Class of 2024 TE Michael Smith (GA) TRANSFERRING TO SYRACUSE (1/4/26)

[Cusefan69]

since NIL isn't pay for play he could in theory be doing promos for Nye Ford while playing for the Gamecocks.

 

[javadoc]

since NIL isn't pay for play he could in theory be doing promos for Nye Ford while playing for the Gamecocks.

Don't laugh, I have thought about that several times in the past few years.

It is pay to play in some sense while the guys are still on a college team. You can't disentangle the two completely. What gives the player value to the fanbase is his presence on the team, and in almost all cases that's not portable across fanbases. But I suppose there could be a demonstrable business benefit to having, say, Angeli repping your pizza joint, and the whole thing is siloed for "Cuse people".

But still, I'd like these NIL deals to have a measurement aspect. It shouldn't be just "rational basis" to get approval, there should be a way to quantify and measure whether the intended business benefit accrued. And there should be consequences if not.

The revenue share is a much better way, and I very very strongly believe that it should be the only way to pay the players, in almost all cases.

 

[richmondcuse03]

since NIL isn't pay for play he could in theory be doing promos for Nye Ford while playing for the Gamecocks.

Rev share agreements are tied to playing at the school.

 

[JKinUtah]

Rev share agreements are tied to playing at the school.

but rev share is supposedly limited to $20M per school, yet some schools are paying way more than that for their roster so at least some NIL has to be outside that agreement, no?

 

[Sdot]

but rev share is supposedly limited to $20M per school, yet some schools are paying way more than that for their roster so at least some NIL has to be outside that agreement, no?

Yea NIL is unlimited still for any school. As you can seee Texas and Oregon and a few others are still using there $16,000,000 of revenue share and then unlimited NIL

 

[richmondcuse03]

but rev share is supposedly limited to $20M per school, yet some schools are paying way more than that for their roster so at least some NIL has to be outside that agreement, no?

Right but if this player has signed a rev share agreement, it’s for playing. And binding. There are also model NIL agreements in each conference that make it clear that while it’s not pay for play you have to be a part of the university and other stuff in question. It’s why the Washington situation was quickly resolved.

 

[ImperialOrange]

There was just a random poster that said he tried to enroll in classes. This was not a 247 staff member or anything like that.

So take that for what’s it worth as well

This option A, and hopefully true. A butt hurt fanboy that realized their team doesn't have a viable tight end

 

[orangemass]

Portal window about to close. Need to keep pounding