Dani Wohl and Ashtyn Bell were also playing. It was 1-2 walkons on the court at a time for the nearly 2/3 of the season Horton missed.
05-06 was definitely his best team IMO, with Horton and Abram as seniors and a lot of good juniors. It spent time in the top 25 IIRC. That collapse at the end of the season was brutal. TA’s teams could never seem to get over the hump and win the one game that would seal the deal.
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Nice comments by few until he said he wants fair market value and no cap but wants recruiting restrictions. Sorry but that just isn’t possible, if you want fair market value it’s going have to opened up. If a booster wants to pay a kid a mil to go to their school, they should be able to. That’s using free market principles.
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I don’t follow his logic that without recruiting restrictions, NIL would destroy nonrevs. They seem like completely unrelated points, almost opposite points if anything.
The whole appeal of a fully free-market version of NIL from the nonrev perspective is that the athletes will be able to profit from any source, not just the high-vis marketing channels. A water polo player is not going to sell his game-worn goggles for the same price as a pair of Kobe Bufkin’s Jordans, but he can run training camps or coaching clinics or monetize his water polo YouTube channel or even just have a completely unrelated stream like Nuñez and his TikTok.
What does that have to do with Few’s high-major recruiting? He doesn’t want enticements? I can see a slippery-slope argument there but not in the context of preserving nonrevs. They’re not coming from the ADs themselves, they’re not siphoning from nonrev budgets. I don’t understand what connection he is trying to make.
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Agree, basically why will happen in my opinion is non revenue sports will stop getting the glitzy facilities and coaching salaries will stagnate.
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I don’t agree with the logic, but their argument is that money that currently goes into athletic dept donations will be shifted to directly paying players NIL.
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My understanding re: non-rev goes like this: whether or not non-rev sports go in a different direction post-NIL is a function of whether or not schools continue to subsidize them like they do at present. So far it doesn’t sound like “schools should pay their kids market price salaries” bc NIL is seen as sufficient to get there. Which means schools will continue to capture 100% of gates, TV contracts, etc. Which means schools will continue to have significant revenues they can use to subsidize non-rev sports.
That’s all pretty contingent and if any bit of it is wrong, I could see it breaking down and non-rev sports going away. But it all flows from the revenues of football & basketball from what I can tell.
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We’re talking about what Amaker started with, not the mess he turned it into 3 years later.
Chet Holmgren named HS Gatorade POY. Congrats!
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I think this is right, and the mechanism is broader than just diminished donations but also diminished top-line AD revenues. For example, Nike doesn’t sponsor a University, but only selected athletes, at one scale, or as people buy fewer “AD”-sponsored jerseys and buy the kid’s shirt straight from IG, at a smaller scale.
However, I think you can easily dispute that argument by saying that the players directly marketing themselves are going to significantly increase quantity and quality of marketing in college sports as a whole. And so yes, AD will give up some of the pie, but the pie will grow.
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I take your broader point, and probably agree with it, but just to note, athletes can’t use university trademarks in their own NIL use, so the specific example of kids selling their own shirts cutting into jersey sales, I don’t really see. In fact, if they can figure out how to share the revenue so that we can get current player numbers/names, that particular pie will only grow for both sides.
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Yeah, sorry, I wasn’t clear, I was thinking correctly but didn’t bother to type it. You’re right, the kids’ shirt will not be jersey. It will just be some “merch”. (God, I remember when my son bought some Jake Paul stuff.) I imagine the athletes stuff generally will be cooler than the AD’s, notwitsthanding my son’s stupid purchase (in his defense, I think he was 12 at the time)!
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I take it there’s no way Michigan can get involved with this??
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Michigan is already in an MTE in Vegas so wouldn’t be available.
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Tommy Amaker is the Brady Hoke of basketball coaches
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Doesn’t his tweet make it sound like they’re already in a MTE?
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Michigan has a pretty stacked schedule already. Not sure we need to be going to California for a non conference game
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They both left their original MTEs because they were no longer going to be played at MSG.
Did they switch sites in order to avoid making it a MTE?
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I would assume because of covid restrictions on attendance, it would still count as MTE anywhere
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