Looking for a simple way to divvy up millions of dollars, and not make it complicated when it comes to NIL? Get the school to allow your donor group to have a complete team picture, possibly several different ones, with the 80 to 90 guys that are on the team, including those who are walk-ons, and those who only dress at home, but aren't on the traveling team. Get the school to establish that all the players that will be in that picture will submit to the NIL agreement from the donor group, or they won't be on the team. A simple written agreement will take care of that, and it does not violate their rights.
Next, allow all members of that collective donor group to use the pictures of all the players, in their advertising. Then allow them to actually move forward and create individual deals with players they feel will maximize their NIL objectives, in return for the money. Since the money paid was to create a vehicle that will be used in advertising, it has become tax deductible, and it does not violate agreements that can be made beyond that, with the individual players, to earn additional money through personalized endorsements of products, services, etc. All of it is above board, and in the real world, income, and deductible business expenses.
The unique thing about this type of agreement is that you can include as many players as you want, and pay as much as you want, in a blanket agreement that allows for additional NIL benefits to many. When Texas donors said they would produce $50k for every offensive lineman, rest assured that put in motion others who are going to do the same thing, to cover every other facet of the game. In the end, what they set was a $50k minimum across the board, and it "should" include anyone who puts on the uniform.
Are they there yet? According to my sources, they are darned close. It's only a matter of time, and the actual figure may have been low at $50k.
Where does all this leave the average team? They will suffer without the funds being out there for players they want to recruit. Count on it. Only a fool would put big bucks into one player on NIL, and leave the rest of the team high and dry. In the end, the entire program would be useless.
Let's look at the Quin Ewers deal. A four year deal and it is inclusive signing of autographs. That's a personal deal, and should not interfere with the Texas program. That would be at level 2. Level one would be name and likeness in photographs, and not individual earnings from a program at the team level.
At level 1, where it's the team photos, etc, there could be as many as 1,000 donors, or more. Let's take the $13 mill that Ryan Day spoke of. Divide that by the 1,000 donors and we're talking $130,000 each, not millions. For UT, there's an estimate of as many as 2,000 donors at the grass roots level, and that would be $65,000 each.
Value? Down here in Texas, you tell which cattle belong to whom by the brand. The products you'll buy, and the places you shop, will be those that supply the brands you want on them. Unless you know how these people operate, you're pissing into the wind when you say this isn't going to happen. And, if you know Texas winds, we call 20 mph winds, with gusts to 40, a light breeze.
at the blackjack table in Vegas. Wisconsin has a deal with its OL already so yeah some places have a few deals