Excerpts from linked article: “Charlie Batch tweeted earlier this month that a $1 million NIL deal awaits Oklahoma transfer quarterback Caleb Williams.”
”The Clark Field Collective at Texas is paying Longhorns offensive linemen $50,000 each … basically just for being Texas offensive linemen.”
“Billionaire John Ruiz is paying at least 17 Miami Hurricanes players this year a total of approximately $550,000 to promote his businesses”
“An energy bar CEO at BYU caused a stir last when year when he paid for the tuition of the program's 30-plus walk-ons.”
“To some, all of it is about 12 highway exits past the Wild, Wild West. A random message board poster recently suggested Texas A&M paid $22 million to $30 million in NIL benefits for its currently No. 1-ranked recruiting class. The first reaction from many coaches -- always thinking about competitive advantage -- wasn't the post's veracity. It was that such an arrangement was theoretically possible in the current NIL environment.”
These NIL Collectives, coupled with the transfer portal with immediate eligibility, are going to destroy college football. Recruiting will be 100% determined by where kids can earn the most money while playing in college. Playere who are 2 and 3 stars recruits out of high school who go to small and mid level football programs and then exceed expectations, will be transferring to bigger programs the first chance they get, so can earn hundreds of thousands, and possibly even millions of dollars paid by NIL Collectives. There have always been some players who transferred to bigger programs, but they always had to sit out a year and there was never a direct financial incentive to transfer. Now there is and no doubt these NIL collectives will cause a huge increase in D1 football transfers.
Even before NIL, Collectives, and immediate eligibility transfers, it was hard enough for Group of 5 and lower level Power 5 schools to recruit against the elite Power 5 programs. The elite programs had many advantages with much bigger budgets, much better facilities, more TV exposure, better NFL exposure, and the chance for players to regularly compete for P5 Conference and National Championships. But these are all intangibles and indirect benefits, that could possibly lead to future financial benefits.
With NIL Collectives, the top schools with ultra wealthy boosters and huge dedicated fan bases will be able to throw virtually unlimited wealth in direct payments to players and the promise of that wealth for prospective recruits, both high school recruits and transfers. Elite programs like Bama, Texas, UF, and Ohio State will become like the New York Yankees, with NIL Collectives that will probably be paying players 30 times as much money as Group of 5 and lower tier P5 schools. I won’t be surprised if eventually we see schools like Bama and Texas with Collectives that grow to have annual budgets of $50 or even $100 million dollars. That might be an understatement, unless the NCAA does something drastic to change the current course these collectives are taking college football
As much as I dislike what the NIL and these collectives are going to do to college football, UCF better join the party and quickly. These collectives have started a major arms race. ASAP, we need to start forming some UCF Collectives and raising some serious funds, especially with us joining the Big 12 in 2023. I really like the approach that the UF Gator Collective, discussed in this article, is taking by offering membership fees as low as $9.99 up to $999 per month. Sure its great if we have some ultra wealth boosters who want to throw some serious bank into a collective or in direct payment arrangements with some UCF football players, but there is a lot of power in small donations, if we can get a wide reach with a large number of UCF fans contributing. They say we have the most active fan base on social media. I say we leverage that to build and fund a membership collective modeled after the Gator collective.
Article: NIL College Football Collectives
”The Clark Field Collective at Texas is paying Longhorns offensive linemen $50,000 each … basically just for being Texas offensive linemen.”
“Billionaire John Ruiz is paying at least 17 Miami Hurricanes players this year a total of approximately $550,000 to promote his businesses”
“An energy bar CEO at BYU caused a stir last when year when he paid for the tuition of the program's 30-plus walk-ons.”
“To some, all of it is about 12 highway exits past the Wild, Wild West. A random message board poster recently suggested Texas A&M paid $22 million to $30 million in NIL benefits for its currently No. 1-ranked recruiting class. The first reaction from many coaches -- always thinking about competitive advantage -- wasn't the post's veracity. It was that such an arrangement was theoretically possible in the current NIL environment.”
These NIL Collectives, coupled with the transfer portal with immediate eligibility, are going to destroy college football. Recruiting will be 100% determined by where kids can earn the most money while playing in college. Playere who are 2 and 3 stars recruits out of high school who go to small and mid level football programs and then exceed expectations, will be transferring to bigger programs the first chance they get, so can earn hundreds of thousands, and possibly even millions of dollars paid by NIL Collectives. There have always been some players who transferred to bigger programs, but they always had to sit out a year and there was never a direct financial incentive to transfer. Now there is and no doubt these NIL collectives will cause a huge increase in D1 football transfers.
Even before NIL, Collectives, and immediate eligibility transfers, it was hard enough for Group of 5 and lower level Power 5 schools to recruit against the elite Power 5 programs. The elite programs had many advantages with much bigger budgets, much better facilities, more TV exposure, better NFL exposure, and the chance for players to regularly compete for P5 Conference and National Championships. But these are all intangibles and indirect benefits, that could possibly lead to future financial benefits.
With NIL Collectives, the top schools with ultra wealthy boosters and huge dedicated fan bases will be able to throw virtually unlimited wealth in direct payments to players and the promise of that wealth for prospective recruits, both high school recruits and transfers. Elite programs like Bama, Texas, UF, and Ohio State will become like the New York Yankees, with NIL Collectives that will probably be paying players 30 times as much money as Group of 5 and lower tier P5 schools. I won’t be surprised if eventually we see schools like Bama and Texas with Collectives that grow to have annual budgets of $50 or even $100 million dollars. That might be an understatement, unless the NCAA does something drastic to change the current course these collectives are taking college football
As much as I dislike what the NIL and these collectives are going to do to college football, UCF better join the party and quickly. These collectives have started a major arms race. ASAP, we need to start forming some UCF Collectives and raising some serious funds, especially with us joining the Big 12 in 2023. I really like the approach that the UF Gator Collective, discussed in this article, is taking by offering membership fees as low as $9.99 up to $999 per month. Sure its great if we have some ultra wealth boosters who want to throw some serious bank into a collective or in direct payment arrangements with some UCF football players, but there is a lot of power in small donations, if we can get a wide reach with a large number of UCF fans contributing. They say we have the most active fan base on social media. I say we leverage that to build and fund a membership collective modeled after the Gator collective.
Article: NIL College Football Collectives
