“Put up or shut up” as they say, want to solve the NIL problem at syracuse? Either create your own fund or get a group of people together, start a bull charity and have everyone pay into it. It’s not everyone else’s job to make the change you want to see.
Yes. I am starting the Syracusefan.com NIL fund. We have over 5000 members who have a common interest and would like to see the program succeed. That being said, how much can I put you down for? And is that a one-time amount or a monthly contribution?
I would gladly contribute to a fund. The difference in this scenario though is that I’m not the one complaining about how other people are not spending money on my favorite college basketball team.
According to numbers online, UK has a total endowment of 2.1 Billion and Syracuse has 1.8 Billion. Pretty close, especially compared to Harvard's 53 Billion. We know Kentucky is very passionate about their basketball, but isn't Syracuse also? I like Tshiebwe a lot as a college player, but he is projected as an early to mid second round draft pick. Here is a question I brought up a year ago. Is Syracuse so concerned about their donations coming from such a limited pie that they would rather have the money go to the school instead of having the money go to the players? And, how can Syracuse expand that pie within the rules (as other schools obviously are doing a much better job of it) so there is more money going both to the school and to the players?
Can you share for those of us non Syracuse.com subscribers ?
They don't have any direct correlation. I just used that as an example of how the alumni, etc support each school financially. I think the biggest problem is that people/companies are using their money to donate to Syracuse, and no one is adding additional funding to support the individual athletes through NIL's. The pie has not expanded to pay players, but going directly to the school.
That's all fine and dandy but sounds like he could possibly be negligent in his duties if they are a year behind other top schools. Buddy cereal is great but that's not bringing top recruits to CNY or helping to keep them here. I'm not going to judge what he has done so far or what will be done short term/long term, but eventually the proof is the product being placed on the playing field.
So he did a good job explaining why SU has decided to ignore NIL as a recruiting tool and thus allow it's athletics to fade into obscurity? Because that is what it looks like from here.
