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Great local article, it will really be interesting to see how all the athletes in the other (than football and basketball) sports are able to "cash in" with NIL.
Opportunities await Olympic sport athletes with proposed NCAA name, image and likeness rules
Beneath a Pulp Fiction poster hanging on a wall in a dormitory suite, Mitchell Pehlke sits at his laptop and uploads a series of videos to his YouTube channel.
The edited clips show Pehlke, a sophomore on the Ohio State men’s lacrosse team, in everyday life, buzzing between dining hall meals, campus strolls, workouts and bantering with roommates.
He began vlogging in high school when he recorded a video of himself and a friend giving each other haircuts to the entertainment of their classmates.
“I just remember that next day going to school and seeing people’s faces, and them watching it and just being like, 'Wow, that made me laugh or that made my day,’” Pehlke said. “That feeling is something I chase every single time I make a video.”
Driven by the response, Pehlke kept posting as his channel grew in popularity, adding more than 14,000 subscribers and leaving him with one of the largest online followings for any athlete on the 36 varsity sports teams at Ohio State.
Though longstanding NCAA rules have prevented Pehlke from monetizing his platform, it might turn into a source of income in the near future.
If the Division I Council passes legislation to allow college athletes to profit from the use of their name, image and likeness (NIL) at its meeting next month, Pehlke could be paid to promote products on his channel or TikTok account. He proposed a manscaping razor as one endorsement idea. Branded merchandise could be a possibility as well.
“There’s definitely different ways I can make money in that space,” he said.
Since the NCAA’s board of governors announced its support of NIL rules changes last spring, the dominant conversation has focused on the potential for top football and men’s basketball players to land lucrative endorsement deals by capitalizing on their national name recognition.
Opendorse, a digital marketing platform for athletes, estimated that former Ohio State quarterback Justin Fields could have earned more than $1 million a year, and it’s not difficult to picture future stars leading advertising campaigns.
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Can income from NIL lead to tuition relief?
How far could a few thousand dollars in NIL income go? It could be significant for Olympic sport athletes. Since most are on partial scholarships or are walk-ons, they pay tuition.
Only six sports — football, men’s and women’s basketball, women’s gymnastics, women’s tennis and women’ volleyball — give full rides to all of their scholarship players.
It means there are athletes who leave school in debt like other students.
When Ohio State surveyed athletes who graduated during the 2019-20 academic year, it found they owed an average of $27,900 in student loans.
The significant financial obligations leave Smith to contend that Olympic sport athletes will be the biggest beneficiaries from an extension of NIL rights.
“The impact on them, whether it’s $1,000, or $5,000, or $10,000, is going to be significant,” Smith said. “If you come in as a freshman, and if we can help you figure out your niche, and then you start it in your sophomore year, you got three years to run, to hopefully make X to mitigate your debt.”
Instead of leveraging their NIL, athletes have been relying on other means to make money. McIntyre estimated about a third of her former softball teammates at Ohio State held jobs in their offseason, working in retail or at frozen yogurt shops, among other areas.
Meghan Kammerdeiner, who was a senior on the Buckeyes’ women’s soccer team this past season, juggled a job at the office of university integrity and compliance and babysitting for families.
She said other players took coaching gigs within their sport, but were still limited. They were unable to sponsor training sessions or advertise 1-on-1 lessons, self-promotion that could have brought in more money to assist with tuition payments or living expenses.
“By opening up name, image and likeness to the non-revenue generating sports and student-athletes, you’re going to give them an opportunity to graduate with a little less debt or no debt at all and find an interesting and natural way for them to get a few extra dollars in their pocket,” said former Ohio State wide receiver Anthony Gonzalez, now a second-term Republican congressman from Ohio’s 16th congressional district. “For the overwhelming majority, they’re just poor college kids. They don’t have any money.”
Gonzalez, who last month reintroduced a bipartisan bill to allow college athletes to receive compensation for the use of their NIL, acknowledged they also balance tuition obligations with significant time demands from their sport.
In recent surveys conducted by the NCAA, athletes in Division I have reported participating in athletic activities for at least 30 hours a week.
By offering a potential avenue to reduce student debt, new NIL rules could also expand the pool of athletes who potentially enroll at schools.
Over nearly a decade as Ohio State’s field hockey coach in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Karen Weaver remembered one or two recruits every year turning down offers from her program to enroll elsewhere, citing financial considerations.
The prospective players were from outside Ohio and did not qualify for in-state tuition.
“I lost some really good kids because of out-of-state tuition,” said Weaver, now an adjunct assistant professor at Pennsylvania’s graduate school of education. “Their families just didn't have the money.”
In a NIL era 30 years later, Weaver imagines she might have made a different recruiting pitch.
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Entire article: https://npowered.ro/topic/484-sport...-proposed-ncaa-name-image-and-likeness-rules/
Just sayin': Kyle Snider got to keep his "gold medal winning bonuses", but you have to wonder just how much more he could of earned with NIL, etc.
Ohio State's Kyle Snyder due $250,000 bonus after wrestling gold in Rio
August 21, 2016
Ohio State rising junior wrestler Kyle Snyder will be getting a lot more than a gold medal for winning the 97-kilogram freestyle competition at the Rio Olympics on Sunday.
He’ll be getting a $250,000 award that, under NCAA rules, he can keep while continuing to compete for the Buckeyes.
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So, last September, when Snyder won a world championship, he received $50,000. He then returned to Ohio State and won an NCAA championship.
Entire article: https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...1/kyle-snyder-gold-medal-bonus-ncaa/89078436/
A Penn State wrestler cashes in:
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Buckeye86
I do not choose to discuss it
I have some questions:
1. is humility not a quality bestowed upon individuals by God as they’re handing out wisdom and integrity? also, I think the lady doth protest too much on the “integrity” front... what a weird thing to need to call out for a player that was totally not on the take prior to this deal being announced
2. they believe in your prophecy, huh?
3. at what point did Phil Knight and Tinker Hatfield start believing in your prophecy, exactly? I’m sure it was within the last week only after the new NIL guidelines were approved... yeah, definitely within the last week
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ScriptOhio
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NCAA President Mark Emmert still 'hopeful and optimistic' Congress will pass NIL bill
NCAA President Mark Emmert said Friday he remains “very hopeful and optimistic” that Congress will pass a bill related to college athletes’ ability to make money from their name, image and likeness.
However, he also said: “If that looks like that's going to take too long, or maybe not occur at all, then we're going to have to go in and craft our own permanent rules” to replace the temporary arrangement the association put in place, effective Thursday. That was the same day that laws or executive orders in more than a dozen states took effect, allowing college athletes to begin activities like making endorsement deals and leveraging their social media for pay.
Emmert’s comments, made during an interview on the NCAA's Twitter page, were his first since the NCAA Division I schools’ top rules-making group on Wednesday approved this fundamental change in approach to its long-held system of amateurism. The move has set off a rush among athletes and companies to begin announcing an array of new commercial undertakings.
Entire article: https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...ert-discusses-name-image-likeness/7847035002/
NCAA President Mark Emmert said Friday he remains “very hopeful and optimistic” that Congress will pass a bill related to college athletes’ ability to make money from their name, image and likeness.
However, he also said: “If that looks like that's going to take too long, or maybe not occur at all, then we're going to have to go in and craft our own permanent rules” to replace the temporary arrangement the association put in place, effective Thursday. That was the same day that laws or executive orders in more than a dozen states took effect, allowing college athletes to begin activities like making endorsement deals and leveraging their social media for pay.
Emmert’s comments, made during an interview on the NCAA's Twitter page, were his first since the NCAA Division I schools’ top rules-making group on Wednesday approved this fundamental change in approach to its long-held system of amateurism. The move has set off a rush among athletes and companies to begin announcing an array of new commercial undertakings.
Entire article: https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...ert-discusses-name-image-likeness/7847035002/
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I'm surprised this didn't happen sooner on a number of levels.
On the level where a team related web-site does it, I'm disappointed that Lettermen Row wasn't first with Ohio State players. They already have several former players on the payroll; adding a few current players seems like a natural progression.
I'm also wondering how long it will be before we see a player who's been injured and is out for the season show up in the broadcast booth. There are several Buckeyes who are sufficiently well-spoken that it would be an enticing possibility for any network that already employs former Buckeyes (so... any network).
There, I've openly acknowledged that it could happen to a Buckeye. But key players for Oklahoma, Clemson, Alabama, Georgia, et all couldn't possibly have a season ending injury. Not in a million years. It is an utter impossibility.
On the level where a team related web-site does it, I'm disappointed that Lettermen Row wasn't first with Ohio State players. They already have several former players on the payroll; adding a few current players seems like a natural progression.
I'm also wondering how long it will be before we see a player who's been injured and is out for the season show up in the broadcast booth. There are several Buckeyes who are sufficiently well-spoken that it would be an enticing possibility for any network that already employs former Buckeyes (so... any network).
There, I've openly acknowledged that it could happen to a Buckeye. But key players for Oklahoma, Clemson, Alabama, Georgia, et all couldn't possibly have a season ending injury. Not in a million years. It is an utter impossibility.
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ScriptOhio
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FAU Quarterback N'Kosi Perry Signs First NIL Deal With Alcohol Company
FAU quarterback N'Kosi Perry has signed what is believed to be the first ever NIL deal with a beer/liquor organization for a college athlete in an agreement with Islamorda Beer Company, the company announced Wednesday.
"We are happy to announce, Islamorda Beverages is the first alcohol company to endorse an NCAA Athlete through the NIL," the announcement read.
Perry, 23, is a graduate student and spent four years with the Hurricanes. He threw for 2,484 yards and had 24 touchdowns to go along with 10 interceptions during his time in Miami.
Entire article: https://www.si.com/college/2021/09/...college-athlete-sign-nil-deal-alcohol-company
FAU quarterback N'Kosi Perry has signed what is believed to be the first ever NIL deal with a beer/liquor organization for a college athlete in an agreement with Islamorda Beer Company, the company announced Wednesday.
"We are happy to announce, Islamorda Beverages is the first alcohol company to endorse an NCAA Athlete through the NIL," the announcement read.
Perry, 23, is a graduate student and spent four years with the Hurricanes. He threw for 2,484 yards and had 24 touchdowns to go along with 10 interceptions during his time in Miami.
Entire article: https://www.si.com/college/2021/09/...college-athlete-sign-nil-deal-alcohol-company
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ScriptOhio
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Penn State quarterback Sean Clifford joined Cameo two months ago, a site where fans can pay for personalized videos. He revealed this week that he would donate all proceeds during the season to Brothers and Sisters of America, 501 non-profit organization. Its mission is to "create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth."
"Hi guys, I'm Sean Clifford. I play quarterback at Penn State,” he said in a video of himself posted to Twitter. “I think that the Brother Big Sister program is one of the best in the country. It gives you the reassurance of what you're doing really matters, because you have that one on one connection with a kid. I got to meet a kid out of Cincinnati, Ohio — where I'm from — and I still connect with him to this day. He's helped me grow as a man, and somebody who I feel like I can look up to myself and to see the excitement on my little brother's face when we're doing something fun. It means the world to me.
“So now I asked you to take part in what I've been a part of for years now, whether that be donating some money to the youth service bureau, Big Brother Big Sister, or joining yourself and experiencing what I have experienced over the past few years. These young kids need mentors, and that could be you. So please take the time, donate, be a part of it, whatever it may be for you to help your community and just grow as a person.”
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