2026 CB Joshua Sims flips commitment from Northwestern to Tulane
CB Joshua Sims shocked Northwestern by flipping his commitment to Tulane on Thursday.
WildcatReport breaks down CB Joshua Sims’ decision to flip his commitment to Tulane.
2026 CB Joshua Sims flips commitment from Northwestern to Tulane
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WildcatReport breaks down CB Joshua Sims’ decision to flip his commitment to Tulane.
Braun is... not proving himself as a recruiter. Hopefully the transfers this year prove impactful.
Honestly a little embarrassing to see him give up an offer from a P2 smart school for Tulane and whatever conference they're in at this point.
It's not like Chicago is Urbana-Champaign or West Lafayette... (but yes I agree NOLA is awesome, easily top 3-5 favorite cities)
That draw to play with Brendan Sullivan was just too great!
kidding aside, it's not unreasonable to think Sully slid into this kid's texts knowing Tulane was recruiting him.
Isn't the most likely reason just that he was offered a better NIL package at Tulane? That would be my assumption unless and until we hear anything to the contrary.
Can’t be, NU has top half of the conference NIL money.
I don’t think that’s really true, though. It will just go back to under the table payments on top of the capped “above the table” payments sanctioned under the house settlement.
P4 teams who want to stay competitive have all been telling their donors that. Once House hits, it’s back to how it used to be.
The OSU, USC, UM’s will still dominate the B1G. There are a lot of reasons for that outside of money. However, the schools that weren’t providing the large McDonalds bags in the past should be a lot closer to a level playing field when they provide handsome payments to pretty much every contributor.
Schools will manage a salary cap. A school like NU or Illinois will have enough cash to have a competitive team. The NU’s and Illinois aren’t competing for the high salary 5 stars no matter what. So let the blue blood’s drive up the price and use their war-chest on these players. They can only have 85 of them. Only 22 of these players start. Their depth will take a hit as the next tier schools will target their back ups, and they will leave to market rate and playing time.
Also, this soft cap will be higher in the big ten than any other conference with the possible exception of the SEC. We all have a leg up on every other conference. Their boosters have to make up that gap with “under the table” payments. This gap is not inconsequential. Are they wanting to keep doing that year after year when the P2 conferences have half the teams in the playoff field and win almost all the Natty’s?
Not every player will take the highest payment. Look at your QB who could have left for Tennessee and more cash than the beloved gave him. This will be about which schools can identify talent and are willing to pay to keep them.
You’re essentially describing more or less the same system that exists now, which is the point I was trying to make. I don’t think much changes after House at the P4 level. The tiers you’ve described exist today and they’ll exist within the same hierarchy more or less.
It's not back to how it used to be, it's a mildly more ordered version of now with a higher baseline. Everybody will have their baseline direct revenue sharing and then programs can build on top of that however much they want with external NIL dollars, which I believe I recall reading need to be reported. It's not a cap, it's a floor.
The big difference is NIL has to go through a clearing house to confirm its actual market value for each deal instead of enticement. So a kid can get an endorsement deal from a company or a booster business, but the deal has to be worth what it “should” be worth.
Most schools with big boosters are already planning to going back to paying under the table. As you said, revenue sharing is a floor. Teams are prepared to go well over that in the sports they care most about.
I am indeed skeptical Deloitte is going to have much in the way of teeth.
Well they just lost a bunch of USG contracts, so they’ll have plenty of junior associates available to throw at it 😂
