Mornin Mates...
Today's Topic = Gaining NIL Competitive Traction
There is no doubt that both the SEC and Big 10 sit at the grown-ups table of college athletics while the other conferences, that include the ACC and Big 12 do not, given the difference in financial resources available to each set of conferences...
And, that's not just about what each conference gets through media rights deals but what deep booster pockets can purchase in the pay-for-play NIL world...
As former college football coach - Jimbo Fisher - puts it when asked...he says that mid-majors and below will become glorified junior colleges, since they will take two and three star rated players, develop them into much more highly rated players, after a year or two, who will then move on to bigger and better pay days at some other school, where financial matters are not an issue...
And, right now, our Sun Devils are sitting in a conference that does not sit at the big boys table of college athletics and is behind others in the critical NIL race, with which to attract top talent and keep top talent from leaving, that is the other part of recruiting nowadays, with transfer portal free agency and NIL pay-for-play in existence...
What if we got a Patrick Mahomes type QB to ASU, as a three-star recruit, and, after a couple of years, he turned into a great QB, but we didn't have the NIL dollars in place to keep him at ASU...??
Talk about a major league BUMMER, right..??
Well, like it or not, that's the college sports world (especially in football and basketball) we live in right now, so we have a choice to make as fans and boosters...
Are we going to pony-up so we can sit at a grown-ups table or end up being a developmental junior college type deal, where we develop players only to lose them to the grown-ups NIL table at some future point in time...
How many baseball players at LSU are lost because the roster has to share 11.7 scholarships or, rather, because of the game changing nature of the NIL domain, aren't all of their players now on scholarship since they can get paid (and do get paid) that equivalent through the NIL portal...
And, it's all perfectly legal to do so these days, right..??
So, how is Willie going to compete with that sort of disparity in the college baseball world unless he can offer the same sort of thing to our Sun Devil baseball players...
And, we are just talking about gaining "competitive traction" here and not an unwarranted entitlement for a bunch of selfie celebrities...
I'm having to get over myself about this whole deal since my mental health is better when our Devils win, like what our baseball team is doing at the end of this season, and I don't want Willie (or Dilly for that matter) to be handcuffed in their pursuit of winning because we don't have "competitive traction" in the NIL domain...
How about all of you..??
G'day Mates and Go Devils!!!
Today's Topic = Gaining NIL Competitive Traction
There is no doubt that both the SEC and Big 10 sit at the grown-ups table of college athletics while the other conferences, that include the ACC and Big 12 do not, given the difference in financial resources available to each set of conferences...
And, that's not just about what each conference gets through media rights deals but what deep booster pockets can purchase in the pay-for-play NIL world...
As former college football coach - Jimbo Fisher - puts it when asked...he says that mid-majors and below will become glorified junior colleges, since they will take two and three star rated players, develop them into much more highly rated players, after a year or two, who will then move on to bigger and better pay days at some other school, where financial matters are not an issue...
And, right now, our Sun Devils are sitting in a conference that does not sit at the big boys table of college athletics and is behind others in the critical NIL race, with which to attract top talent and keep top talent from leaving, that is the other part of recruiting nowadays, with transfer portal free agency and NIL pay-for-play in existence...
What if we got a Patrick Mahomes type QB to ASU, as a three-star recruit, and, after a couple of years, he turned into a great QB, but we didn't have the NIL dollars in place to keep him at ASU...??
Talk about a major league BUMMER, right..??
Well, like it or not, that's the college sports world (especially in football and basketball) we live in right now, so we have a choice to make as fans and boosters...
Are we going to pony-up so we can sit at a grown-ups table or end up being a developmental junior college type deal, where we develop players only to lose them to the grown-ups NIL table at some future point in time...
How many baseball players at LSU are lost because the roster has to share 11.7 scholarships or, rather, because of the game changing nature of the NIL domain, aren't all of their players now on scholarship since they can get paid (and do get paid) that equivalent through the NIL portal...
And, it's all perfectly legal to do so these days, right..??
So, how is Willie going to compete with that sort of disparity in the college baseball world unless he can offer the same sort of thing to our Sun Devil baseball players...
And, we are just talking about gaining "competitive traction" here and not an unwarranted entitlement for a bunch of selfie celebrities...
I'm having to get over myself about this whole deal since my mental health is better when our Devils win, like what our baseball team is doing at the end of this season, and I don't want Willie (or Dilly for that matter) to be handcuffed in their pursuit of winning because we don't have "competitive traction" in the NIL domain...
How about all of you..??
G'day Mates and Go Devils!!!
