I wonder how much San Diego State, Creighton, Gonzaga, Florida Atlantic, and Xavier depended on NIL to build their rosters that made it farther than we did lol
Dirty little secret.
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Phil Anschutz is worth around $12 billion and the family has buildings on campus
Dana Anderson has funded KU athletics for years
The Dillons/Kroger families
Bud Adams family (Phillips 66)
If that is true, then why are they not banning together to pay his fee to get Cal's ass out? After next year Cal shouldn't be here at UK any longer. Retire, buy out, I don't know.
its reaping what you sow
Cal has taught these kids money above all else - loyalty, skill development, branding
He's created a program that sold them on the idea of getting paid as fast and as much as you can
and now its killing UK because the cash is no longer deferred by one year and by another entity ( the NBA)
Now UK has to pay these kids the kind of money Cal sold everyone on, and the payment is immediate
What makes college basketball so exciting is the idea that a college with limited funds can field a competitive basketball team. The David versus Goliath. It was that way before the NIL and it will be that way now. But we'll still see 12 of the 16 final teams in the tournament come from the same group of relatively small schools each year.
It will still be the schools that pump money into their program. The cost of that has now gone up significantly.
It stands to reason that schools are going to have a shadow slush fund to guarantee NIL money, and they'll just launder it thru a tight lipped alum with a multi million dollar business. Just look for schools with the same 2 or 3 business owners that throw crazy NIL money at players year over year.
The days of the hundred dollar handshake are gone. We're living in the age of the million dollar miracle signing.
This is the Brian Bowen era of college basketball
Cal has taught these kids money above all else - loyalty, skill development, branding
He's created a program that sold them on the idea of getting paid as fast and as much as you can
and now its killing UK because the cash is no longer deferred by one year and by another entity ( the NBA)
Now UK has to pay these kids the kind of money Cal sold everyone on, and the payment is immediate
What makes college basketball so exciting is the idea that a college with limited funds can field a competitive basketball team. The David versus Goliath. It was that way before the NIL and it will be that way now. But we'll still see 12 of the 16 final teams in the tournament come from the same group of relatively small schools each year.
It will still be the schools that pump money into their program. The cost of that has now gone up significantly.
It stands to reason that schools are going to have a shadow slush fund to guarantee NIL money, and they'll just launder it thru a tight lipped alum with a multi million dollar business. Just look for schools with the same 2 or 3 business owners that throw crazy NIL money at players year over year.
The days of the hundred dollar handshake are gone. We're living in the age of the million dollar miracle signing.
This is the Brian Bowen era of college basketball
I expect some changes and there needs to be some. In what world does it make sense that a pro basketball team has salary caps and the players have "max deals" but there is nothing in amateur sports....if you can even call it that anymore.
