boognish_bear said:
parch said:
Other major external collectives literally just give you a base NIL salary for being in the program. We currently can't compete with that.
I agree with your overall sentiment that it feels like BU is lagging behind other in the NIL game, but from something I read earlier it does sound like for the football team we did have a "base" NIL salary for players. It was some amount over a million dollars that was split among 125 football players including walk-ons. The article said the players were in "5 figures."
So I'm guessing the players had a base of somewhere around $10,000 to $15,000.
I'm basing my info off the initial announcement, which included this:
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In order to be paid, players will have to complete specific benchmarks such as engaging in the community; promoting the work of Startup Waco and its partners; and participating in NIL education and other development programming. Scheduling the majority of these checkpoints will take place after the football season ends.
For one, we know the collective hasn't paid anything out yet from this fund at least because they said they wouldn't.
But this is also a different setup from others. Tech's, SMU's, A&M's et al pay out monthly as if you're an employee for any company. The Matador Club and many others have literally called it a base salary.
Ours is set up to only pay you once you jump through XYZ hoops, and even then we have no idea how competitive it is because they don't release figures. If I'm a player and you're telling me I can earn more for doing less at X vs. Y, we're simply walking through a fantasy land where our upright moral fiber will convince players regardless of the NIL figure in the mix.
There is a concerning trend among some Baylor fans to downplay NIL because the players we want won't be interested in money, they'll simply want to be here by virtue of how amazing we are and anyone who chose a higher paying program over us is a shark who shouldn't be here to begin with. That may have been true when money was passing illicitly under the table, but it's certainly not true in the majority of cases anymore.
