SNIP: ‘With the addition of 10 football players out of the transfer portal and probably one or two more on the way, the budget for next season’s Texas roster has grown as well. It currently sits somewhere “between $35 million and $40 million”’
and I thought TTech was spending a lot…
What I continue to be confused on - will the House v. NCAA establish an ‘NIL’ salary cap for universities or not?
Without some sort of ‘salary cap’ the NIL spend will continue to go crazy - and ultimately we will have a had full of programs that dominate w/ the remainder having no prayer (even w/ expanded playoff) [at least in football]. This is not good for the over-all interest in the sport - even the pro-leagues have realized you cannot have the same 4 teams always winning everything (due to their ability to outspend) … it eventually makes it boring and predictable …
The story implies “Yes, but…”
SNIP: “the school plans to phase out its collective (after this year) in favor of the revenue-sharing via the House settlement and (NIL) payouts through corporations”
Once NIL came in I knew UT would be a top 10 team every year both in rankings and $ spent. They have way too much $ to be denied. Life isn’t fair.
still doesn’t mean they will win.
Acquiring the best talent was never the issue with the Horns.
They’ve been able to land top 5 recruiting classes forever yet they have one more National Championship, than us, in the last 55 years.
No, but it sure does help their chances
No. It won’t. Until they have an antitrust exemption nothing will change.
The moment the Deloitte clearinghouse attempts to quash an NIL deal they’ll (Deloitte and the NCAA) get sued into oblivion, and the NCAA will lose just like they’ve lost every other attempt at artificially capping the athletes’ ability to earn money.
The NCAA and the Universities love this.
Fans pay for the players…not the schools directly and even if the schools start paying, it will be smaller base payments with the NIL still the main income.
This is like tipping…Restaurants actually found a way to decrease what they were paying their own employees while passing on the majority of the cost to the customers!
At some point fans donating to NIL will be disappointed and not contribute anymore if the player doesn’t live up to the hype or the team loses consistently.
Yeah but it isn’t the same. Before yes they got plenty of blue chip HS recruits but admittedly some were given an extra star because they committed to UT. Many examples of this in past years. Plus you don’t really know what will happen when a HS player goes to a major college football conference. Big risk of players not working out due to the difference in competition and the life change of an 18 year old leaving home to go to college.
Now, a big part of their model is to just buy college players that have already performed elsewhere. Their risk of failure on the field is much lower now since they are hand selecting college proven talent in many cases. It isn’t the same as before. UT is even more advantaged under the new ‘system’.
The 40 mil of UT Is also counting the 20 mil any p4 can do like us so they are spending 20 more. We are prob spending more than the 20 mil cap also. It’s basically 20 mil per the rev sharing settlement then whatever nil your doing.
Also keep in mind UT always recruited a top 10 type team and barely won and now they have to pay millions for the same result.
I’d say this whole settlement actually helps the teams like UH that could never cheat nor pay without the ncaa hammering us. Bama Ohio st etc always got top talent now they pay millions for it with the same result. For us and some others , it’s a chance to move up or separate from g5 for sure.
It’s going to be tough for UT to keep a deep roster and it’s why Sabin left.
UT will generally be good but everyone can now buy like smu and not get hammered by the ncaa. UT and Bama and sec etc always paid but we never could without penalties so it helps us a lot so the sky isn’t falling.
yes, the talent is now distributed.
NIL doesn’t create more 5 stars out of thin air, it just prevents the old model where a Texas or an Alabama or a Ohio State could stockpile 4-5 stars, 3 deep, at every position with the hopes they will start to 2 years.
Those days are over except in rare cases. Arch Manning is a rare case but no way a 5 star LB sits the bench in year one, at Alabama, as they had in the past.
These 5 stars will look for a new home, with NIL $$, to start thus hurting the depth of most squads.
NIL actually distributes talent…
3 of the top 6 picks, in this recent NFL draft, were not P2 players
#1 Cam Ward was from the ACC
#2 Travis Hunter was from the Big 12
#6 Ashton Jeantry was from the MWC
and that is in the NIL era
Perhaps…
But Cam Ward was a QB, a position for which there are less open spots available because some teams were either set at that position (ex. UT) or not willing/able to outbid other suitors at the time he entered the portal. Miami, although not part of the P2, has proven that they can $pend big for players via NIL.
Travis Hunter was only in the Big 12 because of Deion. Its likely he would’ve been somewhere better (likely P2), had it not been for the magnitude of Deion’s influence & star power.
Ashton Jeanty is an anomly here imo because he chose to remain loyal to Boise State, whereas many players in his position likely would’ve transferred to the P4 level & taken higher NIL.
Not to mention having a really good coach
How and why would you cap a private agreement between two parties? If I want to pay someone a bajillion dollars for their name, image and likeness, why can’t I? What I expect in return is up to me and the other partty. There is no nil or endorsement cap in anything else, anywhere, ever, in American sports. So why here?
Also, why are some of y’all so adamant that there is a cap on endorsements?
Here’s where we are at. @BYUcougarfan
What is new? That is what they have been doing all along. Except now it is for all to see.
Now ask yourself this question:
If uta was such a destination why would it cost uta $35-40M’s. If this was such a great program players would come without asking for any money. They would come for the uta grandeur Now you know that same uta grandeur does not exist.
College football is absolutely wild right now. That’s an average of like $450,000 per player. There is no way this is sustainable.All the NCAA settlement did is add $15-20 million per school on top of what they were already paying.
It changes the entire structure of the campus.
Students are no longer supporting people like them playing a sport.
These are professional athletes on
campus and they are the elite group.
Making more money then everyone except the highest administrators and perhaps even more them.
How long is this money going to last. Too many schools. Too much money. Too many student athletes.
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