Seeing how we have entered this wild wild west world of building a new roster pretty much from scratch every year, and this is not an SU specific issue but affecting many schools, there has to be some tweaks that can be made to make it easier to keep players in a program that is fair to both the players and the institutions.
(1) NIL should be structured as a multiple year deal with a vesting schedule up to 4 years. Allow NIL deals to be made so that on year #1 you vest say 25%, year #2 50%, year #3 75%, year #4 100%. Or even make the back end more heavily weighted. If you are truly one and done, you get 25%. If you get drafted to the NBA you instantly get fully vested but if you transfer you get only what is vested and when you go to the new school you start with 0% again so that is some built in advantage to staying at the current school.
(2) Allow NIL deals to be structured to include a "cash bonus" on team success. It can be exceeding how many wins in the regular season, it can be ACC tournament championship, it can be a NCAA bid, it can be a sweet sixteen appearance. Yes I know I know there has to be a degree of separation, no "pay for play" but one also cannot deny that with more team wins, the name, image and likeness of the individual player increases...more wins, more TV exposure, more people know about and follow...don't tie it to personal stats, but tie it to team wins. One surely can structure a deal say if the team wins 25 games, then a celebration event is scheduled and everyone invited to a car dealership and the players are paid $X for achieving this goal.
(3) Using the same logic, to maintain a good image, a player has to maintain his/her grades, go to practices, go to classes...all that. If you are dismissed, or can't stay eligible academically, or misses classes, misses practices or violate team rules, all that hurts your image and name and likeness, and that will be cause to reduce the NIL payout or outright cancellation of the NIL deals. This is not unlike the celebrities have their endorsement deals cancelled if they get tangled up in domestic violation charges, racial insensitive remarks, arrested for drug abuse etc...
(4) Stop the tampering. I don't care how you do it, just stop the tampering before the portal official entrance. Pay the AAU coaches or "third party liaisons" if you have to act as mystery shoppers to bring down the coaches or the players who try to break the rules during the season.
(5) Allow players to set their NIL requirements with more transparency. Let them set up a portal profile with the NIL amount they want. Let them set up a bid window like eBay does.
Quadir Copeland
Current School: Syracuse University
Position: Guard
Class: Sophomore
Height: 6' 6"
Weight: 200 lbs
Points: 9.6
Rebounds: 4.6
Assists: 2.8
FG%: 47.8
NIL Minimum: $325,000
NIL Buy It Now: $500,000
Accept Best Offer: YES
Accepts Buy Now Pay Later: YES
Promotional Coupon Code: X21790GTY
(6) In the professional world, players are traded from one team to the other all the time, and they have to go to the new team whether they like it or not if they want to have a pay check. May be NCAA needs to give the schools (coaches) some degree of control. Well, since players have signed NIL deals, they are entitled to get paid for those deals. So let's say player A has a 200K deal and player B has a 100K deal, and both have been paid half of what's owed. The coaches if they do not like these two players, can put them into the in season transfer portal. On the portal a new entry will appear but no name, no school, only a transfer player number with his/her stats. Now another team coach looking for a player can look and do a search based on how many points, FG%, rebounds, assists, turnovers, any stats and will come back with a list of players with matching stats and a NIL price balance to be paid. This is similar to Priceline and Hotwire mystery hotels where they use opaque pricing. Once selected the players is then informed they are to immediately switch school from Orlando Florida to Anchorage Alaska. That will put some control back to the coaches' hand, and minimize disruptive player behaviors.
(1) NIL should be structured as a multiple year deal with a vesting schedule up to 4 years. Allow NIL deals to be made so that on year #1 you vest say 25%, year #2 50%, year #3 75%, year #4 100%. Or even make the back end more heavily weighted. If you are truly one and done, you get 25%. If you get drafted to the NBA you instantly get fully vested but if you transfer you get only what is vested and when you go to the new school you start with 0% again so that is some built in advantage to staying at the current school.
(2) Allow NIL deals to be structured to include a "cash bonus" on team success. It can be exceeding how many wins in the regular season, it can be ACC tournament championship, it can be a NCAA bid, it can be a sweet sixteen appearance. Yes I know I know there has to be a degree of separation, no "pay for play" but one also cannot deny that with more team wins, the name, image and likeness of the individual player increases...more wins, more TV exposure, more people know about and follow...don't tie it to personal stats, but tie it to team wins. One surely can structure a deal say if the team wins 25 games, then a celebration event is scheduled and everyone invited to a car dealership and the players are paid $X for achieving this goal.
(3) Using the same logic, to maintain a good image, a player has to maintain his/her grades, go to practices, go to classes...all that. If you are dismissed, or can't stay eligible academically, or misses classes, misses practices or violate team rules, all that hurts your image and name and likeness, and that will be cause to reduce the NIL payout or outright cancellation of the NIL deals. This is not unlike the celebrities have their endorsement deals cancelled if they get tangled up in domestic violation charges, racial insensitive remarks, arrested for drug abuse etc...
(4) Stop the tampering. I don't care how you do it, just stop the tampering before the portal official entrance. Pay the AAU coaches or "third party liaisons" if you have to act as mystery shoppers to bring down the coaches or the players who try to break the rules during the season.
(5) Allow players to set their NIL requirements with more transparency. Let them set up a portal profile with the NIL amount they want. Let them set up a bid window like eBay does.
Quadir Copeland
Current School: Syracuse University
Position: Guard
Class: Sophomore
Height: 6' 6"
Weight: 200 lbs
Points: 9.6
Rebounds: 4.6
Assists: 2.8
FG%: 47.8
NIL Minimum: $325,000
NIL Buy It Now: $500,000
Accept Best Offer: YES
Accepts Buy Now Pay Later: YES
Promotional Coupon Code: X21790GTY
(6) In the professional world, players are traded from one team to the other all the time, and they have to go to the new team whether they like it or not if they want to have a pay check. May be NCAA needs to give the schools (coaches) some degree of control. Well, since players have signed NIL deals, they are entitled to get paid for those deals. So let's say player A has a 200K deal and player B has a 100K deal, and both have been paid half of what's owed. The coaches if they do not like these two players, can put them into the in season transfer portal. On the portal a new entry will appear but no name, no school, only a transfer player number with his/her stats. Now another team coach looking for a player can look and do a search based on how many points, FG%, rebounds, assists, turnovers, any stats and will come back with a list of players with matching stats and a NIL price balance to be paid. This is similar to Priceline and Hotwire mystery hotels where they use opaque pricing. Once selected the players is then informed they are to immediately switch school from Orlando Florida to Anchorage Alaska. That will put some control back to the coaches' hand, and minimize disruptive player behaviors.
