You have the simple answer to the current problem, my friend.
I agree here.....in the end the massive TV deals are going to have to be funneled to the players and the coaches salaries along with subsidizing rest of college program/activities (i.e. women's sports, academic buildings ,etc) will simply have to take a haircut.
This is a foregone conclusion....people tossing out money is one thing but then having to do it year in and year out....is a whole nother matter. And the 2nd part is going to cause fatigue as people just pour money into a pit that never ends. And this is only compounded further when kids get up and transfer at a moments notice....so it feels like a further waste of hard earned money.
Let's be honest....there is hardly a consumer choice that people make due to the fact that a UK player markets for a private business. Bully McCall did a lawn equipment NIL, Wandale did the 150k NIL for Stockton Bank, Josh Paschal did a NIL with a dentist...heck the basketball team did one with Morgan & Morgan law firm below....(hell none of these dudes are at UK anymore...and what does a 4 kids cutting up on a poster make me want to do business with any law firm)
Are that many people being swayed as new customers due to the NIL $$$ marketing these athletes do to private businesses? I tend to doubt it and is extremely hard to quantify. DId Stockton mortgage get that many more home loans, did that many more tractors get sold, did the dentist pick up more business, etc...the proof is are these businesses with their added revenue did the re-up with the new athletes a year later?
Absolutely. At first, I thought I'd go in for $50 or $100 a month. Then I considered if I wanted to give $600-$1200 a year towards buying players who may or may not need it, who may or may not pan out and/or who may bolt after a season or two for a better offer. Then I thought that there are several worthy charities in my community that could use that money, or at the very least it could be contributed to our granddaughters college funds.
Very true. But not mutually exclusive. Many of us are not wealthy but still give a little bit to 15 and other charities.
Tommy, they aren't expecting gazillionaires to give gazillions for new campus facilities AND then again for 15. Obviously, this is entirely voluntary. The 15 club can be supported by normal middle class people sending $25-50 apiece to 15 by foregoing a case of beer or a night out. No big deal.
OK but that is not going to amount to a whole lot in the long run. Most of us give way more than that every year to the K fund anyway. If you're really going to put together pay for play, need really big money. I could easily afford additional money, but I'm just not going to, for many of the reasons stated in this thread.
The same method, many small donations, works in other models. It will work in this model, too, if lots of people participate. It's a level playing field, in that every school faces the same rules. Parting with $25-50 is really no big deal. It's a case of beer. Or it's a pizza. Come on. You are "just not going to". Okay. That's your decision. But I did, and many motivated KY fans will. So sit it out, Tommy, and let others get it done.
If $25 empties someone's retirement fund, then they are in big trouble with or without a donation to 15. So there's that.
Good points there. The model for the successful colleges has been to let football, and for a few men’s basketball, pay for the athletic departments, subsidized by donors, usually for capital projects, and to pay the universities generally. The universities don’t want to give up anything they have had, so they ask the fans to do more. If it was true NIL, it would take care of itself. But, the coaches and the fans want it to be recruiting payments. That is a whole different animal.
But the SEC's huge conference TV contract is the difference maker right now and probably for the foreseeable future. SEC TV revenue is staggering and far greater than what other conferences are taking in. This doesn't help with NIL but it is making the SEC so rich that no other conference can catch up. When Univ. of TX capitulated, that told me a lot.
It helps with NIL from a marketing aspect. A kid that is on the largest stage probably gets the most marketing bucks.
Well said!
Sure, but I am already giving some to charities.
What I'm saying is that I already donate to local charities, as well as the college funds of our granddaughters. If I'm going to come up with an extra $600-$1200 a year, it's going to the places/people I'm already giving to. After thinking it over, I'd rather put my money elsewhere, especially after seeing players openly shop themselves around looking for the best deal, and the attitude some had about it, like in the Polynesian Bowl where some kid who picked off UT's million dollar man was interviewed on the sideline after the change of possession and managed to rattle off the phrase "gettin' paid" about 75 times in a 60 second interview, as if that was all that mattered to him.
They aren't contacting me again but for the first time because I volunteer first donations without contact. I might volunteer again but it's my decision for which I don't need help. I don't respond favorably to pressure. Net, with me the risk against further aid is much higher with contacting me than leaving me alone to make decisions. I don't call refraining from contacting me incompetence but respect. Note that by "contact" I mean verbal, not mailings.
And we struggled mightily over just simply allowing the selling of beer to most fans.
