One Orange Alliance

[FloridaCuse]

You should be able to construct your own deal with Rowing in that instance. Call Compliance and tell them you have $1000 to pay for a public appearance by Casey Coxswain. That’s how the Influencer app works.
When you are contributing to a collective charged with supporting the entire portfolio of sports things get a little murkier. This is a business and an NIL Collective in conjunction with the AD is responsible for maximizing the ROI for an NIL budget.
I can understand the angst with wanting to know your money supports your interests as broad or narrow as they may be, but that’s not how the business world works. If you buy a share of stock in IBM you can make your opinions known and vote in shareholder meetings but you can’t say I want my $227 to be used solely for R&D. Same with donations to most charities. You are supporting the overall mission but generally can’t dictate which processes you want to fund unless you are making a major earmarked donation.

Look, I understand and emotionally feel like I should decide in detail where my money is spent but also see the value in having a holistic approach that best serves the entire portfolio.

But a number of other schools allow you to specify the sport that your NIL contribution is going to. If Syracuse doesn't it's a choice they are making. And it's a choice they're making to not take contributions from potential donors who only want to donor toward a specific sport. I've heard offline that that is what some say they want the whales to do, to give to the whole and not to the specific sport. Like Lally not just to football and Lobdell not just to basketball. Is it working? If it is I guess they can afford to not care about contributions from the rest of us.

 

[Moontan]

If they want to continue with a general collective pot, perhaps they can change it so that it's 90%/10% or 80%/20% so that most of your donations go to a specific sport/team with the smaller portion going to the overall collective.