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Deboer and NIL
MelloDawg
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One of the most eyebrow raising moments was when Deboer was candid in his comments of UW's progress with NIL while Cohen was here months back. He never sounded impressed, suggested there was work to be done, etc. The University of Washington didn't all of a sudden start wanting to give a shit about football. What evidence exists that UW started caring about football enough to try and motivate an NIL collective, inspiring people to want to fork over millions of dollars to the program? Their first effort was Karen Ramming and look how that went. And then, why did Cohen leave for USC? Same reason.
This should surprise no one, certainly doesn't surprise me.
This should surprise no one, certainly doesn't surprise me.
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From my cynical vantage point UW does care about football and winning, I believe they offered DeBoer what they felt was appropriate with his experience, but the unknown was recruiting and was he worth that kind of money over that many years? How often do those massive contracts pan out?
someall of my money.@messageboardgenius
I've always wondered what the State Police were protecting Saban from.
At least he’ll be rich, so there’s that.
You run the numbers on NIL versus reported payments to players and it never makes much sense. Lots of crowing about how Bama signed up 1,000 people to its monthly NIL in the last week. But that thousand pledges is maybe an extra $25k per month. That’s like… 2% the annual total some of the biggest collectives reportedly have as a budget.
So you’re left with this relying in a very outsized way on a few boosters that likely get tired of carrying the load once the novelty wears off (unless we get Bill Gates - faggy wink).
Which of course makes the Cougar bake sale to raise $2,000 to but 20 student athletes annual Peacock subscriptions even funnier.
Dannen seems to “get it” and I bet we see some stuff like tying NIL donations to Tyee - making people feel like they’re getting something back for this. And sounds like some of the local businesses actually did have decent pull last offseason.
But at the end of the day - keeping up short term sounds like it’s giving your best 5 to 10 boosters a better hand job. Clearly it’s improving with Dannen, which is funny since all you ever heard about Cohen is “how good” she was with boosters.