Not us specifically. Just the new scope of college basketball.
Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread
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Recent podcast talks about scandal in more detail. Halfway through now, pretty good.Crazy times seeing this all in the open. At least the honest schools can compete now. Hard to be sympathetic to head coaches making +4M per year and assistants making $500k-$1M. If they don't like doing this there are 100 people waiting in line to take their job.
Used to be just Addidas and Nike bag men paying of recruits to go to Kansas, Arizona, Duke, Louisville Miami, Kentucky etc....
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After all of the build up.....same.
skyIdub
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I mean, if you really think this kind of money wasn't floating around behind the curtains before NIL, then I have a sweet deal on a beach house for you.
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Noblesville Illini
- Nappanee, IN
Joe Flacco?
You're a little off on Josh Hamilton. It was the Cincinnati Reds that gave him his second chance in 2007. Played a little over half the year with them then took big money to go to Texas, where he took off.
And no, Illinois won't and shouldn't give Curbelo another chance. His "second chance" was with St. John's, and he blew it. Let him play down a level to see if he can reboot his career there. We shouldn't want anything to do with him if we're seriously trying to build a better culture.
Um, I’m not a CFP, nor did I stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night, but I think it might depend on the investment.
Good answer, probably doesn’t if you plan on retiring after 4 years of college; should easily if you get ave. stock returns and don’t touch it until you hit retirement 30+ years down the road
It depends. If a player were to earn say 500k- 1mil in NIL money, invested it in an S&P index fund, graduated and went to work, lived within their means, etc., then yeah come retirement time that money would be a really, really nice chunk of change. But there's a lot of ifs there. That could be life-changing money if you don't act like it's life-changing money. But I imagine for most student athletes that's not the way things play out, for a variety of reasons.
I'm also curious if that's a realistic total. Can anybody in the know shed some light on what the range of money these NIL deals can be?
lstewart53x3
- Scottsdale, Arizona
Depends on the type of lifestyle you’d want to live. To live reasonably comfortably for ~60 years, you’d probably need to make $5m-$10m. That seems to be pretty rare for college athletes today, but in the next 5-10 years, definitely doable.
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I would bet that more money is exchanging hands now than ever. The NCAA used to (haphazardly) levy penalties to (non-blueblood) schools that paid or allowed payment to players. Now, there is literally no risk. Surely, that's attracted more dollars.
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RichardKeenesCousin
Richard Keene's Cousin
not sure what everyone else gets, but the Guardians pay me 100k to be a fan each year.
RichardKeenesCousin
Richard Keene's Cousin
Bitcoin. Let's use Bitcoin as the example.
Most definitely, I would also like to see to value of the education considered. Both the immediate quantified value of the scholarship and the long term, after basketball value.
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That's due to your cousin.
skyIdub
Winged Warrior
Actual cash....probably. But when you add up the $$$ value of the jobs/favors/merch handed out to "family" and handlers.....I bet it gets close.
The difference now is that the majority of it goes to the kids instead of all of the ancillary figures around them.
Yeah, despite my gripes with the current system, this is a good thing.
texillwek
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Wait - have you been in my house?
Spot on. Having this be above board is a good thing for teams like Illinois. Finally the money is going where it should have been.
The clean and pure world of college basketball before NIL was a fantasy that people chose to believe. If having that veil removed displeases you and reduces your viewing pleasure then you will have to adjust to what you want out cbb.
I would gladly take half a million dollars to never go to Louisville again.
skyIdub
Winged Warrior
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