It isn't just about direct selling to the public as much as it is showing the community that you invest in things they are interested in. It is all about demonstrating that you are a good neighbor and not just in the community to be a taker of available resources of the human type, plus huge tax breaks.
BYU's NIL money
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Biggest employer in Lexington is ? What about the horse industry big money floating around Lex in that dept also.
Sheiks don't care about UK basketball.
I'm sure their plant manager has an amount he can spend on community based things but it wouldn't rise to the level of an NIL contribution to UK.
What about WKU,'s NIL?
LA is 25 miles from their campus.
Like I said though NIL contribution is above a plant managers pay grade.
That call would have to be from Alcoa/ Alcan corporate.
I have no idea where they are based or even if they're American owned.
Well there is a lot of NIL money floating around the country and not all of these places have industry on a large scale selling directly to the public. It can't always be about where the corporate headquarter is located.
I doubt anyone outside of the Athletic Department knows if we have $2 Million or $20 Million. I bet we will have whatever it takes to build the squad we need.
I'd be happy to build on that foundation. Give me ten years, but I have a strategy to build a top 20 tech company. Kentucky needs to replace the void of IBM and both UK and Louisville, as a schools need to change that. AI revolution is here, and it's time for me to come back home to do something with it.
I can be your Chief Scientist. It would fit nicely with my electrical and system engineering degrees.
True, and a lot of those guys were recruited to BYU by Pope. He wanted to bring Saunders with him (and I seem to remember most on here weren't too excited about that prospect, but hindsight, right?).
Kentucky was thriving when we were running Kriisa, Robinson, and a two armed Butler in place of the three freshmen and the current version of Butler. Still a top ten offense for most of the season in spite of all of the changing circumstances. We all want to go further, but every game from here on is at best a coin flip. That's just the reality (aka the place where many on here do not reside) of where we are and I've made peace with it. I hope we win because I can already tell the sharks on here (not you, but three or four others) smell the blood of a wounded team in the water and are ready to weaponize it and use it as negative recruiting against a good dude who stepped in when we needed him most and did everything he could to put this patchwork together after the previous guy bounced and left the cupboard bare like a thief in the night. He actually left Pope with less talent than The Drunk left Cal (Travis Perry vs. Miller, Patterson, Liggins, and Harrellson in particular who all proved to be key pieces on good/great teams).
Whats a good email for you (or DM me? I dont know how that works). I'm building this with other Kentucky folks.
The horse industry is the real money.
There’s millions from others ready to be spent on NIL.
But it pales in comparison to horse industry money available and there’s one man that everything must go through.
Well, it’s not a must. But you can be put on an island pretty quickly if you stray from the main channel.
I think having seen a year of UK in Pope’s system will be huge. Last year we had no chance to recruit high school kids and the portal players we did get came on faith. Now not only can you get NIL deals but it’s known it’s a fun system that can players can envision theirselves in.
I don't think my current employer would like me leaving just now. However, I do wish you well. I do want to get you my email in a more private way so that I don't start receiving emails from posters who don't always agree with my posts. By the way, I used to work for both LA and Corvette.
I have been away from these boards for the last year and just came back for the tournament. I have to say, in the really short time that I've been back, I have come to the conclusion that you're either a troll or an insufferable gnostic who likes to hear himself talk. To paraphrase from that cinematic masterpiece Dr. Strange, do all of these people who think you're wonderful and clever work for you?
If that's the case, it would be donations to hospitals, higher learning, etc (which Toyota has done locally). Sports (unless it's Special Olympics) isn't going to be looked at by blue chip cos especially if not HQd in the state.
We'll always have Morgan and Morgan and Morgan and Morgan.
Yep, the William T. Youngs (and their families) of the world have either passed on or sold out.
This is a perfect example of why having NIL money in college basketball, is all that really matters. Kentucky has to make sure we stay near the top of this.
But the majority of that money flows internationally or is held by Louisville fans in the form of CDI stock.
I don't think Notre Dame is really benefiting from church money. What they ARE benefiting from is a school that churns out far more millionaires than your average state school, and it also has an extremely rich fanbase.
That's what it's going to take. Someone or some people have to fund the program if we want it to succeed (unless Kentucky just decides a find a way to fund NIL internally).. what worries me is that KY is one the poorest states, with likely the fewest amount of multi-million dollar businesses. I hope I'm wrong, but I think we.might have a hard time keeping this program in the top of the NIL players.
That's what it's going to take. Someone or some people have to fund the program if we want it to succeed (unless Kentucky just decides a find a way to fund NIL internally).. what worries me is that KY is one the poorest states, with likely the fewest amount of multi-million dollar businesses. I hope I'm wrong, but I think we.might have a hard time keeping this program in the top of the NIL players.
That NIL + the NBA pedigree of Kevin Young combined with AJ Dybantsa already making it “cool” to the kids in school to go to BYU is a legitimate threat
I always thought AJ was gonna come here because of TC5. Wish it would’ve worked it. Unreal player.
I always thought AJ was gonna come here because of TC5. Wish it would’ve worked it. Unreal player.
NIL isn’t about corporate money. It’s not like Toyota or Fruit of the Loom or Humana or any publicly held company can start writing checks to entice athletes. What it takes is individual boosters wealthy enough to fund, repeatedly, NIL coffers. On one hand, that favors us - we have a fan base that’s crazy about basketball, which presumably includes some of those wealthy boosters. On the other hand…..it does not favor us. Small state, not a lot of different wealthy individuals boosters willing to give. We’re not Stanford.
Our insiders say the UK NIL budget is right at or a little north of 10 million
Most of the bourbon industry is owned by foreign companies now. The tobacco industry used to have big boosters . The coal industry is a fraction of what it once was .
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For the price they are charging for some of the so called allocated bourbon, they should be able to chip in some money!
Exactly. Kentucky Utilities is owned by PPL , a Pennsylvania company. No was in hell they’d allow KU to donate to UK’s nil . They spend there money on gay pride celebrations and such.
No one except Washington was ever going to get Great Osobar . He was getting everyone’s best offer and going to allow his old coach at Washington to match it . Once CMP realized this he moved on .