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  1. 40 minutes ago, bullsbball said:

    When you tell me how the money is distributed to the athletes. 

    Call me "old school", but I'm already donating money to the Blue and White club (and purchasing season tickets). Why should I be donating money to the players as well?

    Sorry, but all NIL and the new transfer rules do is causes players to follow the money and create no "brand loyalty". 

    If I could "donate" money to player and in return get a guarantee they will stay 4 years, I'll do that in a heartbeat.

    I understand your position.

    How the NIL money is spent depends on where it is donated to.   I believe it works as follows; if you make the tax deductible donation, it will go to athletes who help out at non-profits.  If you donate to the corporate side, the money will go to an athlete who reaches some sort of endorsement arrangement with the corporate donor.

    The question was not directed at you or to posters in general.  It was directed at TheCommish, who was complaining about a lack of a NIL collective and wanted to set one up working with other people.  But then as soon as an "official" UB NIL collective is set up he is complaining about it and looking for reasons to not donate to it.

  2. 2 hours ago, TheCommish said:

    Does anyone think the people working for the collective are working for free? No one has said either way and it’s not on the faq. 

    All five of the directors are doing the work for the collective for free.  They are donating their time and effort.  There is no need to wait for the 990 to check for salaries.

    Three of the five are former UB athletes.

    So when can they expect your contribution?

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  3. 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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  6. 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.

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  7. 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?

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  8. 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

  9. 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. 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".

  11. 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.

  12. 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.

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  13. 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.)

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