Good 'ol Grizzlies NIL relaunched

[BWahlberg]

(Link to announcement is further down)

This is pretty big for Montana who has had a bit of a challenge getting their NIL off the ground. Like it or not, this is the growing trend of college athletics and it drives the attention of interested athletes. Montana is one of the most visible FCS programs and bringing in a partnership like this will make us better.

NIL is helping teams and athletes and programs without a prominent and successful NIL are lagging behind others. This gets Montana back to the leading edge.

I'm signing up myself. It's important for Grizzly Athletics and the student athletes.

https://gogriz.com/news/2023/9/7/football-montana-athletics-announces-relaunch-of-good-ol-grizzlies

 

[argh!]

. Montana is one of the most visible FCS programs and bringing in a partnership like this will make us better.

NIL is helping teams and athletes and programs without a prominent and successful NIL are lagging behind others. This gets Montana back to the leading edge.

I'm signing up myself. It's important for Grizzly Athletics and the student athletes.

https://gogriz.com/news/2023/9/7/football-montana-athletics-announces-relaunch-of-good-ol-grizzlies

will make who better, how?

 

[Iowagriz]

So that is what the ad/post that I saw on Facebook/Instagram was about. A nondescript post about Good O'l Griz wasn't enough to get me to click on it. I figured it was the school promoting past alumni again and didn't bother to check it out.

It's going to fail with that type of marketing behind it.

 

[Iowagriz]

I went back and found the ad/post. While it was better than I remembered it and had "supporting of student athletes", I'll stand by my words of a terrible way to kick off this campaign. It wasn't particularly eye catching and didn't grab my attention to the point of the campaign.

 

[grizbob]

So that is what the ad/post that I saw on Facebook/Instagram was about. A nondescript post about Good O'l Griz wasn't enough to get me to click on it. I figured it was the school promoting past alumni again and didn't bother to check it out.

It's going to fail with that type of marketing behind it.

That’s because our “sports information director” is effin terrible. Tabes is a good guy but terrible at promoting to program. So many places do it much better

 

[grizatwork]

. Montana is one of the most visible FCS programs and bringing in a partnership like this will make us better.

NIL is helping teams and athletes and programs without a prominent and successful NIL are lagging behind others. This gets Montana back to the leading edge.

I'm signing up myself. It's important for Grizzly Athletics and the student athletes.

https://gogriz.com/news/2023/9/7/football-montana-athletics-announces-relaunch-of-good-ol-grizzlies

will make who better, how?

I assume you are being sarcastic. NIL has been the primary driver for recruiting athletes to your program. If we don't have money for kids, then they will go to where they can get money. Since we can't do cost of attendance, this is the next best thing to cover expenses and attract students who otherwise would not look this way. If we don't lead on this, we are going be looking up at a lot of other programs.

 

[indian-outlaw]

will make who better, how?

I assume you are being sarcastic. NIL has been the primary driver for recruiting athletes to your program. If we don't have money for kids, then they will go to where they can get money. Since we can't do cost of attendance, this is the next best thing to cover expenses and attract students who otherwise would not look this way. If we don't lead on this, we are going be looking up at a lot of other programs.

I thought we didn't have the "win at all cost" mentality here?

 

[ElrodGrizzly]

I assume you are being sarcastic. NIL has been the primary driver for recruiting athletes to your program. If we don't have money for kids, then they will go to where they can get money. Since we can't do cost of attendance, this is the next best thing to cover expenses and attract students who otherwise would not look this way. If we don't lead on this, we are going be looking up at a lot of other programs.

I thought we didn't have the "win at all cost" mentality here?

There is no negative here that we are taking on in pursuit of having a good NIL. This is better, as kids have been getting under the table benefits for years. This makes it on the up and up.

 

[grizatwork]

I assume you are being sarcastic. NIL has been the primary driver for recruiting athletes to your program. If we don't have money for kids, then they will go to where they can get money. Since we can't do cost of attendance, this is the next best thing to cover expenses and attract students who otherwise would not look this way. If we don't lead on this, we are going be looking up at a lot of other programs.

I thought we didn't have the "win at all cost" mentality here?

I personally don’t, but without a successful NIL program we will be lucky to win at all.

 

[bgbigdog]

When this program was launched originally, it was radio silence from the sources within the program. Now I am seeing multiple social media posts and articles extolling the virtues of becoming involved. I would suspect whatever was missing or wrong initially, is now rectified and will make it a worthwhile investment if you're so inclined. And my hope is that many will be so.

 

[indian-outlaw]

I thought we didn't have the "win at all cost" mentality here?

I personally don’t, but without a successful NIL program we will be lucky to win at all.

I completely agree, just being a devils advocate. It actually should put the griz on an even better footing compared to the rest of the conference.

 

[indian-outlaw]

I thought we didn't have the "win at all cost" mentality here?

There is no negative here that we are taking on in pursuit of having a good NIL. This is better, as kids have been getting under the table benefits for years. This makes it on the up and up.

Yep, agreed wholeheartedly.

 

[get'em_griz]

I assume you are being sarcastic. NIL has been the primary driver for recruiting athletes to your program. If we don't have money for kids, then they will go to where they can get money. Since we can't do cost of attendance, this is the next best thing to cover expenses and attract students who otherwise would not look this way. If we don't lead on this, we are going be looking up at a lot of other programs.

I thought we didn't have the "win at all cost" mentality here?

NIL isn't even remotely close to a "win at all cost" mentality. It's essentially the modern day scholarship. If you want a competitive program, you now have to get on board with COA or NIL, or else you won't get the athletes to help keep you competitive. It's simply a business decision. Sink or swim.

 

[GrizTexas]

NIL platforms of some type seem to be a necessity in today's world of College athletics. The skeptic in me is in search of some level of transparency, more specifically before everyone runs off waving money around for the students or University they think they are supporting, but how does the economics of this really work. Is the University compensated, how does SANIL get compensated, what protections are in place to assure that the students are protected? SANIL seems to have an impressive lists of clients ( and I use this term because they are a full service agency with lots of costs). Neither the University nor SANIL (website) really addressed this fact, one has to really dig a bit before getting to the founders and key personnel of their organization which btw can't be found on their site? I have to assume that the University has done the due diligence but even to that end would like to see much more transparency or even a better explanation from the University as to why these guys...

Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against supporting our athletes or the University and do so yearly but I strongly believe much more transparency is needed especially in this new arena of collegiate support...

 

[Brother Bear]

https://www.goodolgrizzlies.com/home?k=9c1dc9e1

 

[GrizTexas]

https://www.goodolgrizzlies.com/home?k=9c1dc9e1

Read that ... more interested in why SANIL? The link provides some answers but this was built by SANIL for UM. I'd like the University to be more transparent and tell me why they went with these guys. A press release from the SID or AD's office at the least...
I'm sorry to say that I'm way past the "do this cus it's right" stage of my life... The University and the Athletic department is constantly looking for more donations and more often than not I'm in the "what are you thinking state of mind" given some of the correspondence to the alumni.

 

[BadlandsGrizFan]

So that is what the ad/post that I saw on Facebook/Instagram was about. A nondescript post about Good O'l Griz wasn't enough to get me to click on it. I figured it was the school promoting past alumni again and didn't bother to check it out.

It's going to fail with that type of marketing behind it.

That’s because our “sports information director” is effin terrible. Tabes is a good guy but terrible at promoting to program. So many places do it much better

Pretty sure the university can not be associated with running any forms of NIL and therefore the universities sports information director cannot be involved. If that’s changed I’d be happy to hear the update.

But if it hasn’t a guy that doesn’t have anything to do with it shouldn’t be crapped on for something he doesn’t associate with.

Your premise of needing better marketing tho I agree with.

 

[BWahlberg]

That’s because our “sports information director” is effin terrible. Tabes is a good guy but terrible at promoting to program. So many places do it much better

Pretty sure the university can not be associated with running any forms of NIL and therefore the universities sports information director cannot be involved. If that’s changed I’d be happy to hear the update.

But if it hasn’t a guy that doesn’t have anything to do with it shouldn’t be crapped on for something he doesn’t associate with.

Your premise of needing better marketing tho I agree with.

On the marketing side - I really hope they have a local "representative" that can be found at every game, every event, and most all booster meetings to continually speak on the benefit that this NIL can provide. A lot of Griz boosters eyes at the QB Club glazed over last year at a point when NIL stuff came up - because they'd not heard of it and didn't know what it was/is.

 

[BadlandsGrizFan]

Pretty sure the university can not be associated with running any forms of NIL and therefore the universities sports information director cannot be involved. If that’s changed I’d be happy to hear the update.

But if it hasn’t a guy that doesn’t have anything to do with it shouldn’t be crapped on for something he doesn’t associate with.

Your premise of needing better marketing tho I agree with.

On the marketing side - I really hope they have a local "representative" that can be found at every game, every event, and most all booster meetings to continually speak on the benefit that this NIL can provide. A lot of Griz boosters eyes at the QB Club glazed over last year at a point when NIL stuff came up - because they'd not heard of it and didn't know what it was/is.

Brint in your opinion have the “older” Griz fans and boosters pretty much shut down to the idea of NIL? Most complaints I hear about NILs anymore come from older fans.