Nellie Coleman (Spicer) Hired as VB General Manager

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Makes sense...Gophs have a good tradition and it is definitely a competitive and visible sport for recruiting and NIL money.
 



I suspect football, basketball, hockey, and other major sports with NIL and potential payment issues will want to have a general manager to handle money issues.
 


I really like this hire. Will be a great mentor for Stella.
 




in a story about this, it was claimed that this is tied in part to the new revenue-sharing money. Supposedly, Volleyball is one of the sports at MN that will receive part of the $20.5-million revenue-sharing pool. the "GM" for Volleyball will help determine how that money is distributed.

in a related matter, it was reported last fall that the Athletic Department posted an opening for this new position:
“House settlement negotiator, quantitative analysis and contract manager.”

this person will essentially function in a GM role - like a salary-cap manager - for NIL and revenue-sharing distribution.

it makes sense from this perspective - somebody is going to have to make those decisions on how to allocate the money. it's proably better if the Head Coach does not have to handle that directly. let the coach do the coaching, and let someone else deal with the money issues.
 


NextYear_76 said:
I suspect football, basketball, hockey, and other major sports with NIL and potential payment issues will want to have a general manager to handle money issues.
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In the thread about former Gopher RB, David Cobb, one of his three roles was General Manager. It's been interesting to watch PJ treat the portal like a hybrid free-agent draft board...he's quite good at it.
 

Non-revenue sports have been managing money or scholarships for awhile. It is new to the revenue sports because they simply just gave full-ride scholarships. You got one or you didn't. I know NIL is beyond that but the non-revenue sports didn't have the luxury of handing out full rides.
Before NIL money ... my daughter was making recruiting trips for college softball. When we asked about scholarships the coach said "I have to manage a certain amount of scholarship money and it has to be spread out among this many players that are on my roster." The scholarship money offered to even the best players was not very much.
 
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