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Legit NIL Strategy?

TheWerewolfFromTwilight

TheWerewolfFromTwilight

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What if we made the concept of pay for play work both ways?

We should reserve about 25 roster spots for, well, complete scrubs: sons of doctors, lawyers, investment bankers, etc. who would otherwise never sniff Division 1 college athletics.

In exchange, their families have to contribute toward our NIL program. Basically, the Aunt Becky from Full House system.

We could even bake quotas into these agreements. Sure, Little Bobby can play at least 50 snaps at receiver this season. But it's going to cost you $200K. Yeah, Tiny Jimmy might only be 165 pounds soaking wet. But I bet he'd like get a couple carries behind the left tackle you can buy for us.

Then Bobby graduates, hopefully with his body mostly still in tact, and Dr. Rob feels a sense of loyalty to Pitt - his son's alma mater - and he keeps on contributing $20K/year. Basically, whore out playing time as currency so that we can acquire actual monetary currency. Pittstitution, if you will.
 
TheWerewolfFromTwilight said:
What if we made the concept of pay for play work both ways?

We should reserve about 25 roster spots for, well, complete scrubs: sons of doctors, lawyers, investment bankers, etc. who would otherwise never sniff Division 1 college athletics.

In exchange, their families have to contribute toward our NIL program. Basically, the Aunt Becky from Full House system.

We could even bake quotas into these agreements. Sure, Little Bobby can play at least 50 snaps at receiver this season. But it's going to cost you $200K. Yeah, Tiny Jimmy might only be 165 pounds soaking wet. But I bet he'd like get a couple carries behind the left tackle you can buy for us.

Then Bobby graduates, hopefully with his body mostly still in tact, and Dr. Rob feels a sense of loyalty to Pitt - his son's alma mater - and he keeps on contributing $20K/year. Basically, whore out playing time as currency so that we can acquire actual monetary currency. Pittstitution, if you will.
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I applaud the outside of the box thinking. Pitt needs to try something because trying to do the same thing as OSU Texas AM ND UM will not work. I had proposed just having 65 kids. Use the Scholly money and Nil on everyone else. So 65 kids 20 scrubs who pay to play. I just dont think it will happen.(having said that Pitt usually has 20 scrubs on the team anyhow.
 
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This isnt rocket science. Season tickets should cost $1 with a $499 "talent fee." Tennessee is charging a $10 talent fee on season tickets. We can drastically lower prices and make the rest of it an NIL fee. So the football team wont have any revenue, so what. The Pitt general fund can cover the difference.
 
I was thinking bare bones the shit out of it.

Don't spend a penny more than we have to.

Dont wash the uniforms, feed them ramen, pay a coach $100,000.

Once we have some money saved up go all in, for that one year. Maybe we get lucky a win a natty.
 
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TheWerewolfFromTwilight said:
What if we made the concept of pay for play work both ways?

We should reserve about 25 roster spots for, well, complete scrubs: sons of doctors, lawyers, investment bankers, etc. who would otherwise never sniff Division 1 college athletics.

In exchange, their families have to contribute toward our NIL program. Basically, the Aunt Becky from Full House system.

We could even bake quotas into these agreements. Sure, Little Bobby can play at least 50 snaps at receiver this season. But it's going to cost you $200K. Yeah, Tiny Jimmy might only be 165 pounds soaking wet. But I bet he'd like get a couple carries behind the left tackle you can buy for us.

Then Bobby graduates, hopefully with his body mostly still in tact, and Dr. Rob feels a sense of loyalty to Pitt - his son's alma mater - and he keeps on contributing $20K/year. Basically, whore out playing time as currency so that we can acquire actual monetary currency. Pittstitution, if you will.
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Wait. Did you just steal Harvard's academic admissions strategy?
 
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This isnt rocket science. Season tickets should cost $1 with a $499 "talent fee." Tennessee is charging a $10 talent fee on season tickets. We can drastically lower prices and make the rest of it an NIL fee. So the football team wont have any revenue, so what. The Pitt general fund can cover the difference.
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TN is the only program stupid enough too broadcast that out too the nation. Every big time program is going this
 
Funny you mention this. A buddy that's a UVA fan has this weird theory that that the Hoos have been trying to cut corners on NIL by getting QBs who have no NFL aspirations that come from wealthy families.

Not saying there's anything to it, but Anthony Colandrea's family is very well off. Chandler Morris (son of Chad Morris & Tony Elliott connection) is coming in next year.

One of the backups is from a family of Hollywood power brokers. (Lourd family). Boone Lourd is at UVA. I hear he has a brother at Texas that is a senior and has never taken a single snap during a game.

This is kinda out there, but many of these schools have no shame in how they try to raise funds.
 
TheWerewolfFromTwilight said:
We should reserve about 25 roster spots for, well, complete scrubs: sons of doctors, lawyers, investment bankers, etc. who would otherwise never sniff Division 1 college athletics.

In exchange, their families have to contribute toward our NIL program. Basically, the Aunt Becky from Full House system.
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The problem is that those people are too smart with their money and wouldn't waste it like that. The Aunt Becky fiasco was to get kids admitted to high ranking academic schools that they otherwise weren't going to get admitted to. They were using admission slots reserved for athletes to gain admission. They weren't actual athletes trying to get some playing time on a team or even just wanting to be on a team so that they can call themselves NCAA D1 athletes--they were just trying to get into a school that they didn't have the grades to get into.
 
I say we take then John Delorean path and employ burros hauling briefcases full of blow to fund our program illegally.
 
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The problem is that those people are too smart with their money and wouldn't waste it like that. The Aunt Becky fiasco was to get kids admitted to high ranking academic schools that they otherwise weren't going to get admitted to. They were using admission slots reserved for athletes to gain admission. They weren't actual athletes trying to get some playing time on a team or even just wanting to be on a team so that they can call themselves NCAA D1 athletes--they were just trying to get into a school that they didn't have the grades to get into.
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There are plenty of NIL donors who want to live vicariously through other people's kids, much less their own.

Same concept - trying to get into an athletic program they don't have the ability to get into.

Maybe Aunt Becky wants to see Nicky and Alex play safety for us against Central Michigan in the 4th quarter.
 
TheWerewolfFromTwilight said:
There are plenty of NIL donors who want to live vicariously through other people's kids, much less their own.

Same concept - trying to get into an athletic program they don't have the ability to get into.

Maybe Aunt Becky wants to see Nicky and Alex play safety for us against Central Michigan in the 4th quarter.
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Bingo. And that's the problem with Pitt. There are much less of them here than at say Penn State and West Virginia, let alone an Ohio State or Alabama.
 
HailtoPitt said:
Wait. Did you just steal Harvard's academic admissions strategy?
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This is exactly what Harvard does. Regular admissions are mostly tier 1 academic achievement. Athletes mostly 2s and 3s, but tiered to the rich. Tier 4 is very unusual and only for the super rich.
They were sued for prioritizing some slots for minorities and lost, so now use that as a court ordered excuse to admit more rich kids.
 
For next year I would go after guys who gain eligibility because of the recent JUCO ruling.
I'll take having some 24-25 year olds on the DL/OL.

I think the "Moneyball" strategy you are starting to see is a lot of FCS guys moving up.
I know last year there was a lot of talk on how the WCU guys would adjust. I track the portal and there are a ton of FCS guys this year. Or maybe I just notice more.
 
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