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This is football but still NIL related. Miami scholarship players could each receive $500/month from a single company for endorsements. Since it's a football roster, that works out to quite a bit of money over time from the company. $500/month isn't going to make them rich but it's just a single deal and more than they were allowed to get before July 1. https://sports.yahoo.com/florida-company-offers-540-k-worth-of-nil-endorsement-deals-to-all-miami-scholarship-football-players-183415305.html

New coaching staff, head coach new to college bball, and it's a team coming off a sub-0.500 season that also lost some of its top scorers/best shooters. This following 4 straight seasons of mediocre or worse play. I'm not surprised they're not receiving the benefit of the doubt. They can be near the top of the B1G but there are plenty of question marks. It remains to be seen if they will.

Yes, I'm agreeing that it's a good thing.

Yes, just like the free market capitalism that pretty much everyone except college athletes were able to participate in until July 1.

It won't be based just on their athletic prowess but also how well they market themselves and factors like how attractive they are. Olivia Dunne, for instance, is a gymnast for LSU. She may become a millionaire now that the NIL is in effect. Is it because she's the best gymnast? Not really. I have no idea if she's good or not. The reason she'll probably get rich is because she has a ton of followers on social media platforms. She has those followers because she's a good looking young woman who must've done a really good job of marketing herself and racking up followers. I would guess that all but a minority are probably following for reasons unrelated to gymnastics. I think players like Priller could've done reasonably well at making money with the NIL. He obviously wasn't a good ball player, but he is personable and was well liked by the fans. I don't dispute that there will be large gaps between what the top earners make compared with those at the bottom. My point is that the top earners won't always be the best athletes in their sports. I also think you're underestimating how much the top earners will make.

A bunch of athletes already have deals lined up and are just waiting on July 1st to sign them. I don't know about IU athletes but at least some of them probably have agreements ready.

I wouldn't read too much into his calling the Duke visit "outstanding." Here's what he's said about other visits: IU: incredible (official) UConn: great (unofficial) Northwestern: great (unofficial) OSU: amazing (official) Syracuse: awesome (official) We're also not directly competing with Coach K to land him. Scheyer would be his coach at Duke.

A new coaching staff including a head coach new to college basketball for a team that finished under 0.500 the previous system at a school that hasn't been to the NCAAT since 2016. I'm okay with a weak non-conference schedule. It gives them a chance to work stuff out while not sacrificing potential wins since there will be a learning curve for both the coaches and players. The summer trip will help but what should be easy wins will also help. Some of the returning players could also probably use the boost of confidence, they seemed to lack that last season. Besides, it doesn't look as weak as it often was under Crean and Miller. 3 high major schools and some top 150 or 200 teams. I don't think we've seen a school ranked 300+ on the schedule yet. Now, if they lose to 20+ at home to schools like IPFW or ISU then I will complain but about the playing and/or coaching and not the scheduling.

Right, but it does show that they're serious about helping the athletes earn money and aren't just sitting around twiddling their thumbs. So they're not disadvantaging themselves like they would without a deal with a company like that. From what I've seen, under Dolson IU has been one of the leading schools in preparing for NIL. One advantage IU has over many other schools (at least as far as basketball is concerned) is a large and passionate fanbase. This can lead to more money for athletes. On that note, I started a twitter account just for the purpose of giving IU athletes another follower since I already had FB and Instagram accounts. I recommend to any others on here without accounts on those platforms to make accounts even if the only thing they do is follow IU athletes.

Yep, that is who they partnered with to help the athletes. IU also has a deal with Opendorse.

I would say I'm shocked by that but I'd be lying. The ACC doesn't have a big lead in this series because they're the better conference top to bottom that much more often than the B1G. I'm pretty sure the criteria used when selecting matchups are best tv ratings matchups followed by best matchups for the ACC.

On the road against that zone isn't a very good matchup for this team unless their shooting is significantly improved from last year. This will be a good test of how much the additions help in that aspect as well as seeing how much the returning players have improved or not in that regard.

The IU message boards were convinced Trey Kaufman was going to commit to IU until the video leaked. Before that Purdue wasn't even seen as a real threat to land him if it wasn't IU. We all know how that turned out. Sometimes message boards are right, sometimes they're wrong. Probably wrong more often than not. In their favor this time is that Purdue is close to home so they do have a good chance.

I know if I was highly ranked recruit I'd waste an official visit on a school I'm not interested in located in Indiana over other schools I'm not interested in located in places like Florida. It seriously makes no sense to say that IU was "never an option" even though he visited. They may have been far behind the favorite and he'll probably go elsewhere but I can't see anyone wanting to visit Bloomington, IN so bad that they fake interest just to get an official visit.

I know recruits pretty much always say positive things about a school after a visit so it's unsurprising that he and the other visitors have said good things after theirs. However, there are degrees of positive and under Woodson they seem to be much more positive than after visits under the last few staffs. Either this staff is recruiting more kids who are prone to hyperbole or they are really making great impressions. It's wonderful to see and hopefully will result in landing some great recruiting classes.

Are you having the t-shirts made already?

Athletes usually do end up having some debt, even football and basketball players on full scholarships. The athletes of other sports almost certainly end up with debt. This article says that football and basketball athletes leave school with an average of $12k debt. https://collegead.com/how-much-debt-are-student-athletes-leaving-with/ Some other numbers: https://www.credible.com/blog/student-loans/athletic-scholarships-dont-guarantee-debt-free-college-degree/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1130678/debt-ncaa-student-athletes/

A 2 week team trip is not study abroad.

IU has offered 6'5", 195lb guard from Heritage Christian HS Myles Colvin. https://www.thedailyhoosier.com/iu-basketball-recruiting-hoosiers-offer-2023-in-state-guard-myles-colvin/

I think it is in the basketball section because some thought he might walk-on to the basketball team if he decides to attend school instead of going pro. Even though he can't walk-on to the basketball team while on a baseball scholarship and it is starting to appear to be unlikely that he'll even end up at IU, this thread just hasn't been moved elsewhere.

I created a twitter account just to add to the athletes' follower counts to do my part to help them get money for things like this. Now the NCAA just needs to get their s#!t together and make it so all athletes can earn and not just those in the 5 states which passed laws so the IU players can start earning. I think others that also don't already have a twitter account should do the same. Don't need to go on there often, just long enough to follow players.

Should we now consider you to be an insider?

It'll give them plenty of things to work on for improvement.

Looks like they didn't have a #53 jersey ready for him since they put him in #21 for those photos.

This used to be how I viewed the NBA vs NCAA in regards to intensity. Then the last 4 years happened...