The guys we’ve been attracting will continue to seek out schools like NU. We’ll struggle to uptier recruiting but it won’t deteriorate. If you haven’t figured it out by now, the kids we attract Come here for the top tier education and won’t forgo the long term benefits of that degree for a few thousand dollars a year of NIL money from an inferior academic alternative.
You don’t think that NIL money will come with strings attached? Prioritizing football at the expense of a balanced focus on academic responsibilities will be even more prevelant at institutions that will try to use NIL as an advantage in recruiting. I have little doubt of that.
What I don't understand is your positive attitude for NIL and how exactly it is going to work for the benefit of NU.
88 wrote: "...corporate America has cornered the market on every aspect of American life." This is boring if not stultifying. Every strip mall in America now has the same 25 shops and restaurants. There's a Walmart in every nook and cranny. Soon, every football team in the CFB will be basically the same team, just in different colors. The NFL may be about to pull a real coup on this one.
Where did I say it would benefit NU? I think it will have a neutral effect on NU.
Problem is that a vast majority of the big end 4 and 5 ⭐ recruits are from the hood or the Deep South and are focused on the $$$$$ via the NFL. The players that care about education or hedging their bets are the players already committing to NU and like programs. Problem is they can hedge their bets at a very good state university that has a great football program and get paid if the alumni boosters raise a ton of $$$$ for them. Fitz needs to adapt to the new realities of the CFB circa 2022. The allure of a degree is low on the top recruit agenda already, the NIL just makes it that much lower. Ryan and the alumni need to put their money where their mouth is if NU is going to compete with the big boys. An upgraded stadium isn't going to get the job done. The new practice facility hasn't helped recruiting thus far either. NU is going to have to get a bit dirty to fulfill any promises Fitz made after the 2018 Holiday Bowl. Thinking you are going to bring in top recruits based on academic reputation at this point is just unrealistic, as that is the status quo thinking at NU, which in terms of CFB, was rendered moot by the late 70's/ early 80's and was the norm starting in the late 90's.
I don't see how it can possibly be neutral to us, since it is very likely we are going to lose key recruits to other schools because of it. Recruits who without NIL would choose NU.
One inevitable next step will be appearance fees for bowl games.
I can’t answer this because I haven’t been in this position. If I were to guess, I would suspect it is because 1) they can now clearly see the finish line and 2) they can potentially train for the combine which can improve their draft status more than 1 game out of 12 they play during the season.
Attact him yes as I don't think he was as highly rated. Keeping him is another story
And most would say very negative
Because we have been so competitive for elite recruited and Nattys under the old system?
Totally expected.
Paid out by who? This seems to be the bonanza that boosters from southern schools have been drooling over, forever. This could benefit NU (cynically), in that the academically qualified who are also great athletes, if they can get enough cash via NIL, are freed up to go wherever they want, so why not the best academic school (just in case the NFL doesn't work out)? Athletes should be compensated for their skill, and not be servants to universities who profit from their skill without compensation proportionally to their contribution. However, if NIL results in a coalescence of power at the top or a freebe benefit to the NFL, then this is a VERY bad idea.
Some school among the “have-nots” seems destined to rename their mascot ”Rocinante.”
For the next half decade or so, the winners won’t be determined by big schools, small schools, NU style schools, or non NU style schools. It will be determined by the organized, aggressive, and innovative schools. The schools whose donors embrace the new reality. I 100% guarantee some tiny schools will rise up to unexpected prominence out of this like SMU before them.
It’s been that way for decades, except kids weren’t getting (legally) paid.
OSU, Clemson, and a few others should meld with the SEC, which will be known as the SPFL (a Subsidiary of the NFL) and everyone else can still be College Football. The SPFL will have it's own championship, and everyone else will have the the Real College Football Championship. Vanderbilt will join the B1G East, as the counterpart to NU in the West, and the Ivy League will become competitive at the national level, once again. Screw ND, they can just hang out there to drool about not being in the SPFL.
So, if that is true, then why bother even making enrollment in a school as a necessity to play on a team.
That's interesting. "Openings for Athletic Faculty at Northwestern University. High School degree required ."
