6'7" wing out of Minnesota. Also picked up a Northwestern offer today, in addition to previous offers from SLU, Loyola, Colorado State, UNI, and others.
You would think since this has happened so often that our staff would be very clear to recruits that we are the University of Richmond. It's all in the details, which we seem to consistently not be very attentive to.Most of the branding they get is probably “Richmond Spiders”.
My first thought whenever I see Miami.“I chose Miami because it has…..boatloads of NIL money."
Dude will be doing commercials for high end sports cars for his fall elective.“I chose Miami because it has all the things necessary to get me to the next level. Namely, boatloads of NIL money."
Yeah, not gonna lie, I hate the NIL but if we could use it to our advantage, I'd be OK with it, in purpose but still not in principal.To add to sman's post, they also made the final 8 in first year of their NIL super-boost plan and players get a lot of NIL opportunities/offers/money...why wouldn't a guy want to go to a school like that? If UR decided to be top 10 in NIL payments and it resulted in deep NCAA runs regularly, would everyone here take issue with it? Pretty sure we'd just be very happy fans.
I thought NIl money should in theory have nothing to do with the actual school. Those contracts should only be between athletes and businesses. I would assume the NIL money should never be in the hands of a school or guaranteed by a school.If Ruiz's company does in fact turn out to be a Ponzi scheme, does anyone know if Miami will have to pay back the money he gave via the NIL? Or - worst case for a lot of people - if it did bypass the University and their collective paid the players directly, would the players then be on the hook for repayment? A quick google search of the Madoff fiasco references the term "clawback" for money the trustee went after.
To me, this doesn't sound so much like a Ponzi scheme as a terrible company that made up potential revenue numbers out of whole cloth and got people to buy into it.