NIL Question

[nerfstate]

That’s essentially for getting top recruits to commit, isn’t it? Have any current athletes gotten the same or similar? Would imagine David Carr may not be too happy if Suriano gets $150k and he doesn’t...

Good questions—I dunno. Do you think Carr has met our friend Ira?

 

[MVPFAN]

NIL as anticipated has quickly warped into booster recruiting payoffs for some schools. Guys already on a team are more or less left with what NIL was intended, social media, sponsor deals, t-shirts etc.

 

[tikk10]

The (first) word is Suriano has $150k on the table to wrestle one semester (ISU, maybe?). According to Willie and Corby, high school seniors have gotten similar offers (for 4 years). The money isn’t only from straight advertisers—boosters have different motivations.

Any scenario by which a booster pays a recruit via an NIL deal in exchange for a promise by that recruit to wrestle at a particular school would be an overt NCAA violation, whether it's memorialized on paper or not.

 

[MVPFAN]

Any scenario by which a booster pays a recruit via an NIL deal in exchange for a promise by that recruit to wrestle at a particular school would be an overt NCAA violation, whether it's memorialized on paper or not.

I agree it should be but IMO teams are getting away with it right now.

 

[nerfstate]

Any scenario by which a booster pays a recruit via an NIL deal in exchange for a promise by that recruit to wrestle at a particular school would be an overt NCAA violation, whether it's memorialized on paper or not.

Willie and Corby agree, but believe that some schools are calling the NCAA‘s bluff on enforcement these days. 🤷

 

[tikk10]

Willie and Corby agree, but believe that some schools are calling the NCAA‘s bluff on enforcement these days. 🤷

I'd be wary of putting much stock in rumors that naturally derive from the wrestlers themselves, or their parents, because they're still attempting to negotiate and thus not the most reliable narrators.

That said, if this is accurate I can easily imagine it blowing up in someone's face because the coaches that are playing by the rules will be motivated to blow it up, and they'll get wind of it through the wrestlers trying to play one school off the other.

The NCAA may wait to see how things settle before enforcing (it's still new and no one is quite sure what it all means) but I see them as highly motivated to make an example out of someone, maybe not in wrestling (more money flows through football) but in a way that puts everyone on notice that circumvention won't be tolerated.

 

[nerfstate]

I'd be wary of putting much stock in rumors that naturally derive from the wrestlers themselves, or their parents, because they're still attempting to negotiate and thus not the most reliable narrators.

That said, if this is accurate I can easily imagine it blowing up in someone's face because the coaches that are playing by the rules will be motivated to blow it up, and they'll get wind of it through the wrestlers trying to play one school off the other.

The NCAA may wait to see how things settle before enforcing (it's still new and no one is quite sure what it all means) but I see them as highly motivated to make an example out of someone, maybe not in wrestling (more money flows through football) but in a way that puts everyone on notice that circumvention won't be tolerated.

Apparently the $150k figure came from Dresser. I hope that you are correct, though, about enforcement. I do recommend Willie and Corby‘s discussion on the topic— it’s worth a listen even if you don’t normally tune in.

 

[nittinsc]

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[psumacw]

I agree it should be but IMO teams are getting away with it right now.

do you have any solid evidence/experience that led you to this opinion? or is more of "if i were them, i would cheat. so they must be cheating"?