(05-12-2022 02:47 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  I am not convinced that Joe Booster putting $100,000 in the Enormous State University athletic department and now throwing $50,000 into the NIL collective is going to maintain this new $150,000 expenditure. I suspect the total outlay will begin to drift downward back closer to $100,000

What I am convinced of is that right now NIL is like a post-Prohibition beer bust. Per capita consumption isn’t going to maintain first day numbers.

If you are a Bama fan and putting $50,000 toward a locker in the locker room or being a small part of paying Saban’s salary makes you feel good. Putting up a four year $50,000 per year commitment on a kid who would/should transfer to Middle Tennessee State except he wants the money promised him isn’t going to feel so rewarding.

Publicly traded companies that aren’t Nike and Adidas betting on future first rounder all-stars are going to be questioned about their use of advertising and promotion money on players who have a near zero NIL value in an arm’s length transaction.

Big money will still be there but the frenzy will settle down and AD’s making budgets will be doing the complaining and they’ll be doing that behind closed doors.

We haven’t yet hit overvalue yet. 800k for one of the best pgs in the country is very cheap.

It’s not going way. It’s by far the most important input. If boosters give to the university, it will find a way to the players. With Johnson vs NCAA, it likely is just given to the players

These boosters spend big on coaching salaries in large part because of recruiting implications. Heck, they spend big just to make coaches go away!

This is just another operating cost but with bigger ROI. It will be the first to get paid