Can't fault a young man for maximizing his earning potential. He can probably get mid to high 6 figures transferring to a b10 or sec team. Might be his last shot to make that much playing basketball.
Double that and you're on the right track. Look at Andrej Stojakovic.
I'd bet a dinner at House of Prime Rib that Dai Dai will land a $1.5M deal or more. And unfortunately, he is unlikely to be the only portal entry remaining for this roster.
The problem is that many schools are playing with an NIL war chest 2 or 3 times the amount that Cal MBB has. Kentucky had north of $20M. Simply put, absent some sort of oversight or regulations, a school like Cal can not compete in this current market.
Possibly but Andrej is a far better player imo. Dai Dai on a top tier team is realistically a rotational guard. Think Roddy Gayle in the game going on now. Roddy was a 13 ppg scorer as a soph on a mediocre Ohio St team and is now a solid backup on a title contender.
Andrej and Dai Dai are incredibly similar players, albeit of different sizes - they excel at creating their own offense, primarily via 2 PT buckets, with neither sharing the ball incredibly well, defending incredibly well, nor shooting the 3 incredibly well. Both will play in Europe - neither are NBA players. Stojakovic was 4th on this Illini team in mpg, coming off the bench the past 7 weeks. I expect Dai Dai to fill a similar role on a good club.
But whatever role he will be playing, he will be making a helluva lot more money than mid-to-high 6-figures. That’s a certainty.
The bigger point is the amount of money they will earn in NIL, despite taking on smaller roles…Cal could not come anywhere close to matching Illinois’ offer to Andrej, and likewise with Ames, who has multiple offers far beyond Cal’s budget.
You do get the championship discounts for being elite. They're still paying a lot of money, and UConn has the benefit of not needing to be competitive in football.
The revenue sharing is spread across all sports so there's a limit to how much basketball can get. There was a money dump from the NIL collectives with lots of contracts signed before last July 1 in order to avoid reporting when the House agreement went into effect. Next year's deals will all need to be submitted to the CSC, so I think the market this year may have been inflated (assuming we're not dealing with rampant non-compliance, which I'm sure is possible).
Hang tight, folks. The market's gonna be unpredictable for a bit.
The revenue sharing is limited, and I think they were saying it averages out to about 75% football, 15% basketball, and then 10% being spread across baseball and the Olympic sports.
NIL cannot be legally limited. You cannot tell Nike that they aren't allowed to sponsor an adult for as much as they want. There are clearinghouses to make sure these are legit NIL deals and not a TTech situation, but they are basically winless when challenged in court.
I do not honestly think even Congressional interference could stop this with an exception that allows CBA, because even with collective bargaining the NBA never stopped Adidas from giving AI his lifetime deal -- it would have been illegal.
I think we're going to see some players getting only a slightly bigger (or maybe even smaller) bag and also a reduced role, which will hurt marketability...overall a downgrade. It's just the reverse effect of Cal getting bench players from powerhouses, getting a decent get AND P4 playing time. It's very hard to stockpile talent nowadays.
4 schools in 4 years.
Rather laughable.
I don’t think draft is a good idea with his profile - please commit to a cal degree !
Can't fault a young man for maximizing his earning potential. He can probably get mid to high 6 figures transferring to a b10 or sec team. Might be his last shot to make that much playing basketball.
Double that and you're on the right track. Look at Andrej Stojakovic.
I'd bet a dinner at House of Prime Rib that Dai Dai will land a $1.5M deal or more. And unfortunately, he is unlikely to be the only portal entry remaining for this roster.
The problem is that many schools are playing with an NIL war chest 2 or 3 times the amount that Cal MBB has. Kentucky had north of $20M. Simply put, absent some sort of oversight or regulations, a school like Cal can not compete in this current market.
Possibly but Andrej is a far better player imo. Dai Dai on a top tier team is realistically a rotational guard. Think Roddy Gayle in the game going on now. Roddy was a 13 ppg scorer as a soph on a mediocre Ohio St team and is now a solid backup on a title contender.
Andrej and Dai Dai are incredibly similar players, albeit of different sizes - they excel at creating their own offense, primarily via 2 PT buckets, with neither sharing the ball incredibly well, defending incredibly well, nor shooting the 3 incredibly well. Both will play in Europe - neither are NBA players. Stojakovic was 4th on this Illini team in mpg, coming off the bench the past 7 weeks. I expect Dai Dai to fill a similar role on a good club.
But whatever role he will be playing, he will be making a helluva lot more money than mid-to-high 6-figures. That’s a certainty.
Andrej kind of fell off at Illinois because he wasn't just getting fed the offense as the primary scorer. Dai Dai would be the same.
The bigger point is the amount of money they will earn in NIL, despite taking on smaller roles…Cal could not come anywhere close to matching Illinois’ offer to Andrej, and likewise with Ames, who has multiple offers far beyond Cal’s budget.
I understand and agree, but there is some sense of "are you giving up $50M in future salary to make $2M now"?
2or 3 times more is that all? Maybe more like 5 times more or more...UConn is crazy...What is the Cal war chest for NIL for mens BB??
You do get the championship discounts for being elite. They're still paying a lot of money, and UConn has the benefit of not needing to be competitive in football.
Ok..but I'm curious about how is Cal/Madsen doing compared to programs with similar NIL warchests ?
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Cal’s NIL is literally at the bottom of the Power Conference…like, bottom 5. So viewed in that lens, they’re doing great.
If MM had $10-$12M, it would really be something. He has maybe half that.
Dude.... come on. I've been saying DaiDai$$$ but I did not actually mean DaiDai$$$. Geez.
Sucks, he is a great player. Man, I wish he would stay.
The revenue sharing is spread across all sports so there's a limit to how much basketball can get. There was a money dump from the NIL collectives with lots of contracts signed before last July 1 in order to avoid reporting when the House agreement went into effect. Next year's deals will all need to be submitted to the CSC, so I think the market this year may have been inflated (assuming we're not dealing with rampant non-compliance, which I'm sure is possible).
Hang tight, folks. The market's gonna be unpredictable for a bit.
Some good reading here: https://nil-ncaa.com/
There's not really a limit.
The revenue sharing is limited, and I think they were saying it averages out to about 75% football, 15% basketball, and then 10% being spread across baseball and the Olympic sports.
NIL cannot be legally limited. You cannot tell Nike that they aren't allowed to sponsor an adult for as much as they want. There are clearinghouses to make sure these are legit NIL deals and not a TTech situation, but they are basically winless when challenged in court.
I do not honestly think even Congressional interference could stop this with an exception that allows CBA, because even with collective bargaining the NBA never stopped Adidas from giving AI his lifetime deal -- it would have been illegal.
I think we're going to see some players getting only a slightly bigger (or maybe even smaller) bag and also a reduced role, which will hurt marketability...overall a downgrade. It's just the reverse effect of Cal getting bench players from powerhouses, getting a decent get AND P4 playing time. It's very hard to stockpile talent nowadays.