NIL collective seeks more funding for SDSU basketball to remain ‘relevant’

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Always interesting to see some actual numbers. From the article:

The MESA Foundation increased its budget for this season, but says it needs between $1 million and $1.5 million to be competitive in the NIL market.
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Despite reaching the national championship game, the Aztecs were spurning by several transfer targets — one to New Mexico, one to Texas Tech, one to Nebraska — for reported NIL promises ranging from $150,000 to $450,000. Another player eligible to return, starting forward Keshad Johnson, left for Arizona and NIL estimated in the mid-six figures.
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“We’re the best team in the conference,” Smith said, “but we’re somewhere in the range of the fourth best in NIL, maybe fifth.”
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Last season, MESA had a budget of $325,000 and disbursed about $25,000 each to 11 scholarship players. In Year 2, the budget has grown to more than $500,000 and includes all players on the roster, scholarship or walk-on, but at different levels. Certain veterans are getting double what they did in Year 1.
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NIL collective seeks more funding for SDSU basketball to remain 'relevant'

The MESA Foundation increased its budget for this season, but says it needs between $1 million and $1.5 million to be competitive in the NIL market
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If San Diego State is afraid they won't be able to stay relevant, then poor little ol' Indiana State doesn't have a prayer.
 
treeman said:
Man, if only there was 4 or 5 million dollars a year we could allocate to a program to stay relevant...
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I'm pretty confident that a school can't just straight up pay for players on their own. It's technically "name, image, and likeness", not "pay to play", even though we all know it really is the latter. The money has to come from donors and groups. Big Ten schools have those types of donors that will give kids fancy cars, a $100K for a commercial, etc. Purdue's center for example is getting over a million dollars in NIL money. ISU doesn't have the donors to do that. Only way we keep extremely talented players (1st teamers) is if they just happen to be extremely loyal to the program.
 

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Sycamorefan96 said:
I'm pretty confident that a school can't just straight up pay for players on their own. It's technically "name, image, and likeness", not "pay to play", even though we all know it really is the latter. The money has to come from donors and groups. Big Ten schools have those types of donors that will give kids fancy cars, a $100K for a commercial, etc. Purdue's center for example is getting over a million dollars in NIL money. ISU doesn't have the donors to do that. Only way we keep extremely talented players (1st teamers) is if they just happen to be extremely loyal to the program.
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Trust me, I fully understand university funds will NEVER be allocated towards NIL's as they shouldn't be. But the point I was trying to make is that you suggested it takes money to stay relevant, and that we "poor ole' Indiana state doesn't have a prayer". Well we do. Indiana State football will never be relevant; we could go 50-0 in our next 50 games and we'd still be in FCS football that no one cares about in the one of the worst stadium in all of college football. We do however, have a program that has the ability to be relevant if the funds are there. Spare me typing out how all 4.5 million wouldn't go towards basketball and how we would have to add sports for title IX and NCAA requirements; I understand that. The point I'm trying to make is you yourself just admitted it takes money to stay relevant in this landscape, you said we don't have a chance because we don't have that money; but in fact we actually do, just have to do what needs to be done


****Also the fact that in another thread you are worried about wasting tax payers dollars on building a sports complex to generate revenue is pretty comical considering what you are willing to waste tax payers dollars on.
 
treeman said:
Trust me, I fully understand university funds will NEVER be allocated towards NIL's as they shouldn't be. But the point I was trying to make is that you suggested it takes money to stay relevant, and that we "poor ole' Indiana state doesn't have a prayer". Well we do. Indiana State football will never be relevant; we could go 50-0 in our next 50 games and we'd still be in FCS football that no one cares about in the one of the worst stadium in all of college football. We do however, have a program that has the ability to be relevant if the funds are there. Spare me typing out how all 4.5 million wouldn't go towards basketball and how we would have to add sports for title IX and NCAA requirements; I understand that. The point I'm trying to make is you yourself just admitted it takes money to stay relevant in this landscape, you said we don't have a chance because we don't have that money; but in fact we actually do, just have to do what needs to be done


****Also the fact that in another thread you are worried about wasting tax payers dollars on building a sports complex to generate revenue is pretty comical considering what you are willing to waste tax payers dollars on.
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This isn't 20 years ago where the landscape was closer to being even. Total B1G distributions are estimated to be around $100M per school next year. If any of those schools want Schertz they're going to get him no matter what. Move on to players and they have the donors that ISU will never have, and their donors can buy any player they want. No matter what ISU does they are not capable of being relevant consistently in today's climate. The only sport that is capable of that at ISU (that people watch) is baseball.

What exactly am I willing to waste taxpayer dollars on? Taxpayer dollars don't go towards football and I already said that I was being sarcastic about the county building us a new stadium. I think the county should stick to it's core functions like police, fire, parks (not sports complexes), roads, balanced budgets, keeping taxes as low as possible, friendly tax policies that will attract businesses in, etc. You know, the cool thing about capitalism in this country is that it actually works. We really don't need the county playing Mr Entrepreneur.
 
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