Dusty May contract buy out number??
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Why? Tons of folks are only interested in 1 sport, and shun others. Seems I heard a UT booster provides all Longhorn football players with a Lamborghini, and a Miami booster promised 50K to every Miami football player. Those are both football-first schools. I'd not assume they would also support bball at Michigan. If you gave a couple million a year to our bball program, the soccer or baseball teams could mark you down to pay for players too?
I just re read the Indy Star article on May, from right before the Michigan game.
They've been somewhat of a "transient" family, to date. He left a couple of his early assistant coaching jobs after 1 season. Obviously very different from leaving a head coaching position, at a program like Michigan...but his history shows that he, and his family, are more than willing to pull up the stakes when he has a "better" opportunity.
There's also mention in that article about Southwest Indiana being "home" for he and his wife. But on the flip side, I get the sense...from the article, and from other accounts, that May's wife isn't nearly as fond of the Bloomington area as Dusty probably is.
In the end...who knows... If I'm making a prediction today...I think he'll be our next coach. But obviously you could be right with what you're saying, and/or if his wife does have strong feelings about not wanting to move "home"...that could determine it too.
As you've posted...if there aren't any reports of a new contract for him by NCAA tourney time... the odds of him being IU's next coach increase dramatically.
Winning can change that. I’m sure there are people now looking to put NIL to our football program now. I’m sure there are IU grads that were obsessed with IU basketball that never cared much about college football before last year. And, maybe, some of those people can slowly switch over,
Interesting side story. I got a text from a friend organizing a grad get together. All it said was for “IU versus IL” and who had been invited. This text came about a week before we played IL in bb, so I asked was the event for that game. The response was, no of course not, it was for the football game in September. Times change.
you don't see a difference in why football would be better supported immediately at IU vs, basketball at a football-first school like Michigan? Besides, we're talking about a single donor (responded to Kurt Cloverdales post), so while I'd agree, success by May will increase his NIL donations, I don't think it's safe to assume this one guy will immediately begin donating to UM's bball NIL. Football is the top dog, if any college's football team gets really good overnight, interest is going to mushroom. Basketball, especially at a football first school, will grow slower.
I don’t view it as an either / or.
If Mi goes to the FF, football will still be top dog, AND basketball NIL will increase. Michigan football NIL is monstrous, you could probably double BB and not make much of a dent in football (and that even assumes that the pie can’t get bigger).
That Miami booster also paid Isiah Wong and their little point guard from Indy whose name escapes me 6 figure deals to play basketball. Not an example that supports your argument...
Don't think it's the same booster. The gym owner I was talking about I think is named Dan Lambert, and the guy you're talking about is named Ruiz. Regardless whether 1 booster supports both, it's still quite valid that it's not a safe assumption that any individual NIL contributor for 1 sport, will automatically start supporting another sport, just because they're rich. Especially when the sport in question is basketball at a football-first school like UM.
