This NIL and revenue sharing is a great opportunity for some kids who are not gonna be great pros, if at all.

Think about it. How many great college players never play pro basketball? If you are a kid you can go to a school, get NIL money for 4 years, maybe 5 if it gets approved, and set yourself up really well. Look at Braden Smith at Purdue. Great college guard, but undersized. Is he gonna play professionally? What I did see is he's making 1.8 million. You make close to 2 million dollars and you can make 8 to 10 million for your college career. If you can find real good college players, convince them to stay, compensate them then you can build a team with experience, and continuity that can compete with anyone and for Championships.

Question can you get these kids out of high school or transfer portal off FR year? I bet the two German Kids are going to make more at LU than they were making professionally. Why wouldn't more European pros not come to the US, make that money and then go back to Europe if they are not good enuf for NBA. The two German kids have 4 years left. It would be wild to have them for 4 years.

There is a big question mark when it comes to foreign players and NIL...they come in on student visas(scary status these days) which I think prohibits work...who knows these days they may be coming in on work visas....but going over A10 rosters my rough estimate was 15-20 % foreign players. Not only do we outsource manufacturing but college players. We are a long way from students at one school challenging students from another school to a ball game and hopping on the El.

So well said. Through the years, I have always remembered how that started it all. I wonder if an intramural champion playoff between Loyola and DePaul would draw any interest. No? Then how about Ohio State-Michigan?

Very interesting article on the state of mid-major basketball. Glad Drew appears to be doing his best be not devalue the Loyola brand and push it as somewhere that could be successful.

Also crazy that it references that some A10 schools are spending more rev share on their basketball program than Big 10 teams. I know it’s the football aspect, but still a wild thing to think about considering where Loyola basketball was 15 years ago.

Thanks for posting that, very interesting stuff. This seems like a key quote as well:



I also believe that after the ruling, NIL is becoming more of a boondoggle, as Deloitte has been tapped to create a clearinghouse that reviews NIL deals and has the power to deny them if deemed "fraudulent". Most assumed this clearinghouse would be pretty lenient, but apparently that's not the case, and it's frustrating a lot of P5s whose rev-share is gobbled up by football.

All of which is to say, right now seems to be a window for LUC and the A10 to make some waves -- though this window I'm sure won't last long, as P5's will throw their weight around one way or another. And as we are seeing the weak OOC schedules for A10 teams roll in, I'm thinking that may be a direct result of the P5 programs trying to exert power where they can. I really hope we hear an announcement about dynamic scheduling sooner than later from the A10, as it doesn't seem like talent will necessarily be the bottleneck against multiple bids, but opportunity.

It sucks that the P5 are shutting out the high MMs to game the NET, but I get why they are doing it. The A10 needs to play that game too, in the ways that are available to them. That they are maxing out rev-shares is a good sign, now they need to hit the throttle on the scheduling gamesmanship too.

Of course as soon as I post this I see the Dayton non-con and it's pretty stacked. So I guess it is possible.

There was a brief window where it looked like non football schools would have a little advantage....with revenue sharing everyone drawing from the same pot. but then the "slush funds" who previously had been raising money filed a law suit and the NCAA buckled....Correct me if I am wrong but we are back to 2 pots.the revenue share pot and the other one where alumnus could help athletes take advantage of their NIL....Texas gotta be Texas...