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It's a nice dream, but this feels like someone trying to argue that your local hardware store is going to outlive Home Depot because it doesn't have the massive overhead to worry about. I mean, I guess it's possible, but probably not very likely. The big spenders are going to find a way to outspend the rest
Could impending rev-share changes help Cinderellas in the future? 'Everybody will be in the game'
As the college sports industry sits on the brink of historic change, an unexpected spending disparity looms — and some mid-majors will be able to take advantage of it in basketball.
At schools like State, if we're going to compete, we're going to have to focus on coaching more than the NIL meat market IMO. There will be some damn good coaches who would rather work at the "local hardware store" than the Home Depot. Of course hiring and retaining good coaches starts from the top of the school's administration and works it's way down through the athletic department .
Yeah. They're not going to be able to outspend SEC or Big 10 schools. And that's 22 of the 68 bids and 11 of the Sweet 16 teams this year.
Well, mid-majors don't HAVE to pay all that rev share, I don't think. And they'll still get the next step down of talent. So I don't see much changing there, as long as they can afford the football team and afford to give a little bit to players.
I think it will be bad for mid-majors and good for schools like State because we benefit from being in the SEC. Mid-majors don't have that revenue source.
That's my point, they don't have the revenue source, but they also don't have the expense. Their competition will be each other, for the next tier of players......which is the same as it is right now. There will still be tons of players sign up to play G5 if it's their best option. You have the dream of ultimately making it to G5 and it's better than FCS, D2, D3, NAIA, etc.
That's why it's important to not squander regular season opportunities. An extra win or 2 over the last 2 seasons would have avoided 1st round matchups with Izzo and Drew.
Yep. We didn't lose our 1st round game last Friday. We lost it over the last month of the season.
Yeah I don’t think people read the entire article. They literally laid out numbers and why this can happen.
Speaking of reading the whole article. This is exactly what will happen. And it will be rampant and uncontrolled.
Exactly. It’s why the clearinghouse is the key. If it stands that becomes a tougher way to do that.
Correct. I mean, you can even look at a team like Memphis that hasn't done anything of significance in the postseason since Calipari, but they have been absolutely gutting teams from their own conference for each of the last 3 years because they can. They're the biggest fish in a small pond, and they've got a basketball budget that's 3-5x everyone else in the AAC, so Penny gets to pick and choose who he wants to pull from Tulsa, SMU, and Wichita St year after year
I think you are an idealist if you really believe this.
First thing I heard a player (not ours) parent say when discussing the house settlement ..... "why would the players agree to that when you can get all the nil you want now."
Increasing the minimum baseline without increasing the top line by the same or more decreases the gap.
Depends on what your definition of “decreasing the gap” is. If you’re talking in terms of percentage, that depends. But the raw number gap is always going to keep increasing between the haves and have nots. So I’d disagree that the gap is just “decreasing”.
