but; athletic department revenues can't be used to pay players; i.e. for NIL contractsAs a side note, I saw someone claim that Nebraska was the second highest bidder for Terrance Green and that money would have made him the second highest paid player on the team.
So, not sure if Alabama had to pay a premium for a late addition or not, but certainly not a budget buy. This also illustrates something else, that there are layers here. Alabama is not by any means poor, they just don't have a billionaire booster. Their athletic department made 70 million more than Nebraska's the last year I see the numbers for though.
There are some schools that are flailing in this new era because the money really isn't there for them.
Slowpoke provided a screenshot earlier, but here's the updated rankings overall (transfer+portal, Alabama moved up one spot to fourth):
It looks kind of like you'd expect. The top 15 are all the sorts of programs you'd expect to be there. But then there's Clemson at 24, and the once mighty Nebraska at 71. Not all programs are well prepared to deal with the new realities.
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Unless I am really misunderstanding something, they can now. The house settlement allows for 20 million from the school with the rest going through a clearing house (though some like Texas Tech seem to be refusing to use it). Last I checked they were clearing 94% of the deals for the record. Also the scholarship limit is increased by 20, further allowing wealthy schools to use their funds.
Since schools can now pay players directly, it kind of unleashes their funds more as things that would previously be completely forbidden are not now (you can't go after a school just for paying a player). They now operate in the grey area that is NIL contracts. For instance let's say a booster decided he wanted a facility for a particular non-revenue sport (using an example of another facility funded in large part with booster money). Normally he might just donate the money directly to the athletic department.
Now though, someone like Byrne can do is say alright we will build the facility you want, using athletic department funds, but we need you to donate X amount to the NIL collective. This, as dubious as it sounds would be perfectly within the rules as they now are being implemented (I'm not sure that the school would want to put that in writing explicitly but a handshake agreement would suffice). The school can start to use their resources to get more funds into the NIL, and this also by the way skirts any Title IX requirements at the same time.
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And of course all the agents let these young men know this was a distinct possibility ... right?
ZERO chance; he is not even leaving his children much. He could care less about Nebraska football; he is giving it all away to philanthropic causes.
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