Transfer Portal Mania
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I think that's a steal if he's healthy, which he rarely seems to be. I think he's been dinged up his whole career.
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Osobor joining Huskies, set to make $2M in NIL
Utah State transfer Great Osobor has committed to Washington, where he is set to make $2 million in NIL agreements, according to a document reviewed by ESPN.
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Utah State transfer Great Osobor has committed to Washington, where he is set to make $2 million in NIL agreements, according to a document reviewed by ESPN.www.espn.com
The "Great Overpay"
It's going to get worse if it's not regulated..................unfortunately.
There's nothing wrong with players getting paid market value for their work.
The issue is how to maintain competitive balance in the process.
The pro leagues have mostly tried to achieve that through some form of salary cap or revenue sharing. But it's different when you have 30 or so franchises each owned by a billionaire than when you have 330 franchises of very different size and financial capacity - further complicated by the shortsightedness of some of the larger and more wealthy programs about the extent to which they benefit from maintaining some degree of parity in the sport.
Choppy waters ahead.
The issue is how to maintain competitive balance in the process.
The pro leagues have mostly tried to achieve that through some form of salary cap or revenue sharing. But it's different when you have 30 or so franchises each owned by a billionaire than when you have 330 franchises of very different size and financial capacity - further complicated by the shortsightedness of some of the larger and more wealthy programs about the extent to which they benefit from maintaining some degree of parity in the sport.
Choppy waters ahead.
Lol I've seen him play, he's not worth half that.
It would get really interesting if/when a billionaire fan of a mid-major decides to have some fun...
That or, as Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander mentioned on their pod, bigger schools start paying for players to go to smaller schools to develop and transfer over down the line for a defecto farm system. I thought Little Richard would help us with this but apparently not!!
True but they could add home games in early rounds to eliminate some of that. That’s been talked about if tourney expands past 68 teams. The more it expands, the less the smaller guys have a shot IMO. They might sell it as “hey, 2 of your teams now get in the big tourney instead of 1”, but both their chances of succeeding in it (being one of the last 32 teams playing) would be much worse.
I'm not gonna really be sharing much of this, but the agent Dan Poneman is doing an ask-me-anything (ama) on the discord tonight. He's been very generous in already answering questions over the weekend. Trilly asked about the Great contract and he said:
"It means George Langberg is going to use this number to kick my ass on the recruiting trail next year
In all seriousness, George is a good agent and I’m sure there’s truth to the reported figure, weather that’s all NIL collective, or collective + other Seattle area NIL deals
If Washington wins big with GO, we’ll see more deals of this size next year. If they miss the tournament, it may have the opposite effect"
"It means George Langberg is going to use this number to kick my ass on the recruiting trail next year
In all seriousness, George is a good agent and I’m sure there’s truth to the reported figure, weather that’s all NIL collective, or collective + other Seattle area NIL deals
If Washington wins big with GO, we’ll see more deals of this size next year. If they miss the tournament, it may have the opposite effect"
I think home games in the tournament is where it'll cross the line for my interest in the sport.
Since NIL $ comes from completely outside the revenue streams of the NCAA or the schools, the only way to get any kind of controls on this insanity is by changing that and instituting NIL via revenue sharing. Any approach that keeps player payments from outside that stream is unenforceable, I believe legally but certainly logistically, unless of course a whole new institution is created, the NBI (NIL Bureau of Investigation). 
Seems like Hawkins has plans to make Osobar the 2nd highest player lol. This is what happens when the info is made public