Alum '04 wrote:

GWRising wrote:

I am fine with the questions in advance. It's potentially a larger audience and zoom calls with many participants randomly asking questions can often become unwieldy. If you have additional questions I am sure there will be a forum to ask them. The idea behind advanced questions is to keep it moving (given the finite time) and to try to eliminate redundant or similar questions. This isn't some press conference with hard hitting journalism.

Then why wouldn't you take questions via say email during the event? You're still screening questions. Only accepting questions in advance prevents viewers from submitting questions as they arise from new information.

Due to interest of time - if you have to read questions that may be embedded in a longer email often with a statement included. What if you got a hundred questions on the spot. How do you decide which ones to answer? And yes, some questions are not appropriate. No one is going to tell you how much James Bishop has earned in NIL. Why? Because you just let the competition know what GW pays its better players and also provided information that James may not want out there. There are certain aspects to this that cannot be openly addressed.

However, I am quite certain that if someone has additional questions that can be answered there will be another forum to ask them.. 

 

Given that NILs don’t have to disclose their donors, is there anything preventing a school with means from paying their coach an extra, say $2 million a year, and then the coach putting $2 million of personal money into the NIL as a de facto way of the school funding its own NIL program?

Free Quebec wrote:

Given that NILs don’t have to disclose their donors, is there anything preventing a school with means from paying their coach an extra, say $2 million a year, and then the coach putting $2 million of personal money into the NIL as a de facto way of the school funding its own NIL program?

Tax planners, attorneys, and the IRS would love you! 

I joined the call, and if you are familiar with the NIL environment, there really wasn't much new to explain beyond the university's desire to help athletes understand the financial consequences and needs of making more money and distributing NIL opportunities beyond MBB.  

Last edited by Merrick (1/22/2024 4:15 pm)

Thanks for the info.

squid wrote:

Given all the conversation lately about NIL and transfers and coaches, I decided to start doing a monthly donation to FoG: https://fogcollective.com/ - direct link to donate https://bpsfoundation.net/donations/georgewashingtonuniversity/

Are they providing you with anything for the monthly donation?  The website seems pretty bare bones

trops_fc wrote:

The Ross-Man! wrote:

squid wrote:

Given all the conversation lately about NIL and transfers and coaches, I decided to start doing a monthly donation to FoG: https://fogcollective.com/ - direct link to donate https://bpsfoundation.net/donations/georgewashingtonuniversity/

Are they providing you with anything for the monthly donation?  The website seems pretty bare bones

This is the only reason that's keeping me from donating too - I'm sure they're all figuring it out, but some sort of guidance would be helpful. I know they operate in a different stratosphere, but look at all the resources and information UConn's put together here, for example.

 LOL. UConn has $5 million dollars in NIL money and has won 2 straight national championships - it's not in just a different stratosphere - it's in a different universe. How about we compare apples to apples? Show me what other A-10 teams are doing.