If you want to understand what we're up against in NIL

[Deleted11512]

Your previous post talked about how great we are doing in the portal. Mizzou is behind us in portal rankings so their laws must not be making too much of a difference. Our recruiting class (HS recruits) is ranked #19, Mizzou is #24. Again, they aren't pulling away from the rest of college football because of their NIL laws.

I don't think NIL issues are holding us back. Being a middling program with absolutely no history of winning, having a downtown campus in a city that isn't exactly a "Best College Towns" place, having an off campus stadium and having our in state rival be a perennial championship contender competing with us for recruits who want to play in SC are factors that are probably affecting our recruiting more than any NIL issues. Top recruits want to go to top programs for the most part. Until Carolina makes some noise in the win/loss column, new NIL laws aren't going to make much difference.

I think Mizzou is recruiting over their history. They were 15th in 2022, and are currently 22nd in the combined rankings.

I would disagree with the laws to this point. It's apparent our whole NIL strategy was "hire Park Avenue and let them run it from within the AD". When the NCAA said no, we caved. We had an advantage. Nobody else in the country was doing that. It was perfectly within the rules when we did it, THEN the NCAA said "on second thought, you can't do that". The decision to just roll over set us back big time. You don't think it would make a difference to have AD funds paying the Park Ave fees so the Carolina Rise funds can go straight to players?

 

[will110]

We have to be creative. For example, I don’t believe for a second that Ole Miss has more NIL opportunity than USC. But from the jump, their AD went head first into it, preaching the importance of NIL to their donors. Ours said “you have 2 options, Gamecock Club or NIL…do what you want.” Gladly, it seems like some of that has been solved.

Ole Miss also knew that if they don't take this seriously Lane Kiffin will leave. This isn't a shot at Beamer, but it's not like he has a ton of leverage to use with other schools coming after him.

 

[Deleted11512]

Ole Miss also knew that if they don't take this seriously Lane Kiffin will leave. This isn't a shot at Beamer, but it's not like he has a ton of leverage to use with other schools coming after him.

Good point.

 

[Big JC]

Ole Miss also knew that if they don't take this seriously Lane Kiffin will leave. This isn't a shot at Beamer, but it's not like he has a ton of leverage to use with other schools coming after him.

Lane talked about needing better talent after his losses to UGA and Bama. He was sending a message to the admin at Ole Miss in those press conferences.

 

[Viennacock]

Lane talked about needing better talent after his losses to UGA and Bama. He was sending a message to the admin at Ole Miss in those press conferences.

Our administration would wish Beamer good luck if Beamer sent a message.

 

[cocean]

buy all the players you want. those looking for the bag are usually not team players, so the team will not win everything...that being said, I have not taken college football seriously for about 3 yrs now