The bad thing that is going to happen is that the clearinghouse may try to limit the player's collective contract and if they don't back off, they'll get sued the clearinghouse in court and lose. It's pretty much inevitable at this point. The NCAA has already caved on Collective deals when the House attorneys complained that hamstringing the collectives was not part of the originally approved settlement.
Did you read my immediately prior post with the attached ESPN article? The college sports programs and coaches are planning as if the provisions in the settlement, as revised to address the collective, will not be overturned.
I didn't read the article, but what else should the colleges and coaches be doing? When any NIL deals that are attempted to be limited by the Clearinghouse are overturned in the courts, they'll be planning for whatever the next paradigm is. Here is an article that is as skeptical about the ultimate success of the NCAA's latest attempt at limiting 3rd party NIL payments to athletes as I am: MSN
[QUOTE="tampajack1, post: 17904835, member: 4367" I don’t know why Big East teams would only have $5 million to spend on basketball players unless that’s all the money the Big East teams can come up with on average. 'Some coaches have no idea': The uncertainties of recruiting in the new rev-share era[/QUOTE] I suspect the guesstimate of $5 million for a Big East program is a bit low but it may not be unrealistic. When you consider fan base size, it's dwarfed by a program like UF. For example, Villanova has an undergrad student population of 6,700. UF's is about 35,000, and if you include grad students, it's about 55,000. Gator Nation is widespread and huge, and those folks, if they have a reason to cheer, will buy merch by the ton, and donate great piles of cash. If our current NIL budget is around $8 million (by some estimates), it's probably lower than where it ought to be. I saw a clip a couple days ago of Coach Todd speaking to a Gator Booster club somewhere. They were hanging on every word... and one thing Todd said was that top players now want to play for the Gators, but these days it's going to cost a lot of money. He's out there laying the groundwork and people are listening.
