NIL Money

[Scoop Snoop]

For me, it depends on how the loss was lost, the importance of it, etc. For example, the loss at Creighton in February wasn't exactly a shock and we never really had a chance to win the game, but our guys didn't pack it in either. So I got over my grumpiness pretty quickly. The loss to New America in an NCAAT game, I thought we made too many terrible mistakes and lost to a team we were better than, and it ended our season, so it took me a while. I didn't even look at Scoop for 48 hours, and that helped me get over it.

Just to be clear-I get that for some, maybe many, here that it takes quite a while. I hope I did not come across as holier-than-thou. If so, I apologize. That was not my intent. The rage (but not the disappointment) on scoop after a loss is what I find strange.

Agree we were the better team vs. NM, but from the tip-off on, we did not play like the better team. Not looking at Scoop for 48 hours was probably a good idea.

[Scoop Snoop]

I was raised on the Lions.  I was at MU during the Majerus/Dukiet era.  I spent a career walking into burning buildings and doing CPR. Losses are part of the journey and sports are not life and death.  Every fanbase but one ends every single season in every sport disappointed.  So, like you, I enjoy the wins and shake off the losses.
  And, having been a part of coaching 39 different youth teams, I also default to watching the process and being protective of the kids.

Your mention of burning buildings and CPR is significant in the sense that I have my own reasons for putting losses of MUBB in perspective. I will have a long, serious post after the tourney is over in the Superbar that will address perspective. It will not be pleasant reading, and it will be about the horrors that some people I have known have endured. It was not their intent, but they humbled me.

[MU82]

Just to be clear-I get that for some, maybe many, here that it takes quite a while. I hope I did not come across as holier-than-thou. If so, I apologize. That was not my intent. The rage (but not the disappointment) on scoop after a loss is what I find strange.

Agree we were the better team vs. NM, but from the tip-off on, we did not play like the better team. Not looking at Scoop for 48 hours was probably a good idea.

I didn't take your post as being holier-than-thou at all. I looked at it as a conversation-starter, and it indeed started a conversation.

I should have added that I enjoy the wins immensely. There have been periods of frustration in each of Shaka's four seasons, including the last game of each year, but looking at the body of work I have really enjoyed Shaka's time at Marquette. For me, the single biggest positive has been that several of my best MU buddies - who had given up on Marquette hoops during the Wojo era - are now really into it again, and it has brought us together for trips to MU road games as well as for game-day text chains. They are funny and profane and just what the doctor ordered!

And I also am totally with you and tower about keeping things in perspective. Marquette hoops matters a lot, but so many things matter more.

[DoctorV]

Your mention of burning buildings and CPR is significant in the sense that I have my own reasons for putting losses of MUBB in perspective. I will have a long, serious post after the tourney is over in the Superbar that will address perspective. It will not be pleasant reading, and it will be about the horrors that some people I have known have endured. It was not their intent, but they humbled me.

Wow, a cliffhanger

[muwarrior69]

How much will Marquette get from this year's NCAA appearance?

Butler, GTown, DePaul or Nova could win 300k in NIL if they win the Crown.

[Scoop Snoop]

How much will Marquette get from this year's NCAA appearance?

Butler, GTown, DePaul or Nova could win 300k in NIL if they win the Crown.

How much will Marquette get? Nothing! We got knocked out in the first round as a #7 seed. Marquette has to pay the NCAA, not the other way around.

[Billy Hoyle]

How much will Marquette get? Nothing! We got knocked out in the first round as a #7 seed. Marquette has to pay the NCAA, not the other way around.

How much will Marquette get from this year's NCAA appearance?

Butler, GTown, DePaul or Nova could win 300k in NIL if they win the Crown.

So that means Butler or DePaul could have a total of $300k in their NIl budgets next year...

[BrewCity83]

How much will Marquette get? Nothing! We got knocked out in the first round as a #7 seed. Marquette has to pay the NCAA, not the other way around.

If I'm not mistaken, we'll get to share something from UCONN's, St. John's and Xavier's one tourney win each.

[Scoop Snoop]

If I'm not mistaken, we'll get to share something from UCONN's, St. John's and Xavier's one tourney win each.

Yeah, I know. It was a joke.

[MU82]

Interesting issue raised in The Athletic:

Despite Duke's team-wide apparel deal with Nike, could the program (or the NCAA) really do anything about it if Cooper Flagg insisted on wearing sneakers made by his sponsor New Balance on the court Saturday in the Final Four?

What are they going to do: Sit him? Sue him? Come on — neither. Flagg won't be the trailblazer, but someone else will be.

"The scenario you describe is real and will not be hypothetical for long," Michael O'Hara Lynch, former global head of sponsorship marketing at Visa, told me via email. "It's inevitable! No question in my mind that some player will soon test the school's ability to dictate what shoes they wear on the court, as well as other products/services they are now endorsing (drinks on the sidelines, etc.)."

 

[BrewCity83]

Yeah, I know. It was a joke.

I knew you were joking--I was answering '69er's original question.  I should've quoted his post.