It would be interested to compare Duke’s nil vs UConn.
This is this year’s top ten:
Arizona follows at 11
Some articles mention UConn at around $7M’s.
Arizona follows at 11
Some articles mention UConn at around $7M’s.
None of The Final Four on this List.
Ahem. Michigan is at #8, and they are playing for the title tonight.
But yeah, NIL doesn’t guarantee success. See Kentucky. And UConn’s NIL is lower than ours.
Anyway, one guy over on the football board was saying that we had $10 million in basketball NIL.
Uh, no.
$8.5 million.
Not a small amount by any means, but definitely not elite either. And in football, unless things have really changed in the last 1.5 years or so (no one has found me data to that effect), we are definitely on the low end of the P4 in NIL.
Missed Michigan. Oops!
So 25% of Final Four has a Top 10 NIL program.
Obviously big bucks do not guarantee success.
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Indeed.
I remember a few years back, aTm used its NIL super-power to sign the top rated recruiting class in history.
Didn’t produce a championship!
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The same is true for football. Exceptional coaching is the decisive factor. NIL helps but it does not define the outcome.
Hurley is an exceptional HC.
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Pete Naikos from on3 said that UH will be very active in the portal and commit over $10 million in NIL next season to rebuild this roster after failing to advance past the sweet 16.
I don’t put much stock in YouTubers and On3.
I hope that is true, but I gotta hear it from a better source.
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Pete Naikos is a credible national reporter, he’s one of the most trusted college sports insider there is.
Everyone is on YouTube now, all the big national reporters/insiders even ESPN/the Athletic.
Joprior23 our insider on the board even mentions that this season we’re going to go as big as we have in the transfer market…
