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You forget that Pastner is strong at recruiting.
He was on Stackhouse's staff who got canned after that year.
I think you're 90% right. Recruiting will matter when someone's got a similar offer from different programs which I think is probably going to be the end state of the system in its current iteration especially in the G5 salary area.
Not can any of these guys recruit? Rather can any of these guys convince boosters to support some recruits with additional NIL $$?
I agree at some level but at UNLV’s current level it is talent identification is way more important. Look at the FAU squad from the final four most of the key players key contributors in the elite eight at different schools. None of the kids were even four stars out of high schools. Walter Clayton Jr 0 stars before going to Iona. Talent identification is super important in the NIL era if you can’t spend and then we would need to find a way to keep them. But also with many programs only looking at transfers there are a lot of better players are being under recruited as the P4 is looking to pick them up after they prove themselves.
Except not everyone gets NIL or at least not large amounts. I imagine there are a ton of players at our level who will get a small amount that still have to be "recruited." Where 30 schools are offering the same $50K or so.
They have to get some guidelines to save the game. Cap limit?? It think the best thing they can do is grant more eligibility so the talent is more spread out. Especially for the non P-4 schools. So maybe a player will stay another year or transfer to one once they play their 4 years at a p-4 school. I dont see how this can keep up.
IF old school recruiting matters again, I have much more confidence in how well Pastner can fare here. If it’s going to be heavily NIL slanted, best we can hope for is to be a USU. Yeah, sounds good right now with where we have been. But I’ve been around along to know that it’ll briefly satiate fans. It’ll make for fun regular seasons (very important), MWCT tournaments (very important) and making the dance (most important). But if you get 3 years in a row of an 11 seed and you’re done round one … like I said, been around long enough … fans will not be happy … people sometimes forget, key boosters and a lot of fans flipped on LK over his last three years …. NIT, one and done, one and done … and after his first two years (NITs) people were already questioning. Kevin saved his bacon with the S16 and the following year was fine, we won one, then lost. But then came three bland years. In the end, I’m saying that wasn’t good enough for a large enough segment of the fanbase to put some heat on. He wasn’t safe here at that time. I don’t think Livengood would have pounced at that time, tbh. He’d have given him another year as make or break, imo.
"There’s going to be some kind of cap for NIL in the near future."
No doubt... But you can still build an NCAA tournament roster with that kind of budget..
NIL and Revenue sharing are two completely separate issues. The article conflates them.I cant speak to the law specifics but most coaches think this is the last year of wide open NIL. With roster caps and revenue sharing coming down from the House settlement, the payment to players via school will be limited. Now can a player get money outside the school possibly but there might be more stringent requirement to make sure the NiL is representing the work done. Nobody is sure how that will work. Larger schools will have more revenue to share but it will not be wide open.
This is why every athlete in almost all sports is looking to transfer if they have any value. This is the last chance of full free agency in many coaches and agents minds.
Rethinking College Basketball Scholarships, Roster Construction Amid NIL Changes
Starting next year, Division I colleges that elect to opt into the preliminarily approved House v. NCAA settlement can share revenue with student athletes.www.si.com
I agree things are changing, and outside the power league, teams are at a big disadvantage for sure, though I am not going to let one season be a definitive moment that we are totally screwed. In a down MW year, we nearly had 2 teams make it to the S16, one was closer than the other, but neither team seemed outmatched in those 2nd round games.This is the new reality for UNLV. For the first time in 50 years or since 1975, all teams making the sweet 16 come from power conferences. But even the 1975 time frame has to kept in perspective. 1975 was when the ncaa expanded from 16 to 32 teams. Not 68 like today.
March Madness: Is NIL the death of Cinderella?
For the first time since the NCAA tournament expanded to 32 teams in 1975, every team that advanced to the Sweet 16 hails from a power conference.sports.yahoo.com
It’s all ball-bearings these days
No idea. I have read it will be capped or large changes coming soon. Not a lawyer.
