NIL – Is there a way for us to compete?

[Torg]

I only understand NIL on a basic level so please talk to me like a 5 year old on this.

 

What I am curious to know, how much money would we realistically need to have ready for competitive recruiting classes? Is it possible for us to become competitive in in the future? 

[RedUte14]

OnlyU and others give great responses to this in some other posts. I would look for those back a few pages.

[UteThunder]

To truly compete, we need a Phil Knight type booster who loves Utah football so much they are willing to pay millions of dollars to recruits who choose to play at Utah. Local businesses throwing a few thousand dollars at our current players is nice but that’s not going to cut it when it comes to luring 4 and 5 star recruits.  

[Torg]

Gail Miller, if youre lurking on this forum…please return Mark Harlan’s phone call. 

[Utesbyfive]

Mark Harlan, nor anyone with the program, can be involved with NIL deals. NIL is all athlete to agent to “business.”

[UtahFootballGM]

i’ll be handling that position soon. 

[DrJazzy]

No – we just don’t have the wealthy alumni base that other more established programs have. We could outwork some programs like we do on the field – have a more coordinated and collaborative effort to get elite players the money/exposure they need – involve local businesses…but this takes a lot of work and so far we seem to be falling behind. 

Every major player has a large fan collective now. AZ was able to completely flip their recruiting with NIL money. 

[OldAsDirtUte]

If we could match the big donors NIL, then they would raise up the numbers again.

A never-ending spiral.

[UteBacker]

No way.

On a positive note- we just got a hell of a lot more return on investment on our NIL payouts than those guys from So Cal just did…

[UteManX]

We do have some wealthy alumni, we just need them to care more about football. We have Adobe, Atari, Pixar, that DJ Kaskade, a Piano Guy or something. If TDS can do it with a guy who has a survey website/jazz owner. I do not see why we can’t. I was slightly connected to Basketball until a couple years ago and there was some more talk of some alumni donations/NIL deals, but I am not sure if that resulted in anything or if it will. Fingers Crossed.

[jamarcus24]

Well, to give you an idea here is a link to an article that suggests the #3 overall recruit in the 2023 class (according to 247) has an NIL deal potentially worth up to $8 million over the course of his collegiate career.  He may actually be making money from this deal already.  He is committed to Tennessee.

Nico Iamaleava NIL Deal

 

 

[utefansince79]

way things are headed, players with great pro potential may decide to stay in college playng all four years because it will pay more than moving to the NFL 

 

[Extra Medium]

We need an NIL coordinator on staff who can actively engage stewing athletes and companies. We need alumni who don’t want their name on a building but would rather throw a few $m at some athletes. It will be Wild West for a few years but it will eventually blow up and the NIL deals will come back to earth.