GW Hoops / NIL Compensation

**Posted by 22ndandF** 6/08/2026 7:04 pm

Anyone have reasonable estimates as to what we're paying each of our players?

**Posted by Poog** 6/08/2026 7:53 pm

22ndandF wrote:
Anyone have reasonable estimates as to what we're paying each of our players?

Not my concern.

**Posted by Wisconsin Colonial 1974** 6/09/2026 9:15 pm

But kind of interesting.

**Posted by GWRising** 6/10/2026 12:47 pm

Perhaps interesting but not for public discourse. Don't need to let the competition know what your budget is. Same as making public coaching salaries, recruiting budgets, etc. GW not required to disclose and neither are the players. Suffice it to say, whatever the NIL amounts are, it was sufficient to bring in our current roster.

**Posted by Free Quebec** 6/10/2026 6:52 pm

GWRising wrote:
Perhaps interesting but not for public discourse. Don't need to let the competition know what your budget is. Same as making public coaching salaries, recruiting budgets, etc. GW not required to disclose and neither are the players. Suffice it to say, whatever the NIL amounts are, it was sufficient to bring in our current roster.

Not just the competition. The players don’t need to know what other players on the team are making. Too easy to become bitter.

**Posted by 22ndandF** 6/11/2026 7:55 am

The best disinfectant is sunlight.

**Posted by Poog** 6/11/2026 8:26 am

22ndandF wrote:
The best disinfectant is sunlight.

What exactly would it be disinfecting unless it’s a requirement across the board for all schools?

**Posted by GWRising** 6/11/2026 8:44 am

Poog wrote:
22ndandF wrote:
The best disinfectant is sunlight.
What exactly would it be disinfecting unless it’s a requirement across the board for all schools?

Exactly. We are not unilaterally disarming.

**Posted by 22ndandF** 6/14/2026 8:49 am

GWRising wrote:
Poog wrote:
22ndandF wrote:
The best disinfectant is sunlight.
What exactly would it be disinfecting unless it’s a requirement across the board for all schools?
Exactly. We are not unilaterally disarming.

Completely agree. Must be a requirement for all.

**Posted by Gwmayhem** 6/15/2026 9:29 am

What's surprising about this thread is how easily its initial premise appears to be summarily dismissed. Why would revealing salaries/compensation packages be considered so out of bounds?

1) Coaching salaries are often publicly reported. USA Today used to report the salary/bonus structure of every NCAA tournament bound coach. This is certainly public information amongst those at public universities.
2) Most players have agents whose job it is to understand the market and where their client stands to financially gain within it. Because of this, coupled with some players who would have no qualms sharing their compensation totals, the cat is very much out of the bag with respect to many players already knowing what other players are making.
3) These players are now professionals, like it or not. Nobody has any issue with fans learning what players in professional leagues earn.
4) The competition is well aware regarding what teams are spending in roster-sharing and NIL revenue. Within the A10, most everyone knows that Dayton and VCU are at the top of this mountain with SLU ascending to the point that they are right there with them. GW slots into a next tier, a bit behind Mason and along the lines of a Richmond and a St. Joe's.

Don't conflate finding it inappropriate or distasteful or "none of their business" for fans to be apprised of this with a fan's right to know this information. Unlike most of us, these players are professionals in the sports and entertainment field. This is what they wanted, and fair or unfair, I view this as an unintended consequence.

**Posted by GW Alum Abroad** 6/15/2026 12:12 pm

If the question is asked in the context of an athletic department drawing on the University general budget at a time of staff layoffs and programme cuts, then I get why an answer other than "NOYB" might be appropriate.
Otherwise, until U$C and Ohio $t give out their player payroll data for (let's say just for shits & giggles) the last 50 years then GW can keep its books closed.
Too many non-players were making too much money off the college kids playing sports for the kids not to deserve a slice of the pie. Unless said kids went to a place like UK or SMU that paid them under-the-table, then they made bank (the old joke about Shaq not getting rich by playing pro but by going to LSU).