Texas Tech University's top booster, Cody Campbell, is this era's Nick Saban. That's the comparison On3 CEO Shannon Terry made, without saying Campbell's name, while comparing the current Red Raiders to the Alabama Crimson Tide of yesteryear in response to a top defender's official visit.
In the rev-share era, Campbell, the co-founder of Double Eagle Energy Holdings in Fort Worth, is paying the players directly to sign on the dotted line in Lubbock. Saban was NIL before NIL with his various car dealerships in the Birmingham metropolitan area. No offense to Joey McGuire, but he wasn't bringing in top recruiting classes before Campbell's checkbook came out to play on the trail.