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2024 Richmond Spiders Football - Prologue - Delaware

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this is one of the series I will miss from the Yankee and CAA years...there have been some legendary games over the years, particularly in the CAA years...I can't forget 2007, 2009, 2013, 2017 and 2022...except for 2017 they were all Spiders victories!

Saturday most likely closes the series forever...let's hope the game lives up to some of its predecessors and gives Spiders' fans another good memory...

the once mighty Blue Hens were favored the last thing I read, and I don't think many folks who've seen Richmond's inconsistent play so far these season are surprised...Delaware, ineligible for the FCS Playoffs is playing each game as their Championship game...they are on a roll...but like the Spiders they have played a weak FCS schedule...They were tested by respectable Penn and Monmouth teams...

Coach Huesman said earlier this week Richmond has not played our best game yet...let's hope we've been saving it for Saturday!...I can't think of a finer way than to win this lame duck bowl and hopefully kick off a strong second half of the season...

calling on the 2007 spirit of Ward, Hightower, Vaughan, Sidbury and McBride to show up at The Brick House Saturday!...they rose to the occasion and refused to lose!

enjoy the prologue...

Go Spiders!
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Football to Patriot League. Should basketball and rest of sports be concerned?

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spiderman said:
Trap, what you'e asking about is absolutely happening. Just not through collectives.

athletes are paid for the eyeballs that follow them. so a great women's field hockey player needs to work outside the lines to have a huge social media following. businesses see the value in signing them if they have enough followers. they actually pay more to great players with big followings than they would to advertise on ESPN because these followers are a very targeted audience for their product.
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I don't expect it to happen through collectives - but its hard to say how much and how big it is happening because these NIL numbers, even from private companies are so secretive. Schools and Players don't have to disclose what players are receiving what money from what sources? and vice versa - the big name brands don't have to disclose either, and most do not.

I agree its happening and should be happening. For the best women's college lacrosse player in the NCAA - this is their time to make money. But you are right - they need a social following. If they can do that - then someone will pay them to post on instagram or tiktok their latest equipment, fashion, etc.
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2024–25 schedule

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8legs1dream said:
Just a quick glance over a few of their top teams non-conference highlights. I didnt dig too deep into potential MTE matchups unless it was already there on the schedule:

UNLV- Memphis, Mississippi State (MTE), Butler OR Northwestern (MTE), Creighton, Dayton
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Colorado State- Ole Miss, Washington (MTE), TCU OR Santa Clara (MTE), Colorado, VCU
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Utah State- Iowa (MTE), Bonnies, St Marys, South Florida
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SDSU- Gonzaga, Cal, Texas A&M + Oregon + Creighton (all 3 MTE)
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New Mexico- UCLA, St Johns, Arizona State (MTE), Saint Marys OR USC (MTE), VCU
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Nevada- Washington, Vanderbilt (MTE), Seton Hall OR VCU (MTE), Washington State
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Boise State- Clemson, San Francisco, Washington State, St Marys, possible second round matchup in their MTE with Duqesne and possible third round with Boston College. They seem to be the only ones that didn't end up in an upper tier MTE.

Pretty damn strong overall. :oops:
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Great work 8legs! Appreciate it. Seems much stronger
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spiderman
Trap, what you'e asking about is absolutely happening. Just not through collectives.

athletes are paid for the eyeballs that follow them. so a great women's field hockey player needs to work outside the lines to have a huge social media following. businesses see the value in signing them if they have enough followers. they actually pay more to great players with big followings than they would to advertise on ESPN because these followers are a very targeted audience for their product.
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Football to Patriot League. Should basketball and rest of sports be concerned?

SFspidur
All of those "NIL valuation" rankings are completely made up.

The "methodologies" are giant word salads liberally citing "proprietary algorithms" they use to concoct all of this out of thin air.

www.on3.com

About On3 NIL Valuation, Roster Value and NIL

The On3 NIL Valuation, Post Value and the NIL 100 set the standard market value for student-athletes and their NIL deals.
www.on3.com www.on3.com
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Is NIL secretive? I just saw a list of the top 10 college NIL earners this week.

Or is it that we're just not hearing about the field hockey player who makes an extra $2500 in a year because why would we? The vast amount of attention will go to the top 10. (for those wondering the Duke freshman big man is #1 by far, with the KU center who transferred from Michigan up there, a couple of women's college hoopers in the top 5 as well as a men's basketball guy I had never heard of, but he has 1 arm.)
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spiderman said:
well ... unless you're hot.
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I wish NIL Money would be more public because this was one area NIL money was supposed to help - in these non-revenue sports, especially on the female side. For sports like women's volleyball, lacrosse, field hockey, swimming, etc - where there really is no viable professional option - college sports are the top level. But these are big businesses for equipment makers and brands.

Example - womens field hockey. There are approximately 6,500 womens field hockey players in the US. Then factor in all the HS players, and youth players - it becomes a very large number. But say STX, one of the largest producers of field hockey sticks, can now align with the best players in each region and have them market to the youth community to purchase their gear and equipment. Its not like basketball or football where a pro athlete can do it, cause there really is no pro field hockey.

But hard to tell if this occuring because NIL is so secretive, but this was supposed to be one of the positives of NIL - to help some of these non-revenue athletes make money in probably the only 4 years they truly can make money off themselves in their sport.
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spiderman said:
they need to separate rev and non-rev sports into separate conferences with geograhic-based conferences for non-rev sports.
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Yes, this is a good idea. It is insane to have your golf team, women's volleyball team and swim teams flying all over the country for meets. It is askig way to much of student athletes, whom unlike football and hoops athletes, do these sports not to be professionals but are true amateurs and none of them are getting any NIL money to do so.
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