It wasn't to long ago that if you donated like 2 milliion to Iowa State they would name a building or garden or something after your family. Now 5 million buys a 3rd year point guard with upside. At some point a salary cap is gonna have to take place and when that happens the SEC and a few big ten teams will spring out in the lead because we all know they won't play by the rules, they never have.
Donovan Davis announced on May 6th that he committed to the Cyclones!!!
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It wasn't to long ago that if you donated like 2 milliion to Iowa State they would name a building or garden or something after your family. Now 5 million buys a 3rd year point guard with upside. At some point a salary cap is gonna have to take place and when that happens the SEC and a few big ten teams will spring out in the lead because we all know they won't play by the rules, they never have.
$5 million would get you an elite pg
A salary cap isn’t possible without CBA and employment imo
You'll note that the total dollar figure I came to was north of $10m. Individual mileage will vary; maybe we are paying Davis more than other freshmen. Maybe we have a flatter salary structure than I'm assuming. But if we are paying freshman $800k in a typical salary structure where returning and incoming college production is valued much more than freshmen potential, we are blowing past $10m. And maybe we are, I don't know. But I do know the numbers we see tend to be exaggerated because agents have incentive to exaggerate and rumor mills tend to. Schools have no incentive to leak what they actually pay. So while there is inflation happening every year, you can basically count on every number you see for individual players being higher than reality.
Can you get naming rights to that 3rd year point guard with upside?
That would be dope during the starting line ups. Brought to you by Denny Albaugh, starting at guard, Killyan Toure.
At $10 million roster, $800k for a starter level player is great deal. That doesn’t represent Louisville type money, as you said. Inflation means starter level in portal is twice that
Maybe he’s ends up not being starter level as a freshman, that’s the risk that’s priced in at $800k. As long as he’s good backup, it represents acceptable overpay, given a good backup on transfer market can be $400k+.
It is money ball, taking advantage of the market swinging too far to valuing transfers, making 4-star high school relative values.
We need multi-million sure bets, usually returning guys. Some around $800k for top high school guys or returning players with great upside. Similar to that group are transfers that are discounted because they’re mostly defense or flawed offense, but proven at certain things. Next are lower cost freshman. And then the Mitchell and Mulder types that are at market floor
Next year seems more horizontal. A lot of lower or middle tier salaries. Still a good EV, but maybe not as high because it’s better to be top heavy imo
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Keep in mind that Pollard allocated $5 million in revenue sharing to the men's basketball team. I have no idea how TJ distributes that $5 million among his players, but if he distributed it evenly among all 13 players, that would equate to almost $400k per player. Any NIL money would be in addition to this revenue share money.
Read an article from Alec Busse saying Donovan Davis is already recruiting Babou Ann to Ames! One positive to getting two top 50 recruits on board early.
Correct. Need to deal with Anti-trust, collective bargaining, and ultimately, employment related issues like IPERS, workers' compensation, etc. Until then, it is the wild west.
They’ll need both imo, but maybe if CBA are conference specific, they can get past antitrust.
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I didn't listen either. We are somewhat forced to watch Hurley and UConn during the year, especially late. I'm not forced to listen to Hurley here. He may be a good coach, but also is an entitled complainer.
These are big numbers when you consider the amount of profit ISU MBB generates. Last year there was a net profit of $8.2 million. NIL is outside the business numbers. 15 million dollars would be 100% of the total revenue generated. Seems like the players are getting more than their "fair share" of the business.
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Better to compare to revenue. The pro CBAs don’t split up profits, for example
players are 1st or 2nd most important input, and thus should be getting a huge portion of revenue. Revenues didn’t need to be high and other costs kept low when salary cap was zero.
Badger fans are convinced ISU only got Davis because ISU offered a lot more money. Doesn't Wisconsin get like $30 million more than us per year?
I actually believe we offered him more. But that’s not our problem. The Wisconsin AD keeps wasting their money giving it to Luke Fickell instead of supporting basketball
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