College basketball recruiting: NIL intrigue, EYBL’s best players, highest risers
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Miami coach Jim Larrañaga,..."I think kids are misled so much that they think, oh, I’m going to get a million dollars from this school. And it’s nowhere near that. I don’t know anybody getting that. I read about it, but does that mean it’s correct? I don’t think so.”
So let’s say somebody tells a kid, ‘If you come to our place, you’re going to get $50,000,’ then the agent takes that and goes, ‘Well, this school is going to get me $100,000.’ It’s not true, but the school that might be vying for that young man starts to talk and says, ‘Wow, can our collective handle that kind of salary?’”
One SEC head coach...said he recently met with a recruit who believed another athlete at his school had made seven figures in NIL compensation.
“Not even close,” the coach said. “Those NIL valuation tools and reports that are out there are a complete joke — and they do more harm than good. Nobody knows what is real in NIL.”
“Imagine hosting a kid, taking the time and resources to set up a visit, show the kid around, make your pitch, sit and watch film with the kid, talk to the family about how you’d use him, and then at the end they go, ‘That’s all nice, but it’s going to take $300,000.’”