So Weistman is welcome to contribute to a collective like anyone else, but he doesn't want to do that.
Fair interpretation?
When a guy hires Scoop Jardine to do an ad for his car dealership, is he getting publicity?
Isn't that the very point of NAME, IMAGE and LIKENESS rights - to endorse products & services?
Otherwise, "It's Just Getting a Bag", and it's "illegal" /s/.
If Weitsman is smart enough to want publicity in the MEDIUM OF THE DAY, is he to be shunned for that?
Where does everyone think our prospective recruits spend their time? Writing letters, or watching TV commercials?
Weitsman was DOING US A SERVICE by making SU hoops games seem like "Events" again, when the place was half empty.
He gave us visibility with the "cool kids" on social. He helped us try to grow back our brand.
Now, what are we going to get? New NIL Benefactors could not, or were not smart enough to figure out HOW to legally write a check TO KEEP OUR OWN DAMN GUY!
How do you think that looks nationally? How is that going to play in recruiting circles?
"Syracuse is so damn broke, they COULDN'T EVEN KEEP THEIR OWN GUY, who REALLY wanted to stay", and waited patiently while nobody stepped up to replace the benefactor Syverud chased away.
WELL DONE!
Syracuse is now a "Selling Club", in soccer parlance. They develop players to be bought by bigger schools, once they get good enough.
It's not enough that we lose marginal talent after a year or two; now we can't even keep the PEOPLE WHO WANT TO BE HERE.
I can understand losing our top 2 "returning" DBs to bigger schools, because you can't expect a private school like us to REALLY pay money to football players, because, honestly, it takes 25-30 players, and we just don't have those deep pockets
Hoops, however - you only need a couple guys! Just a couple guys, not 20 or 30.
We had a guy who wanted to buy what we were selling.
What is it that marketing guys say? "It's easier to sell to the customer you
already have, than it is to sell to the one you don't."
What is the "replacement cost" of not putting together an NIL package for Jesse. Isn't SU the school who was the first to start
teaching this as a major???
We've got like 30 days or so to make a couple big splashes for Autry on the NIL front, or he is done as a coach before he even begins.
This feels to me like the first time we got passed over for the ACC. I feel like we are in BIG trouble as a program.