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WFU Hoops: '24-'25 Roster Construction Thread: (-) Carr, Monsanto, Ituka, Clark, Miller, Marsh, Keller, Canka / (+) Spillers, Biliew, Cosby

DeacsATS said:
Trilly can't even find out who is visiting Wake this weekend. The staff has this shit on lockdown.
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But we know someone is visiting this weekend?
 
Yes, had heard that WF has been targeting this weekend for awhile for visits. A lot is going on.
 
Pilchard said:
That's the thing.

If a group of the real money guys at Stanford or any Ivy League school wanted to get into this game, they could literally bury every other school in the country. There is NIL money, and then there is the money that the ultra rich use to endow the colleges of their choice, and the money that SEC and Big 10 schools are throwing around is pocket change to them. Realize that those elite schools generally don't want to wade deeply into the NIL cess-pool, but if they wanted to make a statement, the NIL money battles would be over fast. Just waiting for a Steve Cohen type from Stanford to decide that he wants the top 5 basketball players in the nation to go to Stanford. That's the point when the current schools that think they are dominating NIL would agree to change the system.

Havard has a $50 billion endowment. Yale $41 billion. Stanford $36 billion. The closest power V schools are barely within $20 billion of those schools.
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Just curious how you think endowments are relevant here? There is zero chance that any school is going to dip into their endowment to buy athletes.
 
scooter84 said:
Just curious how you think endowments are relevant here? There is zero chance that any school is going to dip into their endowment to buy athletes.
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Of course. Endowments show the depth of the pockets of those that give to each school. Stanford had an endless number of successful people donate a ton to that school. If a group of those donors decide to fund a Stanford NIL collective because they have stupid money and are tired of sucky Stanford basketball, they would have no problems overwhelming the $6 million annual KY NIL budget.
 
Yeah, it'd just take one bored billionaire to conduct a season long experiment where he pays 6-7 hoopsters like $3mil each. Honestly, the attention it would generate might be worth it for that person.
 
Mattress Mack could place a huge wager on Houston to win next year's NCAAs (or just reach the Final Four) and then go out and buy a sick roster for the team.
 
DeacsATS said:
Yeah, it'd just take one bored billionaire to conduct a season long experiment where he pays 6-7 hoopsters like $3mil each. Honestly, the attention it would generate might be worth it for that person.
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Filed under "what's a campaign finance violation, anyway?", a presidential candidate could fund this at each D1 university in every battleground state and win all the votes.
 
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