Congratulations to the new and improved Trojan football team, which crushed the doughty Rice Owls on Saturday, 66-14. How did we do it coming off a 4-8 record last year? Easy! In the off season we bought ourselves a new coach, a new quarterback, and a few miscellaneous running backs and wide receivers via the transfer portal and promises of NIL riches. For starters, a new collective of rich donors called Student Body Right is raising money to provide every football player with “the equivalent of a base salary”—though only if they complete the "required charitable work." Wink, wink. Then there's the additional $15 million per year that USC itself is raising. And for finishers, there's all the money the actual NIL licensees will cough up in individual deals. USC football players should be rolling in dough before long.
Go Trojans!
Also, Rice was the opponent.
Hopefully all that lucre that'll be coming their way will be used in a profit sharing system reduce tuition.
What kind of NIL deal will Olivia Jade get as part of the crew team?
When they find something in her "scull" maybe she will get a deal
That whole family gives me the impression that none of them have both their oars in the water.
There should be a legal limit on how much schools can spend on sports. Sports bring out a competitive urge in people, and some people are willing to sacrifice whatever it takes to win - but at the end of the day, sports are entertainment. They do not actually matter. Money spent on sports takes away from academics and other things that actually do matter.
Harvey Updyke, Jr., did nothing wrong.
Back in my day, 1950's Cal Berkeley was a major team. Not anymore. As I remember there was an alumni club that provided money, women and cars for the team. Was it called the 7 C's??? It got shut down.
I don't follow college football much, but, Cal is still a respectable power in basketball, I think.
LOL Good one.
C'mon, man, they're rebuilding! Anyway, I wrote "respectable" not elite. They've made the Big Dance 9 times so far this century, and they've produced some notable talent, notably Jason Kidd and Jaylen Brown.
"Power" was probably the wrong word, though. Should've gone with "program."
Beating the Rice Owls is like beating CalTech.
Rice is actually a little better than CalTech at football, although I would place CalTech higher in Chemistry, theoretical physics, and biology.
Also goes better with sushi.
Don't forget the nearly $100,000,000 that USC will get starting in 2024 as a member of the Big 10. Easy to justify saying f**k you to their fellow west coast schools (UCLA accepted) for that kind of money. Still, one has to wonder will USC fly its woman's swim team to Rutgers or Penn State, or just depend on the used to be Pac-12 now Pac-10 to let them compete, the way they do for San Diego State in soccer?
PAC-10 (12) should add Colorado State, Boise State, Nevada, UNLV, San Diego State, & Hawai'i as new members. PAC-16 with East & West Divisions: East -- Colorado, Colorado State, Utah, Arizona, Arizona State, Boise State, Nevada-Reno, Nevada-Las Vegas; West -- San Diego State, Cal-Berkeley, Stanford, Oregon, Oregon State, Washington, Washington State, Hawai'i. Play each intradivisional team annually, & two extradivisional opponents each year (cycling every four years). Leaves room for three out of conference games yearly.
I am looking forward to #B1GAfterDark and USC/UCLA playing in B1G cities on frigid November mornings.
While USC has done well in the transfer portal, USC wasn't the only school to use the transfer portal to find talent. Ole Miss was right up there with USC while Texas and Oregon are slightly behind USC and Ole Miss.
The two USC-related NIL collectives are being set up after the transfer "window" for immediate eligibility had closed for the 2022 season. The talk has been that Oregon's collective was able to use NIL to nudge a HS recruit to sign w/ the Ducks (over USC) in the spring 2022 NLI period. Ohio State's NIL collective does the same thing w/ $ for charitable work. A lot of schools are in the process of setting up a "base salary" for student athletes. The issue that hasn't been resolved is Title IX.
I think you are sort of missing the bigger point: In the near future, the two big league conferences (SEC and B1G) will have their own rules and at least some sort of operational autonomy from the NCAA, with schools paying players.
UW and UO have both held "preliminary" talks with B1G. Openly, there is talk about B1G welcoming UW, UO, Stanford, and Cal. As I've said before, the only two schools in the current PAC-12 that are SOL are Oregon State and Washington State; they're going to have to buy their way into Big-12 if the PAC-12 falls apart, otherwise they'll be headed to MW.
"Rice Owls" sounds like a vegan appetizer.