It does. I said Arkansas has $3-5M to spend and that's exactly what the articles say.
Estimates and speculation are fine as long as you say it's an estimate or speculation. Don't report it as if it's a fact. The factual information is what I'm looking for.
That's not enough to compare programs. It's only a theoretical maximum. They may spend a fraction. It's supply and demand. They're not going to pay more than they need to.
I'm not struggling at all. I'm asking for specifics and all I've gotten is speculation. I did mix you and IU_Hickory up, but you're both pretty much speculating.
NIL is a tool in the toolbox for a coach. Trying to understand the NIL availability for each program is interesting and relevant given players are paid NIL.
"suggests" good indicator for being based on speculation!
Painter also pressures the players to stay as an IOU instead of do what’s best for their career. Edey should have been drafted last year. If he would have had any lower leg issues this year, he would have lost millions of dollars.
If you’re a big man, you’d have to be insane to not want to play for Woodson if you have NBA aspirations.
lol, convincing a kid to stay, make more money is bad for his career? You seriously can’t make this stuff up. Also he probably recruits kids that care about the name on the jersey and a degree
Dude, I understand your link perfectly well. You don't seem to understand that how much NIL money available is the maximum they could be spending on players. It does not indicate WHAT they're spending on players. I want to know that. Maximums may be interesting as the maximum possible, but not what I'm asking.
After Harms and Eastern left, he said players that transfer away aren’t boilers. He is going to get crushed in the NIL, transfer portal era.
It doesn’t matter what each individual averages. It’s the fact that they have that much to spend on Nil. I have heard IU is offering Ballou over 1 mil because someone else offered him a Million. So IU is trying to outbid for him. It’s all hearsay but it’s definitely rumor mill right now
The courts have basically rendered the NCAA helpless when it comes to policing their own NIL rules. Yes, the NCAA has rules disallowing what you’ve described but it’s not enforced as they’ll lose in court.
Some kids care about the degree and about the university. There were kids in the tournaments with undergrad and graduate degrees, many were kids that stayed at one university and did it. Those that wanted to take advantage of that extra COVID year did.
I'm not looking for what the average is. I'm looking for what each kid gets. If Ballo gets $1M+, I'd like to know it. If Leal get's $100K, I'd like to know it. Without knowing what each category (star starter, to regular starter, to bench players), it's hard to know what it takes to give a specific player we want out of the portal based on role and the demand.
Exactly. Nothing wrong with getting kids that want to go to university and play for a certain coach vs buying kids. Different strategy and character of kid
seriously... comparing your posts regarding painter and purdue versus IU... go have fun at https://purdue.forums.rivals.com/forums/boilermaker-mens-basketball.30/ and stay there... keep on "cheering"!
Yes that is happening and will always happen, but it will become increasingly more rare. We are at the beginning of these significant changes. It makes me question if it’s even worth recruiting high school kids when you can get an all conference point guard with three years of eligibility left. It takes a lot of guesswork out of the evaluation process.
Coaches will look to spend all the NIL they can, up to the committed amounts. They're incentivized to -- they want the best roster to win (and keep their jobs) and it's not their money. It won't always be maxed out, but it will be close. No different than any organization given a budget.
Will this work though? The motivation for the kid could be more about their contract and draft status vs playing hard and being a good teammate. Talent is great but you still have to recruit “fit”, character and motivation.
Liking/respecting how a program is being run vs what we are doing is not changing allegiance’s. IU is the state school of Indiana but PU is running its program like they are “the” state school.
Looks like a nice player and good addition to the team. We definitely needed a good PG. I still have hope that Cupps will end up being very good. He improved significantly over last year, but was really thrown in the fire and this should give him time to develop with a lighter load.
It will “work” because every national champion from now on will pay players and have transfers. The coaches that accept reality and manage all these dynamics will be successful.
They may have a few but the main core will be recruiting kids from high school not Free agency.
Three of the four guards for UConn were transfers. The other was a one and done.
What interest was there for Edey in the draft last year?
He’s not dumb. He’s 21, and was guided by a coach that just experienced the worst loss in tournament history.
He made him self some money probably by staying. He has draft stock now. He'll make a team. Although probably last year had about the same chance, so I'm not sure.
There is a move to require it be public and I hope it succeeds. This is ripe for serious corruption and it’ll be less so with transparency. There has to be good oversight too.
