East Quad

September 30th, 2021 at 5:03 PM ^

It is ironic that the acronym for monetary incentives for name image and likeness is NIL.

It seems like that should be the moniker for the monetary disincentive punished by NCAA death penalties during the olden bagman years.

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newtopos

September 30th, 2021 at 5:05 PM ^

I wonder if the company is going to focus on branding, marketing, creative, and digital.  Hard to tell, as some of the sentences in the article did not contain those words.

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LSAClassOf2000

September 30th, 2021 at 9:48 PM ^

As it is essentially going to be a fringe consulting arm of Nike basically, I think hiding the money in shoes with false soles would be more appropriate, although best not wear them during actual football activities because the last thing anyone needs is for a shoe to go flying and the check from the Subaru dealership where you did a promo the night before goes aloft into the breeze.

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Bo Harbaugh

September 30th, 2021 at 6:42 PM ^

He and UM just don't care that much or we'd already have the bagging rails laid to seamlessly move into NIL.

UM has made the choice to play school (you can have whatever respective opinion you want on this), but it's not conducive to winning championships or becoming an NFL-Lite program like SEC, OSU.  Oregon it seems will be shifting further to the semi-pro model now given this development. You spend that type of $ and effort to be competing for championships, not have these kids sitting in class. 

Grasping at the idea that NIL would even the playing is delusional, as all the big programs have enough big donors and local donors to fund whatever bidding war is to come for these four and five star recruits.

The programs that still expect their students to be student-athletes, (again, you can have whatever opinion you wish on this), and attend class, will continue to be at a disadvantage.

Every coach, professor or professional knows that time on task matters and SEC is simply full time football.  

 

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Bo Harbaugh

September 30th, 2021 at 11:59 PM ^

Above board donations to the academic and athletic departments are admirable and deserve recognition.

Yet you fail to see my point, in that  that S. Ross is not running a grimey bagging rail directly to the players pockets.  Of course his donations and involvement help build the university, the facilities and its brand and are appreciated by all, but it's not the same as SEC money funneled directly into recruits hands.

 

 

 

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Bo Harbaugh

October 1st, 2021 at 9:29 AM ^

So please explain why the gap between Bama, SEC, OSU and Michigan, ND, and other top 25 is so great?

1) Nick Saban is the just the greatest schematic coach ever...but it only works at the college level?

2) Urban Meyer is just the 2nd greatest schematic coach ever....but it only works at the college level?

3)  Or perhaps, just maybe, certain schools prioritize football more than others?  And while UM may not be Northwestern or Vanderbilt, we have our student-athletes actually attend class on campus instead of sitting in the athletic center all day studying film?

It's not binary and there's a spectrum...but if you think BAMA, UGA, Clemson, OSU reached their program status simply by out-coaching the competition then that's true naïveté.  

They've been bagging like pros and running their football programs like the NFL-lite for the past decade.  We have been half in, half out on the football factory approach, just like Wisconsin, Penn State and the majority of the other top 25 programs that have tried to keep some semblance of the student-athlete model in tact. 

A coach can only do so much given the culture and boundaries that the AD and university put on him. 

 

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TruBluMich

October 1st, 2021 at 10:17 AM ^

We just had the #1 recruiting class in the country in basketball.  I'm sure they were all totally bummed to find out they had to also play school at Michigan.  Sucess and the ability to get players to the pros lead to success in recruiting.  If you want to talk about whether universities should begin to look at professional sports as a major?  Why not? That is a HUGE industry and not just a major that applies to players.

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LabattsBleu

September 30th, 2021 at 7:07 PM ^

good on Knight and Oregon for taking advantage of what is allowed under the new rules.

I like Oregon and I'd rather they get top recruits into the Pac12 than the SEC

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Commie_High96

September 30th, 2021 at 8:46 PM ^

Meanwhile UM won’t let our athletes use the block M. UM is stupid, run by incompetent elitists too focused on long-dead past glory and spitting in their fans faces.

Fuck our president, fuck our AD, but it’s basically our fault as fans for never actually requiring accountability.

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trueblueintexas

September 30th, 2021 at 11:39 PM ^

I’m requiring you to be accountable. Provide proof that UM is stupid, run by incompetent elitists, who have literally spit in a fans face. Or…admit you have no idea what NIL programs Michigan has supported or not and are just building your whole argument off of one comment Hunter Dickinson made when the NIL rules were first being implemented.

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