What it really costs to build a championship caliber team

[nustudent]

1 hour ago, The Polish Rifle said:

100%. How we allocate funds is important too. Someone on another board sarcastically asked me if I was okay with Chucky giving 40% of our NIL budget. Hell yeah I am. I woulda much rather given Chucky 40% of our budget than Meah/Berke. Chucky/Gary/Williams core is winning a tournament game.

This 

[royalfan]

On 3/14/2025 at 2:17 PM, Vinny said:

If we had an extra million say, would you go get a $1 mil player, or swap say three 400k guys for three 700-750k guys? 

Good question.  Probably lean toward the million dollar player.  

[basketballjones]

2 hours ago, HuskerFever said:

 

Just apply for the job already! 

I do every time! No one ever seems to want a failed hs coach. 

[Bugeaters1]

 

[FredsSlacks]

unless berkshire hathaway wants to start paying recruits or high level transfers to come here, we are simply not going to get them. we are a dumpster fire of power5 program.

 

the football team will be fine because of it's national popularity and revenue, but basketball will be extremely difficult to dig out of the hole. 

 

i would imagine it's going to be more 3 star recruits and under the radar transfers...

Edited March 19 by FredsSlacks

[FredsSlacks]

On 3/17/2025 at 10:27 AM, The Polish Rifle said:

100%. How we allocate funds is important too. Someone on another board sarcastically asked me if I was okay with Chucky giving 40% of our NIL budget. Hell yeah I am. I woulda much rather given Chucky 40% of our budget than Meah/Berke. Chucky/Gary/Williams core is winning a tournament game.

that makes the most sense to pay the top 3 players the most and fill in the rest of the roster with guys who simply want playing time. some guys would rather have the playing time in the big 10 than big NIL money

[millerhusker]

2 hours ago, FredsSlacks said:

the football team will be fine

When?

[Huskerpapa]

3 hours ago, FredsSlacks said:

the football team will be fine

Please!!!  I lost my optimism several years ago.  I am hoping they will be fine.

[HuskerFever]

[Nebrasketball1979]

There has been good debate and conversation on this topic.  It feels like most everyone acknowledges that our NIL budget for the 2024-2025 season was average, at best, in the Big 10 and certainly not in the $5M+ range of the top tier of teams.  I think most everyone also agrees that our resource allocation and talent acquisition was poor last year.  Someone mentioned that we were likely not aggressive enough at the beginning of the portal window and then we overcompensated, got desperate, and overpaid at the end.  That feels right to me.

 

One thing I ponder...let's say Fred had been given a budget of $3.5M to $4M before the portal window opened last year. Still not in the top tier but I'm sure firmly in the top third of the conference.  Would this have changed Fred's approach?  I have no doubt that Fred knew where we stood, NIL wise, relative to our peers last year.  If you have less money to work with, I think Fred, in his conservative nature, surmised he had to be thrifty with his more limited resources and was looking for value.  What backfired last year is that there wasn't a lot of value to be had.  You had a handful of well resourced programs driving the prices up for all players.  I believe what Fred got left with was a smaller pool of players to choose from in an inflated market with the "desperate" teams willing to overpay at that point.  It feels like the NIL that players like Chucky got ended up being a bargain to what guys at the end of the portal window received.  This is obviously speculation but it seems to fit how we got to where we were with our roster acquisitions.

 

I'll be curious to see the adjustments we make this year.  Fred is no dummy and he will certainly adjust.  However, hopefully our NIL commitment is stronger this year.  If it's not, we're still likely asking and hoping for more than what's reasonable, at least on a year in and year out basis.   

[HuskerFever]

7 minutes ago, Nebrasketball1979 said:

Someone mentioned that we were likely not aggressive enough at the beginning of the portal window and then we overcompensated, got desperate, and overpaid at the end.  That feels right to me.

 

Good segue into something I've been thinking about the last few days but hadn't found a way to put it down on paper without it invoking polarized responses.

 

Preface: I'm excited we've got more basketball to play. And I'm excited for our players who decided they want to play more.

 

So here's the question. In theory, not from the perspective of the fans or the players (instead, from the perspective of what's best for the development of the program), is it better for teams to opt-out of these secondary tournaments and focus their attention purely on the transfer portal and filling out their rosters?

[cornfed24-7]

13 minutes ago, HuskerFever said:

 

Good segue into something I've been thinking about the last few days but hadn't found a way to put it down on paper without it invoking polarized responses.

 

Preface: I'm excited we've got more basketball to play. And I'm excited for our players who decided they want to play more.

 

So here's the question. In theory, not from the perspective of the fans or the players (instead, from the perspective of what's best for the development of the program), is it better for teams to opt-out of these secondary tournaments and focus their attention purely on the transfer portal and filling out their rosters?

My brain says yes my heart says no.

[Huskerpapa]

54 minutes ago, HuskerFever said:

 

Good segue into something I've been thinking about the last few days but hadn't found a way to put it down on paper without it invoking polarized responses.

 

Preface: I'm excited we've got more basketball to play. And I'm excited for our players who decided they want to play more.

 

So here's the question. In theory, not from the perspective of the fans or the players (instead, from the perspective of what's best for the development of the program), is it better for teams to opt-out of these secondary tournaments and focus their attention purely on the transfer portal and filling out their rosters?

Absolutely no reason you can't do both...plus recruit JUCO and high schools.  Today's technology and the access to private jet(s) allows the coaches and supporting staff to do all rather seamlessly. 

[Navin R. Johnson]

 

[FredsSlacks]

does revenue have to be shared equally because i feel like football will get most of it if not...

[nustudent]

4 minutes ago, FredsSlacks said:

does revenue have to be shared equally because i feel like football will get most of it if not...

It’ll get about 75% of it.   As it should.  

[HuskerFever]

37 minutes ago, FredsSlacks said:

does revenue have to be shared equally because i feel like football will get most of it if not...

 

It's based on university discretion. Saw some articles with P4 schools going 75% football, 15% men's basketball, 5% women's basketball, 5% other.

[hhcmatt]

it very much makes sense for Football to get the biggest share if for no other reason they have 120 guys or so on the roster

[The Polish Rifle]

1 hour ago, HuskerFever said:

 

It's based on university discretion. Saw some articles with P4 schools going 75% football, 15% men's basketball, 5% women's basketball, 5% other.

I think Volleyball will eat into Men’s Basketball Share at Nebraska. Most P5 schools will feed NIL and Revenue Share to 1. Football and 2. Men’s Basketball. At Nebraska we will feed NIL/Rev Share to 1. Football 2a. Men’s Basketball 2b. Volleyball. 
 

 

[Navin R. Johnson]

5 minutes ago, The Polish Rifle said:

I think Volleyball will eat into Men’s Basketball Share at Nebraska. Most P5 schools will feed NIL and Revenue Share to 1. Football and 2. Men’s Basketball. At Nebraska we will feed NIL/Rev Share to 1. Football 2a. Men’s Basketball 2b. Volleyball. 
 

 

 

Might take some out of football for volleyball as well.

[nustudent]

I don’t think volleyball will be taking away from football or men’s basketball. For nothing more than the fact that it’s terrible business given how much money those two sports make.   I do think it’ll pull away from the tertiary sports like women’s basketball, baseball and wrestling. And given the fact that women’s volleyball actually earns a profit, you can justify it.

[hhcmatt]

21 hours ago, Navin R. Johnson said:

 

 

All options?

 

[HuskerFever]

8 minutes ago, hhcmatt said:

 

All options?

 

 

All options?

 

[jimmykc]

I wonder how much Creighton has to allot to their football program?

[Navin R. Johnson]

1 hour ago, jimmykc said:

I wonder how much Creighton has to allot to their football program?

 

Good point. The UNL football program should ask for a cut.