Lol, the point isn’t comparing Messi as a brand to UM. It’s simply noting that if people who are supposedly involved with NIL are the same people capable of helping bring a name as big as Messi to Miami…..it’s literally pennies on the dollar.
so here's the thing. Jorge Mas and Co-Owner Beckham make money by bringing Messi to Inter Miami. Mas doesn't make any money bringing Dylan Stewart to miami. no one on earth knows who he is nor is Mas receiving any revenue from it. his family donates to UM bc of their love but it isnt the same as direct ROI from being a team owner
Not through a collective, but there are other avenues through NIL where direct ROI is more than doable.
no incoming freshman is gonna ever provide a real ROI on a NIL deal unless the dudes name is Bronny James
Not at first, but as their draft position and notoriety increase they absolutely can. Especially in a market like Miami.
miami isnt a college football market. names dont sell well here compared to pro athletes. we just aren't that market. now in a college town, yes bc college football is the pro team
The Canes owned the Miami sports market when they were winning big, that’s been proven before the only difference is that these opportunities weren’t available to show objective numbers for players then.
ehhhhh. owend is a big word. they never drew well consistently and the fins owned the market until the heat got lebron. I was at those games in 01, there were very few packed games that year and we had an elite team.
I'd like to believe that but as long as he's dragging this out I'll believe he'd use our match to get more from Auburn. And Auburn has "other ways" of paying as well.
Believe me, I want them to buy a class for us, but the profit that they will make with Messi will dwarf our football program's revenue.
I’d love to see how some Canes stars in the early 2000s compared in marketability to their Dolphin counterparts with hard numbers. I bet they’d more than hold their own.
this. w all the popularity of football, the most well funded NIL athlete is a gymnast from LSU. people overestimate how popular individual kids are in college football. the brand is more popular than the player
The investment would also dwarf what they’d spend to improve a Miami roster. The competition isn’t Messi vs UM, it’s UM vs other schools when a brand as big as Messi is even doable for those who represent UM.
Well it’s an easier pill to swallow than our guy whose strength is recruiting just couldnt get the job done because his dumpster fire first season undermined him there. Mario slit his own throat.
Sure but that’s how life goes.
and the fact that Barcelona still didnt have a tangible way to get him on their roster. It was basically miami or return back to barca but with the issues barca has financially, there was no real way to get him there outside of selling off everyone
