Nobody said that, not me anyway. We give/spend plenty of money on football and I’m fine if we spend more. BASKETBALL is being pinched by our donor base throwing money girls volleyball players that would probably be willing to play at NU for less.
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Nobody said that, not me anyway. We give/spend plenty of money on football and I’m fine if we spend more. BASKETBALL is being pinched by our donor base throwing money girls volleyball players that would probably be willing to play at NU for less.
We all want the men's and women's teams at UNL to do well. I don't follow our wrestling program that close but was thrilled that Coach Manning and his team could accomplish what they did this year. Perseverance and hard work paid off. I think many of us just wished that our revenue sources(including private donors) were diversified better and spread across all sports in our athletic dept.
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I don't agree with this. Sure, its nice for UNL that the volleyball, or wrestling, etc are doing well. However, I simply do not care for those sports. Give it all to football and mens basketball as far as I am concerned. If I had a personal interest in a 3rd sport, use donations to build UNL a golf course that would attract other schools to visit for tournaments.
OK then LSU Basketball is not suffering because too many people are giving to Gymnastics.
You are making assumptions that donors are throwing money at volleyball players, but you have no idea if they are or not. You are basing your opinion on the fact that some volleyball players are getting paid to make commercials, which is considered NIL, but really has nothing to do with anything donation related. They are going to spend the advertising budget for their companies regardless to whether or not they donate to the athletic program.
What VB players are making commercials? Harper Murray, a Jackson , Bergan Riley ? I see nobody. They are all getting paid by 1890.
Hard to believe in Ameirca these days, but some people are still merit-based and want to reward based on merit, and be a part of a winner. People see football wasting money over the years with no return, and were told in order to resurrect the basketball program we needed to spend a bunch of money on facilities to win, and that didn't pay off, either. Volleyball actually wins so it makes sense people want to be a part of that and see their money going to that. And why not? Personally I think all money being spent on basketball should immediately go to the football program as basketball has proven to be a waste, but I'm not going to throw a hissy fit or get mad/offended if people earmark their NIL for basketball or choose to hire basketball players to represent their business. Nebraska is way behind the 8 ball in basketball and I just don't think you'll ever get the same ROI as you would for football or other sports.
IDK It was mentioned earlier in the thread about these volleyball players
from @V-Doub "We spend more than just anyone on volleyball. All our girls are in ads and have known or rumored NIL deals. Very lucrative deals from everything I’ve heard."
I explained earlier that NIL isn't just from the collective and if they are in ads, more than likely aren't from the 1890. I took what he wrote as somewhat factual.
Some volleyball players have been in ads, I think Scooter's and Dick's Sporting Goods for sure. It was several players not just one, so I assume that an NIL collective helped arrange it?
Creighton with another good pickup from the portal, they must have some serious NIL money. I really hope Fred can find an actual point guard for once.
Not necessarily. My daughter had a deal with an apparel company that she got thru her agent.
I shared this before but my daughter has an E-commerce business An agent contacts the players and then contacts her to build the site, the e commerce side of transactions, inventory of products, new items, etc. It is completely outside of the college. She may be doing more of them, I can’t keep up with all her clients. She did say there is a “shelf life” for some of these, make the money when your name is hot and out there. This is for the QB at Tennessee. So, essentially he is capitalizing on his name and college.
Many people have told me, people who would know what they’re talking about, say our donor pool is strapped and tired of giving without results. People also say we aren’t spending enough to get top basketball players. And it’s blatantly obvious our girls are getting the best NIL deals in the state. So if you can’t add 2 plus 2 and even consider that maybe, maybe the answer is 4? Then I got nothing much else to say to you. 🤷♂️
Some people want to understand why we aren’t being competitive in basketball, results and NILwise. Some don’t care or think there is a problem. Don’t have time for them.
I always love it when people make a comment about how many layups our "bigs" missed in a game. Like the other night against ASU we struggled big time against their 7' foot center who was strong, quick and could jump. Thank goodness he got into foul trouble or we might not have pulled out the win. He either blocked our shots at the rim or altered them to the point they had no chance of going in. I wish we had someone like him on our roster.
He should start with that 7 footer that fouled out for ASU.
100%
Even Meah was supposed to be some great rim protector. Didn't really see that out of him at all.
Hate to say it but Meah has a vertical of about 6 inches. Berke and Morgan's vertical isn't much better. We all observed it in the BIG every game and are probably challenged in this Crown Tournament also.
If cbb was a successful venture it would have a better ROI than anything except football by a fairly wide margin.
If.
And I dont mean for the university.
I mean for the person donating the money. People want to give to a winner.
