Ryan Day says Ohio State needs $13 million in NIL money to keep roster in place................

NewPhoneWhoDis said:
Personally -- I think they should put every D1 coach in an auditorium -- bring the recruits out one by one and have it be auction style and televise it.
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That would add an interesting chapter to the story of athletes claiming that CFB is like slavery.

Who's gonna set the market?!
 
There are a lot of fans who are getting turned off by the NIL because the money is turning into crazy amounts. I'm sure the stadiums will still be full but the financial arms race will be won by the few schools that can go to corporations and a select number of BMD's to pony up the really big bucks. With the economy faltering and a lot of families starting to get nervous about WTF is happening in this country anyway, it's a heaving crap shoot on the part of most schools to ask their fans for tens of millions of dollars over a short span of years just to have a good football team. At some point you'll start seeing editorials and articles about "Have Things Gone Too Far". Who knows what will happen but it won't keep going like this forever.
 
Goldbug said:
There are a lot of fans who are getting turned off by the NIL because the money is turning into crazy amounts. I'm sure the stadiums will still be full but the financial arms race will be won by the few schools that can go to corporations and a select number of BMD's to pony up the really big bucks. With the economy faltering and a lot of families starting to get nervous about WTF is happening in this country anyway, it's a heaving crap shoot on the part of most schools to ask their fans for tens of millions of dollars over a short span of years just to have a good football team. At some point you'll start seeing editorials and articles about "Have Things Gone Too Far". Who knows what will happen but it won't keep going like this forever.
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What's ironic to me is many schools with the financial wherewithall to handle this are schools that chose not to go this route a long time ago. The Ivy League!
 
SlinkyRedfoot said:
That would add an interesting chapter to the story of athletes claiming that CFB is like slavery.

Who's gonna set the market?!
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I think Texas A&M set the market when they bought the best recruiting class in the history of CFB even though they haven't won anything in like 20 years :pound:

Just don't say that to Jimbo Fisher -- he will tell you all those recruits are legit. They didn't buy any of them.
 
MAIZEandBLUE09 said:
And that is different from that past...how exactly? Other than it's all out in the open....
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Did teams pay recruits? A select few, sure. It was rumored Auburn paid $160,000 for Cam Newton (or whatever it was). It is COMPLETELY different now. Tennessee gave $8 million to one kid. OSU is saying they need $13 million to keep the team together. That isn't for the next 4 years. That is $13 million dollars to keep them together for one year. Then they need that again, not including the recruits they will have to buy the following year.

It is NOTHING like it was in the past. Now if team B has someone reach out to an elite player (like the WR from Pitt) and say, team A can pay you 'X amount' -- the elite player can simply enter the transfer portal and head off to the highest bidder.

You have schools paying entire position groups, schools paying stipends to the entire team per month, it is the wild, wild west.
 
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