HB

Yeah, I hated to root for UConn against Creighton.....but still, I had to

I think it was the talent level on the court.

Not a good look to lose him to NC State.

We are so screwed.

Any chance CSU would rehire Miles?

The "let 'em play!" crowd.

We paid Meah even more.

Washington

They sign personal services contracts with NIL and are deemed to be independent contractors. They get 1099s for tax purposes rather than W-2s. Would not be subject to public disclosure of salaries. Once the Universities are paying the players directly--soon--I would expect a legal challenge to the players' status. And perhaps compelling payment info.

I believe yes. Things have been changing dramatically with NIL over the past couple of years. Prices escalated substantially. Last portal season that happened to a large degree in just the few weeks of the portal season. That is, from the time Gary and Williams signed their deals, to the time Meah and Berke were signed. Agents were figuring out leverage, and perceived desperation drives up prices.

Of course, you can't. And you won't. Even when the University makes it's own spend in the near future, you won't hear what each individual player is getting. Not sure if we'll even know how the roughly $22 million is allocated among the programs. And feel free to be skeptical about what you see thrown around on message boards, because a lot of it is indeed wrong. But sometimes the info comes from people close to Fred, or the donors, or the NIL leaders, and is pretty accurate. Hard for the reader to parse out who might be just throwing out inaccurate hearsay, and those who know some stuff.

They got there's tonight. St. Johns whupped their ass. Love it.

Got bad news for you. Meah and Berke were more than a combined $1M.

We have donors very willing to donate to basketball NIL. The problem there aren't enough of them, and many of them are constantly getting hit up on all fronts--football, facilities, etc. It's "hey , we have an interior lineman from Notre Dame and we need a hundred grand from you (or your business) to get him." Then it's "hey, we have a post defender we can get but we need a hundred grand from you to do it." These relatively few individuals and entities are the "usual suspects", who do pretty darn well and resist donor fatigue pretty staunchly. Fred has the support of these folks. We just need more of them, as there's only so much they can do.

Affirmative on getting tossed. Final game? I'll believe it when I see it.