer portal more generally, using the exaggerated fate of the sorry-ass, nobody cares about them anyway G5 leagues as a sob story to generate sentiment against NIL and the portal. And they had to borderline lie to do it. Because the powers that be want to railroad them both NIL and the portal out of existence, and they need more public support before they try something so audacious like that.
