Is it? Donors there spent $450 mm to renovate Kyle. They’re on the hook for $100+ mm to pay Jimbo. I don’t think limited funds are a concern for aTm.
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NIL act passed - NCAA allows athletes to monetise their name, image, likeness
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Unclear why he’d need to speak anonymously. This has been true for quite some time already.
What will $8,500 and all the Pasta Jay’s Chicken Parm you can eat get you?
Brendon Lewis? UBL?
BuffLuke80
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None of this is surprising, at all. 
Has the CU AD ever received an individual donation over $10M? Over $5M?
I'd think your $1.3M is close, but I'd be surprised if our total NIL pool for all sports (not just football) was much more than that number per year. And I'm not confident we even reach that number.
I really believe if the administration actually committed to the football program, we would see donors show up (including me). No question.
High cholesterol
BlackNGold
Club Member
Up until the NIL ruling college football was an arms race. Your conference gets a new TV contract and fans think everything will be great but instead everything just inflates - the Coaching salaries increase insanely and all the costs go up. Now with the NIL world it is still an arms race but with only about the top 20 schools able to compete. So when do schools like CU get smart and start cutting costs - Why do you need to pay a coach $3.6 Million a year (and the guy we have is not worth that). If the system is rigged so most of the schools cannot really compete why compete on Salary with coaches. There has to be plenty of up and comers who would love for a chance to coach football for a lot less. Yes you become a stepping stone program but so what. Colorado is never going to have enough to compete with the Collective pools some of the schools have - we have never had that type of donor base.
Unless college football does something to save itself, I think we are seeing the beginning of the end. This is not sustainable.
This.
I think we see some kind of a super league eventually and the rest of whats left of D1 sitting right below it. I guess it could happen a couple of ways: the best teams stage a coup and all leave their conferences in dramatic fashion though thats less likely. Or the SEC and B1G get bigger and bigger super contracts and schools like Clemson, Oregon, and USC become envious and bolt for the better payday like UT and OU did.
The question then becomes what does the TV contracts look like for the tier right below. The BigXIIs plight is probably the outcome for most schools
Just what every college student needs. How many kegs will fit in the back of that thing?
The only way CU competes is if they divert money from the coaches salaries to the players. If KD wants to win and not just cash a paycheck, he's already doing this.
I wonder if some schools (like CU, but not necessarily CU in particular) start to adjust their recruiting to avoid the kinds of players that would command those kinds of NIL deals. As a program, put together a solid but unspectacular NIL infrastructure that will appeal to the guys who aren’t at the level where they would get the super NIL deals. Don’t even try to play in the same sandbox as the big programs. Just go after guys you think will be good, but not so good that they bolt after two years for a huge NIL deal.
i think that will be a natural development once they start realising that its a complete waste of time recruiting those kinds of players
before we get to the state Jens describes, there will be a phase, for most schools, where they continue to recruit the best players they can and use the players' early success to attempt to generate NIL money
"I know you really liked watching <player> these last two years... pony up a few million and we can keep that dude around one more"
They won't get them.
This has been brought up a bunch over the past 6-8 months. I think you are going to see more Texas type situations than we realize.
Texas A&M is probably going to be our best example here in the next 3-4 years.
If the dudes ball out and win games, it might work out to some degree but even then it's still a team sport and the stars succeed also because the role players play their part. And I think the "salary disparity" in some locker rooms could be a reasonable cause of concern even then.
Most certainly. It'll be interesting which coaches can manage this best. It's inevitable that it'll be a problem to an extent
josef
Club Member
The other problem is that once you do get some good players and they produce on the field they will transfer out in chasing the NIL dollars somewhere else. Just like we have seen this year.
BuffLuke80
Well-Known Member
That's ****ing ridiculous. At the same time, this **** isn't new, it's just legal now. Plus the NC double assholes don't have a backbone.
Are the schools allowed to pay the players now? Did I miss that change?
And unlike the pros, I’d not just “game over, see you next week”, these kids sometimes live together, hang out, go to class. It’s gonna be brutal.