Could programs without major football teams be at an advantage in basketball?

TL;DR:

- Part of the goal of revenue sharing was to end boosters paying players under the guise of "NIL"

- But the revenue sharing model has a cap, and schools with big football programs are going to use most of that money on football

- To compete financially with mid-majors, big schools might still have to utilize the NIL collective model

- Article uses the concrete example of Maryland, where the coach has put some actual numbers on this because he's being courted by Villanova. Maryland plans to allocate $4M to basketball while a school like Nova is looking at $6M+.

Interesting. My first reaction is I have a hard time seeing a big swing toward the mid-majors in basketball, outside of maybe a few of the teams that a basically big-time CBB programs already (some of the Big East and Gonzaga/St. Marys.). But I can't see a team like Davidson or Drake suddenly being more attractive than even a "solid" P4 school (like A&M or Ole Miss or Clemson) on a year-to-year basis.

Just because programs can now spend $20 million on NIL doesn't mean most schools will even be able to do that. Part of not having a big-time football team means not having the $$$ coming in from a big-time football team.

TjgtAg08 said:

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Interesting. My first reaction is I have a hard time seeing a big swing toward the mid-majors in basketball, outside of maybe a few of the teams that a basically big-time CBB programs already (some of the Big East and Gonzaga/St. Marys.). But I can't see a team like Davidson or Drake suddenly being more attractive than even a "solid" P4 school (like A&M or Ole Miss or Clemson) on a year-to-year basis.

Just because programs can now spend $20 million on NIL doesn't mean most schools will even be able to do that. Part of not having a big-time football team means not having the $$$ coming in from a big-time football team.

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It does open up potential avenues for someone in the Big 10 or SEC thats getting the same revenue to skew it towards basketball. Like what if Vanderbilt just goes all in on basketball rather than football?

JJxvi said:

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TjgtAg08 said:

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Interesting. My first reaction is I have a hard time seeing a big swing toward the mid-majors in basketball, outside of maybe a few of the teams that a basically big-time CBB programs already (some of the Big East and Gonzaga/St. Marys.). But I can't see a team like Davidson or Drake suddenly being more attractive than even a "solid" P4 school (like A&M or Ole Miss or Clemson) on a year-to-year basis.

Just because programs can now spend $20 million on NIL doesn't mean most schools will even be able to do that. Part of not having a big-time football team means not having the $$$ coming in from a big-time football team.

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It does open up potential avenues for someone in the Big 10 or SEC thats getting the same revenue to skew it towards basketball. Like what if Vanderbilt just goes all in on basketball rather than football?

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How do you think they won so much in baseball. They allocated more full ride scholarships to baseball at the expense of their football team. If I was them I would have never stopped doing that. But alas like almost all schools at any level from high school on will somehow always come back to football.

I think football is just too big a money maker to outright ignore

TheDecadeSapling said:

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I think football is just too big a money maker to outright ignore

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The Big East says "Hi!"