Tulsa Coach (Jokingly?) Tells Recruit Asking About NIL Money To Get Rid Of His Dogs

Tulsa football coach Kevin Wilson might be a shade too honest when it comes to recruiting.

Wilson went 4-8 in his first year at Tulsa and just secured a top-60 recruiting class in America. Unlike major programs like Alabama or Ohio State, the Golden Hurricane don't have major resources or deep NIL pockets like big P4 programs do.

That means Wilson can't just throw bags of cash at recruits to get them to sign. He has to pitch other things like academics, development, campus life, coaching staff qualities and things of that nature. What will he do if a recruit has dogs and a girlfriend he needs to fund?

Tell them to (jokingly?) start downsizing by dumping the dogs.

Kevin Wilson (jokingly) told a player to get rid of his dogs. (Photo by George Walker/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

Kevin Wilson responds to recruit who wants NIL money.

"First thing I'd do is drop the dogs, and I'm not sure about the girl," Wilson revealed he told a recruit with three dogs and a girlfriend over text who asked about potential NIL earnings.

Watch his comments below, and let me know what you think at David.Hookstead@outkick.com.

"Drop the dogs."

Interesting response. He did follow it up by adding there's an "incentive based plan based on academic success," but honestly, I would have hit ignore after the part about the dogs.

Is he joking? He might be, and I would lean towards the fact he probably is. However, you'll find me dead before you find me joking about getting rid of man's best friend.

If anything, he should have told the player to get rid of the girlfriend. There's billions of women walking the planet. You can always find a new one.

A great dog? You might be lucky to get two of those in a lifetime. I've owned a bunch of dogs during my decades on this planet. One of them was TRULY GREAT. Another was close to great, but seeing as how I have a scar on my forehead from her, I have to deduct some points.

I'd be in the transfer portal so fast if a coach told me to dump the dogs that his head would spin. On the other hand, I might crack some beers if he told me to dump a girlfriend!

There are very few hardcore rules you should follow in life. Below are two:

• Never trust someone who doesn't like dogs.
• Never trust anyone who prefers cats over dogs.

If you follow those two guiding principles in life, then everything will likely turn out to be okay. Again, Wilson was probably joking, but that joke would have seen me speeding to a program where dogs are kept at all costs. I'd rather feed them than feed myself because when a gunfight starts, you better hope there's a couple good dogs in the stack ready to rock and roll. You ever hear anyone say that about cats? Didn't think so. Let me know what you think at David.Hookstead@outkick.com!