Truck's and SUV for Utah Men's basketball, Women's basketball and Women's gymnastics. I wonder what the football program will receive? This is insane.
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I know that the football team got full size trucks this past season. A special 6 month lease, I'm guessing that is what these other contracts include.
University of San Francisco athletes all got VW Cabriolets.
The numbers are starting to get insane. OU just lost a starting true freshman guard that they offered 500k a year to keep.
Yes, he was tampered with and offered more so entered the portal and the team that tampered has now been outbid. It’s gotten so far out of hand. It has ruint college athletics. Shame shame shame.
You would think the money would dry up in a few years. Why pay hundreds of thousand to maybe million plus to 1 player that might make a slight difference in your team. Mainly FB not BB. IMO people will wise up and the money will get less and less. To finance these bigger programs must be in the millions and most have no chance to win a Championship.
There is always hope. Hopefully the ncaa realizes this is a bad model and makes changes. My dream scenario would be a salary cap for example a freshman can earn $30,000 sophomore $50,000 junior $75,000 senior $150,000. Get rid of early signing period and just have 1 in February. Open the transfer portal the day after the national championship is played. Allow a 1 time transfer rule but if you transfer you are ineligible for NIL (or maybe limit) for 1 year unless you’re a graduate transfer or transfer due to head coaching change. NIL wasn’t intended to be a pay for play that it has become, it was intended to be Name, Image, Likeness meaning making money off merch sales, appearances and so forth but that isn’t how it’s working unfortunately
Because Boosters and the $$ behind NIL collectives aren't just about trying to win championships...
Since the dawn of time, ok, maybe not...but still wealthy people around programs want influence. You bring in the player with your money, that coach now invites you around program, you get to talk to your buddies, other donors etc... it's a game of influence, even at lower levels and its been that way for a long time in different legal and illegal forms
There are nearly 750 Billionaires in the U.S. There are several thousand people worth over $750 million. I have no idea how many of these people are College Sports fans but it only would take a few for their teams to completely dominate the college sport they follow. Unless there is some sort of salary cap this will work itself to the point that several teams in both Football and Basketball will totally dominate year after year. If you are a team without a Mega NIL booster and one of your players breaks out as a superstar it will mean nothing to any of these people to pay him $20 mil for a year. In fact it will work itself to the point where the best college players will take a pay-cut when they finally go pro because the pro's are capped.
Even giants like Ohio State and USC with HUGE booster pools are struggling with NIL right now
But any time the NCAA sets any rules/limitations like that, it will be challenged in courts. Let's face it - not saying kids don't deserve more - but Ed O really opened up Pandora's Box when he went down this path. It's great for the athletes, sucks for everyone else, staff and fans.
Show me anywhere that these players would make anywhere near this type of money in the real world. With the exception of 2-5 percent of these college athletes, almost none of them have a chance of being a professional. It isn't just football and basketball that are tying into the NIL deals, it now includes both men and women in every sport. How long will it last before college programs can no longer find boosters willing to fork out the dollars? How long before only a handful of schools are competitive at the top level? How long before the TV money dries up with most schools and their fan bases no longer being competitive at the highest level, thus no longer interested in college sports? Once the major schools reach NFL level money, why wouldn't a fan just go watch pro sports anyway?
We will see how devoted Oregon State and Washington State fans are the next several years as they decline to MWC-level.
Yeah it would be lawsuits out the wazzoo. But at what point do we make athletes employees of the university and have them sign contracts of employment with a salary and incentives and if they are to leave before contract is up they have to pay a buyout at which the former employee can use towards finding a new employee. Each team hires a general manager to be a CEO
Definitely lawsuits but it doesn't mean they would win them. I think there is a strong argument for a cap and it is desperately needed otherwise just have the NFL fund them and call it their farm system.
There will always be people who want to pretend to have influence on programs whether it's real or perceived and will pay for that perception. NIL has just made it public.
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