Starchief13VFL
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I say zero direct contact, at least with head coaches. they have a guy for that. somehow a list where a coach ranks his players and future prospects makes its way to a "random guy" who deals with the collective
There is obviously communications between the coaching staff and the bankers: how it exactly works is not clear. It's the hidden
side of the sport now that won't get talked about much publicly as it's a rather seedy way to conduct college sports. If it wasn't seedy,
it would be publicly discussed. It isn't.
CJH has lunch every Tuesday at Calhouns with the OCs. They talk about how much they want recruits and what they think their worth is.I know schools technically “have nothing to do” with NIL. That said, does anyone know how much and what kind of dialogue do coaches have with the collectives?
On a related note
How do you figure, calculator?If I were a stock holder in FedEx, I’d be petitioning the board to replace the CEO for this. No way there’s a return on that investment and FedEx isn’t a privately owned local business. If some rich Memphis fanboy dudes who work at FedEx want to throw $25 million of their personal wealth at the Memphis NIL then that’s fine, but you can’t throw a public corporation’s money around like that.
I’m wondering how happy their stockholders are with that news. Doesn’t seem like a great investment to me. Personally I’ll think twice about going to a FEDEX store if I have another choice.
Yale isn’t a public corporation so their spending isn’t subject to the same scrutiny and accountability.I agree that it seems sketchy for a public corporation to put money into a college NIL--but the company can probably justify it as a "community relations" or "community enhancement" or somesuch expense. $25 million is nothing to a corporation of FedEx's size. Yale University spent has spent tens of millions of dollars to improve the West Hartford area where it is located, to name one example.
As for whether it's a wise investment or not, the same could be asked of every NIL donation. Much money will be spent on players who do not pan out or meet expectations. What we have now is totally stupid because the players just all leave after a season or two--or at least half do. That kind of nonsense is not even seen in the pros, where contracts are signed. Colleges all scrambling to outbid one another for players is pretty embarrassing, IMO.