College athlete compensation - NIL etc šŸ’°

Dr. Taylor is the faculty athletics rep at Temple:

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So now the Coach can directly control when and how much a kid gets paid???
This is so far from the original intent of NIL.
Employees for sureā€¦

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It has nothing to do with NIL. It is straight up pay for play. That conflation of terms and ideas is still a huge problem.

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LOL 20 mil is half of our entire budget.

Interesting point. Suggests that low end FBS programs might get further squeezed by trying to compete with non football programs in hoops NIL too.

While the max available amount is $20M, does anyone really think a school like UNCW would be able to get their hands on that kind of money or even half of it? Certainly wonā€™t be allowed to raise it via student fees.

I think they may be able to raise say 75% of what we raise for both revenue sports and spend 100% of what they raise on hoops. Our split wonā€™t be 50-50 between hoops and football. So the disparity could be meaningful.

To your point though, the cap itself is probably meaningless. Itā€™s the ability to focus on one sport that is going to matter.

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Would this not be a huge advantage for the Big East schools? I could see some of them raising $20 million.

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Exactly.

At some point, the football schools are going to figure that out and demand a salary cap in each sport.