NIL Money

[Uncle Rico]

A few weeks ago the Milwaukee JS online had an article that UWM was trying to double their NIL fund to $200,000. In todays college basketball world what would that buy?

The Marquette roster according to some

[wadesworld]

The Marquette roster according to some

$200K too much, in my opinion.

[MuMark]

https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/the-10-million-club-college-basketballs-portal-recruiting-hits-unthinkable-levels-of-financial-chaos/

[BCHoopster]

$200K too much, in my opinion.

Every player on MU makes more then that!

[tower912]

Source?

[wadesworld]

Every player on MU makes more then that!

They should be entertaining me for free.

[Uncle Rico]

They should be entertaining me for free.

They get free school and room

[Jay Bee]

Every player on MU makes more then that!

Duh. MU education is worth millions (excluding liberal arts)

[Hards Alumni]

A few weeks ago the Milwaukee JS online had an article that UWM was trying to double their NIL fund to $200,000. In todays college basketball world what would that buy?

Two hours at the Bellagio if you know what you're doing.

[Scoop Snoop]

Source?

None of your damn business. BC said it. That's good enough for me, and it should be for you too.

[BCHoopster]

Source?

Maybe somebody who runs the COLLECTIVE!

[BCHoopster]

None of your damn business. BC said it. That's good enough for me, and it should be for you too.

Thanks for your support!

[GoldenEagles03]

Maybe somebody who runs the COLLECTIVE!

Wait. Shaka doesn't pay these guys out of his own pocket? What is he getting paid so much for then?

[Fieldhouse Flyer]

https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/the-10-million-club-college-basketballs-portal-recruiting-hits-unthinkable-levels-of-financial-chaos/

The $10 million club: College basketball's portal recruiting hits unthinkable levels of financial chaos

Matt Norlander, CBS Sports – April 17, 2025

More than 2,000 men's Division I basketball athletes entered the portal in the past three-plus weeks (it closes April 22).  What is driving the overwhelming number of these transfers is money, money, money ... and more money.

Five years ago, more than 4,400 Division I men's basketball players were legally and collectively paid a grand total of $0 in NIL earnings. That number is now promised to be in the hundreds of millions.

There are at least 8 teams that will have a $10,000,000+ roster in college basketball next season, per @247Sports sources.

Eight will prove to be too thin a crowd for college basketball's $10 million club. Based on a variety of sources, schools believed to be operating in the realm of this golden tier are:

Arkansas
BYU
Duke
Indiana
Kentucky
Louisville
Michigan
North Carolina
St. John's
Texas Tech
 
These programs either have $10 million committed already or are easily capable of reaching that total in roster-building efforts by the end of this year's transfer cycle. They are 2025's whales of the portal, loading up on most of the priciest players and drastically inflating the market in the process.

There's another group of schools a rung below this. Don't cry for these guys, as they're still hitting at least a hearty $8 million if required. This includes (but is not exclusive to) Auburn, Connecticut, Florida, Houston, Kansas, Kansas State, Miami, Purdue, Tennessee, Texas, UCLA, USC, Villanova, Virginia, and still a few more trying to get there in the coming weeks.

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https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/the-10-million-club-college-basketballs-portal-recruiting-hits-unthinkable-levels-of-financial-chaos/

Matt Norlander goes on to tell the Koby Brea story. I stand corrected – Kentucky paid Koby $1.2 million for last season

The coach quoted above had been recruiting a mid-major player who wasn't even top-three on his team in scoring. Nevertheless, this coach liked what he saw and thought the player could transfer up and maybe fight his way into the starting lineup. His school offered the player north of $500,000 — more than the coaching staff wanted, but bidding wars lead to some strange recruiting tributaries.

They didn't get the player.

A competing school swiftly came over the top and signed him for $1 million. (Another coach I checked in with to verify the story claimed the number is in fact $1.2 million.) The player was so bowled over by the offer, he signed a contract even before eventually calling and telling the other school what he'd done.

"I could hear it in his voice, just how shocked he was by the amount of money they were promising him," the coach who lost out said.

A role player on a mid-major that failed to make the NCAA Tournament will be paid at least $1 million next season. That's where we're at in college hoops. It's just one amazing story out of hundreds being swapped across the sport these days.

What a difference a year makes – Post #23

I'll start by introducing you to Koby Brea – a totally unknown, unscouted, unrahked high school senior five years ago, who received only one Division I basketball scholarship offer – from Coach Anthony Grant.

Koby Brea Recruiting Profile (HS Class of 2020) – 247 Sports

Koby Brea Bio – Dayton Flyers official website

Koby rarely, if ever, was in the Flyers' starting line-up during his injury-plagued four seasons at Dayton. His injuries hampered his lateral movement, so he was a defensive liability, but kept working to improve his strength and mobility.

Last summer it was learned (from multiple sources in UD's wealthy benefactor / NIL syndicate) that the Kentucky's wealthy benefactor / NIL syndicate had offered Koby $1 million to play is fifth season at Kentucky.  Dayton's NIL syndicate (not nearly as rich as Kentucky's) could only come up with $500,000 fo the 2024-25 season, so they wished Koby well, as he now had a fiancée and child to support.

Kentucky Lands Koby Brea; Dayton Transfer Considered Duke, UNC, More – Bleacher Report – May 2, 2024
Koby Brea Bio – Kentucky Wildcats official website

Koby Brea Career Stats – ESPN – updated March 24, 2025

As things turned out, Kentucky is getting their money's worth.
 
The moral of this story is highly relevant to the Big East conference, as well as the other triple-A conferences:

If P4 programs such as Kentucky can afford to pay $1 million per season for a Dayton Flyers' reserve player, they can afford to buy most players on Big East rosters, and the situation will only become worse in the future, as the P4 conferences are widening the gap over triple-A conferences in both the accumulation of NCAA Tournament 'credits' for wins, and the value of TV media rights contracts between the P4 conferences and triple-A conferences is widening each year. They're going to have a lot of money to spend in the years ahead, and that's a direct threat to Big East and the other triple-A conferences.

 
 

[79Warrior]

Maybe somebody who runs the COLLECTIVE!

Doubt it. That would have taken out the entire budget for 2024 and left nothing for WBB.If you knew that person he would confirm.

[MU82]

Given that two of the 11 Big East schools are already in the $8 million club (per Norlander), and several others (including Marquette) also have multimillion-dollar NIL budgets, Flyer should focus on his mid-major conference rather than obsess about the league that doesn't want his lame-azz school.

[BCHoopster]

Doubt it. That would have taken out the entire budget for 2024 and left nothing for WBB.If you knew that person he would confirm.

Why

[tower912]

Maybe somebody who runs the COLLECTIVE!

Or maybe not.
I believe 79Warrior. 

[BCHoopster]

Or maybe not.

I would say your wrong, totally

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

Given that two of the 11 Big East schools are already in the $8 million club (per Norlander), and several others (including Marquette) also have multimillion-dollar NIL budgets, Flyer should focus on his mid-major conference rather than obsess about the league that doesn't want his lame-azz school.

Trying to lure us to the A10.

[Jay Bee]

I would say your wrong, totally

Incredible.

[wadesworld]

The $10 million club: College basketball's portal recruiting hits unthinkable levels of financial chaos

Matt Norlander, CBS Sports – April 17, 2025
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Matt Norlander goes on to tell the Koby Brea story. I stand corrected – Kentucky paid Koby $1.2 million for last season

Thanks. Read about 1/20th of this post. More than most of yours.

[Uncle Rico]

The $10 million club: College basketball's portal recruiting hits unthinkable levels of financial chaos

Matt Norlander, CBS Sports – April 17, 2025
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Matt Norlander goes on to tell the Koby Brea story. I stand corrected – Kentucky paid Koby $1.2 million for last season

Are your maladjusted antisocial tendencies due to that of a berserk pituitary gland?

[79Warrior]

Why

If you knew why you would not be asking because you have a great source.

[warriorchick]

Spot. On.

https://www.foxsports.com/stories/college-basketball/college-basketballs-lawless-cesspool-transfer-portal-must-fixed