Texas Tech to give 100 football players 25 grand NIL
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$2.5M in "salary". I suppose that isn't too bad, but we really need a salary cap.
I am sure that Patrick Mahomes could assist and/or his friends to help out, if needed,
There has been so much talk on here that colleges could not directly do this. It had to be businesses or boosters. I guess that has been put to rest now. Purdue is going to have to come out with a "Boilermaker Special" for their athletes.
It seems so shady to have literally the most despised man in the world fund your football program. I didn’t even know he was a passionate college football fan!
maybe there’s an oligarch or two that we could reach out to.
Texas Tech is not directly doing this. It is the boosters that are doing this.
That's a tough call. People will be slighted and then the next argument will be should it have been the top 60 and on and on.
Perhaps it's time for the Ivy League to re-enter major college football. I'm sure that there's plenty of their alumni if they cared that could buy one of the best teams in the US, and also give favorable legislation to their cause. Get rid of those more modern day upstarts.
And Texas Tech is an example of a program that is in a better position if NIL kept separate from program budgets per the intent of the law. They can't compete with Big Ten or SEC budgets, but their boosters can step up to level the recruiting field. Go to a Big Ten also-ran and have access to nice facilities and better coaching or go to TTU and get paid.
The smart thing about what they are doing is the 15 walkons can probably pay for their cost of attendance with the NIL money, assuming they are instate.
The extremely wealthy and powerful value anonymity. They’d rather roll out a guy with a twang that you wanna have a beer with.
anyone ever notice no one else in the bush family talks like that? Lol
The smartest thing in the world is for as outside many dollars as humanely possible to go to NIL. I fully expect for that not to happen and for Purdue to be like “look at all this inside money that we can’t give out in NIL. Sure is a shame we have so much of it.” Lol
And the part nobody is saying out loud, that NIL donations help football programs to circumvent things like Title IX regulations and debt repayment. Most athletic departments operate on state welfare.
Texas tech has to compete with texas and texas A&M. Just think if these people donated their money to our county's infastruture.
Sasha received a bunch of money. But the facts remain, he received his money from sources outside the unviversity from bosters and fans.
texas is an interesting place. pople have a lot of money to waste. ever watch those hgtv shows where the young couple has no real job, but is looking to buy a $2 million beach front vacation condo with that famous view of water? ever wonder what their real house looks like? or where their money comes from? they think Ruth Chris and Morton's of chicago are cheap steak houses.
I think brian needs to set up a link for posters here to donate.
Sasha received a bunch of money. But the facts remain, he received his money from sources outside the unviversity from bosters and fans.
texas is an interesting place. pople have a lot of money to waste. ever watch those hgtv shows where the young couple has no real job, but is looking to buy a $2 million beach front vacation condo with that famous view of water? ever wonder what their real house looks like? or where their money comes from? they think Ruth Chris and Morton's of chicago are cheap steak houses.
I think brian needs to set up a link for posters here to donate.
How do they do that when most of Their fans are the most fiscally conservative people you’ll meet??
What would the criteria be to judge that? Would a third string skill player, like a WR, be worth more than a second string OL or DL in judging the top 50, etc, etc.?
Yeah probably not good for team morale to only pay half your roster. Also, how would you even objectively decide who those top 50 players are?
Objectively you could exclude freshmen. That is the Matt Painter solution and gets the number down to around 60 or so for football.
But freshmen are not objectively worse than older players and the post I responded too specifically mentioned paying the top 50 players.
FDB's point is that by excluding Freshmen specifically, you don't have to decide who the top X number of players are. It's called an alternative solution to the problem.
Purdue just needs to divert funding from supporting scholarships to funding NIL (or at least make it an option for those who want to fund NIL versus pay for scholarships). Then take the TV money to fund scholarships.
Seems to be an easy way to turn TV money into NIL money.
Continue to reward NIL supporters just like JPC donations.
Seems to be an easy way to turn TV money into NIL money.
Continue to reward NIL supporters just like JPC donations.
Purdue can't be involved.. NIL is all outside money....So basically it comes down to alumni putting something together
My point was, instead of asking the JPC to support scholarships, provide the same “reward” structure to the NIL group and have the AD pay for scholarships themselves.
under that scenario, no money goes to NIL from the university. It just diverts alumni money from supporting scholarships to alumni money supporting NIL.
I'd rather just pay based on the percentage of snaps played on offense and defense. Maybe we could throw in a discretionary sign on bonus.
But that's the definition of pay to play.
This is like Texas offering O-Linemen $50K for coming to UT. Isn't that just buying players? Let the bidding wars begin, since it's all in the open now...
Aka The Jack Perdue Club.
And with the new TV deal, the AD can certainly figure out a way to fund the scholarships themselves.
That's really a smart move. Paying 15 walkons allows you to expand your roster by 15 players/yr, with quality players, who give you good depth. The old 85 man roster limit just got bypassed, since you could end up with 60 walkons, who were capable of playing. A great way to horde players and keep them away from your competition. The guys, who have no shot at playing will hit the portal and TT may find a few solid players among the walkons.
At some point, the NCAA has to step in and stop the obvious bidding wars. 20/20 hindsight - The NCAA could have avoided all of this, if they let the Schools pay the players (as much as it irks me to say this). They could have set a pay scale with maximum allowable payments: Freshmen - $20K/yr, Soph - $25K/yr, Junior - $30K/yr, Senior/Grad - $35K/yr. Considering the education, training & facilities, that would give a 4 yr player approximately a $300K benefit. Not bad for a kid coming out of HS.
I list it as a Maximum payment, since I realize that some programs wouldn't be able to fund these payouts, since a lot of ADs aren't operating with a profit. Unfortunately, the NCAA was asleep at the wheel, when this train left the station and it may have too much momentum to stop it now. Gone are the days, when a stud player rolled onto campus for the first time in a Caddy convertible. Now they show up in a Brink's truck full of cash.
