We are one of 22 schools offering academic bonuses of up to $5,980. Article mentions that ISU holds the bonus money and pays it lump sum if student/athlete graduates. This could be of some benefit in recruiting.
ESPN article on Student Athlete Bonuses
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We are one of 22 schools offering academic bonuses of up to $5,980. Article mentions that ISU holds the bonus money and pays it lump sum if student/athlete graduates. This could be of some benefit in recruiting.
Hopefully football and men’s basketball only.
Why does it matter if it's only for football and men's basketball if someone's willing to pay for everyone?
Not yet…this is a war of attrition. What one school does this year, the others will do it next year and do it bigger. There’s no end to this.
I thought that would be a title 9 issue but looks like they can pick and choose sports and amounts.
Looks like Kansas won't pay the players.
They'd have to earn it by academic performance. Why do that when the old ways work so well?
I thought that would be a title 9 issue but looks like they can pick and choose sports and amounts.
Sends the bat signal for Steph Copley @wmlw09
I remember being thoroughly unimpressed when I first read about this at Iowa State. Wasn’t this a result of the student athlete committee effort Kyven Gadson was part of?
Waste of funds, should be funneling all that to football and mens basketball.
I thought that would be a title 9 issue but looks like they can pick and choose sports and amounts.
I love the NIL best thing to happen to college sports in a long time.
I'd hardly call a few thousand dollars for making grades a "waste of funds", especially when it's likely most of the football and basketball players won't be making the grades to get it in the first place - especially if someone else is willing to shell the money out for it.
Devil's advocate, does that but unwanted pressure on the academic administration to be lenient on grades and shadow classes?
So how big a cut do the tutors get? At N. Carolina does it count for fake classes also?
A few years back, I had a friend tutor a bball player at ISU who wasn’t passing a basic math class with up to 3 test retakes. Guessing all schools have had these classes pre/post NIL.
