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NIL experiencing "donor fatigue".

hurricaneman said:
There is no dealership and apparently no requirement to provide any service in return. How the f*** is this allowed?

A fleet management company is responsible for leasing and managing the nearly 100 Rams FTW360 is offering the team. Donors are covering the lease and insurance costs of these trucks, with the caveat that each student must remain on scholarship and eligible to play.

Qualifying athletes only need to have a good driving record and be willing to promote awareness of the collective. According to FTW360, the athletes will be encouraged to give back to their communities, though that isn't a necessity.
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Good lord...we'd better hope that University of Nevada-Reno never gets good, they're right down the road from the Moonlight Bunny Ranch...
 
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305407cane said:
TVD has a 7 series bmw who gives a crap if Utah players drive some ram 1500’s. It’s Utah. Let’s worry about when Georgia whole squad drives lifted 2500 Cummins rams with the longhorn paxkage
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I don't give a **** about Utah's best player getting a truck.

I care about Utah's 85th best player getting a truck.

I thought the NCAA already warned Miami about deals made for all 85 players on the roster...
 
TheOriginalCane said:
I don't give a **** about Utah's best player getting a truck.

I care about Utah's 85th best player getting a truck.

I thought the NCAA already warned Miami about deals made for all 85 players on the roster...
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Exactly every eligible scholarship player gets one!
 
Never been much of a truck guy. Now if they were offering, say, a Shelby GT 500, or a C8 Z06 I might have to seriously consider returning to school and trying out for the team.
 
Most of that FAQ is poorly written and creates plenty of room for multiple interpretations. Yo, NCAA, FYI- you don't actually have to be amateurs to regulate amateurs.
 
Like the middle class in America, the economy is about to wipe out the mid tier NIL donor class. With financial Armageddon on the horizon, don’t expect 7-figure or low-8-figure net worth alum to contribute much to NIL collectives, specifically, or their alma mater, generally. Going to be a game played by a handful of elite donors.
 
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TheOriginalCane said:
I don't give a **** about Utah's best player getting a truck.

I care about Utah's 85th best player getting a truck.

I thought the NCAA already warned Miami about deals made for all 85 players on the roster...
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For other schools to not even bother ATTEMPTING to create a circumstance of plausible deniability with their (borderline illegal) crony collectives on the heels of the threats pointed here is just an additional item on the lengthy list of examples of the NCAA’s persecution of Miami and those others who don’t make the list of their preferential enriched bread institutions. That continues to be frustrating although unsurprising.

Lifewallet cut deals with Dade and Broward kids at a dozen schools (as they should have) in addition to a healthy dose of Canes so as best I can tell, such an argument can’t be made. If memory serves, Frank Gore Jr got one, at least one FAMU player got one, USF, FIU and Atlantic represented, can’t remember with Gabe. **** Amari Daniels might have gotten one honestly; that list is somewhere on this site.

Charlie, if you’re reading this, you can probably discern that I’m disappointed.

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hurricaneman said:
So this is bizarre to me. What is the quid pro quo here as far as NIL goes? I thought collectives bulls*** "player content" and signing sessions to justify the monetary payment. They're giving them cars for what in return? And if it's a collective, why not just give them the money straight up? Why convert the payment into a good?

If this was a dealership NIL deal it would make sense, although they'd probably come out behind on this deal. But at least then you could slap a giant "Big Name's Dealership!" sticker on the back and get pretty good advertisement with 85 cars driving around.

Also, $6M? If the lease is $1000 each for 6 months and 85 players how is that $6M? Are they literally taking the price of the truck and multiplying it by 85?
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It's $500,000 for the leases and $5.5m in the glove compartments.
 
JohnnyYoung said:
Didn’t the law read that a deal cannot be predicated on the player attending a particular school…
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I thought it was more nuanced, and the deal can't be used as an enticement to get a kid to commit/transfer. This deal is for all current players on the team, so long as they remain on the team.

If I was the owner of a Utah dealership, I'd argue there's a business interest being protected. Afterall, it doesn help a Utah car dealership much if a kid is playing at USC in December.

But, in this instance, the athletes are only required to "promote awareness" of the collective. Meanwhile, the only purpose of the collective is to pay student athletes. So they get a truck, to promote a collective, so it can raise more money, to pay for their truck? That's pretty circular and not how NIL was sold, IMO.
 
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bottom line boosters are not going to carry this thing in perpetuity. straight marketing deals will always be available for the most marketable or well known guys but some of the revenues from the sport should probably be kicked back to the players.
 
Read somewhere on X that NCAA is considering letting schools fund NIL or something close.. Will have to try to find X tonight.
 
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