NIL + Ross School of Business
I think everyone outside of O$U, Clemson, & Bama thinks CFB needs a big shake-up or this sport is doomed. Ticket sales are down. Ratings are down a ton this year, when people are stuck at home.
Well, NIL and playoff expansion appear the only path to change, and NIL and the prevalence + wealth of our fanbase appears to be the only path to our return to relevance.
Has anyone heard whether the football program is planning a collaboration with Ross? Seems like the business school could be a huge asset to help out athletes learn how to market themselves and maximize the revenue they could obtain. Seems like a slam dunk. Anyone heard of this?
January 1st, 2021 at 11:07 PM ^
Football Factory > "Schools" - There is no "in-between" or competitive future.
January 1st, 2021 at 11:08 PM ^
Harbaugh will fuck that up too.
January 1st, 2021 at 11:18 PM ^
So in your opinion should Dabo and Venables be fired? There’s almost a whole quarter left and they’re losing by almost 30.
January 1st, 2021 at 11:25 PM ^
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't Dabo and Venables have MULTIPLE natty's???
January 1st, 2021 at 11:35 PM ^
And yet they are still getting blown out. Harbaugh has no natty’s and put up similar results. Putting up 39 points two years ago.
January 2nd, 2021 at 12:12 AM ^
Can we stop comparing the national title to a cheap beer?
January 2nd, 2021 at 4:06 PM ^
Well, you only *rent* the national title. Though a year long rent is a bit longer than a cheap beer's.
January 1st, 2021 at 11:17 PM ^
What do you mean help with marketing? Michigan is the Faygo of the college football world.
January 1st, 2021 at 11:21 PM ^
Proof: XM's addiction to red pop
January 1st, 2021 at 11:17 PM ^
How would expanding the playoffs make it more exciting? We can’t even find 4 competitive teams for the playoffs as it is. The final outcome will almost always still be the same. Just go back to the old national championship and make the NY6 bowl games meaningful again.
January 1st, 2021 at 11:46 PM ^
Gives them more chances to get better matchups. For example Oklahoma gets a shot as well as Notre Dame. Or Cincy who had some tragic clock management that led to a loss to Georgia.
January 2nd, 2021 at 12:13 AM ^
Why do we have 68 teams in the basketball tourney, when most aren’t good enough to win more than a game?
Because it’s more fun.
January 2nd, 2021 at 8:53 AM ^
It is getting more predictable but sometimes the 3rd place team in a conference gets their act together and wins it all (U of M, '89).
January 2nd, 2021 at 3:21 PM ^
This. The playoffs the way they are suck; and fans are Uber toxic even if their team is good if they don’t make it into the CFP. Bowls don’t mean anything anymore other than more practice time. NCAAF just isn’t as much fun anymore.
I do think that UM should have Ross handle these kids with branding and making as much money as they can with NIL. That, and a guy whose job it is to scour the transfer portal.
January 1st, 2021 at 11:18 PM ^
Teaching them how to not blow their money on coke and hookers and be broke by 24 or out of the league at 32 and homeless hooked on crack like Deonte from the mavericks?
Could be a good thing like that NBA player who got paid his 10 million a year in bitcoin which has doubled in the last month. making his salary to over 20 million.
January 1st, 2021 at 11:21 PM ^
This comment isn't racist at all.
January 2nd, 2021 at 12:00 AM ^
Everything is racist when its the truth?
NBA players have like a 30% chance of blowing their entire fortune and ending up pennyless. Its been proven. Gold chains, 4 babies with goldiggers and million dollar cars/mansions that get repo'ed when your next contract isn't that 100 million you expect it will be.
Thats not racist its white black and asian players who have gone broke. Last I heard Yao Ming was broke as shit too. And Aaron Rodgers is paying for a kid with a woman who has 3 babies with 3 NFL players. and he is white.
you give 18-22 year old's 10+ million dollars and expect them to make good decisions when they can have anything they want. without caring about the repercussions to their future like a child support payment of 100k a month for 18 years
January 2nd, 2021 at 1:05 AM ^
The hookers and blow thing is an obvious tell. You're first positive test for cocaine in the NBA is a two year ban. Players don't need hookers because there are plenty of groupies in every city of that's what they want. Also, Yao Ming is fine. He owns the most popular team in the Chinese Basketball Association.
But when you pull shit out of your ass like wasting money on hookers and blow is common in a league that is 80% black that had no basis in fact you're being racist whether you realize it or not. And by the way, it's very rare these days that NBA players go broker straight out of the league. The have really good programs to teach rookies how to manage money and the league employees a lot of ex players as well.
January 2nd, 2021 at 5:38 PM ^
When was race mentioned? YOU made it racist by projecting your biases onto it.
January 1st, 2021 at 11:26 PM ^
You do realize that Delonte West suffers from bipolar disorder, right?
January 2nd, 2021 at 12:09 AM ^
Why does it matter that he was paid in bitcoin? People are acting like this was so revolutionary. Couldn't he have just gotten paid in cash and then converted it into bitcoin?
And I don't think that Aaron Rodgers has a kid either.
January 2nd, 2021 at 12:24 AM ^
Maybe its not Aarron Rodgers maybe it was Jay Cutler or IDK? Its a white QB who was getting sued for child support by a woman who has kids with 2 NFL players and at the time was dating a 3rd NBA player. It was all over the news
January 2nd, 2021 at 9:49 AM ^
So your argument is that it's not racist "when it's the truth" and then you concede that it isn't even the truth?
Maybe you should reconsider posting here at all. There are websites that actually welcome people who think like you do, and you can have fun plotting hate crimes with FBI moles while you are on them.
January 2nd, 2021 at 12:47 PM ^
As opposed to now with players not getting paid besides room and board and an education with immeasurable potential worth, while some old dudes get endless, infinite amounts of Instant money by, at the least, printing jerseys with the players’ names on them from the time they’re freshmen phenoms until forever.
Or maybe even mint an unlimited “limited edition” bit of commemorative Coins with players’ likenesses for memories and nostalgia from plays throughout history.
All so the old dudes can go blow the hard earned money on hookers and blow in some massage parlors in FL as grown adults, if they so choose.
Stay away from that slippery slope.
January 1st, 2021 at 11:19 PM ^
Michigan would fuck that up too.
January 1st, 2021 at 11:21 PM ^
We should start by marketing the whole program better. Nobody does it better than osu
January 1st, 2021 at 11:25 PM ^
Win games
January 1st, 2021 at 11:37 PM ^
Well unless they want to start kicking cash out of the Dr.'s So and So and Such and Such Ross School Of Business Enormous Pile of Currency to the players, they probably won't be much help.
January 2nd, 2021 at 12:31 AM ^
mabrsu I have been thinking along similar lines. While the school emphasizes the academics side of the student athlete equation, what curriculum is being taught that is actually applicable to those who intend to pursue pro sports?
A degree program in Sports Management would be beneficial. It could include financial, marketing, and contracts, and capture the attention of the student athletes more than the history of England from Cromwell to the Industrial Revolution (as enjoyable as that class was). Bonus points if time spent training or on the field counted towards credits.
January 2nd, 2021 at 9:43 AM ^
They have that already and have for years. It's a part of the school of kinesiology and many players have done it.
January 2nd, 2021 at 12:42 AM ^
Expansion for the CFP won't change anything. NIL won't solve the problem either. They need to reduce the scholarship limit to 75 so the talent gets spread out more evenly, AND expand the CFP to 8 teams, eliminate BS non conference games for everybody and play 10 game conf. schedules.
That would be a start
January 2nd, 2021 at 1:20 PM ^
I have thought about some solution similar to the scholarship reduction but I don’t think it’s enough. The reason the NFL is able to achieve parity is a combination of salary caps and the draft.
I was thinking we make scholarships variable to increase parity. Reduce scholarships for teams that win big, increase scholarships for teams that lose big.
However, I do think NIL rights will have a greater effect than you do. Each school has its own market and a 5* player could capitalize on a big market by going to a school that doesn’t have a tradition of success. Players would be concerned about developing their brand, and going to a school like Alabama does not provide many opportunities to do that when everyone else is a 5*.
Right now, players have this attitude that the best of the best need to stick together at 3 schools to maximize their chances of winning a championship. We need to find a way to make them prioritize being the big man on campus. Money is the best way to do that.
January 2nd, 2021 at 1:50 AM ^
The only thing I'm sure about is that Michigan will be way behind the curve when it comes to NIL. The same schools that are aggressive with the current rules will be aggressive and innovative with NIL, while Michigan will grasp to outdated ideals.
January 2nd, 2021 at 1:54 AM ^
So when we’re still 9-4 with NIL what will our next hope be?
January 2nd, 2021 at 11:18 AM ^
9-4 is an uphill climb at this point.
January 2nd, 2021 at 9:24 AM ^
LOL, that’s a great thought re Ross.
January 3rd, 2021 at 1:02 AM ^
LA Times had a great article about a third option: lower scholarship limit to 75. Author made a lot of great points.
https://twitter.com/bradymccollough/status/1345409934838517760?s=21