At the very least it will help us to stop getting killed by Duke and Stanford in recruiting.
Why would the “40 year decision” approach end? It’s still NU’s most effective recruiting pitch to HS seniors and that is why many of our recent transfers out of NU have done so after getting their NU degree. By the way, nothing I’ve heard so far makes me think this pool of NIL money will be used to attract HS recruits. There will be some exceptions, but my impression is the majority of money will be used to retain NU talent and to attract transfers.
The MAC didn’t want us, so we had to push the reset button.
A better QB in the portal, and impact WR, and Priebe and Heard still on the team would be a somewhat big deal.
IT explicitly does not include changes to admissions standards.
Why would the MAC turn down a program that it regularly beats?
There is the long-term reason and the short-term reason.
Disagree strongly on both fronts. There are still kids out there who will strongly value the education while appreciating the opportunity to make some money while playing in college. That’s our target market. If recruiting becomes solely about money and football, we lose 99 out 100 times.
There are plenty of players who are offered and would get in but go elsewhere.
Unfortunately some of these kids, because they’re bright and advanced students, come to NU, redshirt, coaches develop them and when they start to really contribute, they graduate in 3 years and take a grad transfer elsewhere. That will continue to be an issue going forward unless we minimize it by 1) having a winning team that they want to play for, and 2) have enough money to keep them here.
That’s why I said NU’s NIL program will be disproportionately focused on retaining our own talent and on attracting transfers who fill holes when talent development has fallen short.
Per David Brooks in How the Ivy League Broke America, “students who got into higher-ranking colleges…are not substantially more effective after they graduate.” Additionally. AGI will soon obsolete many of the symbolic capitalist roles that graduates of “elite” schools take.
Interesting response. Are you, by chance, a recent “elite” college grad? ;-)
Doubt it. The Ivy leagues are about social capital, which delivers access to better opportunities. No one thinks about whether the Harvard guy turned out to be a mediocre hedge fund manager 25 years later.
The reality is the Harvard guy is going to be finding it difficult to get the initial opportunity that might lead to the hedge fund job 25 years later. It’s already happening. Look at the recent decisions organizations have made to not recruit at certain “elite” colleges.
While I think many elite schools have been corrupted by woke activist faculty, the instances you cite are highly visible but limited. I doubt the impact is significant and sustained.
This. A Harvard degree opens doors that are not available to most other degrees. It’s not the knowledge obtained that is so valuable, it’s the Rolodex.
NU has excelled with journalism, engineering and theater. Modern journalism is dead. Our engineering school no longer ranks in top five across any field. Can’t speak to theater. On the grad level, we still excel across business, law and med. But those aren’t athletic opportunities.
Med school is ranked higher than ever and I don’t see that changing. Business is not an undergrad enterprise for NU like it is for Mich, IU etc. I loved studying engineering at NU and wouldn’t be where I am without it, but there are several schools in the B1G just as good and better in many areas, for a fraction of the price of you’re in state. Communications school, I was not blown away by their presentations on our visit.
I loved taking classes at Tech. Great dinosaur building with great modernized classrooms.
What’s Harvard undergrad good for? You’re severely undervaluing how liberal arts factor into these rankings.
Banks will always need graduates from elite institutions to professionally gamble on which way the wind is blowing, add nothing of value to the economy, collect gigantic salaries and giganticker bonuses, and successfully beg the government for money when it inevitably fails again.
I don’t think the Ivies require an area of excellence. They get so much of a pass based on legacy.
AGI is going to obsolete a lot of things. It is not going to affect high school graduates as much as college graduates from “elite” universities.
It does. I knew PF from HS. I socialized with athletes throughout both my tours. I was an athlete. NU has always been a major point of pride.
Not if we offer more money, it won’t.
Braun better polish up his resume if he doesn’t improve HS recruiting .
We don’t have to be in the top tier of money offerers because frankly we are not in the High Stakes room. I think we’ll do quite well in our weight class which should be all but about 20 programs.
