I def get that this is happening, but everyone expects it from schools like Miami so it's not really upsetting the apple cart. What I'm saying is that if objectively elite players start transfering from [insert blue blood] to FAU then there will be a push for the NCAA to try to regulate it.
Yea that's an important point. I really don't think any of this benefits the majority of college athletes which should matter at least a little bit. My guess would be the status quo changes by the end of the decade, it is just too be determined in what direction and what/who drives the change. Either way, I applaud Wake for saying we won't let ourselves be screwed over by the rule bending of others. We can play that game too and will play it better than most.
It will be interesting to see how often that happens if at all. I know SMU had a superrich booster declare he'll buy them a national championship or something crazy like that, but I would expect the big football schools to keep doing big football school stuff as has been the case for 50 years. Basketball is the sport being principally affected here and unfortunately nobody really cares about basketball because they money is in football. Don't think Creighton paying $1M for the top mid major transfer as happened this year will tip anyone's apple cart when college basketball is the furthest thing from these big schools' minds.
Definitely think something NIL-related will be on American Greed in the next two years.
someone should develop a NIL matrix of all NCAA players by sport by position with NIL amounts and then you can start to interpolate all players across the board based on stats and have the intel to see who is "underpaid" and target those players at other schools that are not paid based on their performance of peers and you have a moneyball type matrix where you can start to strategize on how to spend your $s on your current players in a disciplined manner as well as well as when you might just need to separate ways when some player's demands are not in line with other peers especially unproven commodities coming out of HS. More premium given to college performance in lesser conferences/divisions although your analytics could also weight those based on historical standards.
Everybody does it in football it's universal and I wouldn't assume it has too significant of an impact historically in that sport for a variety of reasons. Not sure how far back it goes at Wake but if you think AT Perry turned down the $1million offer from USC to transfer there because he likes Fratelli's you're kidding yourself. Somebody made it worth his while. Again, not saying it's wrong just that it's happening.
I didn't say that word for word, I'm saying follow the logic and make your own conclusion. It's unimportant and should come to the shock of absolutely nobody that actually follows or has involvement in college sports that this type of stuff goes on, but I suppose he certainly could have said no for any number of reasons.
Well that ain't good. Big money should be targeted to a select few football & basketball players with a standard baseline income for the rest of the football and basketball players. Being equitable is not how you play the NIL game.
The Biletnikoff Award winner, Jordan Addison, left Pitt for USC last year.
Yeah but that's an upgrade for him. Went from a Pitt team losing an NFL quality QB to a playoff contender, so it can be masqueraded behind that. I'm thinking of something like a hypothetical player who wins the Biletnikoff this year on a playoff team and takes a bag to go to Colorado.
