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If we are going to participate in this new NIL game I think we need to try and retain RC and CP first. Give them what we can up front with a promise of more to come once fund raising kicks into higher gear. They are established players already liked by the fan base. Raise the cash to keep them. Something tells me that some rules have to be changed, caps established, etc for college basketball to survive. I'm sure we are not the only fan base disgusted with their programs and the greedy evolution of the game. Things have to change or fans will stop donating, going to games, watching on TV or buying products.
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I have a serious question:
Even if we could come up with a top 20 NIL fund, would you want to? I just think the whole thing stinks. I'm a Shocker fan, but I'm a fan of amateur players learning, growing, and representing our university. Just rolling out 13 hired guns every year doesn't move the needle for me. Other than the name on the front of the jersey, it just won't be Shocker sports to me.
That's why I say I'd rather see us go down several levels than compete in whatever this new **** show will be until it breaks. Some of you just want to see us compete at the highest level under whatever system exists. That's not intrinsically bad and I don't fault you for it.Wichita State, home of the All-Americans.
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Originally posted by BOBB View PostI have a serious question:
Even if we could come up with a top 20 NIL fund, would you want to? I just think the whole thing stinks. I'm a Shocker fan, but I'm a fan of amateur players learning, growing, and representing our university. Just rolling out 13 hired guns every year doesn't move the needle for me. Other than the name on the front of the jersey, it just won't be Shocker sports to me.
That's why I say I'd rather see us go down several levels than compete in whatever this new **** show will be until it breaks. Some of you just want to see us compete at the highest level under whatever system exists. That's not intrinsically bad and I don't fault you for it."You Just Want to Slap The #### Outta Some People"
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Originally posted by BOBB View PostI have a serious question:
Even if we could come up with a top 20 NIL fund, would you want to? I just think the whole thing stinks. I'm a Shocker fan, but I'm a fan of amateur players learning, growing, and representing our university. Just rolling out 13 hired guns every year doesn't move the needle for me. Other than the name on the front of the jersey, it just won't be Shocker sports to me.
That's why I say I'd rather see us go down several levels than compete in whatever this new **** show will be until it breaks. Some of you just want to see us compete at the highest level under whatever system exists. That's not intrinsically bad and I don't fault you for it.
With that said .. I want to compete at the top. I'm not nearly in the tax bracket to influence that though.
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NIL is here to stay, at every level. Amateur sports are over as they used to be. There’s just too much money involved now.
What we are likely going to see is a slow, painful evolution to a European sports model, where the clubs are sponsored by the schools. A player can take a scholarship, or a check for the amount and not enroll. They will be free to sign shoe deals or marketing rights deals like they can everywhere else.
It may not be a horrible thing, but it’s going to take visionaries to guide us through it and I’m not sure WSU has that type of leadership at any level.
Ironic that we have this type of thinking with the innovation campus but it’s too big of a concept for them to apply to sports. It’s pretty much the same thing, just on a different scale.People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. -Isaac Asimov
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Originally posted by shock View PostNIL is here to stay, at every level. Amateur sports are over as they used to be. There’s just too much money involved now.
What we are likely going to see is a slow, painful evolution to a European sports model, where the clubs are sponsored by the schools. A player can take a scholarship, or a check for the amount and not enroll. They will be free to sign shoe deals or marketing rights deals like they can everywhere else.
It may not be a horrible thing, but it’s going to take visionaries to guide us through it and I’m not sure WSU has that type of leadership at any level.
Ironic that we have this type of thinking with the innovation campus but it’s too big of a concept for them to apply to sports. It’s pretty much the same thing, just on a different scale.Last edited by shoxlax; April 24, 2022, 11:04 PM.
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Originally posted by WuTheOne View PostIs Title IX going te rear its ugly head and demand that female athletes get equivalent NIL deals as male athletes?Wichita State, home of the All-Americans.
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I don't think Title IX will apply unless these collectives are under the institution's umbrella.
It's going to take years for this whole cluster to settlle down. I think college basketball will become a minor league equivalent. And we know minor leagues generally struggle to put butts in seats. There's no school spirit and it's not the highest level of competition.
I'm going to sit back a couple of years, root for the team to win from my living room, and see where things end up. If it's the scenario many of us fear, I will be done with college basketball.
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