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There must be difficulty in budgeting when your inflow is unpredictable. I would think they don't want to spend all their chips on this class. Tough financial decisions have to be made. Interesting times.

Red has been pushing donations to the NIL Collective in every interview I've seen over the past month. Pretty sure he's letting it be known that $ is needed to those paying attention. Never would you come out publicly and say we flat out can't compete in the NIL game.

Cash cow with free labor. Great business model. When conferences weren't signing billion dollar TV contracts the student athlete model may have made more sense. The scholarship/education may have been a fair payoff. That's ancient history now. Adults are making billions off these kids and paying...

And how much $ did you make for your school? Was it in the millions?

And on cue, Chancellor Kent is brainstorming a Super League with collective bargaining. Looks like the scholarship is pay enough crowd is gonna lose this battle.

So guess Orange United can't count on you for an annual donation. So noted. Property taxes and school taxes require home ownership so that's a little overkill on tax payments.

I've seen Red on a few different media outlets stumping for NIL money over the last week or so. Not sure if it means collective needs money now or its just the new normal moving forward until the sham of the schools not paying the athletes is finally disbanded. In the short term, I think we...

I agree it would be difficult to get a solid # on all ACC collectives in total but the numbers are out there and alot of it is coordinated with direct knowledge of the staff (despite current NCAA prohibition). Factually, I have a very good friend who is an alum and significant donor of an ACC...

Red and staff better have a solid plan moving forward because the optics from the outside aren't looking good right now.

Freeman coming in has been a known situation for awhile now.

Me thinks our NIL isn't as healthy as some have stated.

The ROI is the particular program winning. Pretty sure that's why a majority of people are donating. I am entrusting the collective to manage and spend to achieve that goal. If they don't win, donations will dwindle in my estimation. For the amount I'm donating, I don't expect special...

Guess he either didn't fail out/get kicked out or you don't have to be currently enrolled in a degree program at an accredited school to enter into the portal. Hmm...

93 grad

Made another one-time donation yesterday as Autry was asking for it on the Devo podcast. Did hoops only thus time. Sucks we have to fund it but F it.

What years were you at OZ?

Love Scoop in retrospect but I'm thinking that the discontent with Judah is spurring on some revisionist history regarding his skill level. His Freshman year was forgettable. Assists low and his turnover rate was sky high but he was young. Fans understood. Team was young, the overall year...

The NBA argument when discussing success at the college level is lazy. They are two different leagues and success in one doesn't mean success in the other. Its really not that hard to understand.

The statistical "evidence" in this thread that was basically the same as last year was against a much tougher SOS this season so one could argue he did improve to have the same output against more difficult competition. Whether he stays or goes won't keep me up at night but I can't believe a...

Anyone have any insight into why Mintz isn't in the portal?

Absolutely not.

Based upon all of the things being thrown around this board, strong assumption they wouldn't have been able to field a competitive team in the NIT. We were already down to 7/8 at the end of the season.

Will guys opt out of the NIT to hit the portal??? That would move the time table up significantly.

You are correct in his stats being basically the same over the last 2 seasons. Those statistics currently equate to the following rankings in the ACC for the 2023-24 season: 2nd in PPG 4th in Assists per game (8th in Ast%) 2nd in Steals per game 2nd in points produced 1st in FTA and FTM 14th in...

In a quick review, we've had only 4 1st team all-conference players since joining the ACC (Fair, Christmas, Hughes and Buddy). If you add in the 2nd team I think we have another 3 players (Ennis, Battle, Gbinige). That's 7 players total over the course of 11 years. I would wager Judah Mintz...

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And you don't know Benny Williams so ...

Bracket Matrix has St. John's as a 10 right now. Looking at their future schedule they still have some tough games to play their way in.

Hard to properly gauge the WR corps last year when our QB couldn't throw a forward pass for half the season. I saw some flashes with guys and glad they will likely compete for snaps in the fall. Having said that, I'm very happy we brought in alot of new talent to improve our WR room in...

JJ Judah Benny

Judah Maliq Benny

I think his form is good. He has a slow release so it's usually best when he has some time to set. I'd green light him when he's open on a catch and shoot. Also, he's 6-14 in conference play from 3. Small sample size but with his game he should probably only average 2-3 3 pt. attempts anyway.

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JJ Benny Copeland

Brown Bell Copeland

I am somewhat shocked that Taylor has looked so ineffective offensively. Having a tough time even getting his shot off.

Maliq JJ Judah

How does a player keep their scholarship if not a member of the team?

Cope Judah Cuffe

He said HCFB was a charlatan (actually used that word) and didn't have a close relationship with Deleone and to stop implying the same. Basically called him a fraud and dishonest.

One of my sons goes to UB so I follow the football team a bit and went to two home games this year. First one, he looked serviceable and I could see him as a "game manager" type when they had a strong running game. Second one, he was benched and the back up played a majority of the game. No...

Reminder that not every guy who goes in the portal got "the talk" from the staff.

Starling Judah Copeland

Interestingly, I was getting tickets with/without Babers, Brown, etc. Its what I do in the Fall in CNY and God willing will always continue to do. As the long-term ST holders in our section like to say, we lived through the GRob years and kept coming back so nothing will ever stop us from going.

Judah JT Bell

I don't think they report on individual players but I did see that they pay out a minimum of 85% of all donations directly to athletes. I thought that was pretty good.

Dropped a one-time $44.00 (I can't believe that's not a monthly membership amount) after today's press conference and signed up for the monthly recurring membership at the entry level tier. Grassroots campaign. Love it!!!

Brown Starling

Agree in whole on the 1st paragraph. Not sure that $4 million per year is achievable at Syracuse unless there is a huge bump in the grassroots donors as you state. The bigger donors will get you original funding but with the money being spent each year it will be the little guys that keep it...

It is my understanding that power schools are working with a $7-$10 million dollar NIL budget and the P5 lower tier schools are trying to fund up to $750,000 to $1 million per annum. This is information coming from a high ranking member of a collective at a current ACC school. The money...