I don't think average, non psycho message boarders, know about the NIL collectives and that they can donate to get better players.
Carlon Jones
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I'm surprised they don't hit up season ticket holders through email. At least I've never been solicited for NIL.
Saban, Ryan Day and other coaches have publicly asked for nil donations. Would be cool to see NU coaches, AD, and admin ask for donations.
I would send an email to season ticket holders saying Rhule is wrapping up a nice class but the NIL collective could secure a few more commits with the help of a small $25 donation.
Instead he publicly said he doesn’t want to see anyone selling “Haarbergers” after our first 3 game win streak in 7 years
Literally campaigning against it
They absolutely would. They're not sending it to a player. They're sending it to the football program in their mind. Posters with QR codes to donate in every Husker bar and store around.
Maciejczak is listed on the DL roster and is 6-3/320. Low 3* per Rivals, but will be hard to move at his size.
Get an offer from Ohio State and compare them to NU: Got to take the OSU one at this point of time sadly. Good school with a winning program and probably some nice NIL money. When a program goes down it is very difficult to get back up as we are seeing in the past 20 years or so. Wish we all had the answers but will take alot of time.Jones was my #1 recruit and had been since summer.
I believe he was practicing with the OL at the end of the season. I think it was in the practice update thread.
Would be really cool to see a head coach just donate like $1 million publicly to the efforts. Are there any rules against this? It seems like it would be really easy for an athletic department to launder a bunch of its own money to the NIL initiatives through their coaches. "Sure, we pay this guy like 30% more than market value, but he's like totally worth it! Plus he donates millions back to the success of the program through NIL!"
I'd like to know the answer to whether or not this is legal to. I suspect not. It would literally be the definition of a coach paying a player...hard to imagine that's legal but who knows.
Radio advertising is about creating awareness. It’s all you can do. Offer the name of the advertiser so that the listener knows who to call or look up on the web. For Husker fans sports radio is probably the best way to create that awareness.
Just think if every fan would donate that. Why just season ticket holders? They've been getting screwed for 2 decades now
Whoever proposed a small state tax on here had a great idea in theory. But illegal, unfortunately.
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I already pay for tickets. Already pay a "donation". Would only make sense to throw a few more bucks in to try and improve the product on the field. I think they could send out an email to season ticket holders in the spring when tickets and donations are due and hit people up for a small amount. Otherwise send it out now or towards the end of the season. Make the vision clear about what the collective is going to do.
If they sent out an email today that said they wanted money to keep the DL intact I would give them a little. And I think a lot of people would if they understood how the money was used.
They would have to get that email list from the athletic department and I would assume that’s against the rules. IF they’re a season ticket holder and they can’t figure out how to donate to NIL, they’re morons. The ads for 1890 are everywhere.
Yeah, I'm sure soliciting donations for a rural fire department would be just as successful if they put up a billboard as opposed to sending out an envelope with a free calendar. Everyone knows where to drop off the money but somehow it never gets there without the envelope in the mail.
There are how things should be and how they actually are.
Matt Rhule should start a foundation. The foundation, run by a 3rd party "steward", can direct that foundation money go to any number of other non-profit entities...say, the 1890 collective. Matt Rhule, the largest contributor to the foundation, has no idea or say in where the money goes, just that he's "proud to support causes near and dear to his heart."
This kind of stuff is perfectly legal in political advocacy, among other things (sad), so why not college sports?
I think all of these "I'm leaving" tweets are full of ****. Jones should just say Nebraska was the backup plan if a better school (in his opinion) didn't offer and just leave it at that.
Why isnt there a monthly subscription to a public funded NU NIL collective? Run it like a Patreon. People sign up to have $5 (or more) a month deducted from their bank account. Cancel at any time. Funnel all that money at the players or for a specific player. People who give get some sort of incentive. Creative a effective marketing campaign and get it to the masses. I have friends in bands who do this and get people giving hundreds of dollars a month just so they can be part of the club. Doesnt seem that hard
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Great but I still believe average fan doesn't know anything about this or how it works
One question I have is how does the collective know who to approach and offer money to if the coaches aren't allowed to tell them who they want?
The collective sucks because matty d will keep half of it. Seriously if anyone thinks hes making less than 200k from the pot they are naive.
Just pay athletes from the big ten cash flow. Find a freaking way. The time to cheat is now.
Just pay athletes from the big ten cash flow. Find a freaking way. The time to cheat is now.
Great, but is this the only one? I honestly thought this was just a deal for big corporations to buy into. Their marketing is beyond stale and boring. Get the average fan excited to be part of the program. I dont want to get a free belt buckle and golf balls and be part of their podcast. There has to be cooler ways to fund our team.
They should let donors over a certain level literally hand a player cash in a brown bag or in a drive thru bag. Would be great fun and would certainly get a bunch of donors.
I have better ideas than the athletic dept does.
Yup. Examples like this are a dime a dozen. I like the concept (I mean - I hate it in terms of corruption, but in terms of Husker football I would love it all day) but as I learned just today, employees of the University are prohibited from donating to NIL. You are right that the time to "cheat" is now; if it's not expressly forbidden, do it until the powers that be expressly take it away.
Ideally you would do personal contacts but I don’t believe the AD can legally share booster and ticket holder information with the collectives. Sooooo exactly how do you mail them? There is a legal disclosure when you provide information to NU that says it won’t give your information to outside entities.