TA just said on the weekly radio show that at the start of the season, IU football had eight players with NIL deals worth a total of $150,000.
IU football NIL numbers per TA.
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Yes that won’t be competitive… didn’t the top 2022 HS QB sign for 7 figures.
USC / UCLA will have big budgets that will rival OSU, PSU, Michigan … NIL will just reenforce the status quo.
I bet there are multiple players on the basketball team with individual deals multiple times that amount.
Absolutely ridiculous that the athletic department isn't doing more to compete.
Absolutely ridiculous that the athletic department isn't doing more to compete.
Don’t think it’s all the athletic department at fault. Convincing the big money folks to invest in a team coming off a 2-10 record, following up with a 3-9 with no light at the end of the tunnel has to be a hard sell.
Are the athletic departments allowed to put money into NIL funds?
I thought they could only help work with contributions? If so, then it looks like the problem is us.
BINGO! We get the program we want relevant to the NIL $ we invest. "Us" most important to IUFB future success.
Obviously the NIL money has to increase. I can agree with CTA on that. What difference will it make though, if he is still our head coach? We have supposedly recruited better than ever the past 3-4 years but we seem to be regressing as a program. You could argue that we've gotten worse as Wilson's recruits aged out of the program.
Maybe we can buy out CTAs $25 mil and then he can donate that towards an NIL fund for the fball program!?
Day over at OSU said it would take 13 million to keep his team together. 13 million.
3 players in July got more then half a million at OSU.
We covered .011% of the 13 million that OSU hopes to raise. Football is a joke at Indiana and it shows. CTA pointing it out won't make a difference and neither will firing him. We'll be in this same situation in five years.
3 players in July got more then half a million at OSU.
We covered .011% of the 13 million that OSU hopes to raise. Football is a joke at Indiana and it shows. CTA pointing it out won't make a difference and neither will firing him. We'll be in this same situation in five years.
The NCAA inaction, and the stupid ruling by SCOTUS (based mostly on the conclusion that kids getting up to $100,000 a year in tuition, room, board, books, health care, and spending money - depending on his/her school) is "unpaid labor") has ended college football for all but the elite.
The old threat of "attendance minimums" is NOTHING compared to the demand/need to fund NIL payments while being unable to use university money or direct influence to create the NIL funds.
Stupid to the infinity power.
IU and the other 95% of the schools that can't pay the elites athletes should just threaten to end football and demand rules that level the recruiting playing field a bit.
Or go ahead and join the MAC - because that's the talent left after the Top 5 buy up the elites.
The old threat of "attendance minimums" is NOTHING compared to the demand/need to fund NIL payments while being unable to use university money or direct influence to create the NIL funds.
Stupid to the infinity power.
IU and the other 95% of the schools that can't pay the elites athletes should just threaten to end football and demand rules that level the recruiting playing field a bit.
Or go ahead and join the MAC - because that's the talent left after the Top 5 buy up the elites.
Or brought it back to what it once was for most schools, a fall tradition played by lovers of the sport for a few thousand fans, family members and alumni in smaller venues as opposed to Massive Cathedrals of consumption.
I fully agree. I always though athletes had a pretty damn good deal as it was. My daughter was a DI athlete before NIL and I appreciated everything she was getting! Now college football is for the elite few. Is there any reason to watch college football anymore? Certainly not IU. I want to but not if we can’t even be a .500 team. I’m thinking as my years left on Earth dwindle perhaps my time is better spent elsewhere?
Athletes have a work load that the normal college student does not: I don't know how they do it. I don't know if it is possible to major in something difficult and be an athlete at the same time.
I guess the good news is IU has the option of paying players now. The bad news is IU will probably find a way to screw this up, also.
Honest question. Does anyone know what the going rates are to have athletes shoot short videos for businesses through NIL deals? Not really tv, more so Facebook. I’m thinking about pitching doing some with various local athletes but I have no clue what I’m going to be pitching to the boss as a budget.
Mitch Daniels agrees with you. When NIL became a thing he predicted this would soon lead to 20 or so big time competitive programs playing college FB, while everyone else pivots to “club” teams made up of amateurs playing for love and university pride.
I think that's the right outcome. I'm not sure if the number is 20 but let the rest go back to being about student athletes. There's 3 programs in the Big Ten that no one else will compete with year-in year-out. Let them go be part of the Big 20/minor league NFL.
