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** The struggle is real … You would think at a football program at Ohio State they just open the gates, make a few scholarship offers and sign a national top five or top 10 recruiting class by osmosis. We are finding out now, in the days of name, image and likeness, that other schools are pulling out all the stops to close the gap on the haves in the sport.

This was illustrated with OSU AD Gene Smith’s statement today asking rank-and-file Ohio State fans to give to the NIL collectives until it hurts.

“We welcome your help in keeping Ohio State at the top of the college athletics landscape,” Smith said, among other things.


Why can’t OSU compete in NIL? It is ridiculous. We have the largest alumni base in the country. Miami should not be outspending us.
 
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Canes1968 said:
Addae is not involved. His job doesn't exist.
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Hoyacane1620 said:
** The struggle is real … You would think at a football program at Ohio State they just open the gates, make a few scholarship offers and sign a national top five or top 10 recruiting class by osmosis. We are finding out now, in the days of name, image and likeness, that other schools are pulling out all the stops to close the gap on the haves in the sport.

This was illustrated with OSU AD Gene Smith’s statement today asking rank-and-file Ohio State fans to give to the NIL collectives until it hurts.

“We welcome your help in keeping Ohio State at the top of the college athletics landscape,” Smith said, among other things.


Why can’t OSU compete in NIL? It is ridiculous. We have the largest alumni base in the country. Miami should not be outspending us.
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Whoever this is isn’t necessarily wrong. A school like Ohio State should not be falling behind in NIL.
 
htownkidd said:
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From OSU’s board this morning.

Probably referring to Innis, but worth mentioning obviously.
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The home team is always the baby face and Miami is always the heel with the brass knucks hollering at the kids in the front row. I’m so thankful that OSU , their university and coaches don’t need NIL money to land such great recruits. I just wish I knew why their HC was begging for money from
boosters…….weird.
 
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aelmiami said:
Whoever this is isn’t necessarily wrong. A school like Ohio State should not be falling behind in NIL.
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they're asking for a grass roots like fundraising operation because they don't have as many ultra wealthy alumni that can single handedly bankroll NIL operations. maybe Wexner doesn't wanna make anymore big donations to the football program
for example michigan has 410 ultra wealthy alumni, ohio state "only" has 98
USC has 3594, stanford 7972

"ultra welathy alumni" are considered those with a net worth of over $30 million - from reports that breakdown alumni wealth
 
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MDOcane said:
they're asking for a grass roots like fundraising operation because they don't have as many ultra wealthy alumni that can single handedly bankroll NIL operations. maybe Wexner doesn't wanna make anymore big donations to the football program
for example michigan has 410 ultra wealthy alumni, ohio state "only" has 98
USC has 3594, stanford 7972

"ultra welathy alumni" are considered those with a net worth of over $30 million - from reports that breakdown alumni wealth
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It makes sense. But dropping bags like they used to makes it weird they do NIL so poorly imo.
 
aelmiami said:
A school like Ohio State should not be falling behind in NIL.
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I think it's pretty obvious what's happening.

Donors are used to giving money to institutions. Ohio State may have a lot of rich alumni and boosters but there's a big difference, for some people, between giving Ohio State your money and giving some 18 year old kid you don't know, who may not pan out, your money. It's not at all surprising if they can't find enough boosters who are willing to A) gamble their own money on a kid who may not pan out, B) invest in something that's not tangible, and C) deal with the ambiguity around NIL and tax write offs. So you need a specific type of donor to keep up with NIL, not just rich donors.
 
hurricaneman said:
I think it's pretty obvious what's happening.

Donors are used to giving money to institutions. Ohio State may have a lot of rich alumni and boosters but there's a big difference, for some people, between giving Ohio State your money and giving some 18 year old kid you don't know, who may not pan out, your money. It's not at all surprising if they can't find enough boosters who are willing to A) gamble their own money on a kid who may not pan out, B) invest in something that's not tangible, and C) deal with the ambiguity around NIL and tax write offs. So you need a specific type of donor to keep up with NIL, not just rich donors.
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Good point.
 
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