NIL is Name Image and Likeness. This is money an athlete makes off of their name image and likeness. for instance selling a jersey with their name on it, performing a camp, signing autographs, doing a commercial for a business, etc. . biggest thing to know with NIL money is the athlete has to do something to earn the money. Cost of attendance is part of their scholarship. Its additional money on top of full tuition, room and board, and books. Usually ranges $5K-$7K. if you arent receiving cost of attendance you arent technically on a full ride. Lots of coaches try and twist this to make it sound like its in addition to the full scholarship but its part of a full scholarship. Alston doesnt exist anymore to my knowledge. it went away with the house settlement. its now considered revenue share. Revenue share is funds that is part of the house settlement that says schools that opt in have to pay approximately $20.5 million to athletes. some soccer programs have been given access to some of this money. Athletes dont have to do anything to earn this money. its just money given from the coach to the athlete
G's salary was not that high. Much of his reported income came from camp distributions, which was one of, if not the biggest in the country.
I don’t have direct experience at this level but I believe Alston still is in play at schools who did not opt in
First, I didn't say the AD at A&M was solid. That was someone else. Second, I follow A&M soccer, but it's not my school, so he's not my AD. Maybe he's your solid AD. Third, in an attempt to provide a meaningful answer, A&M is still paying off the football coach that got fired right before the new "solid AD" took over. So maybe he is being cheap cuz the money is tied up in football.
Have you noticed that Duke and Stanford are never accused of paying players? Even though they are rich private colleges.
It is because Stanford does not, at least on the men's side. Can't speak to the women's side but unclear why Ratcliffe would run things differently than Gunn. Stanford does not even give full scholarships until Junior/Senior year for the men. Duke's scholarship amount on the women's side also did not move much from 14 or so, so again not sure how that translates into much NIL money.
Great question. very hard to beleive that every player on a team has the same "value" when it comes to monetizing themselves. It is possible that some wealthy booster "employs" them all and pays them the same "wage" , but again, not the norm. The ironic thing is, some of the very same people who support a salary cap in the NWSL are just fine with the schools they root for "buying" talent in an unregulated environment. Stae or private, they don't care. Strange imo, but Life is full of contradictions!
For top tier players that’s about what they are getting nowadays. Recently heard about UNC poaching a player with a lucrative offer.
Schools can no longer just 'pay' players whatever they want under the new rules. And, what a Florida State may have paid to a soccer player two years ago, is not really likely now. All NCAA Division I student-athletes must report third-party Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) deals with a total value of six hundred dollars ($600) or more in the aggregate. The College Sports Commission utilizes NIL Go, an online portal built with assistance from Deloitte, to determine whether third-party NIL deals are made with the purpose of using a student-athlete’s NIL for a valid business purpose and do not exceed a reasonable range of compensation. As for the $20 million dispersement that schools can distribute to athletes, do people really believe that Florida State (or other schools) is giving a reasonable number of that allotment to soccer with how much they prioritize football? Most schools will give all or nearly all of it to football and basketball players. Things are different now than they were before the settlement.
Did anyone read post #802 from @Wildcatter ?? The new revenue share money is not NIL money, its just money to play. It's a separate budget the coach can use on the front end in recruiting or as a reward for returners or both. NIL deals are different and additional and are now 'vetted' and subject to approval in the new D1 setup. FSU does not have men's soccer folks! What the Stanford or Duke men's teams may or may not do means nothing to FSU. When you're at a school really trying to compete in FB, with no mens soccer, like FSU, and nearly all of the SEC schools, female sports are going to benefit financially for sure. Always been the case. And remember - what does Stanford cost compared to Florida State?? The same dollar budget allocation gets kids directly paid at FSU but only covers some scholarship costs at a private like Stanford or Duke... It's very likely that no women's soccer teams are running out to max out 28 scholarships or use all their Revenue Share money right away in the first year anyway. BUT - there will start to be some separation in talent, and so results, due to the House Settlement and revenue share models of various schools for sure... in many sports, and some will make women's soccer a priority or 'emphasized' sport. Some will not and that 'wait and see' policy may be costly in competitiveness. We'll see...
There are two types of NIL arrangements. Some are with third parties and are subject to reporting and review, to be sure they are reaonable business-related deals for the third parties. The others are with the school, allowing the school to use the players' NILs for whatever purpose they want and not subject to review for reasonable business-relatedness. Essentially, the NIL arrangements with the schools allow the schools to pay the players to play. The school NIL arrangements can be supported by donations to the school from fat cat alums. They are subject to a mega limit, with the schools deciding how to disburse the money among sports and players. What is yet to be determined, however, is how Title IX relates to the distribution of that money between men's and women's sports. Under the Biden administration, the Civil Rights Division issued an advisory suggesting that the distributions were subject to Title IX. Under the Trump administration, the Division withdrew that advisory. So far as I know, that is where it stands today.
Bottom line is that if Trev doesn't hire a coach whose team was playing this weekend, then he just wasted a lot of time in regard to the eventual new head coach and the transfer portal. If the excuse is money, a "solid" AD would easily be able to find like $300k to pay a name head coach; that's chump change for a huge school like A&M no matter how much they are paying Jimbo as it was not a lump sum, IIRC. It's not even that amount as it's basically the difference in salary of the previous to coach and the new hire.
If a university is following the most commonly cited revenue-share guide---75% for football, 15% for men's basketball, 5% for women's basketball, and a measly 5% for ALL OTHER sports, soccer players will get virtually nothing out of revenue share--and the same is true for all the other Olympic/non-revenue sports student-athletes. I forget the amount to be shared this first year--$21 million, maybe? 5 percent of 21M is just over $1 million (1.05,000) to be shared by all Olympic/non-rev programs. If, say, 18 programs have to share that $1M, each program gets about $55K. 55K split by 30 soccer players is under $2K each. Now, university athletic departments are not bound by this formula, I don't believe, but can split/share the money however they wish. I'd hope that the non-rev coaches at universities would band together and argue for a bigger slice of the pie---as only getting 5 percent for 15-20 programs--or more, at some schools--is a figurative slap in the face. Naturally, the trumpies, who are keen to turn America back into a patriarchal society, don't give a whit about Title 9.
Good gawd man! I wouldn't put Le Moyne in the same category as Troy and Nevada. Le Moyne was below average DII program and the likelihood of them becoming even an average DI program is slim and next to none. I mean, have you ever experienced a Central New York winter?
Yeah not sure about that - Nevada hasn’t had a winning season in 20 years ain’t much difference- both need a miracle worker coach.