NIL is a small piece of it now. The sports commission did a study of all old NIL deals and found that wrestling was getting the 3rd most amount of NIL payments with Football being #1 and Basketball #2 with Wrestling #3 in all college athletics. It's been said by people on the commission and NCAA lawyers that no wrestler will be given a 6 figured valuation. So 100k max. Now let's say a team has 3 million in rev share and they use that. That's 4 million a year on the roster. Nobody was spending 4 million a year on the roster during the peak NIL era
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It's a message board and we talk wrestling and debate and play devils advocate it's not that serious. I also have no issue putting my name on what I say. I'm never mad while posting most times I'm actually laughing
Haha, maybe it’s your delivery?
I’m sorry, but you are only correct that he’s on the Forbes list.
-He wasn’t single-handily responsible for David Taylor being named HC. There are many, many other things that had to be present for David to come.
-nobody, that I’ve noticed, is acting like he’s not doing much. He is, I (me) said I don’t think what Richison does touches what Bob does…it could be closer than I think?
-nobody, that I noticed, said he’s not helping with the RTC. It’s been said that he’s not helping with NIL.
So, it just seems, through your delivery that you are antagonistic.
But again, no one is acting like Chad is not involved. All anyone has said is that he isn't involved in NIL.
Our Forbes list guy died in 2019 and he wasn't too concerned with wrestling anyway
Who do you think is committing $3M of revenue sharing to wrestling?
And there will be several $100k plus wrestling NIL deals. You are placing to much importance on the supposed “value” metric in all of this.
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I will say that NC State has Calcutt from the ‘26 class and VT has Rocha. Curious if we see him as a long term 197 or HWT.
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I like my sources one who is on the sports commission who does the NIL GO and the coaches I have spoke with who's athletes have gone thru the process. Just passing along the information I have you can believe it or not
He's a HWT and if Ross decides on football I would say you get him.
There is no wrestling program that is getting 3 mil revenue share. Even if you have the full 20.5, Football most places is going to get 15 mil, mens basketball 3 million then the rest fight over the scraps. These days paying a full scholly/room/board and some meal cards is what most really good kids are getting. Very few will be near the 100K range, especially after tuition/fees.
I’ve sat in on legislative studies on this and have looked over dozens and dozens of these NIL deals in those studies. Have had presentations from several AD’s, a member of the sports commission, agents and a conference commissioner.
There will be plenty of significant NIL deals with athletes from non-revenue sports including wrestling.
I will also tell you as of now, I would be shocked if any AD is committing $3M of revenue sharing to wrestling. That might change as schools no longer use the max limit for scholarship funding but that isn’t the case currently.
They did a great job at recruiting but what can they do with the recruits. They still have the Brands there. Taylor showed that he can get talent to jump levels, Brands to well but it’s not they’re forte. We’ll see.
100%. The reason we have Ryder is because PSU Recruited over him. We’ve had some stellar classes, we could have used Miller, but there will be other Millers.In all seriousness where else other than maybe Nebraska were those guys gonna land? We didnt even try to get them and neither did Cael from what I hear. I know a couple of them were upset that we WEREN'T recruiting them. HS studs WANT to wrestle for DT!
Think about this: in the last 5-7 years how many times has OSU cleaned up in recruiting because PSU didnt need anyone? Thats just reality and this time it was Iowa's turn. And Iowa hate aside, we all know NCAA wrestling is stronger when Iowa is in the mix.
Also, some of these guys are 27's and 28's so we have time to assess and see how our recruits are turning out. If necessary Coach Taylor can and absolutely will flip some guys if he needs to.
Apologies in advance to any Iowa guys on here. Eh, not really
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Count me as being in the camp of people who do not think NIL will get reigned in. Even if the NCAA wanted to police it, which it doesn't, it is too hard to police without running into afoul of antitrust laws. I could be wrong, but that's my prediction.
In the event I'm wrong, I am curious what the anticipated revenue share for wrestling would be at each of the three big programs? My gut says that each will probably get about the same cut, but I have no idea. It might be a good window for programs like UNI, Lehigh, or Little Rock that don't have expensive football programs to fund.
I think this is correct, and I also think that as far as rev share is concerned, out of lets say the Big 5 - PSU, Iowa, OSU, OhSU, Nebraska, tell me which programs are not going to be spending 15 mil+ on football and then which arent going to be putting most of the rest on mens basketball? Maybe PSU has more football NIL $$$ to keep football rev share down a touch but not nowhere near where they are going to be paying 15% to wrestling. Numbers I have heard are more around the 200K range.