That remains to be seen. Our media department puts together some great videos. If they were smart they would use that to start helping our top players build social media brands to help them build audiences and secure sponsorships. They made Haydels catch into a meme. That's worth a commercial somewhere.That helps the rich get richer. Not going to be much a factor for us poors.
If a player already has a platform, like being a YouTube chef or TikTok creator, co-promotion to add followers would absolutely help the athlete monetize what they already have. But as a competitive recruiting advantage? Nah. Not going to happen.helping our top players build social media brands to help them build audiences
Today's SCOTUS decision ripped the top right off that box. We're about to see a seismic shift in how college sports operates, and it will not be good for smaller schools, non-rev sports or those who believe in the current way college athletics operates. My doomsday guess is within 10yrs, the vast majority of college sports look more like current club sports vs varsity, and there is no D2 or D3, with D1 only supporting the current P5-ish level of football and men's basketball.This is opening Pandora's Box into paying athletes to come to your school.
Our spend as an overall AD is 5th out of 10 football playing schools in the conference.We do have slightly deeper pockets than the majority of the SBC
We're at 29/53 [public] G5 teams; 12/35 if only including SBC/MAC/CUSA.(and the majority of the MAC and CUSA for that matter)
It's possible that the pecking order is already established and will remain stable, and the haves/have nots will stay right where they are. W/L is not really where I see this all breaking down. I don't see 2 completely different models being able to coexist, and we already see that in the differences between divisions. The more power is concentrated at the top of any ecosystem, the less stable the whole system becomes - you should have learned that in college, and if you have any awareness, you should be seeing that in society today. Ideas like the NCAA being fractured and the P5 splitting off were once far out/no way, are now very possible.I don't see pay for play causing us to lose any more games on the field than we are already doing.
They combined to sign 23 of the Top 100 last year, 20 the year before. You have a point, but your supporting data needs some tweaking for accuracy.Alabama and Clemson damn near getting half of the top 100 players.
To be fair I'm just trying to recall stats while I should be working. Thank you for the fact check.They combined to sign 23 of the Top 100 last year, 20 the year before. You have a point, but your supporting data needs some tweaking for accuracy.