NIL Collective

[WuDrWu]

AC won't do anything unless there is $$$ in his account for it. So no. Fred, yes, and probably X. Ron would do anything to help the program. PJ if he lived here would be my first choice.

Excellent. Ron and PJ would be excellent guys to have involved on some level.

[Dan]

AC won't do anything unless there is $$$ in his account for it. So no. Fred, yes, and probably X. Ron would do anything to help the program. PJ if he lived here would be my first choice.

sounds like AC is looking for his own NIL deal.

[WuDrWu]

sounds like AC is looking for his own NIL deal.

Exactly, nothing new there.

[C0|dB|00ded]

Thank you.

Disappointed that lack of foresight came from 'Cold. He knows better. Or at least he used to know better.

It CAN be done. Of course, it takes the loyal, local alumni members of BASEBALL to get this done. Wake me when a basketball alumnus joins the fray (and Cold, it ain't gonna be AC, that I can promise you).

We do have the means, or the opportunity at least, to start a big pile of cash. In fact, it could be done with a single phone call. As of yet though, no one will make that call.


But until there is teamwork throughout the UNIVERSITY and ATHLETICS, we're going to continue to be stuck in the mud. None of them work together. The U, athletics, fund raising...and now we add a 4th element.

You agree that we should take it slow and easy while the landscape has changed leaving us dangling precariously above a chasm of irrelevance? Isn't taking it easy exactly the avenue Boatright has chosen?

You're not even making sense.

[C0|dB|00ded]

I stopped reading right here. Think about what you just said. ONE 4* recruit is going to take us to the F4 without a lightning-in-a-bottle coach like HC3GM, when there are schools loading up on many 5* recruits?

No, spending stupid today is NOT going to work. It will help with ticket sales again, which is important for sure, but it will not lead to the large paydays. If you want to get to the 500 megadollar paydays, you will need a recurring revenue stream.

You shouldn't have stopped reading as you misinterpreted what I said entirely. It was all about the marginal benefit of adding that last $1M for an EXTRA 4* recruit over adding it to some fantasy endowment that would take 20 years to build. Our university is almost 130 yrs. old and its general endowment (from ALL sources) is a measly $270M. How on EARTH do we build a self-sustaining $40M NiL endowment WHILE paying for the players today, tomorrow, and next year? C'mon man...

We have two choices: 1) Somebody steps up and dumps a sack of money, or 2) Everybody chips in a little, the big guns chip in a littler more, and we pay the bill necessary to stay relevant. Considering nobody (including Koch) has ever dumped a sack of money (relative to what other top 40 bball schools receive), we will do it the blue collar way (live we've always done) and survive paycheck to paycheck.

If we survive...

[Kung Wu]

You shouldn't have stopped reading as you misinterpreted what I said entirely.

Again I stopped right here. You're so obnoxious I don't take you serious anymore so I skip nearly all of your posts.

[Kung Wu]

I thought the same thing except the admission standards would get them. Too many donors for Ivy League schools abhor athletics.

Yeah, I don't think they give a rats ass about doing it. But they could.

[ShockingButTrue]

If we survive...

Look everyone, cold is inspired again.

"If we survive..." You wish.

[C0|dB|00ded]

https://www.si.com/college/2022/04/23/barry-switzer-oklahoma-nil-collective-student-athletes

Barry Switzer Announces Oklahoma NIL Collective for Sooner Athletes


“We changed the game in 1981 at The University of Oklahoma football by being a pioneer for schools to negotiate their own contracts and generate additional revenue,” Switzer said. “We are changing the game again with 1Oklahoma Collective. Through NIL, every OU football player will have an opportunity to earn between $40,000-50,000 a year while positively impacting the community.”

The part where they can earn $400-500k per year was suspiciously left out of the article.

[jcdshocker]

Something aside all the NIL stuff. In reading the article, they had this pic of Tymber Lee back in has baseball days. I LOVE that uni! Baseball should add that one into the mix, or at least have it for a throwback game and auction the jerseys afterwards. That makes me think of something else. Could an NIL collective get into offering merchandise for sale and put the profits back into the NIL coffers? Does it matter how the NIL collective generates its funds?

I hate to burst your bubble, but that picture is not of Tymber Lee. Tymber is a southpaw.

[BostonWu]

Yeah, I don't think they give a rats ass about doing it. But they could.

Could they? I would think endowment funds would be specifically earmarked and restricted from athletics.

[Dan]

Could they? I would think endowment funds would be specifically earmarked and restricted from athletics.

you are right, the money has to be apart from the University, but point is, there is a lot of money flowing to the Ivy League schools. Academics are first and foremost, athletics about 10th on the list. They don't need sports to generate interest in their schools.

[ShockBand]

I hate to burst your bubble, but that picture is not of Tymber Lee. Tymber is a southpaw.

The pic is from the kansas.com article, and the credit says "Tymber Lee Courtesy".

Baseball Reference indicated Tymber Lee as Throws: Right (https://www.baseball-reference.com/r...d=lee---001tym)

[Stickboy46]

nm

[ShockerFever]

Again I stopped right here. You're so obnoxious I don't take you serious anymore so I skip nearly all of your posts.

And you wonder why that toolbag is approaching 50 and single.