Coming to College Softball?

[ArmWhip]

I wonder if any high level softball players are cashing in on this?

How Rich Donors and Loose Rules Are Transforming College Sports

The key to recruiting top college football players these days is not just a lavish training facility or a storied coach. It is ensuring the chance for them to hook up with a new type of operation that can pay them eye-popping sums, collected from wealthy boosters who can often write off the...

news.yahoo.com

This another link, hopefully it works.

 

[El Oso]

sighhhhh, the article is behind a paywall. Care to summarize for us?

 

[chinamigarden]

sighhhhh, the article is behind a paywall. Care to summarize for us?

I think that sort of explains it perfectly.

 

[El Oso]

I think that sort of explains it perfectly.

what explains it?

 

[RADcatcher]

I wonder if any high level softball players are cashing in on this?

How Rich Donors and Loose Rules Are Transforming College Sports

A shift that allows booster groups to employ student-athletes has upended the economics of college football and other sports while giving many donors a tax break.

www.nytimes.com

Why is your question directed at high level softball players?
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[ArmWhip]

the article is behind a paywall.

That's interesting, I read it this morning and now when I go there I get the paywall. I just changed the link. Here are the basics:

"The rapid rise of big-dollar payments to student-athletes from so-called donor collectives has emerged as one of the biggest issues in college sports, transforming how players are recruited and encouraging a form of free agency for those looking to transfer."

The Supreme Court ruled that, even though they are 'amateurs', college athletes can accept payment for their 'name, image and likeness'. So big college donors are contributing to 'collectives' that pay athletes for their N, I, L. but they are in reality paying that player to come and play for their college. It's a way to work around the amateur status rules of the NCAA. Supposedly the Ohio State football coach told his donor group that they/he needs about 13 million dollars to fund the football team. And with the transfer portal being what it is all college athletes are now 'free agents', all it takes is a rich donor to get a player to come and play.

 

[ArmWhip]

Why is your question directed at high level softball players?

I'm wondering, have there been any high level softball players that recently transferred, unexpectedly?

 

[4Martini]

That's interesting, I read it this morning and now when I go there I get the paywall. Here are the basics:

"The rapid rise of big-dollar payments to student-athletes from so-called donor collectives has emerged as one of the biggest issues in college sports, transforming how players are recruited and encouraging a form of free agency for those looking to transfer."

The Supreme Court ruled that, even though they are 'amateurs', college athletes can accept payment for their 'name, image and likeness'. So big college donors are contributing to 'collectives' that pay athletes for their N, I, L. but they are in reality paying that player to come and play for their college. It's a way to work around the amateur status rules of the NCAA. Supposedly the Ohio State football coach told his donor group that they/he needs about 13 million dollars to fund the football team. And with the transfer portal being what it is all college athletes are now 'free agents', all it takes is a rich donor to get a player to come and play.

He’s not asking for enough

Record year for Colorado’s Buff Club

It’s been a banner year for the University of Colorado’s Buff Club, as CU announced the Buff Club received a record-breaking haul in donations to Colorado athletics for the 2023 fiscal year.

www.buffzone.com

28m for the buffs this year in direct fundraising.

If they could just spend some of it on a softball program! We could have the prettiest field on ESPN with the flatirons in the background.

 

[Rolling Hard]

What's better than NIL $?
COLLECTIVES!
Floodgates are starting to open and I hope some of the water trickles onto Softball.
College Football and Basketball bring in HUGE amounts of money. The recruiting and transfer process is getting very interesting.

 

[chinamigarden]

what explains it?

The article is behind a paywall. Pay to play so to speak.