Donate to Houston basketball NIL now! TheLinkU, just $35 per month. Put your money where your mouth is!
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This is the football thread…
Who is running this…? I though Sunshine had the official NIL group Linking Coogs…?
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Clink on an unknown link and send $420 per year?
Yeah…. Right…
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Mods, please Close / Delete this thread…
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The link is legitimate. I’m not necessarily endorsing them but it’s not fake.
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With revenue sharing, UH should seek donations directly from average fans vs the NIL collective approach. They could communicate how it works more clearly too. NIL collectives makes sense if they are chasing down deals and then get a cut. Doesn’t make sense when fans go to a link and send money. What is the collective doing that UH can’t? Never hear what happens to that money too.
I don’t care for the way it’s set up, either, but The Link U does this for some other high-profile programs. Their focus is on reaching out beyond the fans who are already giving money to get corporate sponsorships and donations, which is the only way this is going to work at the necessary scale.
But I agree that they need to make it easier for fans to give by collaborating with Cougar Pride in some manner. How many UH fans even know what The Link U is?
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That is the link to LinkU the parent company of LinkinCoogs, I will say I have been a donor at the $35 level since the inception and will tell you besides the 10% off in the shop, used to be 15% you get NOTHING, I have never seen the newsletter, the web portal is literally a video or two, some press releases, a list of athletes and that is it. They used to promise exclusive events, but they literally never did one. Right now in the What’s New section is a Day in the life with Donovan Smith. I still give them my money, but don’t expect anything in return.
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Yeah, it’s pretty lame, and that lack of engagement is holding them back, imo.
I used to do similar and made one off donations on top of it but stopped for those reasons. I’m not mad at Linking Coogs though. They seem to do fine getting actual NIL deals for athletes. Just saying things have evolved and NIL collective model doesn’t make sense for simply collecting money from donors small and large. We can give directly to UH (CP like Coogman91 said) and they can get it to players through rev share. Which, btw, the cap grows 4% this year.
I’m actually not sure if CP is able to distribute revenue like that. I was under the impression that CP went to scholarships, facilities and other AD expenses, but that revenue share distributions (from media deals) didn’t flow through like that.
Cougar Pride and 50/50 do not go for the NIL nor the revenue share …UH create the “AD excellence fund” This is where you should go if you want to donate to NIL …donations to Cougar Pride and 50/50 are fine but they go to direct expenses not player NIL money
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I’m no expert in non profits but believe contributions are part of revenue for college athletics. However UH can handle collecting and distributing $ through rev share. I believe would be beneficial to donors, UH and players compared to the collective route.
At the beginning of the football season, before the SFA game, a link was set-up on UHCougars.com so you could pledge a specific amount to donate to UH (I’m guessing Cougar Pride) for each win and other parts of our football games during the season (i.e. TD, turnovers, FG’s, etc.) I never received a bill asking for the pledge or showing an automated payment.
Did they kill that idea?
What the hell lol
Once revenue share came in there was no need to create dummy sites to pay players since it was legitimately legal
I always hear Houston has all these major businesses run by Coogs. I don’t dispute it but where is their major infusion that keeps us moving forward? Maybe they are doing things but if we’re “poor” there seems to be a disconnect with that sector of booster-businesses. Not saying its easy using advertising money on college sports, but with our small season-ticket holder segment it seems we’re missing that corporate contribution.
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It is legal. Revenue sharing didn’t create a spending cap.
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This is where I contribute
