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NIL payouts - ridiculous amounts

Go ahead spend a billion bucks for all I care, while we remain hungry. Could a team spending the most NIL money win it all sure but it would be a cheesy title.
 
Hurley kind of operates like a successful NFL team you believe in your draft picks (recruits) and you develop them and you bring in the right FA vets.
 
Playing for UConn is like a futures bet! Take the time and a belief in developing for the dividends it pays vs taking the immediate big money from KU or wherever!
 
Scoe said:
Go ahead spend a billion bucks for all I care, while we remain hungry. Could a team spending the most NIL money win it all sure but it would be a cheesy title.
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I was a Dodgers fan my entire life, I moved to L.A. in '04 (not because of them, though) and was in heaven. Then, they started to buy their W's. More and more money was thrown at the biggest free agents and they were unabashedly trying to buy rings, they still are. It wasn't fun for me anymore. I defected. I fell in love with a scrappy team out of Tampa, with little payroll, who were able to hang with the yanks and sox by playing smart baseball.
I'm so glad that UConn has always been built on integrity and coaching. Even if I weren't an alum, from a family of alumni, and born and raised in CT., I think UConn would be the team I would have chosen anyway.
 
It helps that we have the best staff in the country & are the best program in the country right now while all this is happening.

Trilly said a week or two ago that we’ve been moneyballing the entire transfer era.
 
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Jaydumo20 said:
Couldn't agree more. Also, you aren't buying these kids for 4 years for 1mill. It's for one year most times. There will be donor fatigue if these things don't produce results. Hard enough for a coach to be a recruiter let alone a fundraiser. Imagine Scott Drew trying to go back to the well every year for 5 years when Baylor fails to win a natty?
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This right here. I’m gonna keep saying it.

The NIL valuations are going to completely collapse within a few years because these rich donors are going to start realizing there is no ROI on their million checks when Indiana is missing Tournaments and Auburns is losing to Ivy League schools in the first round.

Also, Dan Hurley is recruiting a different level of kid. Look at a guy like Castle. His parents have said he had huge NIL offers (bigger than UConn) to go play at schools like Auburn or Bama. He chose UConn because he cared more about winning and developing for his long term success than a 1 year bag.

Those players looking for $1 million deals aren’t team first players. They wouldn’t fit our system even if we could afford to pay them all.

Personally, I just laugh when I see these insane NIL numbers because it has not once stopped UConn from getting the guys they want.
 
College basketball is actually benefitting from NIL. G League Ignite was a competitor and is now gone due to NIL.
If pay for play truly comes to the forefront and international players can benefit, expect the next 18-year old Luka Doncic to be playing for a major college basketball program for a year instead of for a EuroLeague team. That will lead to a rise in popularity for college hoops.
 
auror said:
College basketball has NEVER had parity. Why does it need a mechanism to promote it?
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A mid major needs reasonable firepower to retain its own players
 
They Ivy League could rule NCAA sports if they would dip into their Billions in endowment money. Harvard has $50+ Billion to use.
 
Scoe said:
Go ahead spend a billion bucks for all I care, while we remain hungry. Could a team spending the most NIL money win it all sure but it would be a cheesy title.
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Well that's where we are with college football.
 
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I wonder how universities will deal with NIL and outbound transfers.

I would assume if they're going to pay you seven figures, they're also going to expect kids to stay.

There will most likely be prorated contracts that state if you don't stay you'll have to give some of that mula back
 
Scrappy3 said:
A mid major needs reasonable firepower to retain its own players
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They'll just get the talented down transfers who get squeezed out or need a 2nd chance. The Teddy Buckets of the world.
 
shizzle787 said:
College basketball is actually benefitting from NIL. G League Ignite was a competitor and is now gone due to NIL.
If pay for play truly comes to the forefront and international players can benefit, expect the next 18-year old Luka Doncic to be playing for a major college basketball program for a year instead of for a EuroLeague team. That will lead to a rise in popularity for college hoops.
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Iirc European prospects can't play in the NCAA because they play professionally or with professionals.
 
Jaydumo20 said:
This can't be overstated. It's evidence over fear and conjecture.
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Feel like this kind of talk is just garbage though. What happens after 5-10 years of receiving a shit ton more yearly than we do? It’s all fun and games now, but c’mon. There is going to be a massive disparity regarding incoming money in our current situation/vs. those in better situations.
 
Brochacho said:
The market will correct. High-level starters making 6-7 figures isn't sustainable - NIL funds will eventually dry up and those figures will lower. Good for the kids though.
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This will not dry up. The money has always been there, it is just visible now. Billionaires dropping millions every year is very sustainable. Playing will get a greater portion of the funds now as it should be.
 
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JayKoz said:
Feel like this kind of talk is just garbage though. What happens after 5-10 years of receiving a ton more yearly than we do? It’s all fun and games now, but c’mon. There is going to be a massive disparity regarding incoming money in our current situation/vs. those in better situations.
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I don't foresee the demise of UConn basketball in any form or fashion...and I won't call you out in 2030 when you buy your "a ring for every finger" UConn t-shirt, like the rest of us.
 
From what I’ve heard we are very competitive in the NIL space.. maybe we are just better at spreading the money around / attracting a certain type of kid.. also the Osbor kids NIL deal.. wow
 
bendm said:
And they’re gonna stink with 1 good player. Why not give 4 starters half a mill each instead.
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That is my question, too. It seems like it's a poor allocation of resources. Now, having said that, I don't know how much the other 4 starters and bench players are being paid in relation to how good they are. If they are getting paid much less and are mediocre players, the coaching staff of University of Washington might have the idea in their head that Great Osoboor can be the 1 man team that puts the others on his back and carries them to an NCAA berth and then hope good luck hits them once in they are in the Big Dance.
 
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Scoe said:
Go ahead spend a billion bucks for all I care, while we remain hungry. Could a team spending the most NIL money win it all sure but it would be a cheesy title.
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Like a Helms Bakery cheese danish?
 
"I know someone just became the highest-paid player, and I wouldn't want to have that label," Hawkins said. "I'd be making a good amount, but that's a lot of added pressure when you label yourself that.

"I've had lots of offers. I've had offers to sign with agencies. I'm not a person who is moved by money, and if I'm being honest with you, to have that label is just an unwanted amount of pressure because as soon as you do something wrong, as soon as anything happens, as soon as you have a bad game, people are just going to question all that money. So even if I did come back to school, I'd let you guys guess whatever amount I got. I would never share that information because, I mean if I'm being honest, it's kind of selfish. Not only for yourself but for your teammates knowing what you made. I wouldn't have those conversations with my teammates. I wouldn't want anyone to know what I made."

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nycscooby said:
I don't see how this stays without some kind of cap and more importantly, some kind of revenue sharing among all the sports at a university. Paying the kids is accepted now but it's going to have to be paying all the kids that play sports at a school not saying evenly but I think they would all have to benefit otherwise the system will be up for legal attack? I think the cap will need to be put in place to try and level the playing field so that we aren't left with 30-40 schools dominating NCAAF and NCAAB. But NIL and collectives are only part of the issue for us, I expect that media rights deals will go up in value and may soon generate $100+ million of annual revenue to the "power schools" - - at some point, the deficit for UConn may be insurmountable and this means not only not being able to pay "market" for players but also for coaches and staff and not being able to maintain and improve facilities.
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This all seems like a well planned move to strengthen the power of the biggest of the "P" leagues. They get the most money on media rights, use it to buy the best players, and vanquish the "lesser" leagues and their teams.

Enjoy what we have while we can.............unless that magical invitation to be the flagship for the B1G in the Northeast happens to come along. They'll eventually have to invite us because their inability to win basketball championships is becoming more and more embarrassing and they can absorb another bottom feeder in football.
 
nycscooby said:
I don't see how this stays without some kind of cap and more importantly, some kind of revenue sharing among all the sports at a university. Paying the kids is accepted now but it's going to have to be paying all the kids that play sports at a school not saying evenly but I think they would all have to benefit otherwise the system will be up for legal attack? I think the cap will need to be put in place to try and level the playing field so that we aren't left with 30-40 schools dominating NCAAF and NCAAB. But NIL and collectives are only part of the issue for us, I expect that media rights deals will go up in value and may soon generate $100+ million of annual revenue to the "power schools" - - at some point, the deficit for UConn may be insurmountable and this means not only not being able to pay "market" for players but also for coaches and staff and not being able to maintain and improve facilities.
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What is the governmental interest in requiring/allowing there to be a salary cap?

In essence...why should the government interfere with the free-market?
 
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