I lurked as a guest for several years then tried to join and I never got a response. I finally reached out to NDinLA, who was a mod at the time, and he got me an account. It's a great ND community. It's been interesting as I 've "watched" some of you grow up and then we have had some great members pass (I haven't looked lately, but there used to be some fantastic posts about the history of the site made by BGIF before he passed - interesting stuff). The community seems to go through some phases of personality here and there, but the core group keeps it a great place (sometimes by running people off LOL).
The Brice numbers have never made a ton of sense. We all know Leonard got 2mil plus just for showing up to campus. That would be a quarter of the total NIL ND has according to Brice. Intuitively, when we had to match Oregon to keep Love around he's now approaching that Leonard number so now you're half of what Brice is saying we spent on NIL and we aren't even to guys like Watts, BMo et al yet.
To add to this a bit.... everyone made a huge deal when Pete B took over from Swarbrick. Obviously a very big deal, but one could argue that the new president and the new leadership on the BoT were as big if not bigger deals for the football program. The University isn't messing around anymore..and won't be messing around for a while.
Day’s kid got death threats after the Michigan game. They had to bring in extra security to his school.
This would lead me to believe the number is going to be higher than reported.
Reading this just made my day.
Say it out loud...Merckxe...Marcus...Merckxe....Marcus...hmmm lol
FWIW, when FUND first started a few years ago the base was ~25k. Obviously it's higher than that now and very few players just do the "base". It was really easy for players just on FUND to clear 100k if they did a decent amount of work.
In the grand scheme of things, we all love ND football, but our health and our families should hold most importance. I am glad to hear you are doing well and prayers for your mother's speedy recovery.
I was actually implying Merke is Joanna
Sounds like the University needs to hire team based Agents or designated NIL administrators per player to help recruit new NIL deals .... so Merck, do you want my legal resume?
FWIW, I think Mercke and I are using "base" different here. FUND has what I always joked was Universal Basic Income. If you are a warm body on the roster and do nothing but simply exist on the roster....you get the UBI..that used to be 25k. You can exponentially expand that by doing more activities for FUND etc but you didn't have to. You could just be on the roster, go to class, practice, games, and collect that 25k.
The College of Arts and Letters still exists.
