My guess would be vain donors are giving money to things they can put their name on instead of NIL collectives.what is our NIL situation? somehow it seems other schools have alot more money than we do, however somehow we have brand new very expensive facilities, costlier than at other schools.
I do not know because NIL collectives aren’t publicly reported anywhere. So it’s conjecture on how much NU has (or doesn’t have). But the fact that football saw a many key starters leave for paydays at other schools would lead one to assume NU couldn’t afford to keep them. Transfer and prep recruiting would seem to suggest they’re not exactly making strong offers. Braun bragged about how his football recruiting class didn’t receive a penny of NIL money… these are all anecdotal but the fact that they’re completely out of sync with conference peers would at least suggest that there is an NIL gap there.