2025 recruiting....
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Great ideas and these are exactly the sort of ideas that the NIL was meant to lead to…. If people buy a “Cadeau” shirt then Elliot should benefit from the sale.
I’m sure he’s not happy…. Losing recruits due to a screwed up system must suck.
But as I say, the current numbers being bandied about for recruits is, in my opinion, financially unsustainable…. The only reason BYU can think of offering $4m+ to AJ Dybansta is because the owner of the Utah Jazz has given them a blank cheque… but will he do that every year? Maybe, maybe not, but it’s very hard to budget based on donations alone.
Well, it looks like you’ve found a job for yourself! Hit the phones and get out there drumming up donations!Only 967 followers for UNC's official NIL. Seems like engaging the millions of UNC fans across the world should be a priority.
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Just curious is there someone out there better than TJ we could hire going forward or would it matter ...
I would argue we couldn't hire much worse. We don't have the money to get the recruits Hubert wants, and there's been basically no effort to sustain engagement from the UNC fans across the world. Every aspect of our NIL failures falls at Beisner's feet.
That's not true at all. TJ Beisner was being run out of Lexington when we tossed him a lifeline. He was one of many staff members on the chopping block as the Calipari era was crashing down.
Kentucky is now doing far, far better with NIL since Beisner left.
The proof is in the pudding. While Hubert Davis is telling his donors we don't have enough NIL money to compete, Kentucky is in the process of buying 4 recruits that Hubert offered in 2025.
If he was run out of UK .. I think the same needs to happen at UNC
There were several uk fans complaining about their NIL when he was there. I was pretty shocked to see him hired by Carolina given the state of uk’s NIL at the time.
I think you are assuming that there are that many unc fans that care enough about paying players to keep up with the crap show. I’m torn, on one hand I’m done with sports in general because no one is worth millions to play a sport , much less in college. All my opinions of course. Bigger fish to fry and a whole lot of more important things in this world than sports, even UNC sports. On the other, it’s hard to see UNC struggle to keep up with everyone paying. Still a passion but it’s lost its luster for sure. Honestly it sucks to even type these words but true for me nonetheless.
There are countless UNC fans out there and tons of creative ways to engage those fans. There's no reason UNC's NIL collective shouldn't be at the forefront when it comes to engaging the fans.
Ahh, there was an age when people volunteered to raise funds for a cause because they thought the cause worthy enough….
Maybe I’m just old fashioned, or maybe not enough people believe it’s worthwhile to donate millions of dollars to pay for unproven mercenaries who’ll unlikely ever attain a degree.
And even if there are enough like minded people, how often can you keep tapping them if the results don’t come?
Agree 100%.
NIL was put in place to reward college athletes for the profile they accumulated whilst playing at college, not to create bidding wars for entitled, unproven high schoolers.
Good point. Better to just keep paying a guy a couple hundred thousand dollars a year to do an awful job leading our NIL, and make absolutely no effort to engage the countless UNC fans.
It's not like UNC fans would ever want to buy signed jerseys of current or former players, or go to meet and greets, or attend a practice, or attend a dinner with the team, or attend a fantasy camp... no we should definitely not raise NIL money by offering opportunities like these.
We should definitely just adopt the policy of "I'm too old to change" and make absolutely no effort.
What you’re really asking is “are there really enough people out there without a life who live and die with UNC sports AND have the expendable income to waste on something as trivial and inconsequential as college sports that they’d give money to get better players (who are already receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars worth in education/training/etc.) so their favorite sports team can win more?”
Interesting question. The answer is sadly, “probably”.
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