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With Miami's success in the tournament the national press is required to remind people we bought our way there. Evidently no other team in the tournament has transfers or players getting NIL money. A couple of days ago there was a Ruiz story in the Wall Street Journal and today's story of UM in the final four on ESPN has this,

"As Larranaga basked in it all Sunday, John Ruiz -- the billionaire Miami booster and CEO of LifeWallet -- mingled with Hurricanes supporters, players and coaches after Miami became the fourth team since 1979 to defeat a 1-seed, 2-seed and 4-seed en route to the Final Four. They all knew the man who sported an Adidas track suit and a pair of bright New Balance shoes. Ruiz has not been shy about his effort to fund a new era of Miami athletics, as he has made a push to build a new football stadium and has opened his wallet for both the men's and women's basketball programs.

Ruiz's company gave Nijel Pack a two-year, $800,000 name, image and likeness deal last summer; Isaiah Wong, Norchad Omier and Miller all have deals with him, too. LifeWallet also has NIL deals with Haley and Hanna Cavinder, who play for the Miami women's team that just reached the Elite Eight for the first time in program history."
 
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Oh the media doesn’t like us?

In other news, “water is wet”.

And that’s no shade to you @Alaskan Cane but I’ve been a Canes fan since the late 80’s and many on here way before that. At this point, I’ve come to embrace the hatred and could care less about the pictures national media paints about UM. We’ve worn this villain hat for forever… it’s part of who we are.

F them! And I really mean that.
 
Cane44 said:
I guess we are the ONLY school doing NIL's......
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its bc ruiz puts himself out there while even miamis other NIL guys dont even publicize themselves. it is what ti is. cant hate the media if theyre literally taking what ruiz is giving them.
 
I wonder why no one in the media has taken note of Brandon Miller’s NIL, or Marcus Sasser, or Jaime Jacquez? All which are comparable to or exceed Pack.

Newsflash to everyone in the media. Every school that can buy a team has bought a team. We just spent the money on the right players.
 
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hoops156 said:
its bc ruiz puts himself out there while even miamis other NIL guys dont even publicize themselves. it is what ti is. cant hate the media if theyre literally taking what ruiz is giving them.
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True but even a simple Google search on NIL deals would let everyone know what other players are making. But you are right that Ruiz permits the lazy media to have an easy story.
 
L A M P said:
No but our situation is different. See above
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I know, was being sarcastic.. these fake journalist are being lazy as ****... there's NO story with Ruiz NIL, because he reports it himself.. they are just repeating everything the man says himself.. why don't they act like real journalist and dig into all the other teams NIL's, and do a piece on the total impact of NIL and CBB?? and how it might of evened out the playing field for many schools. How the impact is allowing other schools to finally break into the historically handful dominated tourney???? but naw f*k it.. Miami = evil....
 
FuriousStyles said:
Oh the media doesn’t like us?

In other news, “water is wet”.

And that’s no shade to you @Alaskan Cane but I’ve been a Canes fan since the late 80’s and many on here way before that. At this point, I’ve come to embrace the hatred and could care less about the pictures national media paints about UM. We’ve worn this villain hat for forever… it’s part of who we are.

F them! And I really mean that.
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It's a different kind of hatred these days.

In the 1980s it was rooted and hatred and elitism as Miami football burst onto the scene with a very polarizing energy, as well all saw back then—anti-establishment, which allowed other college football powers and traditionalists to turn a nose up at the dominant Canes over their dances and celebrating, when in reality they just liked their black football players to catch the ball, run, tackle—while keeping their mouths shut and noses clean.

The bitterness over the NIL stuff is rooted in a brash boosters, but also the fact that Miami figured out how to game the system first with a homegrown guy—and it's paying dividends.

The blue bloods have been buying talent for years in basketball; Duke, North Carolina, Kentucky, et al always paying off the highest bidder—and nobody cared—but when it's a newer program upending things, now they're mad and the media demands and investigation.

It's always been good business for the media to trash Miami—as well as building the Canes up and then piling on when they fall.

Few programs have a national appeal; some tuning in because they like 'The U' while the rest watch to see us lose. Miami is very Notre Dame in that sense—except the Irish have more national Catholic fans, while the Canes have more critics and haters, dating back to '80s era football wins and antics.

As always, tune out the noise and hope that this program takes care of its business on the hardwood, gridiron and diamond—as that's the only way to beat an army of enemies.
 
Spare me....bring us the hate. But lets not act like they are a bunch of broke athletes up in Connecticut. **** their walks are even making out pretty well.

https://www.ctinsider.com/sports/uc...hnson-walk-on-huskies-degree-nil-17824854.php

I know their big is an international and cant receive any NIL's but if you think there are not other arrangements you are as naïve as a they come. **** Bueckers didnt even play for their womens team this year and she was banking close to a million.
 
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yessirking said:
Ruiz wants the story.

He's one of the few guys who is actually getting an ROI with all of the publicity
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Exactly. It's called earned media and he's loving every minute of it.

His return on the $400,000 investment in Nijel Pack this season isn't that kid talking about LifeWallet—it's countless media outlets picking up the story and running with it every round this team advances further in the tournament.
It's not, "Nijel Pack of Miami" .... it's, "Miami's Nijel Pack, who transferred in from Kansas State as part of some record-breaking $800,000 NIL deal that UM booster John Ruiz put together with his company LifeWallet".

While I don't agree with the phrase there's no such thing as bad press—this isn't bad press. If anything, the NCAA will be the villain while a guy like Ruiz is Robin Hood, just getting the kids what they deserve.
 
It just diminishes what these kids and coach L have accomplished. This has been a great run against some very tough opponents and the first thing you hear from the media is "NIL." This is a very good team with a lot of heart that is truly fun to watch, when they cut down the nets the in Houston, the salt will be glorious.
 
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