We already know we’ll suck next year. Why pay for it?
La Familia NIL Donations This Week…
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Football 2 years ago fumbled it big time, announcing their NIL collective 2 days after getting beat by 3-6 Vandy at home.
Football is being creative. The recent addition of the 500 Strong Club with the private concert is an indication of that. They believe they can raise $4 - $5 million annually off that.
I don't like to get into discussions about if I give or don't give to UK. But I will say, money I may or may not give to UK goes to scholarships for Kentucky residents to get an education.
I know I'm out of touch, but I think its absurd to donate to any athletic fund when revenue sharing brings in millions, the players have zero loyalty and look to leave as soon as possible.
NIL is going to quickly reach a breaking point. We see this now - 50% of a coaches job is NIL funding generation.
and you'll see, just like Calipari, coaches retained, not for their ability to coach but their ability to land players due to NIL.
With the transfer portal, its won't even be called recruiting, it will be roster building in a combination of recruiting and transfer portal where a coach will start each season with a bucket of money, like playing some version of fantasy football
I know I'm out of touch, but I think its absurd to donate to any athletic fund when revenue sharing brings in millions, the players have zero loyalty and look to leave as soon as possible.
NIL is going to quickly reach a breaking point. We see this now - 50% of a coaches job is NIL funding generation.
and you'll see, just like Calipari, coaches retained, not for their ability to coach but their ability to land players due to NIL.
With the transfer portal, its won't even be called recruiting, it will be roster building in a combination of recruiting and transfer portal where a coach will start each season with a bucket of money, like playing some version of fantasy football
Wonder if Cal will donate any of his salary because he sure is not earning it.
Folks, it's time, empty out your savings accounts, retirements, what have you, BBN needs you on that wall, make it so, give more than your fair share, it's the least you can do.
I definitely think this is going to be a problem for the program going forward. Everyone keeps saying things like UK has such good resources and tradition that any coach we hire next will succeed, and I really don't think that's true. I think the support the program has around it for future success is a lot worse than people think it is. Those titles in the '50s and '90s do nothing for us today.
Cal got bashed a bit when he said the facilities aren't great here, but he's right. If reporting is to be believed he had about $50 million in commitments from guys in the NBA for renovations and Mitch wanted nothing to do with it. Our basketball NIL seems to be a mess. Doesn't matter if it's Mitch's fault, Cal's or both, it just doesn't seem like it's any good at all right now.
The extent to which this program is "self sustaining" in a sense for the next coach is really overrated in the new college basketball landscape. Things need to get figured out fast and whoever the next coach is really needs to be a home run hire.
Majority of fans have lost interest and you can blame Calipari and Mitch for that. Also, wait until next year when there’s empty seats and then we’ll hear that we’re awful fans. Mitch FCKed up because he had a chance to right the ship!!!! FCK IT… I don’t even wear UK apparel anymore because it’s just embarrassing and I’m tired of making excuses.
Only 950,446 fans need to tell Cal to hit the road now.
The goal of the NIL is $1M. So far they’re at $49k. $10,000 of that came from a single person. There’s only been $650 donated the past week since the Oakland loss. What caught my eye was all the $1 donations with messages to fire Cal. 😂
I can’t imagine this does very well unless some of Cal’s super friends fund the vast majority of the $1M.
Brilliant lol.
Considering our shit economy since January of 2021 and how much even average folk are struggling it’s pretty ridiculous and out of
Touch to ask random fans to donate large swaths of money to help guys make hundreds of thousands/ millions of dollars.
There should be a slew of other ways to collect this than crowdfunding from fans and taking advantage of their fandom
Touch to ask random fans to donate large swaths of money to help guys make hundreds of thousands/ millions of dollars.
There should be a slew of other ways to collect this than crowdfunding from fans and taking advantage of their fandom
If we have a coach that still can’t coach them it really doesn’t matter we’re throwing money out the door. Just like we are for the coach!!!!
That could be true but I’m not sure the responsibility of recruiting (including reeling in transfers) along with providing millions of dollars for college basketball guys should fall on the shoulders of Kentucky fans.
It might not be fair.. but thats probably what's going to be the difference maker. You can only make money on NIL from you're ability to profit on said "NIL". Which means businesses donating to the fund, businesses being apart of autograph signings and other marketing events, and the fan's wallets. Have to figure those out if we want to put together rosters that can contend, IMO. The good news is that the money will always be there for the coach. We've proven we will spend top dollar to get the guys we want. But I'm concerned what sort of business/fan money we can generate going forward.
