Osobor will be the highest paid “known” amount of any player is D1 basketball. $2 million dollars for a student is wild.
Why would they? They have the money, and this gets them in the game for every top player in the country going forward. They are now in the conversation with every top team in NCAA. This isn't about Great (even though I am super happy for him) this is about the next 2-4 years. Sure it's a gamble, but it is very worth it.If true, UW has the dumbest payroll manager in the history of NIL. Why not spread that around?
I'd bet we ain't seen nuthin' yet with these payrolls......UW's hoops NIL is over $4 million this year.
Wasn't that dummy 3d and Long saying UM just needed a bit of NIL to be a top NCAA hoops tourney team?
I'm not sure how you define "used" but I think of it as one side reaping the vast majority of any monetary gains over the other side. I guess we will have to disagree on that one. I will always believe when a player can't afford to go out to dinner a couple times a month when the school and NCAA is banking billions of dollars, it's an unfair system.I don't think players have been "used". Nobody makes players play sports in college.
However, I never liked that the ncaa prevented players from making money. That always seemed silly to me.
Schools give players a place to play, support them in their playing, hire good coaches for them, give some of them scholarships, give top players a place and opportunity to get better and get professional attention.
In my view, the big NIL money is going to end up hurting sports at some levels, and is going to hurt the so-called lesser sports as there will be less money for those sports at certain schools over time. There is not unlimited money for college athletics and college athletes. Money is being diverted, or will soon be diverted, to top athletes and top attractors of NIL money (see Livvy Dunne), in part at the expense of the lesser sports.
Of the top NIL receivers of money, 98% are football and basketball players.
"[Athletic] Major NIL Donors experiencing Donor Fatigue, see NIL as a temporary stopgap. NIL Collectives are telling AD's to prepare for revenue sharing, because NIL won't last forever. "I think there’s an understanding that donor-led and fan-led model is not equitable and not sustainable."
Very few school athletic programs make met money at all. No school even grosses billions from athletics. The ncaa distributes its money to the schools.I'm not sure how you define "used" but I think of it as one side reaping the vast majority of any monetary gains over the other side. I guess we will have to disagree on that one. I will always believe when a player can't afford to go out to dinner a couple times a month when the school and NCAA is banking billions of dollars, it's an unfair system.
As far as sustainability is concerned, you are probably on the right track. I'm not so certain that the lesser sports will suffer as much as you do but this system is on a fast track to destruction IMO.
I often pay to take the cheer squad to dinner. Does that count?What’s the last time you paid to watch a band or a cheer squad or attend a debate? It’s the “student athletes” you pay to see. They generate the revenue. And if they generate the revenue, they should get paid commensurate with the revenue they produce. The money always goes to the talent.
Love ya for being old school but you’re up against the basic fundamentals of American capitalism, where a Steph Curry can make a billion playing basketball but school teachers struggle to make ends meet.
BIG PICTURE: In 2010, CBS signed a $10.8 billion dollar contract with the NCAA to televise the Big Dance. In 2016, that contract was extended to 2032 for another $8.8 billion. According to Wikipedia, 90% of that money went to the universities. For those of you out there who are innumerate, that sum is equal to19,600 MILLION dollars. In other words, tons of money.
SMALL PICTURE: Let's properly assume UDub is not handing out this money gratuitously. They expect a return on that money in the form of an improved basketball team, which would lead to more butts in seats at home games, more TV exposure, and not only more revenue for each game they win at the NCAA tournament, but the added donations they'd get from their fanatical alums should their team do well.
THUS: We now can put a dollar value on the incredible hypocrisy that has existed at the college level ever since the dawn of big TV money in college athletics. That is, universities, oily "administrators" and college coaches making billions of dollars on the backs of STUDENT ATHLETES, STUDENT ATHLETES, STUDENT ATHLETES (a phrase repeated ad nauseum by those benefitting from this exploitation.)
THE LOCAL ANGLE: We now know what it might take to keep a player who DeCuire has labeled as potentially one of the best ever at the University of Montana, Money Williams. Denny, are you listening?