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Lol, especially more money to everyone since SMU (in the playoff) gets 0% of the conference revenue sharing for several years.
Should be pretty easy too. UVA football got a multi-million dollar donation after the loss to us specifically for NIL.
Classic looks like Tarzan plays like Jane player
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Yeah he's surprised me before, I hope for my sake to see him play again. I was at the BC game where he went off, I'll likely make it to this one too.
YUP
And even better Cam Ward isn't even on the Heisman radar anymore. The league did all that to prop up Miami and it all blew up in their face. And yet, the rest of the league is still good because we got 2 teams in the playoff, which means more money to everyone, and its not like it hurt us at VT that much because we still ended up in one of the higher profile bowls.
All of that manipulation just to have absolutely none of it matter in the end. They can't even cheat well.
These NIL Shops will make the contracts work. They will find the minimum thresholds for each range of $$ and boilerplate it in contracts.
"So if player X gets a $1 MM NIL deal to basically appear at a car dealership one time and sign some autographs, that's pay for play and illegal" So Texas's backup QB who makes 6 million per in NIL will be a thing of the past? I doubt it.
Tuten doesn't seem to have that in his DNA. When asked about his injuries his response was there will be plenty of time to heal up after the season is over. I expect Tuten plays.
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From what I have read/seen online, they will look to see if the NIL payor (collective or individual/business) is actually getting a commensurate amount of services from the athlete in return. So if player X gets a $1 MM NIL deal to basically appear at a car dealership one time and sign some autographs, that's pay for play and illegal. But if they have to film several advertisements, make numerous appearances, etc. then it could be deemed a fair exchange transaction.
The SEC is always like that.
Mercer, Louisiana Tech, UL Monroe, UMass (2x), Murray St, Maine, Wofford, UTEP.
Those are SEC opponents IN NOVEMBER so yeah when you add in their beginning of year schedule with power houses like Arkansas Pine Bluff, WKU, Alabama A&M, Tennessee Tech, Samford ect. I can see how the SEC should reevaluate the gauntlet of teams they play OOC.
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Thanks, I didn't know the details of when rev sharing started or how the NIL supplementation worked and assumed everyone would still be getting sizable NIL money on top of the revenue share.
It would be interesting to see how Deloitte determines market value.
LOL- this is the fucking program whose first road game west of the Mississippi was like 15 years ago. This is the program that never fucking plays OOC road games unless forced. Fuck them. Also it's so SEC to pout and whine and threaten us with "well we aren't going to play tough OOC games now"- lol as if they do anyway. lol If they do play a P4 team it's either neutral site or home 90% of the fucking time. Joke.
That's what I'm saying. I also think it's a financial decision, not bad blood or anything.
Can you imagine how Fu would do in this NIL/transfer era? He was such a weird dude and would bench guys for making good plays. Just the way he treated Teller was comical. Think we'd have to forfeit our second game because 3/4 of the team would enter the portal after the first game.
Important distinction - it's no longer an 'NIL package' paying these players primarily. Rosters will be funded by the $20.5 MM revenue sharing allotment for each school under the House settlement starting with the 2025-2026 sports year. NIL is still around, but the Big 4 audit firm Deloitte is now the NIL clearinghouse. Any cumulative payments to a player over $600 (the IRS reportable compensation minimum) will be sent to them to clear. If they cannot determine that the payment amount is based on an actual fair market value of services to the payor, then it will be deemed an impermissible pay-for-play payment. So the clamps are about to come down on NIL except for the players who actually do have a significant commerical/NIL value.
Everyone now has to work within their $20.5 MM salary cap for the most part. No surprise the VT staff is going to really evaluate the ROI of each player within their budget.
Edit - should also mention the $20.5 MM revenue sharing allotment is across all sports. VT has said they're going to put about 75% of that toward football, with the other 25% split between MBB and WBB. Non-revenue sports will see some increased scholarships only.
FUCK Bama. The more they complain, the better I like their exclusion.
Loved the Travon years... the ONLY person on the roster with an extra gear, and whenever he ran for a 60 yard TD, he was benched the remainder of the game. Fu was playing 5D checkers yall.
I think this was Stroman's decision not the staff.
Really? So Stroman- a legacy that has been in Blacksburg 4 years just said "peace out I'm going to the SEC"?
I'm sure they would like to keep him, but they could've said your NIL package portion of the athletics revenue share is X and Stro could've said I'm worth more than that and is going to get his money via the portal.
There is no way this staff did that. Pry is big on local/Va kids, legacies and brothers.
For sure, but at least there's a minimum now.