Billionaire Boosters Behind March Madness

Seton75

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Repole is featured in some SJ commercials. We saw one during the BET final
 

HALL85

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CBB today is like owning a luxury box at Yankee Stadium. If you’re worried about what they cost you shouldn’t own one.
 

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Repole gave much more than $1M to St Johns. Rumors say he matches their NIL contribution and has pledged upwards of $8M per year. Not to mention the free apartment he gave to Kadary and I am sure other perks to current players.
 
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cernjSHU

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This article is really what college basketball has become. And really colleges athletics as a whole. Who has the billionaires and do they donate.
 
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Seton75

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You mean we can’t fund NIL with trading cards and baseball caps?

Oddly, the way the game is operating today, having billionaire alumni is the only sustainable model.
It is hard to believe this model can be seen by anyone as the best way to go. Sanity anyobe?
 

dehere23

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Punchable face with his pot belly trying to shoot a basketball in the commercial. Shameful, but he owns the university now I guess
I saw on Twitter the commercial you are referencing -- where he does look awful shooting a basketball for 1 second -- but I just don't why this guy drives people nuts here. It's a commercial for the University where he is talking about how the education he got helped propel him to success in the business world. Isn't that the type of commercial all these schools run with their alumni success stories?
 

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I saw on Twitter the commercial you are referencing -- where he does look awful shooting a basketball for 1 second -- but I just don't why this guy drives people nuts here. It's a commercial for the University where he is talking about how the education he got helped propel him to success in the business world. Isn't that the type of commercial all these schools run with their alumni success stories?
If our billionaire alumnus was an egotistical jocksniffer and contributed greatly to rev sharing, we'd all be thrilled instead of making fun of other egotistical jocksniffers.
 

dehere23

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If our billionaire alumnus was an egotistical jocksniffer and contributed greatly to rev sharing, we'd all be thrilled instead of making fun of other egotistical jocksniffers.
That's the truth.

I was actually surfing the Merrimack forum for the first time ever this morning. I was shocked at the amount of posts and vitriol talking about this guy "Dan" and his efforts to steal Budd Clark through Seton Hall's NIL war chest.
 
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That's the truth.

I was actually surfing the Merrimack forum for the first time ever this morning. I was shocked at the amount of posts and vitriol talking about this guy "Dan" and his efforts to steal Budd Clark through Seton Hall's NIL war chest.
On the Merrimack forums? What are you, like a double agent now? matt helm?
 
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HALL85

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If our billionaire alumnus was an egotistical jocksniffer and contributed greatly to rev sharing, we'd all be thrilled instead of making fun of other egotistical jocksniffers.
CBB has turned into F1 racing. Billionaires with their toys.
 

Seton75

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If our billionaire alumnus was an egotistical jocksniffer and contributed greatly to rev sharing, we'd all be thrilled instead of making fun of other egotistical jocksniffers.
In other words, I'm jealous. So sue me!