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How is Miami so dominant in the NIL game?

I think a lot of it is good roster management. You sign and pay some guys out of HS but if they don’t workout, you push those dudes out and don’t continue to sink money into them.

Clemson would rather continue to pay their roster instead of cutting dead weight.

Miami is taking a pro style approach to roster management IMO.
 
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TboneJones said:
UCLA alums aren't really into football.

USC alums are into football but I believe USC has the wrong head coach. USC supporters bought Lincoln a #1 high school class with his most recent high school class but investing heavily in high school recruiting doesn't produce immediate fruit.

SMU's brand is on par with TCU and Texas Tech. All three have made playoff appearances. I'd say SMU is a top 15 program in the nation. So, brand-wise they are punching way higher than BC or Northwestern.
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That's not the point though really. UCLA alums aren't into football bc they havent been good. But they exist, there are a ton of them, a lot of them have money, and if their team was good, they'd be marketed to by big brands via their team. Their potential as an NIL powerhouse is large, though not as big as USC's which has a larger market share in LA and a substantial national brand.

I didn't mean to equate SMU's brand or program to BC or NW, but rather their market share their large metro area. Having a tiny market share in a big city is the same as having a large market share in a small city. Texas Tech made the playoffs bc one billionaire is buying players, and it's completely unsustainable. That school has no real means of legitimate NIL branding deals.
 
El Orange said:
That's not the point though really. UCLA alums aren't into football bc they havent been good. But they exist, there are a ton of them, a lot of them have money, and if their team was good, they'd be marketed to by big brands via their team. Their potential as an NIL powerhouse is large, though not as big as USC's which has a larger market share in LA and a substantial national brand.

I didn't mean to equate SMU's brand or program to BC or NW, but rather their market share their large metro area. Having a tiny market share in a big city is the same as having a large market share in a small city. Texas Tech made the playoffs bc one billionaire is buying players, and it's completely unsustainable. That school has no real means of legitimate NIL branding deals.
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I agree with everything you said. I only take exception regarding Texas Tech. They aren't just one rich guy. They have a lot of money b/c of the Permian Basin and many of the billionaires it has created are affiliated with TT. There a lot of oil companies in that area who can and do provide legitimate NIL deals. Not to mention some TT athletes go work for those oil companies after their playing days are over.
 
DrewZ2 said:
I think a lot of it is good roster management. You sign and pay some guys out of HS but if they don’t workout, you push those dudes out and don’t continue to sink money into them.

Clemson would rather continue to pay their roster instead of cutting dead weight.

Miami is taking a pro style approach to roster management IMO.
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and continue to hire former players as coaches....
Dabo hired Tahj Boyd as QB coach this season and promoted Nolan Turner to Safeties coach from an analyst
 
DrewZ2 said:
I think a lot of it is good roster management. You sign and pay some guys out of HS but if they don’t workout, you push those dudes out and don’t continue to sink money into them.

Clemson would rather continue to pay their roster instead of cutting dead weight.

Miami is taking a pro style approach to roster management IMO.
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Clemson will be a problem again once Tony Elliot is their head coach. Elliot isn't Dabo regarding NIL and the portal. He's making some nice, underrated portal moves at UVA.

The head coach being open-minded about a new way to construct a roster goes a long way.
 
I think some coaches (Dabo and Kirby) don't feel they can have control with athletes making top dollar. That's a personal issue in my opinion. But, if I was an AD hiring a head coach I would definitely be probing to see a coach's attitude about players making top dollar and especially how a coach feels about a player making more money than him b/c that day is coming FAST.
 
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LMCane said:
still seems insane that somehow tiny Miami can outspend

Florida State
Florida
Michigan
Wisconsin
Penn State
Alabama
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Michigan will challenge us forever. That is the largest and one of the wealthiest alumni bases in the country. And the like sports. Unlike the Ivy league schools which could absolutely dominate NIL if their alumni cared about sports. Imagine what Gates could give Harvard in NIL.
Thankfully this is all seemingly childish to the nerds

The others will need their own Mark Cuban, a billionaire alumni who is crazy about sports
 
HarborCane said:
Only Fans girls are helping out too.
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El Orange said:
Gotta take several things into account.

LA obviously far bigger market. But I would bet a smaller percentage of LA residents root for USC than percentage of Dade county residents root for Miami. There's also a second school there to divide the pot in UCLA. And those schools have gobs of money and if they were run better could run trains on the Big 10.

SMU has Dallas but again, I would guess the vast majority of people in that market root for teams other than SMU. Also, SMU is a nothing brand nationally. Think BC or Northwestern.
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I bet you UT and A&M are much bigger draws in DFW than SMU or TCU combined.

Yes, SFL has a ton of Gator and Nole grads but Miami is clearly the team especially for non-college grads.
 
Santana Sosa said:
FIFY. Public schools have more money (for the most part), they just don't spend it. Takes money to make money. For us, we know it's an investment. Public schools look at it as a cost.
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Yep.

Take UW Madison.

TONS to spend.

Wont ever get the support to do it in a potential NIL arms race.

So UW is back to irrelevance after 25 years of relevance.
 
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LMCane said:
larger than Los Angeles!?

Dallas is the 6th largest metro area in the United States.

are you implying that the size of south florida with so many businesses -means there are more businesses to participate in NIL?

DMONEY are there any metrics as to how many individual companies participate in the NIL?

compared to Tuscaloosa and Athens for example
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Thats exactly what I am implying.
 
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