Five Star suddenly decommits from tOSU

Baseman said:

GreenRiverGatorz said:

These dipshits are still unironically demanding that we respect their decision. Fuck them kids.

Should read: Respect my decision unless you're willing to top the highest bid.

Still early in the NIL game. The kids are still feeling their way through it and will adapt.

get ready for some NIL examples we could see in future:

1) A local business situated near campus in alabama offers conditional NIL. You get this NIL contract only if you commit and sign to Alabama

2) Nike offer conditional NIL to OU recruit. You get 1 million in NIL only if commit to Oregon. No other university will qualify even if that school wears nike gear

3) 1 week before orange bowl. No-name placekicker from team ABC gets offered NIL by company residing in same state as opponent XYZ. To get 500K in exchange for skipping practice and/or bowl game and performing NIL photo shoot/videos.

4) package deal, 5 recruits will receive NIL if they all sign together (all or none), turns out the NIL money routes back to university boosters

5) state sponsored NIL deals - some states realize (or already know) how dependent they are on college sports revenue and begin offering NIL deals to recruits directly/indirectly for attending universities in their states

lvd said:

Baseman said:

GreenRiverGatorz said:

These dipshits are still unironically demanding that we respect their decision. Fuck them kids.

Should read: Respect my decision unless you're willing to top the highest bid.

Still early in the NIL game. The kids are still feeling their way through it and will adapt.

get ready for some NIL examples we could see in future:

1) A local business situated near campus in alabama offers conditional NIL. You get this NIL contract only if you commit and sign to Alabama

2) Nike offer conditional NIL to OU recruit. You get 1 million in NIL only if commit to Oregon. No other university will qualify even if that school wears nike gear

3) 1 week before orange bowl. No-name placekicker from team ABC gets offered NIL by company residing in same state as opponent XYZ. To get 500K in exchange for skipping practice and/or bowl game and performing NIL photo shoot/videos.

4) package deal, 5 recruits will receive NIL if they all sign together (all or none), turns out the NIL money routes back to university boosters

5) state sponsored NIL deals - some states realize (or already know) how dependent they are on college sports revenue and begin offering NIL deals to recruits directly/indirectly for attending universities in their states

Some of these are pretty outlandish, but the big point here is that the NCAA literally has no guardrails at this point in time. The truly wild schemes are still in beta, but they're coming.

I'm sure Jen and Jimmy, the duo that got thwarted by the Pac-12's feckless covid protocols, are hard at work cooking up their own schemes and we'll be playing with the big boys in no time!

this is craziness ... but it's here to stay and everything will sort itself out (eventually)