There is no reason why ND's billion dollar endowment can't come into play with the NIL stuff right? This seems like a golden opportunity for an ultra wealthy school like Notre Dame to set itself apart from others. ND always wants to be different. Here's your chance. NIL money for salaries and medical insurance. (Is that possible? Idk much about the new NIL stuff that's going on)
You basically can’t touch any of the endowment money for anything that it isn’t already earmarked for, and even if you could you can’t use it for NIL. NIL money has to come from 3rd party sources.
Everything I’m hearing about where ND stands on NIL suggests that we are way behind the curve of what the SEC is already doing for next year and others will catch up to in short order. Schools will need boosters setting aside 10-15 million yearly for player payments within the next three years unless there is some legislation.
This recruiting class is largely unaffected, but next year’s will be and allegedly there is going to be significant “tampering” to get developed high level players in the portal for open bidding. This is something Gary Patterson warned about with bigger Texas schools coming to poach TCU players and I think he is spot on. Allegedly, a lot of schools are going to move away from targeting ~25 kids a class in recruiting and instead stay in the 15-20 range and take 5-10 transfers a year to supplement that group. It will be like early 00s JUCO recruiting on crack.
