How much NIL is in college baseball?

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a vol n tears said:
Even with NIL, I don’t think the NCAA (or the tax man) will allow an individual to just give money to a student to play for “their” team. If that were possible, a multi millionaire could just become the owner of a college team.
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As long as it’s for name, image, or likeness, it’s all good. I can pay a player for a picture, his time, or autograph, etc. Just not pay to play…
 
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taylorvol said:
As long as it’s for name, image, or likeness, it’s all good. I can pay a player for a picture, his time, or autograph, etc. Just not pay to play…
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Not arguing but you’re saying, a billionaire could pay the 85 scholarship players $50K a year for their autograph (some less, some more) and buy a college football team. That’s a bargain. Less than $5M a year and have an amazing amount of control on a roster. I know they wouldn’t get a finical return, but it would be like owning a pro franchise. I’m sure you would get unlimited access to anything you want.
 
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The mid majors and lower will see so little positive change.

Even if more scholarships were allowed, many would not be able to fund any extra scholarship as they are already losing money on baseball. Also consider the coaching staffs will be adding another full time coach with the ridiculous "volunteer coach" going away. These lower level D1 schools will have trouble funding this 3rd assistant even before your broach scholarship increases.

Power 5 guys normally transfer down for playing time, which was a saving grace for these programs, but now the transfer portal is causing the P5 schools to use the mid-majors as farm teams. Should a guy at GaSouthern, Coastal, Gulf Coast, Wichita, etc, have a good underclassman season; there's a 75% chance a P5 school will grab them with NIL the smaller schools and their small donor base have ZERO chance to match.

With MLB contracting the minor leagues, I hoped the majors and their major sponsors would find a way to patronize the college game. So far that has not happened. MLB couldn't necessarily find scholarships or NIL, but could fund salaries, equipment (wood bats?), and travel expense. MLB has basically eliminated rookie leagues. College could take it's place with US players and MLB could create foreign rookie leagues for international players at relative low costs.
 
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Need full scholarship. How does baseball, America’s past time, doesn't have full ride in college is beyond me. High school and up should use wood bats imo.
 
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fryeguy93 said:
The mid majors and lower will see so little positive change.

Even if more scholarships were allowed, many would not be able to fund any extra scholarship as they are already losing money on baseball. Also consider the coaching staffs will be adding another full time coach with the ridiculous "volunteer coach" going away. These lower level D1 schools will have trouble funding this 3rd assistant even before your broach scholarship increases.

Power 5 guys normally transfer down for playing time, which was a saving grace for these programs, but now the transfer portal is causing the P5 schools to use the mid-majors as farm teams. Should a guy at GaSouthern, Coastal, Gulf Coast, Wichita, etc, have a good underclassman season; there's a 75% chance a P5 school will grab them with NIL the smaller schools and their small donor base have ZERO chance to match.

With MLB contracting the minor leagues, I hoped the majors and their major sponsors would find a way to patronize the college game. So far that has not happened. MLB couldn't necessarily find scholarships or NIL, but could fund salaries, equipment (wood bats?), and travel expense. MLB has basically eliminated rookie leagues. College could take it's place with US players and MLB could create foreign rookie leagues for international players at relative low costs.
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Man, I really like that MLB idea.
 
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The athletic asked several college baseball coaches questions about NIL and the transfer portal. In general, the coaches gave substantial and detailed responses, with the exception of LSU coach Jay Johnson, whose responses I found amusing.

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How are NIL, transfer portal affecting college baseball? The Athletic’s coaches forum

Which change has made a bigger impact on the game, NIL or the portal? What about the latest wave of realignment?
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We are a year further along with NIL. How is it affecting college baseball?​

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Johnson: You know, I don’t really know. Because you don’t really know what’s out there and what’s true and what’s not true, if that makes sense. It’s a hard question to answer because you hear a lot of things, but nobody can validate anything. So I don’t even really know how to answer it.
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Same question about the transfer portal. How much has it affected the college game?​

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Johnson: It’s affecting it a lot. The teams that are using it will never have a young team. And so, at least in our league, it appears that everybody’s old and experienced every year because of it.
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Volprofch05 said:
The athletic asked several college baseball coaches questions about NIL and the transfer portal. In general, the coaches gave substantial and detailed responses, with the exception of LSU coach Jay Johnson, whose responses I found amusing.

theathletic.com

How are NIL, transfer portal affecting college baseball? The Athletic’s coaches forum

Which change has made a bigger impact on the game, NIL or the portal? What about the latest wave of realignment?
theathletic.com theathletic.com
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The portal changes things in summer ball as well. Rather than only* MLB scouts coming to games, with the portal now, we also have college coaches (HCs and assistants) come to scout and recruit.

*over the years before the portal I’d occasionally bump into coaches at a game. I guess they just happened to be driving through and decided to catch a game and hang around and talk with some guys.
 
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I live in SC and see SC baseball things on Facebook. One of my friends posted that SC has 1.6 million in NIL for the new coach to use next season.

I’m ignorant about how NIL actually works. Do yall think this is true?, or is he misinformed? If true, does anyone know how much UT gets each year?
 
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The Tennessee commit Drew Pestka that just signed with the Reds a few days ago got $225K. I guess UT didn't have anything to offer him that'd rival that
 
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Sea Ray said:
The Tennessee commit Drew Pestka that just signed with the Reds a few days ago got $225K. I guess UT didn't have anything to offer him that'd rival that
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That’s quite a bit of moolah for a one year player so not a shock
 
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