Maybe, but if the rumors of these NIL contracts are true, what family would want to pay back even a portion of their NIL deal? These collectives im sure are now lawyering up, and a kid just flipping may not be as easy. And OSU may have to pay some type of buyout for kids. Would they want to go down that road, and then still have to pay their own NIL deal? Time will tell
I think it depends on the school. I think some are getting some up front money. Since certain states can pay NIL to HSers. We have seen no flips from USC or even Texas Tech or Texas for example
The "why" is being hidden behind the Oz curtain. And only someone like Bjork or Day can answer that. With the talk a few weeks ago from Bjork after the House said they wouldn't step in, many thought that offers would be increased but it still seems like OSU is one of the only schools still wanting to "follow the rules", when there are essentially none. The NCAA won't and cant enforce a thing and congress says they dont care collegiate sports made their bed. Bjork is finding ways to generate money but is reluctant to spend it. Yet in places like Lubbock and Eugene they're willing to throw a few million at a kid with not a care in the world
So it was reported that we spent around 35M last year. Do you believe it's less this year ?
Wouldn't be interesting to see some sort of analysis of "production vs spend" in these deals. Is your money getting the production it deserves ?
The issue is that it will be very hard to quantify because a kid earning 7 figures as a true frosh will be expected to produce damn near all conference stats from day 1. For instance, the scUM NIL cant be happy that Underwood is starting the year as a backup. And the pressure will only get worse if he's not starting by mid season if not game 3. And in essence, a true frosh QB should be allowed time to learn the playbook and adjust to the speed of the game. But we're setting up these kids to fail because theyre getting paid so much.
Its almost impossible to quantify how much was paid, because everything is a rumor. And Bjork made the biggest blunder by saying OSU had a $20mil roster because that's all talking heads could use as a basis. If he never put that number out, no one would have any base data point to use. He could've even said $50mil and journalists would've ran with it.
While I'm less concerned, at this point, about our financial commitment to and strategy regarding recruiting than some (and am also in my self-imposed three-year no BMW window that follows a natty), I do increasingly suspect that Bjork is the putz that most of us figured he was based on his A&M track record. As for being a market setter on NIL, I wonder if "the complaints" from people like Pantoni are ways for good copping/bad copping the big donors without Day himself risking political capital.
