CLEMSON —Erik Bakich has a message for Clemson fans, and he needs them to understand it. If Clemson people do not start helping the 110 Society, Clemson’s new and only collective, then it is going …
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-> Bakich said last summer, and again last week to TCI, that the baseball program needs a million NIL dollars to continue to compete at a high level. The million dollars in NIL funds will allow all of Clemson’s baseball players the ability to pay for their scholarships in full.
“It is even more critical because getting a good player with a combination of a scholarship plus NIL, it is just the way it is now and it is just the way the landscape has changed,” Clemson’s head baseball coach said. “What has not changed is the total amount of the scholarship which is still allocated from the NCAA. The landscape has changed, but our budget is still the same when it comes to what we have.”
What Clemson baseball has is 11.7 scholarships, per NCAA rules, to divide amongst 40 players.
“NIL can be this incredible thing to bridge the gap for those out-of-pocket-cost to pay tuition, to pay our housing and to pay the cost of attendance to come to Clemson,” Bakich said. “We are recruiting at least a fifty-fifty blend of in-state and out of state (players), which means we are going to need to raise over a million dollars every year if we want to get to that point where a lot of teams have and that is to just pay the cost of attendance.
“Right now, that is being paid by our (players’) families to the school.” <-
