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As long as it’s not Church money being used at BYU – and it’s not – then more power to them. Rumor has it that there are multiple billionaires supporting BYU basketball. There’s nothing hypocritical about it whether from the Church or from BYU.

At the point that I’m writing this, the U automatically accepts all students from the Canyons, Davis, Granite and Provo school districts who have a 3.5 GPA or higher at the start of their senior year.

Holy lipstick on a pig . . .

One factor I think is being overlooked.

Academics! What do I mean? College football/P4 status means an incredible amount of money is poured into P4 universities.

The academics and research done at many universities, including the University of Utah, experiences an incredible increase in funding. An increased draw for better quality faculty, and…[Read more]

Well, the issue there is that in the NBA there are a multitude of persons who are both smarter and richer than Smith.

Clark Gilbert is not paying nor is the church nor is BYU.

However, he DID make the statement when asked about NIL money. And he is a church General Authority.

The timing of his statement absolutely makes it relevant, and regardless of the fact that it is a booster (Ryan Smith) doing the paying, one cannot just disconnect Gilbert’s statement…[Read more]

I didn’t know Isaac had his own publicist.

Better yet, have the NFL pay for it since it is the organization that receives all of the benefits of free player development. I can’t believe how, in all of this, the NFL gets a free pass. Have each NFL team take a few college teams in its regional location and use them as farm teams in some sort of subsidized league along with the networks.…[Read more]

This just seems to explain so much:

Someone who is not in the program yet. I’m sure we’ll add at least two RBs from the portal.

It would be nice if Ryan Smith could make the Jazz competitive. It seems that his priority is BYU.

Agreed, as far as the lds church is concerned they aren’t doing anything wrong. Ryan Smith is just making an interesting financial decision.

NIL

Look, I understand the gripe. But is Clark Gilbert paying the athlete? Is the athletic department paying the athlete? If Nike wants to pay a guy to sign with Oregon, does the Oregon Athletic Director get to void that contract? What is Clark Gilbert’s role in deciding whether a booster can pay an athlete? The whole point of NIL is that players get…[Read more]

byu better hope college athletes become employees or the athletics programs split off from the actual school in some capacity soon. It’s not sustainable and higher church leaders will probably have problems with it, along with everyone who isn’t a dumb byu fan. I don’t have anything against this rules wise, it’s just dumb. Maybe if we’re lucky…[Read more]

It’s sustainable through having 1 billionaire donor that is crazy about hoops and wants to create a mini G league at his Alma mater. For BYU, not for most public institutions. I still am confused as to how the donors monetize their donations but when money doesn’t matter (essentially they are throwing it into a raging fire with no monetary…[Read more]

How is this sustainable? I listened to Joel Klatt talk about the Michigan kid that got $11 mil for his deal but said it will be null in the coming months with profit sharing on the horizon. Anyone have any insight or knowledge on this, and what that will look like going forward?
The current model just isn’t it.

100% agree

I maintain NIL benefits schools like BYU, Notre Dame, USC more than public institutions. They avoid being audited by a state legislature that gets pissed that their school somehow got left out of a conference.