NIL

Rocket said:
Fans used to complain about blue bloods and the abuses of under the table deals that gave them a huge competitive advantage in recruiting. While schools like Kentucky, Kansas, UNC, and others were getting away with $100,000 deals, schools like St. John's were being investigated for giving kids lunch money or waving at a recruit at the wrong time of the year.
Now some are openly condoning schools paying college players in football and basketball hundreds of thousands dollars because they have alums lining kids pockets.
This unlimited payola firmly establishes the haves and have nots of "amateur" college athletics.
Why you or anyone with an ounce of respect for the sport would not be opposed to financial caps is bewildering.
Folks here and at other non-state funded schools should then reevaluate the metrics for measuring the success of coaches at less endowed schools like St. John's.
One of the supposed restrictions of an NIL is that it cannot influence the decision of a high school student as to what college to attend.
The whole process is now a complete cluster F.
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Note, the above was taken from the Curbelo thread and copied here to keep that thread on topic.

I have plenty of respect for the sport but I am frankly opposed to caps when it comes to sports.

Schools have made multi-millions on the players and players weren’t even allowed to benefit from it financiall. Yes, I know about the scholarship which are great but what about walking around money?

There have always been haves and have nots (State Schools versus Private Schools, FBS 5 vs others) this isn‘t new and isn’t going to change. The NCAA and schools for many years made huge money off of these kids and while some could go and make a team appearance at an Alumni or Booster event and get the $50 - $100 handshake, the NCAA wouldn’t even allow a stipend unless it was tied to the amount of on campus housing and total enrollment of undergrades. St. John’s use to give stipends sanctioned by the NCAA and that definitely helped in recruiting as players could live at home and pocket the stipend or split expenses in an apartment found by the school and pocket the rest. This was considered by some as an unfair advantage but was allowable and was put to good use by St. John’s. St. John’s ended this practice.

The NCAA who is now under fire (and righfully so) concerning their enforcement (or lackoff) efforts and how long it takes by members of Congress. For the NCAA to try to step in here and cap something would only draw more ire and scrutiny especially when their is no cap on the salaries of coaches.

The NCAA is not the NHL, NBA or the NFL where they can collectively bargain salary caps (which is on the total team, not individuals). This is a mess of their own creation and instead of getting out in front of it at the beginning they did nothing which is typical for them.

There are many ways to utilize NILs and according to at least one report, one of the top two sports in deals might surprise you.

 
Someone on another thread had wondered if there was a possibility of some players like Julian (this was before he announced his intentions to go pro which was pretty much a foregone conclusion) would stay if NLIs paid enough. This is an article about Kofi Cockburn who if he declares again this year, he must stay in as it would be his 3rd time and how NLI might effect is decision since he is projected no better than a late 2nd round pick.

www.news-gazette.com

Kofi's decision and impact of Illini Guardians

Kofi Cockburn's decision about his basketball future is anything but simple
www.news-gazette.com www.news-gazette.com
 
SJU85 said:
Someone on another thread had wondered if there was a possibility of some players like Julian (this was before he announced his intentions to go pro which was pretty much a foregone conclusion) would stay if NLIs paid enough. This is an article about Kofi Cockburn who if he declares again this year, he must stay in as it would be his 3rd time and how NLI might effect is decision since he is projected no better than a late 2nd round pick.

www.news-gazette.com

Kofi's decision and impact of Illini Guardians

Kofi Cockburn's decision about his basketball future is anything but simple
www.news-gazette.com www.news-gazette.com
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Asked Zach during the year- not sure how much he actually knows- but said Julian was getting somewhere between 15k-20k in NIL.

IF* that is correct... and his sum was around those numbers... that's a NY bred kid, back2back BE 1st teamer, garnered some pre-season National accolades... would have thought he would get more. Obviously i know nothing on how this stuff works or how marketable Julian was...just would have thought that number would have been higher.

Maybe we are just getting NIL going, it will improve and a player's social media following determines how much he can potentially make.
 
Johnny Rapper said:
Interesting that some hoops stars in the woman's game are making more in the NIL that they could ever earn as professionals. Paige Bueckers from UConn is one of them.

www.wsj.com

UConn’s Paige Bueckers Could Make $1 Million a Year—in College

The already well-known basketball star will benefit from new rules letting players profit from their name, image and likeness.
www.wsj.com www.wsj.com
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The pay in the WNBA does not measure up to the pay most of the woman players receive overseas. It is why so many do both.
 
I'm still unclear on this NIL stuff. If I buy one of the t-shirts from the bookstore ($35) with a player's name on it, does the kid get a cut? How much?
 
If this kid can get $400k/yr, I have to imagine Curbelo is getting decent $...maybe not $400k type money but I don't think these kids are transferring solely for desire to be closer to home or playing for coach without a losing record. If Jones lands he can't just be wanting to play with his Dominican buddy Soriano.

Glad kids are getting what someone is willing to pay them but gives me less confidence that we'll be able to compete down the line if our kids are getting NIL deals for pennies. Seems the old, under the table way made it less common or rewarding.

What are players like Curbelo & Jones stats level able to command $ wise?
 
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