Impact of NIL on Notre Dame

[FaithInIrish Forever 4,723]

NIL has been a thing for a few years now. 

 

Across the Nation

Michigan won with an older team like Notre Dame is stockpiling

 

Mid to late round kids are having their signing bonuses "paid" to stay in school. If your 1st or 2nd round. No NIL can match the immediate pay-day of a signing bonus. Round 3-7? NIL can make the money a wash. In other words say said NFL team offers a 3rd rounder 300k to sign but their team offers 500k and a college degree. They stay. No NIL collective was going to pay Joe Alt 20 + million to stay. However if Estime knew his bonus value dipped under 500k than he might of had second thoughts.

 

I believe as Jbrown Said Sam Hartman made more at ND than he will to sign with an NFL team. Now when he makes it that changes but I'm talking fast cash.

 

ND appears to lose kids to the portal but gain rather easy access to experienced QBs and kickers.

 

What are your thoughts?

[jbrown_9999 1,023]

For me, it provides a "legal" method for ND to capitalize on its pool of wealthy alums to compete for talent as opposed to losing to the bagmen of yesterday

[JeffV 332]

It evens the field for ND, but a bunch of have-nots don't stand a chance.  Few non-power 5 kids will stay with the school that developed them.  ND and the like will be the beneficiaries.

It's hard for the NCAA to walk it back at this point, but it does seem to need a level of oversight.

[AnTostal 766]

Impact of NIL on ND:

I think it's a wash.  Most teams that are any good are going to offer a lot of NIL money.  My guess is that the money is probably pretty equal at the bigger football schools, ND being one of those.  With the portal being what it is, players can come and go and still get paid.

Impact of NIL on me:

Hate it.  I had 3 kids that I paid full price to get degrees from expensive name-brand schools, including a Masters at ND.  I work hard for the money, so hard for it honey, but no one treats me right.  I HATE that players can make hundreds of thousands of dollars and still get their tuition paid, while hard-working families pay full freight for their kids to go to the school.  I'm a little hot under the sports collar about that. 

I get that it's the way of the world.  I just wish the generous alumni who fund NIL would instead fund scholarships.  That wouldn't help the team, but it sure would help a lot of people.  The team and school can find a way.  Individual families may not.

[jessemoore97 1,293]

4 hours ago, AnTostal said:

Impact of NIL on ND:

I think it's a wash.  Most teams that are any good are going to offer a lot of NIL money.  My guess is that the money is probably pretty equal at the bigger football schools, ND being one of those.  With the portal being what it is, players can come and go and still get paid.

Impact of NIL on me:

Hate it.  I had 3 kids that I paid full price to get degrees from expensive name-brand schools, including a Masters at ND.  I work hard for the money, so hard for it honey, but no one treats me right.  I HATE that players can make hundreds of thousands of dollars and still get their tuition paid, while hard-working families pay full freight for their kids to go to the school.  I'm a little hot under the sports collar about that. 

I get that it's the way of the world.  I just wish the generous alumni who fund NIL would instead fund scholarships.  That wouldn't help the team, but it sure would help a lot of people.  The team and school can find a way.  Individual families may not.

Slight nit, take the government out of guaranteed student loans.  Single handedly has been the biggest cause of soaring tuition and crushing debt for borrowers.

Otherwise I'm in between as far as NIL.  It's chaos currently and we are still in Flux with the changes that have happened and stuff that's still to come.  We are far from settled in this shifting landscape of college athletics.

[irishwavend 580]

The players are getting paid because there is a market that wants to see success on the field.  Because that market watches, advertisers pay a lot of money to be seen while that market watches.  In return, that advertising money comes back to the school in the form of millions of dollars in various ways.  Paying for better players means even more value for advertisers and more money for Notre Dame to build buildings or fund programs.

The average student who goes to Notre Dame doesn’t generate millions of dollars for the school.  If they decide not to go there, someone else will fill the spot so they can have access to the excellent education funded by the football program and its players.  I don’t see why the university would pay students to come (except for the absolute brightest) when supply and demand is in Notre Dame’s favor in a big way.  The alums are part of the market that wants results on the field so their money goes towards those results which in turn increases value for Notre Dame, too.  Paying kids to come doesn’t have much benefit to those alums either…

I get what’s being said about working hard to pay for your kid to go to college, but there are just too many folks in the same boat while a big source of revenue for schools is football…the value of the school increases if football thrives.  It’s simple business, unfortunately, and ordinary students are the consumer.  Nobody pays consumers if they want to stay in business.

[jbrown_9999 1,023]

We're all guilty of enabling the football players in making money. I'm not logging in every day to see how Notre Dame's debate team's recruiting is going. But football is a different story and others with same interest but more disposable income are funding NIL deals.