Is/Will NIL Help College Baseball ?

[HeavenUniversity]

I have no idea if NIL has started to reach incoming and current college baseball players. Just curious if young guys are starting to turn down the chance to play in the minors because they can make more money plus Free college classes in college than they would in the minors with long bus rides and McDonalds food playing for the Council Bluffs Prairielanders or the Altoona Steelmen. I am not talking about off the charts high school players like Mike Trout or Bryce Harper, more about lower round draftees.

 

[vol66]

I have no idea if NIL has started to reach incoming and current college baseball players. Just curious if young guys are starting to turn down the chance to play in the minors because they can make more money plus Free college classes in college than they would in the minors with long bus rides and McDonalds food playing for the Council Bluffs Prairielanders or the Altoona Steelmen. I am not talking about off the charts high school players like Mike Trout or Bryce Harper, more about lower round draftees.

Levi Clark comes to mind and the lawsuit with Osuna regarding eligibility highlights it. Yes.

 

[Special Ed]

Is/will?

 

[HeavenUniversity]

Is/will?

Is—currently
Will—As it becomes more common and lucrative

 

[preacherman20]

Our NIL is not where it needs to be and I don’t know that we will ever get there. But I also know Tony is not trying to compete with the big boys. He has made it very clear that if you are just looking for money, he is not interested.

 

[Special Ed]

Is—currently
Will—As it becomes more common and lucrative

I was amused by the extrapolation of "Is NIL help college baseball"?, not by the extrapolation of "Will NIL help college baseball?"
Ergo my consternation.

 

[TnVol!]

Isn't/Wont.

 

[woodpusher]

I have no idea if NIL has started to reach incoming and current college baseball players. Just curious if young guys are starting to turn down the chance to play in the minors because they can make more money plus Free college classes in college than they would in the minors with long bus rides and McDonalds food playing for the Council Bluffs Prairielanders or the Altoona Steelmen. I am not talking about off the charts high school players like Mike Trout or Bryce Harper, more about lower round draftees.

It's the Altoona Curve, by the way. There's a "horseshoe curve" train track near there....then there's the play on words with "curve ball."

They're limited to 10.5 scholarships, no? And it's rare, maybe impossible, for a player to be on more than half scholarship?

I would think NIL would improve things for college baseball players, yes.

 

[HeavenUniversity]

Tough audience board police!
Altoona Curve? Heck, I just made up some names. Who would think Altoona would even have a team. Next thing you know, you guys will tell me there is no team called the Walla Wallas.

 

[vol66]

Tough audience board police!
Altoona Curve? Heck, I just made up some names. Who would think Altoona would even have a team. Next thing you know, you guys will tell me there is no team called the Walla Wallas.

Yer good, it’s a valid question, gotta have a thick skin here, but it seemed honest enough to me. If the spelling and punctuation police come for ya, it’s just part of it. Like ending a sentence with a preposition.

 

[taylorvol]

It's the Altoona Curve, by the way. There's a "horseshoe curve" train track near there....then there's the play on words with "curve ball."

They're limited to 10.5 scholarships, no? And it's rare, maybe impossible, for a player to be on more than half scholarship?

I would think NIL would improve things for college baseball players, yes.

limit was 11.7 scholarships but its been increased to 34 scholarships for 25/26 academic year IIRC.

 

[@1RBFjr]

limit was 11.7 scholarships but its been increased to 34 scholarships for 25/26 academic year IIRC.

I believe it’s up to the individual school to decide if they want to go to 34 full scholarships.

 

[knoxvol52]

Yer good, it’s a valid question, gotta have a thick skin here, but it seemed honest enough to me. If the spelling and punctuation police come for ya, it’s just part of it. Like ending a sentence with a preposition.

Well I paid off a 30 year mortgage 5 years early and writing a perfect sentence didn't have a thing to do with it.

 

[HeavenUniversity]

limit was 11.7 scholarships but its been increased to 34 scholarships for 25/26 academic year IIRC.

How College Baseball Scholarship Expansion Hurts Mid-Majors

J.J. Cooper delves into how the move from 11.7 to 34 scholarships has put smaller college baseball programs at a major disadvantage.

www.baseballamerica.com

 

[gohogs14]

Arkansas paid a good bit to get Cam Kozeal to transfer from Vandy. Not sure it’ll ever get HS draftees to turn down going pro if they’re good enough though, but we’re seeing more players go to college every year it seems.