Football players lead Gophers in name/image/likeness deals

[BleedGopher]

Per Torey:

Football players continue to lead fellow Gophers when it comes to scoring promotional deals off the field, data obtained by Axios shows.

Driving the news: Student athletes at the University of Minnesota's flagship campus disclosed more than 90 agreements to capitalize on their "name, image and likeness" (NIL) since November.

• More than a quarter of those deals involved players on the Golden Gophers football team.

The big picture: The disclosures, which do not include individual student names, illustrate how new NIL rules played out during the first school year the NCAA allowed student athletes to benefit financially from their college careers.

• In all, Gophers have secured at least 230 deals since the change took effect last July.

State of play: While local athletes don't appear to be inking the type of big-money deals secured by national stars like Hopkins alum Paige Bueckers, some side hustles are generating more than beer money.

• One volleyball player reported earning $1,000 a month to post to Snapchat 18 times. And a football player disclosed a five-figure autograph deal.

University of Minnesota student athletes snag more sponsorship deals

Social media influencer agreements remain the No. 1 opportunity.

www.axios.com

Go Gophers!!

 

[rowdaboat]

I think outside of football and men's basketball it'd be Emma Carpenter (women's golf) earning the most money from podcast/brand deals

 

[60's Guy]

Hopefully, we just have bad reporting going on and there is a lot more happening than is here.
Florida school just offered one player $11,000,000 from a collective. We got one, right?
Does it have any money? Didn't Coyle say all the athletes were going to get paid this coming season?

We can't be so inept as to leave it to players to endorse camps for $500 and an 80 hour work week and sign autographs for free food.
One, (1) player is getting a $1,000 dollars a month. Woohoo!!!
One football player signed a $10,000 deal to sign autographs. Woohoo! Come on man!!!

 

[fmlizard]

Hopefully, we just have bad reporting going on and there is a lot more happening than is here.
Florida school just offered one player $11,000,000 from a collective. We got one, right?
Does it have any money? Didn't Coyle say all the athletes were going to get paid this coming season?

We can't be so inept as to leave it to players to endorse camps for $500 and an 80 hour work week and sign autographs for free food.
One, (1) player is getting a $1,000 dollars a month. Woohoo!!!
One football player signed a $10,000 deal to sign autographs. Woohoo! Come on man!!!

Nope. Minnesota alums collectively have tons of money (more than Florida Gator alums on the whole, and more than Miami alumni by a long shot) but the priority isn't there to spend it on shadowy collectives buying college football players. It's just not something Minnesotans or the U would or will do. From what I can tell, wisconsin and iowa share similar sensibilities.

It's going to take a solitary whale to make Minnesota a NIL player. There is no person or entity known to any of us like this in our orbit at this time.

 

[rowdaboat]

Miami has John Ruiz funding everything, billionaire lawyer with endless amounts of FU money to piss away. Nobody in Minnesota is going to reasonably compete with that

 

[2nd Degree Gopher]

Per Torey:

Football players continue to lead fellow Gophers when it comes to scoring promotional deals off the field, data obtained by Axios shows.

Driving the news: Student athletes at the University of Minnesota's flagship campus disclosed more than 90 agreements to capitalize on their "name, image and likeness" (NIL) since November.

• More than a quarter of those deals involved players on the Golden Gophers football team.

The big picture: The disclosures, which do not include individual student names, illustrate how new NIL rules played out during the first school year the NCAA allowed student athletes to benefit financially from their college careers.

• In all, Gophers have secured at least 230 deals since the change took effect last July.

State of play: While local athletes don't appear to be inking the type of big-money deals secured by national stars like Hopkins alum Paige Bueckers, some side hustles are generating more than beer money.

• One volleyball player reported earning $1,000 a month to post to Snapchat 18 times. And a football player disclosed a five-figure autograph deal.

University of Minnesota student athletes snag more sponsorship deals

Social media influencer agreements remain the No. 1 opportunity.

www.axios.com

Go Gophers!!

My guess is that Gable Steveson's NIL deals total more than all other Gopher athletes combined.

 

[Unregistered User]

Miami has John Ruiz funding everything, billionaire lawyer with endless amounts of FU money to piss away. Nobody in Minnesota is going to reasonably compete with that

John Ruiz believes he has endless amounts of FU money. But mid June, the NCAA visited Miami to investigate him already, and he's also under investigation by another law firm.

Miami Hurricanes, John Ruiz subject of NCAA NIL inquiry - Sports Illustrated

NCAA staff members interviewed billionaire booster John Ruiz and others involved with the school.

www.si.com

Miami mega-booster John Ruiz, who called out Nick Saban, under investigation

Miami mega-booster John Ruiz, who called out Alabama coach Nick Saban, is currently under investigation by a law firm.

www.on3.com

 

[Bob_Loblaw]

John Ruiz believes he has endless amounts of FU money. But mid June, the NCAA visited Miami to investigate him already, and he's also under investigation by another law firm.

Miami Hurricanes, John Ruiz subject of NCAA NIL inquiry - Sports Illustrated

NCAA staff members interviewed billionaire booster John Ruiz and others involved with the school.

www.si.com

Miami mega-booster John Ruiz, who called out Nick Saban, under investigation

Miami mega-booster John Ruiz, who called out Alabama coach Nick Saban, is currently under investigation by a law firm.

www.on3.com

Stewart probably should have showed the YTD graph to show what happened to this stock. It bottomed out at the end of May (from like $10/share to $2/share) when it went public through a merger with a SPAC.

The SPAC is just a shell corporation that "acquires" a private company to go public without having to through an IPO. I don't know enough about them to know if they are routinely shady but surprise surprise this one is.

Ruiz's law firm already has contracts with the post-merger company (publicly traded company) for collecting on the settlements. It also seems rather convenient that the stocks bottomed out immediately (buy them for cheap) and now have recovered. I expect those stocks to settle in around $4-$5/share.

 

[Gophers7NatTitlesBadgers0]

John Ruiz believes he has endless amounts of FU money. But mid June, the NCAA visited Miami to investigate him already, and he's also under investigation by another law firm.

Miami Hurricanes, John Ruiz subject of NCAA NIL inquiry - Sports Illustrated

NCAA staff members interviewed billionaire booster John Ruiz and others involved with the school.

www.si.com

Miami mega-booster John Ruiz, who called out Nick Saban, under investigation

Miami mega-booster John Ruiz, who called out Alabama coach Nick Saban, is currently under investigation by a law firm.

www.on3.com

MSP Recovery huh! Sounds like a glorified debt collector. He just screams complete sleazebag with a pitch black soul!