I hope you are right. It’s hard for me to see IU achieving and then maintaining a top level team in the long run unless there are major changes to the NIL/portal landscape. It’s just not remotely a level playing field and to compete with the NIL “high rollers” in the B1G and SEC will be a continual challenge for IU.
I have been assured by a person employed in the AD office that NIL will not be a problem in either football or basketball. I was surprised and questioned it. Was told we will compete with the big boys. Time will tell.
Yea, idk what NIL we are at now I would guess $4M, probably need to get to $10M somehow to be more of a player. First step is to get out of the bottom of the conference and build some sustained interest in FB.
I’m not sure our NIL isn’t already in the $10M neighborhood. Might not even be fully used this year, but the money is available.
The big boys in FB seems to be $12-20M. I doubt we are that close. Others may know better.
That is the thing...let him have 2 good recruiting years and watch out!
We ain’t hurting for NIL money. We can buy some players. And, they are going to be available by the thousands every season going forward. Believe it or not, IU is better in revenue and NIL than a whole host of Big Ten peers. As critical as I have been about Dolson over the years, the guy appears to have vision that his predecessor didn’t have. He got out in front of the NIL game early. No, we won’t be OSU but we have some financial commitment there.
I think Dolson wised up with the conference mergers. He accurately realized that if Indiana doesn't take football seriously, their piece of the next TV deal would be cut in half.
Scott has done a good job and I think he will keep building. But we are the bottom quarter or bottom third in FB NIL in the conference. We are hardly “ain’t hurting” for NIL.
I read where SD said basically that’s why he raised the funds to fire CTA - to show the world IU wants to be taken seriously in the coming college FB culture.
We need to enjoy the ride 1 game at a time. Most on here were considering 6 wins this year a success. Six wins was the floor for me and 8 as a total success.
Stop that! You know as well as I do we are going 10-2 and a trip to the playoffs! 😁
I'd seriously like to see the numbers you are basing this on.
I had us at 7-5 in March and still think that is a good expectation. Maybe 8-4 with a solid bowl bid.
I won't be surprised if IU finishes better than 8-4 with how hard the team is playing.
You think Cignetti would tolerate this team finishing the season 3-5?
