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It wouldn't be a line item in the budget. It would be laundered somehow.

I know there are people with a lot of money in that state. Menard, the Johnson Wax family, The Kohl family, the Kohler family etc. I honestly don't know enough about the support of Badger athletics. There are a lot of boosters too that will donate for facilities, but are opposed to outright...

That's why when people say "Fleck has had nine years..." it doesn't fly. It's a completely different business model now.

I think coaching and recruiting meant more then. Money still mattered, but maybe not as much as it does now, and maybe not as much as it did in the SEC/Big 12. A couple grand here and there. Maybe a car? But not million dollar contracts. I would not be surprised if Wisconsin's current...

Read closer what I wrote. People are saying "NIL doesn't come directly from the school." Officially, that's supposed to be true. But who is to say certain programs aren't funding collectives under the table? Like you said, we don't know. But I'm cynical enough to assume that certain big name...

Some of it is public. I believe someone filed an FOIA request regarding Texas Tech which showed $28 million in contracts, and that was before NIL money was distributed, so the rest is an estimate. But you're right, nobody knows the actual numbers in most cases. But we do know that certain teams...

OSU fired Mike Gundy. They're a terrible team. Oregon would run up 70 on them. Hell, we might run up 70 on them.

I don't consider Hastings non-metro. They're the county seat of Dakota County and they played in the St. Paul Suburban conference for years.

Looks like he only coached one year in 2023 and went back to coaching high school in Arkansas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Kelley_(American_football) They're 9-2 this season, so they must be pretty decent.

I don't think Fleck's shtick is going to go over well with the win at all costs mentality of a lot of those schools.

Yikes. Do they still have that coach that never punts?

I do not. I wish we could. I wish we had the money to compete for the level of talent that places like that do. But we don't. We are a mid-pack team with mid-pack money, and mid-pack talent. Unless something changes we will continue to be that. PJ can be frustrating, but ultimately, he isn't the...

All NIL does is bring the payment of players out into the open. Major programs have always been paying for talent, and paying more than we could. The naivete of some fans just amazes me. It's always been about money. It's just about a LOT MORE money now.

Better recruits than we ever have still doesn't come close to the ones Oregon and OSU can pay.

Let me know when someone donates a new basketball arena for the Gophers. I'm waiting.

Not here it's not. I'd be shocked if there aren't schools paying NIL under the table since there's no real enforcement.

This is 100% about money. This is not like Wisconsin deciding to invest in the program in the Alvarez era. That might as well be 1950 at this point. Sure, getting some better paid coordinators would help, but it's players we need. Teams that can't invest in paying players are going to continue...

Miami has had some embarassingly small crowds over the years.

I don't think the NSIC app generates much revenue. I've watched basketball games on it.

Marquette and Creighton are power conference teams in hoops.