Who is the first official MGoBlog Message Board representative?
Now that NIL rights are officially approved and there seems to be no rules - what does the board think about having an official representative of MGoBlog Message Board for each major sport? We can crowdsource some funds - let's say $25k per athlete and pick one player and/or recruit per sport.
Perhaps this can be a done with MGoBlog or we can do a separate deal. What would we ask them to do? Perhaps a mailbag each week where they answer 10 questions about practice / game / life? Or they participate on a podcast with Brian and Seth? Possibilities are endless.
Who should be the first reps for football and basketball? Blake Corum and Hunter Dickinson? Or do we go with recruits like Walter Nolan and Will Johnson?
Recruits, all the way. We should absolutely pay some via MGoBlog.
The universities that best pool resources and funnel them through sponsorship deals will prosper most.
Also - how long until we see a recruit sign an exclusive deal with a media company to cover recruitment? This cycle?
If I ran a media company, it would be tomorrow by 11 am. But seriously, the question will be what the universities do help put some framework around all of this.
I hope that Michigan is already putting together networking channels to plug in M alums with recruits and current players (remember the transfer portal!).
I am a partner in a boutique wealth management company and I would love set up some sort of program to work with athletes who are interested in a career in asset management.
Same. Athletes traditionally have the right mindset for this career, and I've tried bringing some on board in the past. Would be great to be part of an organized program.
Happening soon. Since about 2004 I've called the recruiting services as bad or worse than The NCAA itself. A gross business that gives nothing at all of value to kids for their time and privacy.
If I'm a recruit I become a free agent tomorrow in every way. Recruiting sites can ignore me or pay me for my time/story. Schools can start telling me what they have planned for me (most already have, let's be real).
This changes pretty much everything. If you ever wanted to know if Michigan still cared about football, this is it. This is the test. No bigger, more obvious and beneficial to Michigan test of that question could be administered.
Money? You want my money?
If anyone wants to be paid in weed hit me up
How good is it...
Only top shelf my man
I think your Bitcoin might have more broad appeal
Ive decided Ill allow you to sponsor me.
Your first mission is to smoke a half ounce and spend the next 4 hours watching broad city reruns
I bought a quarter ounce in 1999 and it lasted me till 2008. I bought another quarter in 2009 and I ran out just before COVID....
It takes surprisingly little to feel it for 2-4 hours if you don't smoke often.
My roommates in college would smoke a quarter in a couple of days.
I used to be able to run through an ounce in a weekend in high school. Now, with 30% crazy hybrids I'm feeling great after 3-4 hits. Weed has come a long way since the early aughts. Does schwag even exist anymore?
Pay me!
Funny moments in advertising on my screen here:
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25k? My man, you do not know the power of the Michigan Alumni network. We could easily get $1mm from just a single sponsor if that led to 5 star recruits coming on board.
Great - how about we put you in charge of fundraising? Well that would be great - who is going to organize this?
Hmmm… given the fact that I’m in jail right now for running a ponzi scheme that fleeced my UHNWI friends out of millions of dollars, I may not be the best candidate for this. But! It does prove that people are willing to pay millions of dollars to just about anybody these days.
I'm pretty sure we can raise that much just for slippery rock's recruiting
Seriously think BIG!!! Close and surpass the spending gap with the SEC.
So you're saying to scale the Charity Bowl but for recruits?!
Yes. Fire the money cannon!
I would prefer the player representative ask questions of the message board members who called them trash in the game thread.
This! Would make game threads so much more reasonable. . .
And we could fly or tape the convos. Like phone calls or even in person between the athlete and the ass holes.
That would be a killer TV show ?
GO FUND ME PAGE! MGO FUND ME. Start paying the big bucks to get the 5 stars to play here. It will work.
If only this had happened a heat ago it would have been Chet ?
Why can’t we start with Jalen Duran? Bring us all the 5-stars
I'm not wasting money on anything football related until I see competent direction and corresponding results. Count me in though on any Basketball recruit that wants to come here, I will gladly open my wallet.
What about baseball and hockey?
I choose not get into about a whattaboutism debate, but if we had an annual chance at the CWS or Frozen Four, you bet I'm in! We have no chance of even winning one side of the B1G football division we are in which is really my point.
So you're a front runner that only supports front running programs. Guess you donated large to the women's gymnastics team, eh?
How do we go from “name, image, and likeness,” to, “What would we ask them to do?”
It seems to me that one’s NIL is used in a video game, to sell jerseys or other memorabilia with their autographs, or other advertising. The quickest way to MGoMonetization is having the blog sell autographed copies of HTTV. Speaking of which…
They have suspended amateur requirements - there are literally no rules right now.
That being said, having the athlete on the podcast, even if he/she is answering questions, would be a form of advertising.
Can we pay them in MGoBlog points?
The only problem with this is that the points really are only good on getting small but respectable discounts on dry cleaning on One Hour Martinizing, and then only on Thursdays between 11 AM and 2 PM, and then only at the location in Allen Park, Michigan.
stevenking or whatever his name is could sponsor a starting O line.
We could start with paying the entire football team to take a picture for our banner.
And if they want Pitbull in the photo we can get him too.
The mere mention of Pitbull has me singing in my head, "yeah, yeah, yeah, yada yada yada, don't stop the party"... thanks
The first interview should be with Tacopants to figure out how in the hell he’s had so many years of eligibility.
I hope Maizen has a trust fund
Mr. Nolen, what's your venmo!?
On it.
i've seen people put their money in the freezer. is this the best choice if you don't have a safe? probably huh.
my ice maker recently started sucking balls. goddammit.
My stepfather always kept his gun and cash in the freezer. I didn't particularly like him, so I never asked why.
Just have to make sure to use a different freezer for the bodies.
With the new rules the Bagman will walk out in the open.