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Name, Image, & Likeness (NIL) at tOSU

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Onebuckfan said:
I like it’s out there. Light keeps rats away. Buyer beware. We’ve seen that with Ewers. The altruistic BS about ‘student athletes’ has been slaughtered. Heck even the ‘student’ part is over with all the side hustles going on, from Uber drivers to influencers to gamers.
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My issue isn’t with the kids. It’s the adults that will inevitable take advantage skimming whatever they can off the top in this fund.
 
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Bill Lucas said:
Is Cardale Urban’s boss because that would be funny.
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Louis Winthorp The Third is the boss. Everyone else is window dressing brought on because they can lure in recruits. And it's only going to get more interesting as the NevadaBucks and his crowd start to feed around this mess like a bunch of hungry bottom-feeding carp because they view it as a path to real power and influence in the athletic department. This is a looming shitshow of epic proportions combining respect hungry Little Lord Fauntleroy, a couple of ex-players with not a hell of a lot of achievement off the field and an ex-coach who thinks he's bigger than the entire university and--after his comically disgraceful exit from the NFL--is apparently hellbent on coming back to Columbus and proving the Board and Michael Drake (who's not even around any more) wrong for running him off.

And as far as Urban goes, I have one thing to say: just go the fuck away. You left in disgrace, so stay away. The President of Battelle was right when he resigned from the board because we didn't whack him and dump the body in the Olentangy. We should have fired him...humiliated him...and ground him down into the dust and said, "good riddance." He had that coming, and he would have stayed away. Instead, we gave him the graceful exit...the suspension followed by the "my brain is broke" resignation...and then the comically embarrassing post of letting him teach a god damned ethics class at the Fisher School. And now--like a bad genital wart--he's back to attach himself to Ohio State University.

Anyone who looks at this and the people involved and says, "great...this is really going to be great for Ohio State University!" is going to end up very disappointed.
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
Louis Winthorp The Third is the boss. Everyone else is window dressing brought on because they can lure in recruits. And it's only going to get more interesting as the NevadaBucks and his crowd start to feed around this mess like a bunch of hungry bottom-feeding carp because they view it as a path to real power and influence in the athletic department. This is a looming shitshow of epic proportions combining respect hungry Little Lord Fauntleroy, a couple of ex-players with not a hell of a lot of achievement off the field and an ex-coach who thinks he's bigger than the entire university and--after his comically disgraceful exit from the NFL--is apparently hellbent on coming back to Columbus and proving the Board and Michael Drake (who's not even around any more) wrong for running him off.

And as far as Urban goes, I have one thing to say: just go the fuck away. You left in disgrace, so stay away. The President of Battelle was right when he resigned from the board because we didn't whack him and dump the body in the Olentangy. We should have fired him...humiliated him...and ground him down into the dust and said, "good riddance." He had that coming, and he would have stayed away. Instead, we gave him the graceful exit...the suspension followed by the resignation...and then the comically embarrassing post of letting him teach a god damned ethics class at the Fisher School. And now--like a bad genital wart--he's back to attach himself to Ohio State University.

Anyone who looks at this and the people involved and says, "great...this is really going to be great for Ohio State University!" is going to end up very disappointed.
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It doesn't really have anything to do with the University. It will be great for Ohio State football recruiting.
 
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At best, I see it as some type of temporary necessary evil--like having to catheterized before surgery--until the schools and conferences find some way to reign in the wild west atmosphere that has sprang up.

And forgive me if I don't see Urban and his ego setting himself up as some kind of gatekeeper for recruiting as a positive. I wouldn't be shocked if that ends up being the catalyst for Day saying "fuck it; I'm going to the NFL."
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
At best, I see it as some type of temporary necessary evil--like having to catheterized before surgery--until the schools and conferences find some way to reign in the wild west atmosphere that has sprang up.

And forgive me if I don't see Urban and his ego setting himself up as some kind of gatekeeper for recruiting as a positive. I wouldn't be shocked if that ends up being the catalyst for Day saying "fuck it; I'm going to the NFL."
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You really think the recruiting "Foundation" is working separately from the wishes of the football coach?
 
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Jaxbuck said:
see Texas A&M

the model seems to have some benefit and if you don't fight fire with fire you are intentionally staying a step behind.
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How much of these Texas A&M stories are fact? How much of it is just creating a new boogeyman?

Also, OSU consistently tweets out that their players are leading the country in NIL dollars. Where would they be a step behind?
 
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OHSportsFan said:
Apparently Urban Meyer is on the Board for this NIL fund.
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Jaxbuck said:
It doesn't really have anything to do with the University. It will be great for Ohio State football recruiting.
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Just sayin': I'd like to see a former basketball player on the NIL board. (It's too bad Thad Matta is working for IU now.) Ohio State basketball recruiting needs all the help it can get too.
 
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buchtelgrad04 said:
How much of these Texas A&M stories are fact? How much of it is just creating a new boogeyman?

Also, OSU consistently tweets out that their players are leading the country in NIL dollars. Where would they be a step behind?
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What stories? They just had an all time recruiting class, no? I'd say we are beyond theory and clearly into testimony here. Talent follows money in this realm like any other.

SEC schools are building their "Foundations", OSU is building one. You can't afford to take the gamble that it's all for nothing if you want to stay on top unfortunately.

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What will this one do differently than the one that the athletic department created itself?
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If I'm not mistaken, all the school can do officially is partner with outside firms that help create NIL opportunities for athletes so they don't have one "they created themselves".

These NFP "foundations", or what have you, are simply another flavor of outside entity that will give a kid money for the use of their NIL. It isn't different really, it's just more.
 
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Jaxbuck said:
What stories? They just had an all time recruiting class, no? I'd say we are beyond theory and clearly into testimony here. Talent follows money in this realm like any other.

SEC schools are building their "Foundations", OSU is building one. You can't afford to take the gamble that it's all for nothing if you want to stay on top unfortunately.



If I'm not mistaken, all the school can do officially is partner with outside firms that help create NIL opportunities for athletes so they don't have one "they created themselves".

These NFP "foundations", or what have you, are simply another flavor of outside entity that will give a kid money for the use of their NIL. It isn't different really, it's just more.
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That’s an assumption. Jimbo Fisher has always had great recruiting classes. Going back to FSU. No, to my knowledge, NIL deal has been announced for any of the incoming TAMU freshmen. How do we know that’s why they went there? Everything around them and NIL is unsubstantiated.
 
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