Every decision is NIL related

[RU72]

I touched on this yesterday, but let's emphasize because it is important to say again.
Every decision which Rutgers basketball makes over the next few months will have as its predicate NIL. That includes:

1. The portal-who can Rutgers afford.
2. Foreign kids-who do the many workarounds work best with.
3. The schedule- there are plenty of out of conference NIL games out there and NIL opportunities in those games. That is what promoters are "selling" in 2024 and beyond.
4. Rising numbers- Power 6 kids will rfange from let's say $60,000 to well over $500,000.
5. One or 2 year deals- 2 year NIL deals are starting to proliferate. with a bunch of that money back loaded for obvious retention reasons.

Times are changing not weekly, but daily. The portal will be crazy.

 

[Degaz-RU]

I touched on this yesterday, but let's emphasize because it is important to say again.
Every decision which Rutgers basketball makes over the next few months will have as its predicate NIL. That includes:

1. The portal-who can Rutgers afford.
2. Foreign kids-who do the many workarounds work best with.
3. The schedule- there are plenty of out of conference NIL games out there and NIL opportunities in those games. That is what promoters are "selling" in 2024 and beyond.
4. Rising numbers- Power 6 kids will rfange from let's say $60,000 to well over $500,000.
5. One or 2 year deals- 2 year NIL deals are starting to proliferate. with a bunch of that money back loaded for obvious retention reasons.

Times are changing not weekly, but daily. The portal will be crazy.

What is an “NIL game”?

 

[RU72]

What is an “NIL game”?

Proceeds to NIL.

 

[Scangg]

Proceeds to NIL.

Interesting so essentially a fund raiser game where the teams split the profits to pay the players.... smart idea

 

[S.W.A.I.N]

I like the two year backloaded deal as a short term fix to quell the portal insanity. But I still can’t believe at some point schools/collectives are going to tire of paying a quarter mil for Paul Mulcahy.

 

[rufeelinit]

Just insanity. Still waiting for the first president of a major university to publicly speak out about the lack of sustainability of the current trend and the likely longer term ramifications of allowing this to continue. They are all just chicken....

Bill Simmons had Casey Wasserman on his pod today and the trends in college athletics was one of the topics discussed. Evidently he is a big UCLA guy and had some interesting takes on where this might be headed. He also is head of the LA Olympics in 2028 and recognizes that in the US colleges, are the training ground for most olympic sports. He said the SEC and Big Ten are beginning to look like the NFC and AFC and in his view this is not an accident. He believes that if the two conferences break off their football programs into a separate entity and keep the revenue, their will be a major downsizing in how schools fund all other sports. Maybe basketball also survives in a manner similar to today but the point was football revenue dominates the funding of a lot of programs. Not a long segment but worth a listen.

 

[Eagleton96]

I touched on this yesterday, but let's emphasize because it is important to say again.
Every decision which Rutgers basketball makes over the next few months will have as its predicate NIL. That includes:

1. The portal-who can Rutgers afford.
2. Foreign kids-who do the many workarounds work best with.
3. The schedule- there are plenty of out of conference NIL games out there and NIL opportunities in those games. That is what promoters are "selling" in 2024 and beyond.
4. Rising numbers- Power 6 kids will rfange from let's say $60,000 to well over $500,000.
5. One or 2 year deals- 2 year NIL deals are starting to proliferate. with a bunch of that money back loaded for obvious retention reasons.

Times are changing not weekly, but daily. The portal will be crazy.

How many kids will be like Dylan Harper and cut their own deal that would follow them to whatever school they chose?

 

[RUsojo]

Just insanity. Still waiting for the first president of a major university to publicly speak out about the lack of sustainability of the current trend and the likely longer term ramifications of allowing this to continue. They are all just chicken....

Bill Simmons had Casey Wasserman on his pod today and the trends in college athletics was one of the topics discussed. Evidently he is a big UCLA guy and had some interesting takes on where this might be headed. He also is head of the LA Olympics in 2028 and recognizes that in the US colleges, are the training ground for most olympic sports. He said the SEC and Big Ten are beginning to look like the NFC and AFC and in his view this is not an accident. He believes that if the two conferences break off their football programs into a separate entity and keep the revenue, their will be a major downsizing in how schools fund all other sports. Maybe basketball also survives in a manner similar to today but the point was football revenue dominates the funding of a lot of programs. Not a long segment but worth a listen.

School presidents don’t care about things that take up less than 1% of their budgets.

And when they make up slightly more than 1% to like 3% in places like the big 12, they don’t mind the model they like it.

So no school president is gonna speak up with conviction on something they aren’t paying much attention to.

 

[Greene Rice FIG]

its over

 

[Nycrusupporter]

Just insanity. Still waiting for the first president of a major university to publicly speak out about the lack of sustainability of the current trend and the likely longer term ramifications of allowing this to continue. They are all just chicken....

Bill Simmons had Casey Wasserman on his pod today and the trends in college athletics was one of the topics discussed. Evidently he is a big UCLA guy and had some interesting takes on where this might be headed. He also is head of the LA Olympics in 2028 and recognizes that in the US colleges, are the training ground for most olympic sports. He said the SEC and Big Ten are beginning to look like the NFC and AFC and in his view this is not an accident. He believes that if the two conferences break off their football programs into a separate entity and keep the revenue, their will be a major downsizing in how schools fund all other sports. Maybe basketball also survives in a manner similar to today but the point was football revenue dominates the funding of a lot of programs. Not a long segment but worth a listen.

Maybe the US Olympic committee should step up and pay for these sports and stop hoping the colleges will.

 

[NickRU714]

Maybe the US Olympic committee should step up and pay for these sports and stop hoping the colleges will.

This was my exact thought while listening to Simmons and Wasserman earlier.

If football takes all THEIR money and breaks off, then he loses his free training for Olympic sports.
People complain that NFL/NBA should be funding college athletics.
Well then the government/USOC/schools/taxpayers should be funding the Olympic sports.

 

[NickRU714]

Maybe the US Olympic committee should step up and pay for these sports and stop hoping the colleges will.

Correction. Hoping that CFB will.