2025 F A’mare Bynum -> Ohio St

[HuscurAdam]

Not too surprising. OSU is a name program with NIL $$$ coming out the wazoo.

[basketballjones]

Word of advice for the board and fans of recruiting.... 

Omaha is not "Nebraska" and the kids here have absolutely zero, zilch, nada affiliation with the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. If ya hear of a good Omaha kid, you might as well consider them an out-of-state recruit and judge accordingly. 

[TourneyBound]

30 minutes ago, basketballjones said:

Word of advice for the board and fans of recruiting.... 

Omaha is not "Nebraska" and the kids here have absolutely zero, zilch, nada affiliation with the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. If ya hear of a good Omaha kid, you might as well consider them an out-of-state recruit and judge accordingly. 

Ya really feels like coaches are wasting there time with these kids and they are just giving us sympathy visits or using us to get better offers in their minds!  Frustrating. Robin kept saying how he felt good with Bynum and Nebraskas chances but it feels like we were never really an option.  Odd fit and prolly just went there because they offered him most money. Good luck to him

Edited October 24 by TourneyBound

[arliepro]

Just now, TourneyBound said:

Ya really feels like coaches are wasting there time with these kids and they are just giving us sympathy visits or using us to get better offers in their minds!  Frustrating. Robin kept saying how he felt good with Bynum and Nebraskas chances but it feels like we were never really an option.

Gonna be tough to have success recruiting in Omaha until the Huskers are better than Creighton.

[basketballjones]

1 minute ago, TourneyBound said:

feels like coaches are wasting there time with these kids 

I disagree. You have to go after them. You just have to re-evaluate your approach and expectations. Can't treat them as an in-state kid. 

[Huskerpapa]

29 minutes ago, basketballjones said:

Word of advice for the board and fans of recruiting.... 

Omaha is not "Nebraska" and the kids here have absolutely zero, zilch, nada affiliation with the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. If ya hear of a good Omaha kid, you might as well consider them an out-of-state recruit and judge accordingly. 

There isn't an allegiance to the basketball program;  but there are pockets of pro Nebraska with the coaches and players.  Where you say 0%, I would suggest there are those that still bleed Nebraska red.  Then of course there is football and baseball and many Olympic type sports that are solid husker red.

[hhcmatt]

 In the transfer portal era it's not a waste of time to build relationships with potential transfer portal entrants.  In the meantime, our NIL money is probably better spent recruiting the MVC. 

[basketballjones]

6 minutes ago, Huskerpapa said:

There isn't an allegiance to the basketball program;  but there are pockets of pro Nebraska with the coaches and players.  Where you say 0%, I would suggest there are those that still bleed Nebraska red.  Then of course there is football and baseball and many Olympic type sports that are solid husker red.

I am afforded a bit of exaggeration, you know. It's the internet. 

[Vinny]

3 hours ago, arliepro said:

Gonna be tough to have success recruiting in Omaha until the Huskers are better than Creighton.

Is he going to Creighton?

[Chuck Taylor]

10 hours ago, hhcmatt said:

 In the transfer portal era it's not a waste of time to build relationships with potential transfer portal entrants.  In the meantime, our NIL money is probably better spent recruiting the MVC. 

Do we know that our NIL money is subpar? I know everyone says that because they think we're getting outbid for kids, but I think recruits are more interested in relationships and team success than we want to acknowledge.

 

We might not be able to compete with tOSU for money, but are we really at such a low level? 

[hhcmatt]

9 hours ago, Vinny said:

Is he going to Creighton?

 

Creighton didn't appear to be on the list.  As good as they are there is certainly a subset of kids from Omaha who are not going there.

[Vinny]

6 minutes ago, hhcmatt said:

 

Creighton didn't appear to be on the list.  As good as they are there is certainly a subset of kids from Omaha who are not going there.

That’s kind of the point I was trying to get at. He’s not going to Creighton either, so what does one school being better than the other have to do with this?

[49r]

2 hours ago, Chuck Taylor said:

Do we know that our NIL money is subpar? I know everyone says that because they think we're getting outbid for kids, but I think recruits are more interested in relationships and team success than we want to acknowledge.

 

We might not be able to compete with tOSU for money, but are we really at such a low level? 

 

I read an article a few days ago outlining the NIL budgets for all sports of the top schools around the nation and Ohio State's NIL collectives report spending somewhere around 3 times as much as Nebraska's.  You can check that all out here in the section labeled Projected NIL Collective Funding by NCAA I School: https://nil-ncaa.com/collectives/

 

  We compare most closely to Iowa State, Missouri, Kansas, Minnesota, etc.  Right at #30 overall.  Keep in mind that private schools are not included in this survey so schools like USC, Stanford, Notre Dame et. al. are also likely ahead of us too so we're probably more like #35 or #40.  So yeah, it's pretty sub par.

[OmahaHusker]

15 minutes ago, 49r said:

 

I read an article a few days ago outlining the NIL budgets for all sports of the top schools around the nation and Ohio State's NIL collectives report spending somewhere around 3 times as much as Nebraska's.  You can check that all out here in the section labeled Projected NIL Collective Funding by NCAA I School: https://nil-ncaa.com/collectives/

 

  We compare most closely to Iowa State, Missouri, Kansas, Minnesota, etc.  Right at #30 overall.  Keep in mind that private schools are not included in this survey so schools like USC, Stanford, Notre Dame et. al. are also likely ahead of us too so we're probably more like #35 or #40.  So yeah, it's pretty sub par.

 

We don't have the alumni base these other schools do for more cash. It's just a numbers game. To be competitive in football NIL spending, it's going to take away from the other sports. 

[Navin R. Johnson]

42 minutes ago, OmahaHusker said:

 

We don't have the alumni base these other schools do for more cash. It's just a numbers game. To be competitive in football NIL spending, it's going to take away from the other sports. 

 

I would think this would give Creighton an advantage over Nebraska in basketball NIL funding.  It would be interesting to see the numbers and also a break down of how much NIL money every player in college sports receives.

[hhcmatt]

We're at a level where we need to be pragmatic with our NIL. Is Bynum going to come in next year and play 15-20 minutes?  Is he going to play at an all-conference level in 2-3 years?  If we think the answer is yes then I think we up our allocation towards him and maybe the outcome is different.  Reading through this thread he has all the tools but it's a question of when or maybe if he puts it together.  On the other side look at the haul of guys we brought in this season of transfers who have 1-4 years of experience in college basketball. We were able to flip Morgan from Minnesota because we didn't have NIL tied up. At some points we probably lower our ceiling but this seems to be a good strategy to keep our floor high.

 

 

[Dead Dog Alley]

15 hours ago, hhcmatt said:

 In the transfer portal era it's not a waste of time to build relationships with potential transfer portal entrants.  In the meantime, our NIL money is probably better spent recruiting the MVC. 

 

I'd put the over/under on the eventual number of alma maters for Bynum at 2.5

[Art Vandalay]

6 hours ago, hhcmatt said:

We're at a level where we need to be pragmatic with our NIL. Is Bynum going to come in next year and play 15-20 minutes?  Is he going to play at an all-conference level in 2-3 years?  If we think the answer is yes then I think we up our allocation towards him and maybe the outcome is different.  Reading through this thread he has all the tools but it's a question of when or maybe if he puts it together.  On the other side look at the haul of guys we brought in this season of transfers who have 1-4 years of experience in college basketball. We were able to flip Morgan from Minnesota because we didn't have NIL tied up. At some points we probably lower our ceiling but this seems to be a good strategy to keep our floor high.

 

 

Agree. It appears to me Fred would rather use NIL on transfers who have experience and less risky on what you get. I don’t blame him if you assume we have a fairly set budget that you need to stick to. Even if the budget is decent sized.

 

BYU was just given an open check book by the owner of the Jazz and reportedly offering $4M to the #1 recruit next year.