TheCommish

You’re awesome at PR. You know a lot more than you’re letting on. You should be a politician. Edit: I’ll get some info and respond

So, just to clarify, donors to UB don't have any influence over how their money is used? I’ll wait for you to answer the basic questions, you keep skipping over. You expect someone to provide the level of service of a full-time employee and expect same results from a volunteer? So she receives a 1099-NEC from St Bonaventure every year? Who picked these people to lead? Who makes the decision to let them go if they're not brining in the money? Someone controls the board. Alnutt? Foundation?

I can't find Akron's or Miami's #. Toledo and Western Michigan was near a million.

So she receives a 1099-NEC from St Bonaventure every year? You expect someone to provide the level of service of a full-time employee and expect same results from a volunteer? You realize schools have full-time employee doing NIL work.

You need the fundraise, not everyone is on this forum. You're also competing vs athletic department because you're going after the same sponsors or should be plus new ones. Check out: https://bethedifferencenil.org/ Multiple former players, full-time jobs If we're relying on the build it and they will come, fold it, waste of time.

But I'm not interested in helping WBB, Tennis, or FB. I'm an Buffalo Bulls MBB fan. My intention was to help MBB because I know the requirements needed to succeed. I'm working on a few things if people allow me to post without providing sources. Do you guys think coaches are already hinting at NIL deals in recruiting? Like, is the FB staff subtly mentioning "NIL money's available for 2025 transfers" or is it more for keeping our current players happy? Curious to hear your thoughts. My guess is they have 218 days to come up with $250k to retain the current roster.

So almost every good collective has paid positions. Almost all. We're expecting 4 volunteers with online store to fundraise $200k for MBB $100k for WBB $500k for FB By the way, these are all bottom line numbers for MAC championship. To compete vs MWC, Sun Belt. We need to be at $2 million for FB and $1 million for MBB, $200k for WBB. The goal at minimum should be $800k but really needs to be near $3.2m annually.

Did you see the 2025 barttorvik projections? Moved up from 346 to 323

There's no point in pouring money into a sinking ship. GHIII is a lousy coach, that will have under 10 wins in 2 years. Who picked these people to lead? Who makes the decision to let them go if they're not brining in the money? Someone controls the board. Alnutt? Foundation?

Exactly. until I see the 990 and the distribution, you won’t see a dollar. would anyone contribute to the team last year? Well, this year, we got the same team but will be on paper worse. If I donate to the NIL, will the money go towards a 4 or 5 that we need and still haven’t landed. Mbb needs a million to sniff the top 100. I was told when I tried to get others to start one, that we didn’t have the base.

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.

No loyalty to work? What are the salaries? Are they all volunteers?

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

Interesting. Nickel City Collective has a partnership with the BPS Foundation, a 501c3 nonprofit, that allows supporters to earn a tax-deduction for their gift I was hoping the same partnership but I was told that wouldn't work. Nickel City Collective is an independent corporation that is not affiliated with the University at Buffalo. How much will Nickel City Collective employees be making? All volunteers? Anyone know?

they want to control the $

He needs Reggie type resume on the bench. 2x hc, the current head coach is learning on the job with former dobos as the assistants. We need some gray hairs on the bench.

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How do we bring back the entire staff?

Army’s athletic staff are not employees of the federal government. What would be the cost to UB for football then?

we won't be able to add any veterans that anyone wants without NIL.

they constructed the best team they could afford. We have zero NIL. How will they build the roster without going the HS route and hoping for the best.

Might be the only approach with little to none NIL or “secretive/non public” NIL

Too many sharks circling. We can either accept they will be employees or not. Not one person can tell us if title ix will matter if they’re employees. Title ix doesn’t matter when hiring happens.

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.

Not if they go towards the activity model which is being discussed. Preferred admissions would be gone, preferred class registration would be gone, academic tutors would be gone.