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.
