NIL

[Alphawalt]

I know the Trump administration revoked the Title IX guidance for NIL, but is that going to hold up in court? I just don't see how it is possible for 90+% of NIL money through universities to go to men's sports and not fall afoul of Title IX.

I'm not saying it has to be 50:50, but I bet there will be a lot of legal challenges in the next 6-12 months when there's 2 billion of NIL money at stake.

My opinion is NIL money to a particular college sports team should be directly correlated to how much money a particular sports team brings in, with allowance for some subsidies of sports that don’t bring in much money. If we are going to treat NIL as “business”, then apply business principles to it. If Jays basketball between ticket sales, TV rights payments, etc., brings in 95% of sports money to CU, then the basketball program should get close to 95% of NIL monies. If Jays women’s volleyball, which I do wholeheartedly support, only generates a much smaller amount of revenue, it should only get its share, with some discretionary small additional amount the AD or administration can give to it from the basketball revenue for expenses. There is no equitable analysis to have monies equally shared by all sports programs that is being brought in by mostly college football and basketball. (Although obviously we are seeing more TV deals and attendance at women’s basketball and volleyball as a national trend). If split other than money brought in, sounds a lot like socialism being applied to college sports.

[SeattleJay]

There is a strident minority on the Boneyard basketball (U Conn) forum that would like to see UConn leave the BE. Their football program can’t be bringing in the kind of dollars that they would get in an ACC or better football conference. It will be interesting to follow.

I think their football program is not very good (to state the obvious)

[Alphawalt]

There is a strident minority on the Boneyard basketball (U Conn) forum that would like to see UConn leave the BE. Their football program can’t be bringing in the kind of dollars that they would get in an ACC or better football conference. It will be interesting to follow.

I think their football program is not very good (to state the obvious)

I don’t think any major conference wants UConn football added to their conference slate. Forget about whether UConn football is any good, they have limited support. Only 20,000 to 25,000 fans attend home games on average. Their football stadium sucks, not big time college football worthy. On a national level, hardly anyone would tune in to a broadcast when they played so no added benefit for any TV deals.

[D Jay Fan]

Schools can spend up to 20 mill a year to start. Football schools expected to.

Before NIL was outside of the “school”

Now it’s even more of a arms race and the SEC- Big 10 expected to spend a lot on bball

So will these players need agents anymore? Payments will have to be known, in at least the public state schools. Going rate for a quarterback doesn't need an agent if there is a listed sliding scale

[GoJays2020]

There is a strident minority on the Boneyard basketball (U Conn) forum that would like to see UConn leave the BE. Their football program can’t be bringing in the kind of dollars that they would get in an ACC or better football conference. It will be interesting to follow.

I think their football program is not very good (to state the obvious)

Still probably better than the Huskers' football program

[SeattleJay]

NABC National Defensive Player of the Year!!!

Congratulations Ryan!!!!!!