It’s worth watching. It’s an E:60 special on NIL and revenue sharing and its effect on all levels of college sports.
A few takeaways:
1. Olivia Miles is making close to $1 million playing basketball at TCU. Her salary as a rookie in the WNBA would be about $75,000. Kind of confirms a conversation we had on here about Madina Okot’s earning potential at South Carolina.
2. Some niche programs are really taking a hit. They focused on Clarkson University’s hockey team. Men’s and women’s hockey are Clarkson’s only Division I programs (like DBU does with baseball) and they’re a regular NCAA tournament participant. They said they used to be able to compete with power programs like Michigan State for recruits, but now that those schools can offer paydays while Clarkson can’t, they’re not really in the conversation anymore.
3. It almost sounded like beating Notre Dame was the worst thing that happened to NIU. The coach said as soon as they won that game, suddenly his players were being bombarded with attention from power conference teams.
A few takeaways:
1. Olivia Miles is making close to $1 million playing basketball at TCU. Her salary as a rookie in the WNBA would be about $75,000. Kind of confirms a conversation we had on here about Madina Okot’s earning potential at South Carolina.
2. Some niche programs are really taking a hit. They focused on Clarkson University’s hockey team. Men’s and women’s hockey are Clarkson’s only Division I programs (like DBU does with baseball) and they’re a regular NCAA tournament participant. They said they used to be able to compete with power programs like Michigan State for recruits, but now that those schools can offer paydays while Clarkson can’t, they’re not really in the conversation anymore.
3. It almost sounded like beating Notre Dame was the worst thing that happened to NIU. The coach said as soon as they won that game, suddenly his players were being bombarded with attention from power conference teams.
