Kentucky NIL budget, allegedly
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9 alleged millionaires.
But make sure to emphasize the “student” in student-athlete and call them amateurs!
Wow, they are spending $1.5m and $1m for bench guys. This is crazy for a sport where attendance overall has been going down for years.
I believe the decision to spend "whatever is necessary" is only partially economic. Booster ego has a lot to do with how much NIL is available. But I think this is limited to maybe 10 programs. The rest will have to weigh economics heavier into the picture.
Right now European soccer leagues are generally not salary capped. The result it the top teams usually win year after year. (although there are upsets occasionally) I expect the same for NCAA BB with the winner being from 10-15 teams every year.
We can catch them. I’m going to donate all Rebel Net proceeds to UNLV’s collective. It’s not an easy decision, but I’m going to sell the jet and gold plated Benz.
If this keeps on happening every year with only the top teams winning which i suspect it will i can see a HUGE decline in viewership in CBB. Nobody wants to watch a fixed game. I still dont see the longevity of paying these players $$$ with little or no return?? Makes no sense. I thought when this first happened these kids would get MAYBE 100-200 k each not 20x times or more.
These schools lower P4 will see NIL money dry up also. No way anybody in their right mind and i know there are some real FANATICS out there for almost every school that they throw away millions every year to try and compete with the elites.
It may make a dent in total viewership, but maybe not as much as you think.
The money schools all have the largest followings. It’d be nice to see a breakdown of what eyeballs are on games. With UCSB not making the tournament, you aren’t losing eyes, sadly, even for UNLV, how many are you going to lose.
So I’m not sold on it making this huge impact to total viewership.
There’s a reason some teams have a high total NIL package. It’s the ones with the highest viewership.
Financial Fair Play rules are supposed to blunt a little bit of that advantage, but you get teams like Man City and Chelsea that flaunt the rules and just ignore investigations and nothing happens, and they get so mad that they punish Everton and Nottingham Forest hard for lesser infractions.
Shit, european football is just like the NCAA haha!
Your point stands though in the each of the big European league in the last 25 years, only one time in the last 25 years has a non-traditional power team hoisted a cup (Leicester City in EFL, Montpellier in L1, Napoli in Serie A, Boavista in Primeira). The Bundesliga had 2 (Stuttgart and Wolfsburg), and La Liga had none though La Coruna won it 26 years ago). However all but one of those wins have come since the establishment of FFP.
Over the past 20 years the NCAA football champion has been swapped among 11 programs. It remains extremely popular. The last "outlier" was BYU in 1984 out of the WAC. In the same 20 years the NCAA BB Champion has split between 10 programs. All NIL will do is solidify this and it won't impact National popularity. IMO ( and I don't want to research the facts ) unlimited NIL will make it more apparent that lower level programs have zero chance at a NATTY. It will reduce the popularity of the NON- IMPACT programs in favor of the continuous winners.
True, but if all the games are blowouts except when heavyweights play each other, viewership will suffer. Also, all the sports channels need inventory of games to show. At some point, if showing pickeball or kickball beats out some non power conference hoop viewership, those games will not be shown.
Everyone knows the sport has been going downward for a long time. That the big teams are killing their own sport does not seem to connect with them. This ncaa tourney was boring in my opinion with few Cinderellas.
Having your team be a farm team for p4 is no fun.
Exactly why I am losing interest. It's all becoming a minor league farming system for the top 10 programs.
The big schools may have the bigger viewership from their fans, but those numbers are far below 1% for even the top schools. The 70%+ drop in viewership over the last 40+ years has a lot to do with the fact that casual fans no longer have interest in college basketball, and my expectation, if things stay the same, that more and more casual fans will walk away from a non-competitive sport made up of mediocre talent being paid as if they are high level pros. The average G league team would most likely destroy the top college teams even while they make an average of around $40K per year.
If the G5 schools don't implement contracts with buyout clauses for the players that have breakout seasons they deserve to get fleeced.
I think that will end up being decided by the courts like everything else!
Bro tell me about it. I am a Norwich City fan (yes, you read that right). Promoted-Relegated-Promoted-Relegated-Promoted-Relegated, Promoted-Relegated. Thank god we got the Brewers owners to buy the club. At least it's entertaining, although the excitement of getting promoted wears off by the next morning as it's a miserable death sentence for the next year. All 3 promoted teams this year are getting....relegated. Man Shitty still has like what, 110 FFP violations they've never had to answer to? Major props to Forest. Rooting for them hard. Ipswich spunked like $100MM to get relegated, we'll see them back in League 2 in a few years.
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