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Message: <blockquote data-quote="xWVU2010x" data-source="post: 132021858" data-attributes="member: 1467482">So Casey Thompson, left the richest program in the country, to transfer to Nebraska for NIL? Yea I’m not buying that. More likely after going 5-7 Texas ran him off, and someone told him he can make 6 figures if he is the starting QB and the team is winning, which would be the case here and most places as well.In the world of pro sports player licensing, there are only really lucrative merchandise opportunities if it’s the star player on a winning team. Not the 2nd best guy, every so often there are few exceptions for heavily followed team brands behind the player like the Cowboys or Steelers for example. For college, it figures to be even more top heavy than that, as a college fanbase doesn’t really start moving the needle unless they are winning at an unusually high rate (like WVU pushing for a national title). So the players that are genuinely valuable in a 6+ figure way for marketing/merchandising, are pretty much only going to be the Heisman finalists. The exceptions are going to be the viral sensations like Doug from St Peters, and that is more about the novelty of his story, rather than because of St Peters Basketball as a brand or his actual talent level.Understandably, boosters want to help the team win and NIL to them is an opportunity to help the coaches get players, but as you can see from <a href="https://journalstar.com/sports/huskers/football/nil-company-has-raised-3-5-million-paid-almost-1-million-to-husker-athletes/article_f23a6e62-1293-5a24-bc11-f4a716e5126a.amp.html">Here</a> NU have paid out $850k for 90 athletes across all sports thus far. The number is likely to grow as they have raised $3.5, but you get the point, $3.5m for an entire AD, that’s not even the payroll of an MLS team let alone a football team with 80+ on it. So my point is people need to cool their jets worrying about the big boys stealing their players, none of these fanbases have the money to keep an entire 2 deep happy, so expect more transfers down than up.</blockquote>

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