We are “north of 15” per @ Mike Ryan.
Pete Nakos at On3 just did an NIL ranking and he had us at #5...
5. Canes Connection (Miami)
For the opening years of the NIL Era,
John Ruiz was the most visible college sports booster in the country. Brash and aggressive, he picked fights with fans and announced details of lucrative NIL packages on social media. Those days are gone, with the CEO of
LifeWallet and
Cigarette Racing pulling back on his NIL investments.
Canes Connection has become the prominent collective in the space. Sources tell On3
Miami is working with over $15 million for this year’s football team.
Cam Ward is believed to be one of the highest-paid transfer quarterbacks, and the Hurricanes surrounded him with a talent portal class.
Mario Cristobal enters a critical year three at Miami, starting on Saturday at
Florida.
The collective is operated by co-CEOs
Zach Burr and
Brian Goldmeier, who are successful fundraising professionals with more than 30 years of experience running business development firms in the Miami-Dade area.
“Nobody knows what’s going on down there because they want it like that,” a collective leader told On3. “But they clearly have the dollars to be aggressive in the transfer portal.”