Emmett J. in the portal?

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The NCAA could have easily gotten ahead of this years and put sensible rules in place. Instead we ended up here. A total failure in leadership.
Players should have always been allowed to profit off their NIL, I agree with that. The reality is though, the NIL value of most of the players is very low. That all changed when big money boosters decided that autographed pictures are worth $100k to them. Going to be impossible to stop that IMO.
 
Players should have always been allowed to profit off their NIL, I agree with that. The reality is though, the NIL value of most of the players is very low. That all changed when big money boosters decided that autographed pictures are worth $100k to them. Going to be impossible to stop that IMO.
I'd suspect that revenue sharing will crowd out NIL payments. Boosters are getting hit both from universities and collectives right now and it seems like fatigue will continue to set in. Then when universities are paying the kids directly, booster will ask themselves WTF they're doing the rest for.

But maybe the insanity never ends
 
I'd suspect that revenue sharing will crowd out NIL payments. Boosters are getting hit both from universities and collectives right now and it seems like fatigue will continue to set in. Then when universities are paying the kids directly, booster will ask themselves WTF they're doing the rest for.

But maybe the insanity never ends
There will always be boosters with more money than sense pumping dollars into some of these programs
 
There will always be boosters with more money than sense pumping dollars into some of these programs
Maybe so and maybe that's enough to keep NIL stupidly high even in revenue sharing, but I think the appeal to the Joe Every Man booster who will throw like $50 at it in the era of revenue sharing will dry up.

Again, I could be off
 
There will always be boosters with more money than sense pumping dollars into some of these programs
The long term goal needs to be to find a way to get as much of the collective money flowing through the schools as possible. Then at least there is some level of accountability and transparency in the whole process. I also think schools need the chance to lock up these NIL/revenue share deals for multiple years to avoid the current free agency insanity and actually gives the players a little more security. I’m not sure legally how it would all work (it might take some sort of collective bargaining agreement with the players).
 
The long term goal needs to be to find a way to get as much of the collective money flowing through the schools as possible. Then at least there is some level of accountability and transparency in the whole process. I also think schools need the chance to lock up these NIL/revenue share deals for multiple years to avoid the current free agency insanity and actually gives the players a little more security. I’m not sure legally how it would all work (it might take some sort of collective bargaining agreement with the players).
Yeah no pro sports league has a model where literally every play becomes a free agent every off-season
 
Maybe so and maybe that's enough to keep NIL stupidly high even in revenue sharing, but I think the appeal to the Joe Every Man booster who will throw like $50 at it in the era of revenue sharing will dry up.

Again, I could be off
I’d be very interested in knowing what % of 1890 revenue is large donations vs the smaller $50 ones. I’d guess it’s very heavily skewed towards the large ones.
 
I’d be very interested in knowing what % of 1890 revenue is large donations vs the smaller $50 ones. I’d guess it’s very heavily skewed towards the large ones.
As a corporate man working in corporate doing corporate work, I'd suspect it follows a similar distribution as most money metrics. The bulk of donation volume, i.e. making the actual donation, is probably small $ donations, but the bulk of donated money is large donations.

Edit: this is probably wrong see below
 
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EJ was clearly our best back but that doesn't necessarily mean he was elite. He had some shake and finished runs strong but IMO his quickness, speed and vision were average. It sucks to lose him for sure but I'll go against the grain and say that modern day transfer portal shenanigans can actually be kind of fun and exciting - who knows, maybe we'll luck out and get someone even better?
 
I’d be very interested in knowing what % of 1890 revenue is large donations vs the smaller $50 ones. I’d guess it’s very heavily skewed towards the large ones.

A year ago it was close to 98%.

This was before 1890 went to social media to engage the fan base. Purely a guess but I'd say this past season it was around 90% big donors.

I honestly believe 1890 can generate $2.5M to $4M (for football alone) from the fans on a yearly basis if they stayed active on social media with a mix of communication via email to alumni & the season ticket list.

Their public engagement has been very sluggish since their big push last winter.
 
A year ago it was close to 98%.

This was before 1890 went to social media to engage the fan base. Purely a guess but I'd say this past season it was around 90% big donors.

I honestly believe 1890 can generate $2.5M to $4M (for football alone) from the fans on a yearly basis if they stayed active on social media with a mix of communication via email to alumni & the season ticket list.

Their public engagement has been very sluggish since their big push last winter.
IMO there's a lot of meat still on the bone for them to make good money from the average fan by selling merch, autographs, cameo style appearances, and semi-insider access at a good markup.

People who won't blindly venmo them $50 will easily drop $100 on some exclusive little thing that costs 1890 $30.
 


El Juan back at it

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