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NIL 101… I have questions

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  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter

    Caples article is paywalled, maybe it's in the wigwam? I'll summarize for the pours.


    • One of the advisers, and a guy that met with Fisch on day 1 is the COO of Deloitte. Deloitte is one of the 4 largest accounting firms in the WORLD. He's easily worth multiple hundreds of millions and he played basketball at UW.
    • The Executive Director of Montlake futures has been in regular contact with Fisch every day since he started.That seems legit, and the fact that it's been said publicly to a reporter is, I think, a big deal.
    • THey talk openly about our NIL packages being top heavy last year to keep Penix, Rome and others. Basically said that NIL is the reason for our title run.
    • Talked about how it used to be just big dollar donors, and the older generation being skeptical, but WINNING attracts more donors and they are started to see the funds increase quite a lot. Small dollars, big dollars, young and old. It all matters.
    It seems like there has been a shift somewhere, maybe the Board or our commie football president? When NIL first started jen cohen was obsessive about us, "doing it the right way," but then she and KDB constantly complained about the limitations they had. It seems like she had orders from above about how we were going to engage. Now we have Montlake Futures talking openly about NIL packages given to players and starting to offer small dollar subscriptions to fund things?

    Something changed, and it changed for the better. When you have Arizona, and even Ohio State talking about UW's NIL packages being tough to compete with, I think it's a good sign. Obviously Penix was a superstar, but he is a great example of what could be for a young QB. Penix had Bose, Adidas, Amazon, Alaska Airlines, plus whatever other small deals. That's a freakin' huge list of marketing deals for a college player.
    TIL, Deloitte's COO is based in Seattle.
  • LawDawg1
    LawDawg1 Member Posts: 3,946

    What a dumb fucking system. It would make so much more sense to have the schools handle it themselves, that way they can ensure everything is above board.

    I’ve heard that MF will eventually fall under the umbrella of the school/AD. No idea when that’ll happen.
    I feel like it has to, and I really don’t understand why it wasn’t done that way from the beginning. Probably the NCAA stupidly trying to keep the schools’ hands looking clean. If you’re going to allow this, there has to be institutional oversight, otherwise we’re back to shady under the table shit like before. The NCAA can’t do anything without fucking it up, as always.
    . Just have your football team identify as women, then you can cut all the money sucking sports you want and spend the money on football.
    Stop plagiarizing my shit fucko.