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I have to believe that if you try to "cut" a player's NIL payout from one year to the next, they are gone. And even if you don't, it is to their benefit to enter the portal every year in an attempt to up their personal ante. There are likely no such thing as NIL contracts. You don't sign on for anything more than one year, do you? And there is no evaluation of such payments. Ballo is supposedly getting $1.2 million at Indiana this year. All that did was get him to leave Arizona for Indiana. I am unaware of any stipulations put on these guys ..... what if they don't make the NCAAs? What if he gets injured? What if he's part of a situation and gets dismissed from the team? What if family matters call him to Macedonia? What are the effects on team chemistry when the top dawg is getting $1.2 million and eighth man doggie is getting $25k? How does one establish a pricing structure. And like all things in this society, prices will continue to go up, never coming down. Sustainability seems an impossibility. MLB is seeing a number of its broadcast deals go down the drain. ESPN is getting out of their broadcast contract. Three or four regional sports networks have failed. Is college basketball far behind? But network monies don't go into NIL pots. Ratings for the tournament are down. I don't get rich alums paying for fleeting results. What has Pickens got from his support to Oklahoma State? Knight to Oregon? Chaifetz to SLU, for that matter? It used to be hard to be a Billiken fan. Now it's getting harder to be a fan of college sports IMHO. I'm trending more to sports now for the betting aspect. I don't bet much but as Jamie Foxx said 'put some skin in the game.'

A salary cap could come with a union agreeing to a salary cap.

Not every team is going to get a 25X increase. If you are a relative nobody team and all of a sudden become a top 25 team, you can expect a large increase. Same goes for individual players. A player may be getting $20k a year somewhere, have a breakout season and be offered $500k somewhere else the next season. Of course the opposite could be true...a player may have a 200k deal then play poorly or get hurt and next year he is told he'll only be getting 50k or that he should hit the portal. There is a downside for players that don't perform as free agency every year for every player doesn't work out so well if you don't perform up to your contract. The real question is how much will the entire pot of NIL funds grow each year. That's the true test of sustainability.

I didn’t take it as the top spenders had to increase what they were spending. Just that players that had a great years got huge increases. I’m assuming players that had bad years took decreases. But to your point I think it’s going to have to cap out at sometime. I also wonder now if there will ever be a “salary cap” with NIL?

I think this must be said, those that want money get money. Unfortunately for those that want money, they basically do not know how to handle it, they just know how to spend it. Eventually the IRS will check their finances thoroughly (in an audit or series of audits one after the other). The outcome may very well be pretty bad for them. Enter Schertz, this is a man that has gone through a lot in his life and has succeeded. He can succeed with brand new recruits from lower level schools. We need no 7 figure NIL Kobes or Loves, he can find the kids he needs, he can train them and he can guide them. My time in the Army confirms that there are officers capable to guide people into the jaws of death, there are others that will be shot by their own troops. Money is not the solution.

see it sucks they have to give up their summers, most coeds still have the summer off I think really the takeaway for me with ur reply is that they are still getting the education, so that's good.

Good post. Actually kind of crazy that we haven’t had a great player poached by a P5 that I can recall recently? Did a double-take on this one but another good post! Isn’t Schertz’s whole deal that he’s a great coach and can, as someone noted in another thread, take an 80K NIL roster and turn them into a $2M team? The days of worrying about recruits and transfers is over* *definitely not over

I look forward to the twelve year college basketball veteran trying to hang on long enough to become fully vested in the state’s pension system if we ever go to employment contracts. That will just make you feel all warm inside. You can’t put a limit on eligibility years when talking about an employment contract. Try to do that and you will lose in court.

Main list/first post updated today.

I also have no problem giving them more time but don’t forget they are all going to summer school getting 6 to 9 credit hours. That’s why some of these guys are getting degrees in 3 years.

I’ll second (and drink) to that.

If this is true #1 that is a 25 times increase in one year if my math is correct. How can this kind of annual increases be sustainable even for the big boys.

Still nothing. I did find out that Mackenzie Hare from Marquette went in the portal when they changed coaches up there. She was committed to coming here before we changed coaches, it would be nice to get her down here. I’m sure we could find a place for someone who shoots a 3 like she does.

FYI I could not. blinking copy paste

I have np giving student athletes more time to graduate. No way average 18 year old can handle all that travel, practice etc. & then have time to excel in school.

@sulfan 13 and @HooosierPal. I could see the pictures both times with no problems.

@slufan13 I quoted my post and the photos once again appear for me.

I'm going to assume that you cannot view the photo's I posted. I don't know what to tell you as they appear on both my cell phone and my laptop. I trust your software is up to date? I posted the photos from my cell, which is an Apple. Perhaps your software and Apple aren't compatible, or perhaps this platform throws a curveball.

All new players should be required to post videos of them dunking over a trash can.

IYKYK

The end of team blue is better than any recruit

I was there. About what I expected. Probably 60-70 people in total, wide age range. I'm 28 and was older than ~15% of the room. Schertz accidentally went to the downtown MAC and didn't get to the Des Peres location until about 6. Troy spoke a bit, Chris May spoke a bit, then Schertz took the wheel. Good speech, dude is very funny, then he took a Q&A. Most of the questions were pretty worthless but he did drop a couple of noteworthy things: 1) Last year's ISU team was paid a combined 80k in NIL. Their market value today is as much as 2 mill. 2) One of the recent recruits on campus brought their 12YO sister who made a fat joke towards Schertz - he found it very funny (as did I). 3) Gibby was scheduled for a visit to UConn this coming weekend before recommitting to SLU. We beat the two-time reigning national champion out for a transfer portal player, and arguably more importantly the two-time reigning national champion was interested in our shooting guard. Think about that next time anyone wants to talk down on Gibby. 4) Coach is still VERY confident that we get commitments from RA and IS this week. I'm very confident that those commitments will open the floodgates. 5) I asked coach 1 on 1 afterwards what he thought of the Billiken vs. "Team Blue" and it sounds like we can finally but that bullshite boring @$$ moniker to rest. 6) Charlie Gitto's is his favorite restaurant so far. Had it during the MVC tournament.

A Grizzlie and still a Billiken.