Look what East Carolina is doing in the portal compared to us Charlotte 2023 Basketball Commits
This is what any AAC school should be able to do in the portal . We are going to be back down to single digit wins next season. 6 years of building it the right way & we will be right back where Price left the program.
We are exactly where our administration wants us.
We’re holding our cards for the final play 
Waiting for the shot clock to expire…again.
If we take the floor with what’s on the roster today, ugh
We have all the players we need to continue “the process”
Building those pillars…
We’re just thankful to be able to play…it’s not about wins or losses
I mean hey, we look and sound exactly like you’d expect us to if the goal was to destroy any sense of pride and Fandom left.
clt looks forward to sitting in row 3 at halton for $49/year
Do any of you know if there’s any sort of NIL collective for your basketball program? For all of our faults in the past, the ECU admin has done a good job directing NIL funds to basketball. Not sure if we guaranteed Cam or Pettiford anything, but for once there’s some room for me to feel optimistic about where Schwartz is trying to move the program.
We have a clearing system set up to connect NIL opportunities with players and we have some individual money flowing to players for NIL in football but we do not currently have a collective set up. Discussions are ongoing with that.
One of the challenges is nationally and even more so in G5, NIL money is rarely new money. It often times is money that is redirected from giving to the AD. So while we are conducting a fund raising drive for capital improvements is not the best time to see any funds redirected.
What sucks is at the G5 level that money represented the best possible way, aside from a P5 invite, to lower student fees. Instead students are paying money to support a system that allows kids to get paid. I have some serious issues with this.
I wholeheartedly agree with you when it comes to student fees. Regular students are now not only being asked to fund athletic scholarships and coaches salaries, but now they are helping fund opportunities for “student” athletes to profit directly off of what they are paying for to line their own pockets when regular students don’t have the opportunity for that. Regular students also have to go into debt to finance their own education as well. Not that college athletics was clean before NIL by any means, and to an extent I can look past it for football especially when players are posing a serious risk to their long term physical and emotional health to take hits, but it really has gotten out of hand entirely. I mean it gives me an uneasy feeling when schools are landing players now not because the player felt like that place is truly where he wants to be, but he’s there because that particular school will fatten his pockets more than any other school that pursued him.
You guys are talking too much sense. Shhhh!!
The student fees vs NIL situation/pay for play situation is the big iceberg headed our way.
Even if it’s just NIL, someone’s gonna start a lawsuit.
The tagline is going to be “why are students being forced to pay hundreds of dollars a semester to support a system that allows players to be paid??? Why isn’t that money being channeled into the athletic department first to reduce student fees.”
The response will be it’s NIL money that’s separate from anything the AD does.
The response to that will be “then why is the AD involved in helping direct NIL opportunities? Why is there paid staff actively consuming AD time being involved with collectives and arranging NIL activities. Why are NIL activities involved in the recruiting activity around certain players, which on the face of it means the AD is involved. Where is the administrative firewall between the AD and NIL? If that firewall doesn’t exist then our student fees are going towards propping up the entire system that could support itself”.
See where this leads?
I absolutely and totally agree.
The current environment is a stopgap.
It’s not the endgame.
For now, we should play according to the current rules. But we should contingency plan for that Titanic moment.
Like the prodigal son, has decided to return after a year in California: