If Princeton, Yale and Harvard fail to embrace NIL they will be left behind. End of story.
Penn and Columbia have. TJ Power got paid six figures this season.
The league is not dying. The Ivies do far better than any other mid-major conference in terms of player retention. You can still build a roster and culture. North Dakota State has lost its four best players in a two-day span. I don’t know how you survive from being raided like that every single season.
The answer to the question is Berube.
All the other mid-major conferences have “embraced NIL” but they still get all their good players poached. The question is whether the NIL-shy Ivy League will lose out to the other mid-majors in relative terms, and I think that is very much an open question.
Have you seen the last few years at Belmont, which has been good for a long time? Their portal losses have been unbelievable.
It won’t be enough to keep players based on an ivy degree with top players. Some may stay, likely that many won’t.
Another Penn fan here and I totally agree with you. Hate to see good players leave the league.
big P is back! finally, some insight man. love it. yea, that is ballpark of what i got from a trusted source in the market tho I heard a lot of vultures circling. those two are interesting. like your situation with Lee last year i am a fan on here and hate the situation for Yale and the IL.
also i am not a journalist. i just traffic heavily in the NIL market through my AAU and hs players, my family members playing for NIL schools right now and coaches and agents i communicate with.
not interested in being Jeff Goodman. i just try to highlight the tea leaves for those interested in primary and secondary scuttlebutt. one can read the posts if new to the board and be the judge.
Isaac celiscar is special. is what it is.but, for more ordinary talents (IMO) all referenced implicitly above the numbers would make you blush and i spent 28 years in the hedge fund industry. makes me blush.
as a longtime booster of yale basketball and former player i couldnt be more sad about the situation but also as a father, uncle, coach and retired finance bro; I also get the NPV math and i come from means. this kid does not.
as for yale and the IL this is a longer discussion which i tried to highlight on the old board and certainly with the startup of the new one. the only surprise is the money is bigger now, and talents like Isaac who i have watched since his 11th grade year or Wolf who played at NMH with my nephew; improved, a lot.
never static. always changing. the landscape, that is. i guess HYP are not.
as an addendum look at what former Harvard asst will wade just pulled.
the key driver (from scuttlebut)…NIL budget. it is like endless inflation.
I spoke to someone at FSU a few hrs ago. their budget is low comparatively but will increase 10x next year. I like Luke Loucks. so does the money crowd it seems. the numbers are big.
the change which we saw through SEC football recruiting first down here is rev share + NIL is actually a big bump y/y as there was some caution ahead of the settlement last yr. fwiw.
Connor Amundsen to hit the portal.
Thomas of Dartmouth.
Malik Mack’s decision to leave Harvard is aging poorly.
Not for his bank account.
Kareem Thomas in the portal is brutal. An epic leap forward as a sophomore, POY potential. For Dartmouth’s sake, I hope B-Mac can convince at least one of Thomas or Amundsen to come back.
I think Amundsen is more likely to change his mind. Thomas is 6-5 and put up 16ppg - and more than that in non-conf - his services will be in high demand. Amundson is a crafty 5-11 guy who could probably use another year in the Ivy to pump up his stats.
And Portal Madness is just beginning!!
Probably true. Georgetown’s decision to hire Cooley hasn’t aged well either.
I think Mack got $250 his soph year, same as Perkins, What did they get this year? $750? With full revenue sharing kicking in his agent thinks in excess of $2m for next season?
There ya go, Prof!!
Michelangelo Oberti, of Penn has entered the portal. He is undoubtedly looking for a place where he can get more playing time.
I thought he looked pretty good in limited playing time against Columbia. But, yeah, he’s getting crowded out by Gerhart, Scantlebury, and at least one incoming big.
Feel kinda bad for him, and I wish him luck wherever he lands.
Nolan Grove was convinced by Texas Tech to decommit from Yale, barely played as a freshman and is now in the portal for what will likely be a four schools in four years hitchhike. Oops.