It’s not though. Plenty of other schools do sport specific things. And we have lots of sport specific fans at Syracuse. you want to remove friction from giving money. There should be no reason for someone to say no. They are making it easy for folks to say no.
ditto. i also support mens soccer. they get squat from the school. i want to target money to them too.
oh ok.
Look they got to be doing the media tour and explaining this initiative. Why it's collective as one? How are the splits going to work? Why this approach is the way. Because they are clearly not getting the momentum at least early that I'm sure they are looking for. Clearly there is reasons and risk they are worried about if they fall behind in some of the tier 2 sports: lacrosse, women's basketball, etc.
Makes sense, that's the order of the revenue generating opportunity.
The irrelevance is happening anyways, unless there is reform in the system we are just lying to ourselves that Syracuse will ever reach real title contending relevance in those sports again, that's not the ADs fault, that's not the fans fault, it's just the way it is.
What does that have to do with NIL?
That's notably not NIL or Rev Share, you should be able to donate towards the Coaches fund, which would presumably go towards stuff like this.
Equity is the order of the day
This is not going to work. It needs to be changed. It will be because it has to be. They're leaving too much money on the table. How long before Chris Carlson of Syracuse.com writes a follow up article on the pushback this approach is getting.
Is this new thing really "PC" or equity? If a lopsided large percentage of the money from this goes to mens bball and fball, then is this really us focusing too much on helping out more obscure programs? If anything you would think the best chance of outside NIL money helping smaller sports would be from an individual donor giving a large amount specifically to those smaller sports. This if anything makes it harder for that donor to do that. Someone gave the example of the soccer team scoreboard above. Also I highly doubt this will actually eliminate the ability for a single donor to choose where the money is sent. It is not like this now the only avenue for people to donate right?
So there is still an option to donate directly to a specific program? Then what are people complaining about exactly?
Yep, that was my read, for any sport that isn't Football, Basketball and maybe Lacrosse there is not really too meaningful of a difference, because those players are making very little if anything from the school itself.
I don’t disagree with you that this exact thing is going to happen. I understand their thinking though and it makes sense why they want this streamlined completely. It’s hard to change stubbornness in general and also without the reasons people should even consider to view this differently. And I’m a men’s basketball fan followed by football fan followed by women’s basketball fan. Casually lacrosse. I don’t really care about the success of the other sports. But there is obviously a level of support you have to keep up for the tier 2 and 3 sports for revenue and realignment concerns. Problem though is you are also getting screwed in results and revenue from the tier 1 sports if everyone isn’t aligned.
And the reason people are mad is because NIL discussion has reached a point in the public mind where NIL has become synonymous with athletic funding in general, which it's not.
it makes zero sense. tell me why 100% of my nil donation cant go to where i want it too? i want to donate to gmac. not have 85% of my donation go someplace that others decide they want my money to go too. since this was put together by football people, it sounds like a scam to help football (which i also support).
