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Even if he commits don't be surprised if Lane Kiffin finds a spot for him and pulls off a last-minute flip
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Had multiple injuries last year. Got injured in their first scrimmage and missed the opener and then again the 3rd game against Sparty. He did OK in '24 but no one knows how he'll be following the injury. Rhule takes risks on a lot of low $/low demand guys like this, hoping it'll pay off. Green on the other hand is a future draft pick.
Toe
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There's an adage in marketing that says it's a lot cheaper to keep an existing customer than to attract a new one. There might be a bit of an equivalent of that here. If you can get a guy for cheap out high school and keep him around, it'll probably work out cheaper than trying to replace him via the portal.
I am I
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Let’s hope Rhule and N can keep the guys that count and flesh out non-competitors.
Which makes me sad a bit. I know a bunch of us congregate around here because we feel Iike a move or play here and there and we’re back in the top 20.
So it makes me sad that with a 105 man roster and players moving and entering, going here and there, that we won’t hear of another walk-on kid from Nebraska that waited 3yrs til he got his time to make some amazing plays in a big time game for us.
Whatever, man. I miss how it used to be, especially for us. Because we had something really special at N for a long time, where top players became legends and a small town kid from our State helped us win national championships.
I really am sad we can’t have our boys from around here playing with some dudes from around the country and have a great team anymore.
SouthLincoln Husker
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QB specific, but portal news. Saw on X (might have been posted), but seeing one X writer saying Moore got $7.5 million and another that is was $10.5 million....Reposted from HuskGuys on X. Unsure without a deep pocket benefactor, how many schools can compete with this. Hopefully as @Toe said, keep who we recruit and take care of them, we might have the money be competitive.
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caveman99
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If that is true, Oregon is most likely using Nike to give him a sponsorship deal. Oregon is one of 2-5 schools who have the ability to still stretch NIL beyond everyone else because of their relationship to Nike. NIL deals have to go through a clearing house so the days of boosters straight paying players is over, but a few schools have advantages to stretch funds beyond the Rev share cap more so than others.
Trying to make sense of the NIL and Revenue Sharing. NIL is from 3rd parties directly to athletes. Revenue Sharing is from school directly to athletes from ticket sales, jerseys, other revenue strings with the P4 schools having an alleged "cap" of approximately $20.5 million dollars. Per google.
So a Mark Cuban, Phil Knight, Cody Campbell etc....Can pay players directly. Can they, if they chose to, use agents to bring guys to Indy, Oregon, TT etc...directly. ie here is a "$X" million dollar budget, HC X says we need these positions....Then the respective agents reach out to HS and portal players and say here is an offer from "X" to pay you $5 mill........or whatever to come to Indy...So with no salary cap limit for the roster like the NFL, with enough money, you can truly buy your roster.
Then the school, with Revenue Sharing (looking at NU w/out huge donor) can pay the current team members directly from the revenue sharing funds. So developing OL guy, with no NIL cash, can now be paid say $300k directly by NU to stay and develop. During the portal said OL tests the waters and gets a deal for $350k, NU could then offer directly $400k is it chose to in order to keep the recruit and develop?
So a Mark Cuban, Phil Knight, Cody Campbell etc....Can pay players directly. Can they, if they chose to, use agents to bring guys to Indy, Oregon, TT etc...directly. ie here is a "$X" million dollar budget, HC X says we need these positions....Then the respective agents reach out to HS and portal players and say here is an offer from "X" to pay you $5 mill........or whatever to come to Indy...So with no salary cap limit for the roster like the NFL, with enough money, you can truly buy your roster.
Then the school, with Revenue Sharing (looking at NU w/out huge donor) can pay the current team members directly from the revenue sharing funds. So developing OL guy, with no NIL cash, can now be paid say $300k directly by NU to stay and develop. During the portal said OL tests the waters and gets a deal for $350k, NU could then offer directly $400k is it chose to in order to keep the recruit and develop?
Thanks!! Can you answer my post right below your reply as well. Not a whole lot of info concerning how all this now works.
commando
Heisman Trophy Winner
boosters can still pay the players....under the table as it was in the past
caveman99
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Of course, but a 7 figure payday under the table is highly improbable. Tax fraud and a host of other legal issues would be highly prohibitive to that. You can’t wire money undetected and no one is bringing suitcases of $100’s.
caveman99
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Yes and no. The Rev share is a cap that schools have to fund themselves from their revenue sources, which does include donations as has always been the case. Many schools are getting large boosters to donate money to the athletic department to fill their Rev share coffers because they don’t have the net profit to fund $20.5 million on their own.
NIL under the house settlement is supposed to be back to Name, Image, and Likeness deals. NIL is technically not capped and is on top of Rev share, but all NIL deals $600 or greater have to go through the new clearing house. Before the Rev share model went into effect this past summer, NIL turned into boosters directly paying athletes through NIL collectives; 1890 did this for NU, they fundraised to pay Husker athletes. Now NIL deals have to have a legitimate deals for athletes. Schools are allowed to now pay the NIL deals and those funds are still separate from the Rev share dollars, however it can’t just be a straight cash payment without some sort of service or value being offered by the athlete in return. Schools are doing this by leveraging their apparel and media rights contracts, they get those companies to agree to sign their athletes as brand reps and then they can is those athletes a NIL deal on top of the Rev share dollars. The issue there is that the school also needs to fund their Rev share commitment and using part of their merch or other sources of income hinders their ability to do that, that is where soliciting funds from big time donors directly to the athletic department comes in. The key is that they can’t go above the Rev share cap on that end.
What will separate a handful of schools is their ability to get a larger source of NIL deals, this is where Oregon sits. Because of Phil Knight’s relationship with them, Nike will give more OR players NIL deals and larger NIL deals than they will for other schools. Nike is still in the business of making money after all. There are only a handful of schools with those kinds of pockets.
Seems like you can't "pay to play", but can for direct services. Phil Knight and Nike as you mentioned. I guess the "issue" is defining a service. Not like Rhett Bomar's "no show" car dealership gig....
caveman99
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That is where the clearing house run by Deloitte comes in. The initial reports from a story Mav posted previously, can’t find it now sorry, was that only 25% of deals or so were rejected, but those were high dollar deals. That would indicate that some of the prior practice deals of direct pay-for-play outside Rev share are getting denied. Couple that with the reports from the story Mav posted yesterday about schools already starting to complain that the current Rev share cap is way too low, they want a $50 million cap. It seems to point to the system normalizing a bit, are there ways to extend the cap and will large deals still happen? the answer is yes of course. The days of overpaying a groups of 30 players from the portal seem to be dead IMO though. That all being said, the courts could say otherwise and all hell breaks loose again.