how are these athlete-heavy SLACs going to afford NIL?
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Anonymous
| question in the title. |
Anonymous
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not quite sure what you mean. The schools don't pay for NIL. It gives the athletes rights to make money off their likeness.
D3 schools like SLACS its a non-issue and in most non-revenue sports as well. If athletes can get paid directly which is what people have been lobbying for then only the schools with the biggest pockets will get the top players. |
Anonymous
| Yes my son just graduated from a SLAC where he was an athlete and I can tell you no one wanted to pay anyone there for their likeness. |
Anonymous
| I don't think you understand what NIL means. It doesn't mean the schools pay athletes, it means that athletes can profit from their own image and likeness through deals they make with third parties. There's nothing for the SLAC to afford. |
Anonymous
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NIL stands for “name, image and likeness” and has become the universal shorthand for college athletes’ ability to become paid endorsers and monetize their success outside of their school-funded scholarships and benefits. Before July 1, 2021, college athletes were not permitted to receive profits from their name, image and likeness.
NIL opportunities can not be used as a recruiting inducement or as payment tied directly to athletic performance (colloquially referred to as pay-for-play). However, the introduction of one type of permissible market for players’ services made clear just how much most players had been undervalued during the preceding decades. Some prominent stars landed TV commercials and personal sponsorships, but countless others entered into financial agreements with less obvious deliverables for the people or organizations paying them. Quite predictably, the NIL deal has become a recruiting tool and a de facto pay-for-play device, with fans and donors, rather than the universities themselves[b], footing the bill for players to represent their schools. Most Division I college football and basketball players are earning some money, with average deals in the five-figure range but many going into six figures and beyond. Additionally, the school plays a major factor in an athlete’s earning potential through NIL deals. But unlike most coaching salaries, NIL deals are private transactions between private citizens and mostly privately funded companies, so few concrete numbers exist in the public record. Collectives are organizations that fundraise via large and small donors with the intent to direct that money to a school’s athletes through NIL deals. Collectives are not formally associated with schools or athletic departments themselves, but they do exist to benefit certain programs, and their names, staffing and activities make that clear. Some school officials, including athletic directors and coaches, have openly directed fans to donate to specific collectives, and some staffers have even left their posts with the school to take leadership roles with their program’s corresponding collective. Collectives are banned from recruiting activity in the same way that school boosters have long been banned from recruiting activities. Under even more recent guidance, collectives cannot contact prospects about NIL opportunities before an athlete has signed with the school, and players can’t announce or enter into agreements with collectives before they’re enrolled in school. |
Anonymous
Precisely. The only effect will be that top athletes will go where they can make $ off their likeness---top programs. But, most SLACS are D3. It's a non-issue. |
Anonymous
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I think you mean the NCAA settlement
https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/40206364/ncaa-power-conferences-agree-allow-schools-pay-players |
Anonymous
| Luckily the two are mutually exclusive 😂 |
Anonymous
| It’s basically for top athletes and attractive woman athletes that become models/influencers. Nobody else is making any money. |
Anonymous
^ this is what will destroy college sports. It becomes professionalized and those with the biggest pockets and most exposure get the best athletes. Only a few will continually dominate because players will go with who is paying them the highest salary (over and beyond the full ride). It will no long be amateur's and the new transfer portal rules which doesn't make athletes sit out a year upon transfer, but are jumping from program to program have eliminated HS recruiting in many sports since they just pick up older players in the transfer window. |
Anonymous
OP yes! that's what I mean. sorry, not especially sports-fluent |
Anonymous
Well, the settlement doesn't apply to Division III, for one ... |
Anonymous
But what’s your question? This only applies to D1 athletes and really Power 4 athletes. I guess Davidson and Richmond may now lose out on some athletes that want more than just a full scholarship…but that’s not really a big consideration for them. The change to roster sizes is more relevant. Baseball dropping to 34 players (from some programs having 45 on their Fall roster and then cutting to 40 in the Spring) will send more D1 players to D3…but that will make D3 teams more competitive. |
Anonymous
An Amherst QB hustled and secured himself $50k in NIL money…but of course that’s nothing compared to $5MM+ for the Texas QB. |
Anonymous
| does it apply to all of d1. there are some smaller schools with D1 teams: Lafayette. Bucknell. Colgate. Barnard. Davidson. Holy Cross. Dartmouth. etc |