With the thousands of $$$ being thrown at players these days, I'm curious as to where we sit in the scheme of things at UM. I started donating monthly when the Good Ole Grizzlies collective began. I have never seen any kind of accounting as to where the money goes, how much to football, how much to individual players, etc. Also, who controls the purse strings and dictates where the money goes. Anyone have information?
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Griz NIL War Chest
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Marcus Welnel is leading the NIL program. There is no information that will be publicly put out about where the NIL money goes in terms of which players, at least that has been the AD's stance so far and is the common (universal?) stance in college sports.
I know that commisioner of education Christians limited both MSU and UM to spending 1.5 million/year on NIL payouts to players. For reference the P4 conferences are at 20 million. We can raise more, but not spend more. Majority goes to football and then men's and women's basketball. There might be a little for soccer/volleyball, but that part I am not sure.
If the Williams' situation at Udub doesn't get the ball rolling for some kind of administrative oversight, college sports are dead.
The Wisconsin v. Miami case is going to have the opportunity to play a major role in actually fixing some of this.
Is that going in year 2? May effect tampering a bit, but won’t reign in the shady agents
I just googled when I had posted that, because I was curious too. Miami filed a motion to dismiss, but in that process Wisconsin was granted discovery for purposes of responding to the motion. They were able to demand documents and even depose boosters, so that is interesting. There is a status hearing in March.
I think that the ability to stop tampering is big, and would really help with a lot of this. It would also open the door to a court essentially validating a contract for a player to play. With the Williams lawsuit also in play, either one may create a window in the future to signing short and long term contracts. I would assume that buyouts would come with that, or kids getting paid a lot more up front without a buy out clause.
Regardless of what direction it goes, this is an opportunity for the courts to intervene in a case where the NCAA is not predestined to lose.
As for the shady agents, one wonders if the Williams lawsuit may open up a can of worms in that Williams' agent was the UW head coach's brother. Maybe there will be a day in court for the agents, as well.
If the NCAA can't regulate anything, maybe schools turning to the court system will be a way to put some guardrails on the process. Fingers crossed.
His agent just dropped him for philosophical differences
mousegriz1
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It's a mystery.
Then why do we all know exactly what the UW QB signed for 2 days ago?
Interestingly, he did that AFTER the young man got an independent lawyer. At least, that is the timeline as I understood it. It had me doing some curious chin scratching.
We don't.... Articles have said things like "$4 million or near the top of the market" without any details at all about what the payout would look like. Also, those numbers came from agents and players, not the schools themselves as I understand it.
SinCityGriz2005
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Boo
right.right.right…
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It’s down and is not performing well.
It’s a secret. Haslam and Welnel are doing great. We are very lucky to have them.
It’s a secret. Haslam and Welnel are doing great. We are very lucky to have them.
