Portal thread. Who’s leaving, who’s coming.

[vegashog]

The money people didn't like the buyout HY restructured for Pittman. That's why no one ponied up last year. Arkansas has repeatedly pissed off donors for several years now.

you conveniently leave out the bot who has to approve it.

[Barton Fink]

Why would they do that when the AD and coach spent the first couple of years bitching about it and how horrible it was?

Maybe to try and win more games?

So if we aren't competitive with NIL the coaches should keep quiet about it?

[buff2.0]

Finish what? Destroying the program further?

Skittles.  He hid a 50 pound sack under his locker.

[Feral]

The money people didn't like the buyout HY restructured for Pittman. That's why no one ponied up last year. Arkansas has repeatedly pissed off donors for several years now.

If we have an AD who repeatedly pisses boosters off, why don't they fire him?

Or do our boosters simply not give a shit anymore?

[vegashog]

If we have an AD who repeatedly pisses boosters off, why don't they fire him?

Or do our boosters simply not give a shit anymore?

exactly. folks want to completely ignore the guys who actually sign the checks.

[buff2.0]

exactly. folks want to completely ignore the guys who actually sign the checks.

I'm violently hatefucking the voodoo doll but I think they actually like the feeling.

[DrMongoose]

https://www.nwaonline.com/news/2024/aug/13/ua-system-trustees-briefed-on-impact-of-nil/

This was printed on August 13,:2024. What has changed since then?


MORRILTON -- Though the rapidly changing landscape of college athletics may soon include schools paying athletes directly -- at least under a proposed settlement to multiple lawsuits -- one member of the University of Arkansas System board of trustees sees a grand opportunity for Razorback athletics.

"We have a top-20 (athletic) program in 'the old world' -- good -- let's be top-5 in the new world," trustee Scott Ford said Tuesday during a briefing for trustees at their annual retreat at the Winthrop Rockefeller Center by UA-Fayetteville Athletic Director Hunter Yurachek and Matt McCoy, the University of Arkansas System senior associate general counsel for Athletics. Rather than "bemoan" the new landscape, "think about using it to our advantage."

"Go raise more (money) than anyone else, (and) let's win," added Ford, co-founder of Westrock Coffee and CEO since 2009. "Let's be a champion of this" new era.

Those who "figure out the rules and how to compete in this (environment) will be the winners," seconded trustee Ed Fryar.
In Arkansas, "people step up, a huge positive for us," Yurachek said. "We have a very giving and supportive state."

For example, Oaklawn Racing Casino Resort recently made a $500,000 donation to the Arkansas Razorbacks Foundation. Oaklawn has also made it possible for jackpot winners to donate to the Razorbacks.
However, the university will need support more than ever if a proposed settlement of class-action lawsuits that challenged the NCAA's prohibition against student-athletes receiving compensation for their name, image, and likeness (NIL) and accessing the market for licensing/sale of their NIL is approved, Yurachek said.

Among other restrictions, the courts have since judged as illegal restraint of trade and antitrust violations by the NCAA.
UA-Fayetteville expects to have to share roughly $21.5 million with student-athletes -- mostly for football and men's basketball players -- next year as part of the proposed settlement, a sum "we don't have sitting there for us."

Entering fiscal year 2024-25, the program has $173 million in expenses and the same in revenues, Yurachek said, so "I need to find levers to increase revenues and decrease expenses" in order to find that $21.5 million next year.

Note: in the email Hunter sent out this fall it only accounted for 17.1 of the 21.5 million

That $21.5 million figure is expected to be the maximum schools in the SEC can pay in the first year of the settlement, "and we intend to participate 100%."

"It's a significant hill to climb, not as simple as flipping a switch and saying 'we're going to be highly competitive,'" he said. "We're working on a plan with several options, (but) we need to find solutions together."

Should the $2.7 billion class-action settlement -- which stems from a lawsuit filed in 2020 by former Arizona State University swimmer Grant House and TCU/University of Oregon basketball player Sedona Prince, as well as Hubbard v. NCAA and Carter v. NCAA -- be approved, it will provide the framework for college sports after July 2025, McCoy said.

Though payments directly from schools -- rather than boosters and other third parties -- would be voluntary, "the reality is if any school does it, all will do it."

Beginning with the 2025-26 academic year, schools would be able to pay student-athletes up to 22% of the average broadcast, sponsorship, and ticket revenue from the five "power" conferences, which includes the SEC.

Schools can categorize how to classify the payments, but student-athletes must report all NIL deals to schools and the "designated reporting entity," McCoy said. Athletic scholarship limits for Division I schools would be eliminated, and new roster limits would be adopted.

Schools and conferences can reduce roster sizes and the number of sports offered, but no scholarships can be taken away from student-athletes already on scholarship, he said. Roster limits also cannot drop below current NCAA scholarship limits.

Most decisions and regulations would be left to individual conferences, but conferences cannot "collude" with one another, and all Division I athletes dating back to 2016 are eligible to receive a share as part of the settlement class, McCoy said.

Schools' contracting with individual athletes will likely be time-consuming and challenging, and other provisions of the proposed settlement -- such as a stipulation that boosters/collectives can't enter into NIL deals with student-athletes unless market rate compensation rates/terms are commensurate with compensation paid to similarly situated individuals with comparable NIL value -- may be ripe for additional lawsuits.

The settlement is likely to be challenged, especially because there's no real legal precedent, said David Curran, the UA System's general counsel and vice president for legal affairs. "It's cutting new territory."

Under the proposed settlement, individual conferences would determine what a "non-legal booster NIL deal" is, as third parties who are non-boosters can pay student-athletes for NIL sans restrictions, McCoy said.

However, entities owned, controlled, or operated by a school are not third parties, so their payments count toward the "cap" on what schools can pay, estimated between $20 million and $22 million.
Schools not in the five power conferences of Division 1 that wish to provide new benefits to student-athletes permitted by the proposed settlement can do so, but are bound by the limits and obligations of the proposed settlement, he said.

The NCAA and conferences are permitted to require progress toward a degree as part of agreements, as well as permit student-athletes to rescind non-compliant NIL deals and return benefits to maintain eligibility to compete.

UA-Fayetteville has been a leader in this new space with its Flagship offering, which provides tutelage for student-athletes on everything from developing limited-liability corporations to how to handle their taxes from NIL income, McCoy said.

The state also passed legislation in 2023 to help schools in Arkansas, including a provision that student-athletes in Arkansas can cancel their college NIL deals when they go professional, not continue to be bound to them.

Even if the proposed settlement is approved, additional questions and concerns will remain, McCoy and Yurachek said.

For example, the question of whether student-athletes are "employees" could be decided by the courts, and schools may struggle with complying with Title IX laws when disbursing funds to student-athletes, as many women's sports don't generate revenue near the amount generated by football and men's basketball.

[Pig Benis]

Well since you pointed it out. No one on this board is gonna piss a drop but you fucking know the money will come. I'll believe it when I see it. You'd think if the people with money wanted to win they'd try harder once NIL went into effect.

They did for baseball and basketball.

[animal]

Skittles.  He hid a 50 pound sack under his locker.

those go bad after about a year. That deer camp 2023 candy I found in my jacket just went down rough. 

[Thin Red Swine]

Honestly yes I think culture is more important, if the environment is so bad that many of your best players are leaving irrespective of NIL offers, which appears to be happening now. 

Our coordinators are very good but it's not a given that they are better than the ones the next coach would bring. 

When Petrino was here as head coach our coordinators were mediocre at best. 

Or if Petrino is still the best thing since sliced bread as average Joes can see, surely a coach who has been trained and has deep experience in the sport could recognize that and keep him around?

[egregious]

you conveniently leave out the bot who has to approve it.

We need to go to Nvidia or whoever and get out bot reprogrammed

[vegashog]

We need to go to Nvidia or whoever and get out bot reprogrammed

we got the special needs ai.

[buff2.0]

we got the special needs ai.

This is Arkansas; we are totally in favor of AI.  In fact, we were a pioneer in that field.  It's just that... well, we're not sure how artificial insemination is going to actually help the football team win games.

[The Whyte Boar]

This is Arkansas; we are totally in favor of AI.  In fact, we were a pioneer in that field.  It's just that... well, we're not sure how artificial insemination is going to actually help the football team win games.

We got thousands of little Darren McFaddens on the way.  Of course, DMac didn't understand the artificial insemination and did about half of them himself.

[Texzilla]

we got the special needs ai.

Yuri bought it from Temu

[Texzilla]

KJ Jefferson got a 7th year of eligibility and will hit the portal.  Some thoughts he wants to return to UA

[vegashog]

KJ Jefferson got a 7th year of eligibility and will hit the portal.  Some thoughts he wants to return to UA

that x post was a troll. he ain't coming back to arkansas.

[TC]

KJ Jefferson got a 7th year of eligibility and will hit the portal.  Some thoughts he wants to return to UA

I'll be laughing at the woopig hicks when he and Briles get back together for that Heisman run.

[Third_down_draw]

Ive expected better since at least 1985. 

When are we going to be better?

Hold. That. Rope.

[TC]

Maybe to try and win more games?

Pittman is 4 of 14 in games decided by a touchdown or less. That's with multiple coordinators on both sides of the ball.

That's not a NIL problem.