Two Michigan Athletes Sign NIL Deals with White Sox
The White Sox have signed several athletes from Illinois to NIL deals. The Big Ten is represented well and Michigan’s AJ Henning from the football team and Cameron Williams from the WBB are part of it. Congrats to them!
https://twitter.com/whitesox/status/1559889581092311041?s=21&t=_1Mr2_ouPRjQ2GHl0NxOiQ
August 17th, 2022 at 11:15 AM ^
Cool stuff! Not surprising since Henning has over 350,000 followers on TikTok.
Excellent job by the young man to brand himself and make money.
August 17th, 2022 at 11:31 AM ^
Cool. Congratulations to them.
August 17th, 2022 at 11:34 AM ^
Congrats AJ and Cameron!
We should start calculating NIL value based on MGoPoints.
August 17th, 2022 at 12:37 PM ^
i used to have like 36k or 40k MGoPoints or something but one day i logged on and had 0 points.
so I would owe money to the NIL collective?
August 17th, 2022 at 12:40 PM ^
I'll send my address so you can pay your share...
August 17th, 2022 at 12:44 PM ^
If they let this happen, it might be time to fire your agent.
August 17th, 2022 at 1:04 PM ^
i think it was either a glitch (like how a few bloggers have tens of millions of points, points didn't work for a long time, etc.) or it was Ace being mad.
either way, my mgoblog agent back then was WD so not sure much could have been done. /s
August 17th, 2022 at 1:47 PM ^
"Points didn't work for a long time"
You mean these points work for something?
August 17th, 2022 at 5:14 PM ^
MGoTeeShirts!!
August 17th, 2022 at 11:36 AM ^
It's impressive, bacon1431, that you had time to post this.
I mean you must be VERY busy preparing for International Bacon Day. September 3 can't come soon enough!
August 17th, 2022 at 12:17 PM ^
Bacon Day?!
August 17th, 2022 at 4:43 PM ^
For those who want to spread out their fun, there are other Bacon Days. Celebrate!
August 17th, 2022 at 12:29 PM ^
The infatuation with bacon is sickening... It's disgusting.
August 17th, 2022 at 12:38 PM ^
no. it is literally one of the greatest foods ever conceived in the history of the galaxy
August 17th, 2022 at 12:47 PM ^
You're not supposed to eat it raw.
August 17th, 2022 at 1:33 PM ^
Catchafire might be onto something:
Guanciale or face bacon is a way of making bacon from a pig's cheek.
August 17th, 2022 at 2:31 PM ^
That stuff is delicious. As is all bacon.
Our block does an annual pig roast Labor Day weekend and the pig cheeks are the most sought after bites
August 17th, 2022 at 12:57 PM ^
Your move, Tigers.
August 17th, 2022 at 1:30 PM ^
And Lions! Although the Ford family and their damn money.
August 17th, 2022 at 1:56 PM ^
Highly doubt the FFF - fucking ford family - does anything like this.
August 17th, 2022 at 12:57 PM ^
I guess it's a good thing JJ wasn't one of them, lest there be a Drew Henson 2.0 panic...
August 17th, 2022 at 1:29 PM ^
Wow…..good on the White Sox!
August 17th, 2022 at 1:46 PM ^
I don't understand how this helps the Sox, but glad our players are making money.
Could an NFL team have a NIL contract with a football player? Let's say DA BEARS sign an NIL with Cade, is that a conflict? Even if the contract had not strings for Cade to consider the bears above all other NFL teams upon draft date, doesn't having a contractual relationship with an NFL team give that team an advantage? Legal question, we could be in a weird situation in the coming years.
August 17th, 2022 at 6:14 PM ^
Maybe the White Sox are the baseball version of Northwestern's marketing:
"The White Sox: Illinois's Team!"
August 17th, 2022 at 10:27 PM ^
The sky is falling NIL stuff is getting a little ridiculous. The team that drafts Cade has his rights for a year regardless of any NIL money he may or may not have received. Unless he’s an undrafted free agent, in which case no one would care, what’s the potential advantage?
August 17th, 2022 at 2:02 PM ^
That's pretty cool that the White Sox - a pro baseball team - is sponsoring college athletes involved in other sports. Not apparent at first glance how they would benefit, other than their support for the local (Illinois) community. Big hat tip for the organization and the individual who first proposed the idea.
August 17th, 2022 at 2:44 PM ^
The benefit for the White Sox would seem to be that they share a city with a baseball team that currently has enormous popularity, but is run by ownership that seems to be actively trying to erode away whatever local goodwill they have and would probably poison the town's water supply if it meant making an extra $5 in profit. Sponsoring local athletes, or really anything short of being an actual Nazi, presents them as a better alternative to the Ricketts family.
August 19th, 2022 at 1:26 AM ^
This is awesome. Just have point out that teams can't sponsor athletes in their own sports (no UM baseball or softball players).