Tech has now established a NIL Fund.

[mynameisjonas]

Why are they paying the walk on players?

 

[Cyinthenorth]

What does being an ag school have to with not having a med school?

10 of the 14 big ten schools are ag schools. Florida, Georgia, Arizona, Clemson are ag schools.

Call it a consequence of living in Iowa your whole life. Iowa = Med School, Law School, Iowa State = Ag, Engineering. Didn't occur to me that the two could be combined under one academic umbrella

 

[DeereClone]

Why are they paying the walk on players?

Because scholarships are on a path to being irrelevant.

 

[DeereClone]

But Texas needs our corn to feed their cattle. Maybe an Iowa State NIL corn surcharge in the future?

Nah let’s keep the corn here, grow our ethanol industry, and feed the cattle here with corn and ethanol bi-products. Small-medium sized Iowa farmer-feeder can feed the animal cheaper and produce a higher quality product than the southern commercial feedlots.

 

[cyclone1209]

Title IX may have something to say. Seems like it always does.

There’s a slippery slope - when the womens programs start wanting a cut of NIL. What a disaster this all is to organize

 

[Mr Janny]

There’s a slippery slope - when the womens programs start wanting a cut of NIL. What a disaster this all is to organize

It's not a slippery slope.

This isn't that difficult, people. Title IX doesn't apply to NIL money. It's not coming from the schools. Period.

There are plenty of boogeymen out there in this new NIL landscape, but Title IX isn't one of them.

 

[clonefreek]

Agreed. Daughter thought about vet school but when she saw that she would be getting essentially medical school debt with a much lower earnings potential (large animal, not soccer moms' pets) she shelved that idea.

Yeah I have a friend who is $250k in debt and is a vet and he only makes 75k a year. Hes essentially paying off a house...

 

[CyNews]

Personally, I think Tech's overall athletics are trending up.

Nah. Hoops administration is disgusting, by the way.

 

[heitclone]

There’s a slippery slope - when the womens programs start wanting a cut of NIL. What a disaster this all is to organize

There will be public outcry about this but the schools and the NCAA's hands are far enough from the $$$ that it won't be there problem.

 

[VeloClone]

Why are they paying the walk on players?

The same reason Nebraska years ago had FB players on track scholarships as sprinters and throwers. They could expand the number of football players that were getting paid to be on the team - and any player that is "playing" for them isn't playing against them.

 

[KidSilverhair]

I get so frustrated when these type of things are termed "NIL" when it's obvious they are just paying a salary.

Just like this article in today’s Gazette about Iowa’s “Swarm Collective.” Any athlete at Iowa is eligible to sign up, and every athlete will get the same stipend, whether it’s the starting QB or a reserve on the field hockey team. In exchange they have to help raise money for nonprofits.

I don’t see how this is necessarily a “name, image, and likeness” situation. Sure, somebody like Petras or Murray can use their fame to help the United Way, but a kid on the golf team or soccer team can’t do that, they’re going to have to volunteer to do actual work for a nonprofit. That’s not NIL, that’s pay-for-play.

 

[NWICY]

That seems crazy to me. Where on earth is this money coming from? No med or law school at TT, so not sure who is funding all of this.

OIL MONEY!

 

[NWICY]

Most of the posters on this board were negative on We Will.

I think the majority of the posters are just not that keen on NIL.

 

[NWICY]

Why are they paying the walk on players?

Because they can and why create a division within the team.

 

[BCClone]

Did u know that Bruce has given in the low seven figures to ISU?

Is that when he was trying to get ISU to do some land thing for him over in Africa? ISU didn't like the situation and bailed.

 

[BCClone]

Jacobsen had given a lot to all schools. What's your point?

Unfortunatly that avenue is now gone.

 

[CloniesForLife]

It's not a slippery slope.

This isn't that difficult, people. Title IX doesn't apply to NIL money. It's not coming from the schools. Period.

There are plenty of boogeymen out there in this new NIL landscape, but Title IX isn't one of them.

How many times has this been explained on here?

 

[brett108]

It's not a slippery slope.

This isn't that difficult, people. Title IX doesn't apply to NIL money. It's not coming from the schools. Period.

There are plenty of boogeymen out there in this new NIL landscape, but Title IX isn't one of them.

Yep. I suspect there will be some money for uniquely elite women's programs. I can imagine UConn basketball or Nebraska Volleyball having enough whales to send some money that way. Its why Russia pays women's Bball players well. Oligarchs like their womens teams..

 

[DeereClone]

Is that when he was trying to get ISU to do some land thing for him over in Africa? ISU didn't like the situation and bailed.

Pretty sure he funded most or all of the Ag Entrepreneurship program at Iowa State.

 

[Mr.G.Spot]

Is that when he was trying to get ISU to do some land thing for him over in Africa? ISU didn't like the situation and bailed.

I don't think so. His giving has been consistent over many years. Hires a lot of ISU grads.