NIL deals are bad college sports…

[alabamagrizzly]

Translation please

I was under the impression that a USC booster bought Bush’s parents a house and got them jobs. I suppose it might’ve just been a hotdog or two…

Edit: Apparently, they just got to live in a house rent free and Reggie got in the neighborhood of 300k in cash and gifts from boosters. As an aside, my good friend’s one shining moment was “beating” Reggie in the 4x400 relay in HS. They were both anchor legs, and my friend started with about a half lap lead and won by a nose.

If hot dogs are the best we can do to pay kids for the NIL, we ARE doomed.

 

[Spanky2]

NIL deals are good if you are a first rate athlete on the receiving end.

 

[Hoops watcher]

It's time to officially separate the Power 5 conferences from everyone else. Non P5 can't financially stay competitive.

If this happens non FBS schools are gone forever. Could Montana survive? Maybe? Maybe not? All Division 2 and Division 3 schools die certainly. The NCAA subsidizes those schools so they can survive. Because college athletics is important. This will then hurt HS sports participation significantly (why would kids dedicate themselves to a sport with virtually no shot at college scholarships).

If you think kids who go to those power 5 schools making 500k-2 million a year is more important to our society than giving kids an opportunity to compete playing small time college sports (like Montana), you are getting what you asked for.

And no, average receivers at Arizona State did not used to get 400k before it was legal to transfer to USC. Pitt’s best receiver is getting 2 million to transfer to USC. This is absurd and nothing like Reggie Bush’s situation.

Actually, the NCAA gets 90% the money to pay for minor sport and FCS and below football championships from the March Madness TV contract, soon to be a cool billion a year (https://www.ibj.com/articles/tv-rights-skyrocket). FBS football already keeps all the TV money. Now if the Power 5 types decided to try and have their own Bball tourney a good share of that billion would disappear as most casual fans would lose interest without those possible David/Goliath upsets. They do get relative peanuts from ESPN to televise the minor sports. (https://www.nexttv.com/news/espn-expands-ncaa-championships-rights-500-million-deal-298185).

I think everyone here would hate to see less scholastic sports at HS or any level post secondary, but the NIL money is not the problem and I don't like it any more than you. No one is going to shell out half million NIL deals at our level and below. What very well could happen is non athlete students balk at paying "activity" fees that subsidize intercollegiate athletics at most every school where gate receipts don't come close to covering the cost. The cost of college has risen far more than inflation and if (more likely when) cost cutting happens those fees will be near the top of the list IMO. Throw in rising travel and equipment costs for some sports and supporters of athletics have reasons to be concerned. We're spoiled having Griz football to carry most of the financial load here but as numerous prior threads have discussed we are almost alone at this level,

 

[kemajic]

Actually, the NCAA gets 90% the money to pay for minor sport and FCS and below football championships from the March Madness TV contract, soon to be a cool billion a year (https://www.ibj.com/articles/tv-rights-skyrocket). FBS football already keeps all the TV money. Now if the Power 5 types decided to try and have their own Bball tourney a good share of that billion would disappear as most casual fans would lose interest without those possible David/Goliath upsets. They do get relative peanuts from ESPN to televise the minor sports. (https://www.nexttv.com/news/espn-expands-ncaa-championships-rights-500-million-deal-298185).

I think everyone here would hate to see less scholastic sports at HS or any level post secondary, but the NIL money is not the problem and I don't like it any more than you. No one is going to shell out half million NIL deals at our level and below. What very well could happen is non athlete students balk at paying "activity" fees that subsidize intercollegiate athletics at most every school where gate receipts don't come close to covering the cost. The cost of college has risen far more than inflation and if (more likely when) cost cutting happens those fees will be near the top of the list IMO. Throw in rising travel and equipment costs for some sports and supporters of athletics have reasons to be concerned. We're spoiled having Griz football to carry most of the financial load here but as numerous prior threads have discussed we are almost alone at this level,

What he said.

 

[Spanky2]

Do we have any athletes getting NIL deals? We should have some within all offered sports?

 

[CDAGRIZ]

Do we have any athletes getting NIL deals? We should have some within all offered sports?

Agreed. You can dislike NIL deals all you want. Shout it into a corner. They’re part of the game now.