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[XUGRAD80]

Who are the people kicking in for this? I'm pretty surprised that Xavier's collective (or whoever is handling this) can put out a call and $5-5.5 million to pay players arrives.

I don’t think that it’s all just collective (the final 2%) money here. My guess that schools are moving forward with the idea that the legal settlement will be approved and that they will be able to pay the players directly from athletic department revenue, along with whatever it is that the collective raises. These totals are based on what a player will make over the course of the agreement, they are not lump payments. In the past the payments have been made on a monthly basis. I’ve no idea exactly when the payments begin, or when they end, either. My guess is that they begin when the players enroll in school and end when they no longer enrolled. But that’s just a guess.

[xukeith]

Would our GM and head coach (Pitino) want to spend every dime before July 1? I wonder if the NIL bank balance is withdrawn and distributed monthly or weekly?

[XUBison]

Who are the people kicking in for this? I'm pretty surprised that Xavier's collective (or whoever is handling this) can put out a call and $5-5.5 million to pay players arrives.

Right? Why couldn’t we keep our coaches?

[JTG]

$5.5 mil for X is not nearly as unbelievable as reports Butler has $5 mil. Butler has always been the poor cousin of the Big East. There is really nothing in Hinkle to generate money.

[ArizonaXUGrad]

Traore to Texas, both teams I follow lost every single player. ASU and us, it's nuts. Neither kept any of their players form last year, the new guys are all mysteries.

[xudash]

$5.5 mil for X is not nearly as unbelievable as reports Butler has $5 mil. Butler has always been the poor cousin of the Big East. There is really nothing in Hinkle to generate money.

Had there been no Brad Stevens, there never would’ve been the A10 and then a rather miraculous uplift to the Big East. They have an historic arena. Good for them. I’ll take the Cintas Center all day long.

The Big East membership was a stretch for Butter and their results are tracking that fact.

[bjf123]

I think that’s going to be much more common unless they get into NIL or direct payment contracts with some teeth to them.


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[JTG]

Had there been no Brad Stevens, there never would’ve been the A10 and then a rather miraculous uplift to the Big East. They have an historic arena. Good for them. I’ll take the Cintas Center all day long.

The Big East membership was a stretch for Butter and their results are tracking that fact.

Which begs a question that's hard to figure. Why has DePaul been such a total failure for such an extended number of years? With all their resources and rich recruiting area, why are they such a disaster?

[xudash]

Which begs a question that's hard to figure. Why has DePaul been such a total failure for such an extended number of years? With all their resources and rich recruiting area, why are they such a disaster?

That’s a great and fair question.

Remember them not wanting to have anything to do with us during the early conference days?

[A Fan]

[QUOTE=XUGRAD80;803788]I don’t think that it’s all just collective (the final 2%) money here. My guess that schools are moving forward with the idea that the legal settlement will be approved and that they will be able to pay the players directly from athletic department revenue, along with whatever it is that the collective raises. These totals are based on what a player will make over the course of the agreement, they are not lump payments. In the past the payments have been made on a monthly basis. I’ve no idea exactly when the payments begin, or when they end, either. My guess is that they begin when the players enroll in school and end when they no longer enrolled. But that’s just a guess.[/QUOTE

At a place like Xavier, where there’s no football but solid men’s and women’s hoops and a pretty even mix of other sports, the Title IX stuff gets tricky fast. Once the school’s cutting checks — and especially if we’re moving from 1099s to W-2s — it’s not just NIL anymore, it’s official compensation. That means gender equity rules kick in, and schools are gonna have to watch how they spread that money around.The women are going to be hugely benefited by donors wanting to pay male basketball players .