BrooklynBull

6 hours ago, TheCommish said:

I can’t wait for the 990. I’m counting the days down. im wondering how much of donations will go towards salaries?
 

Bonnie’s clan will love to know their professor is helping another school’s NIL. 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaena-kershner-b72b9256

You mean helping her alma mater?

3 hours ago, BrooklynBull said:

The NIL is here: https://nickelcitynil.com/

I am in at the Nickel City Hall of Fame level.  Are you, at any level?

The NIL is here: https://nickelcitynil.com/

Expect an announcement tomorrow on NIL from UB.

4 hours ago, UBinMD said:

We need to find a league like that with auto bids for basketball. 50/50 chance of Dancing, year-in, year-out!

The PAC2, will have no bids in any sport as a two team "conference".  They are not even a real conference in the NCAA next year.  A conference needs six members, which is why Johns Hopkins is in the Big 10 in lacrosse.

On 4/19/2024 at 4:12 PM, Tee4three said:

Good name, easy NIL possibilities with Mighty Taco 

To add, he was offered a scholarship from Vermont when he was coming out of highschool, likely from current UB assistant coach tibbs 

I am pretty sure that as a Canadian he cannot get NIL money.  All foreign students, except possibly Canadians, cannot get NIL money because it is work.  They are only allowed in the country as students.

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10 hours ago, squire17 said:

Hurley is 51 years old. The farthest he’s been from Jersey City is where he is now.

He has been all the way to Rhode Island as well.

I am not sure that I would want to follow Calipari.  Leaves UMass followed by NCAA violations.  Leaves Memphis Followed by NCAA violations.  Leaves Kentucky...

I think the only head coaching job he had that he left that was not sanctioned by the NCAA was the Nets.

Are people really upset that a basketball player who only had scholarship offers from Albany and Fairfield and decided to walk on at Arkansas State and was not recruited by UB?

Is that the level of recruit that people want?

Apparently, setting up a NIL group as a 501(c)(3) to allow donations to it to not be tax deductible is now the IRS' position and that the earlier approvals were in error.

https://www.sportico.com/leagues/college-sports/2024/irs-letter-nil-collectives-tax-exempt-status-1234774152/

Here is a recent letter from the IRS denying 501(c)(3) status to a group.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xuA1L2pmZJQ04Ipr0D0LfpX_w64Yrsg4/view?pli=1

36 minutes ago, UBinMD said:

So, if we were all out at a bar, we would be 50/50 in going home with someone attractive? 😂

The later in the night it gets, the odds go up.

1 hour ago, NC_UBfan said:

The official NLI dates are April 17- May15

I think you mean portal.

1 hour ago, UBinMD said:

Lembo has mentioned Lafayette several times already so I think he is keeping them from of mind as they prepare. He knows what can come up and bite you. I am also hopeful for a 1-0 start. 

As an ex-Lehigh coach, there is nothing bigger than beating Lafayette.

10 minutes ago, TheCommish said:

What would be the cost to UB for football then?

I have no idea if they would be a cost and if there is a cost I have no idea as I am not an underwriter.  Also it would not be football.  It would have to be the cost for every single athlete, because if one is an employee they all are employees.

1 hour ago, everlast2504 said:

It might be become a double edge sword for the now paid student athletes. Workers comp maxes out at around $1200 wk or 2/3 of pay. Imagine a player getting injured and the scholarship went from 100% to 66%.  It could end up saving schools money and also making them more willing to bench a player for being injured and paying them less. 

 

 

It is much more complicated than that, in setting benefit rates and New York allows for rates to go down as people recover from their injuries.  If player is "benched" but is dressing and going to practice they would not be entitled to any money, because they are still "working".

19 hours ago, TheCommish said:

That’s why I don’t understand the urge to remove the track when we don’t know if we will have the sport. I can’t imagine any SUNY school having millions to cover the worker’s compensation cost.

Actually, SUNY would be in better shape than most to handle workers' compensation.  The State of New York for all intents and purposes is a self insured employer through the State Insurance Fund.  Syracuse, although a self-insured employer would have issues because they would have to increase the value of surety bonds given to New York State to cover athletes. A school like Colgate or Hobart would have major issues.  The you would have Army and the Merchant Marine Academy exempt from workers' compensation liability in New York State because they are federal.

8 hours ago, UB Horns Up said:

Pass the hat and keep Nate Oats at UB is what should have happened and didn’t. Nate Oats wanted to stay in Western New York close to his home town of Michigan. Give Nate Oats a $7 million dollar contract he would have stayed.

That is a $7,000,000.00 per year average.  There are bot enough hats in Western New York to have raised that type of money.  Also Oats is from Wisconsin.

8 hours ago, UB Horns Up said:

the donors aren’t going all in.

Speak for yourself.  Some of us give as much as we can, if not a little more than we should.

8 hours ago, UB Horns Up said:

Lance Leipold that had no intentions of staying in Western New York

I disagree.

There are haves and have nots in college athletics.  When a have drives a Brinks truck up your driveway you are going to accept the offer.  If someone offered Schmidt to quadruple his salary, it would be bye bye Bonnies.

On 3/29/2024 at 11:50 PM, TheCommish said:

Once the students become employees, the game is over anyways. No one will be able to afford ny workers compensation cost for football. UB will move athletics to d3/activity level anyways or we drop football. 

The relationship between the school and player is no different from Division I and Division III.  Both will fit the definition of employer-employee relationship under New York Workers' Compensation Law. https://store.lexisnexis.com/products/new-york-workers-compensation-handbook-2015-edition-skuusSku13149  (The link is to the 2024 Edition, due to be officially published in the next two weeks.)

Here is the boom.

2 hours ago, UB92 said:

Even Greene went to Auburn and is now back in Oxford.

He is now in Knoxville with White again.

21 hours ago, Blue03 said:

Think adding more private schools would help? Would improve the academic reputation, and could serve as a bridge to improving athletic reputation. I don’t know how many of those big private schools are looking for a conference, but if a school like RIT went D1 in sports it would be an exciting change. Their Corner Crew student section is incredible at hockey. Just thinking a school like that has a lot of pride, donor commitment, and would be a reputation builder for the MAC

I do not see RIT moving all sports to Division I.  To join the MAC they would have to bring back football, which they dropped after having to come from behind to tie UB, when UB had not played a game in seven years.

10 hours ago, DaBulls99 said:

Also a cautionary tale that now 2 good players leave for greener pastures, find out it’s not so green, then return. 

As more and more people see this, or people not finding another school to play for, I believe the portal will have fewer entrants.