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https://www.wsj.com/sports/football/trum...mwhatsnews

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I am just posting this to note without comment that after speaking to Nick Sagan, the President is considering an executive order on NIL.  Very little in the way of detail on the scope of such an order, or even if the President will follow through, so no point in debating it.

One other detail that caught my eye:

The result is a freewheeling marketplace where nearly 4,300 Division I football players switched schools in 2024 and an estimated $1.67 billion changed hands in 2024-25, according to Opendorse, a platform that facilitates NIL deals.

There are 134 Division I FBS teams, each with up to 85 scholarship players, for a total of 11,390 scholarship players more or less (there are also another 120 or so FCS teams, each of which can have up to 63 scholarships, but for example, Ivy League schools don't use them). Together there are 18,950 potential scholarship players, of whom we'd expect somewhere between 1/4 and 1/5 to turn over every year due to graduation (or, more formally, exhaustion of eligibility). But that puts the number of transferring players very close to the number of graduating players every year. That is a travesty and a mockery of the idea that these players are "student"-athletes.

BC

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One further add... assuming that only FBS players are getting NIL deals, that's about $12 million in NIL money per school, on average, very unevenly distributed.  $1.67 Billion divided by 11,390 scholarship FBS players gets you $146,000 per athlete, on average, again, very unevenly distributed.

BC

[BostonCard]

https://www.wsj.com/sports/football/trum...mwhatsnews

(should be gifted)

I am just posting this to note without comment that after speaking to Nick Sagan, the President is considering an executive order on NIL.  Very little in the way of detail on the scope of such an order, or even if the President will follow through, so no point in debating it.

One other detail that caught my eye:

The result is a freewheeling marketplace where nearly 4,300 Division I football players switched schools in 2024 and an estimated $1.67 billion changed hands in 2024-25, according to Opendorse, a platform that facilitates NIL deals.

There are 134 Division I FBS teams, each with up to 85 scholarship players, for a total of 11,390 scholarship players more or less (there are also another 120 or so FCS teams, each of which can have up to 63 scholarships, but for example, Ivy League schools don't use them). Together there are 18,950 potential scholarship players, of whom we'd expect somewhere between 1/4 and 1/5 to turn over every year due to graduation (or, more formally, exhaustion of eligibility). But that puts the number of transferring players very close to the number of graduating players every year. That is a travesty and a mockery of the idea that these players are "student"-athletes.

BC

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One further add... assuming that only FBS players are getting NIL deals, that's about $12 million in NIL money per school, on average, very unevenly distributed.  $1.67 Billion divided by 11,390 scholarship FBS players gets you $146,000 per athlete, on average, again, very unevenly distributed.

BC