The 701 Award - Alston Awards

[forksandspoons]

1 hour ago, Dustin said:

Pretty damn cool that we are leading the way with this.

Definitely! I’m excited to give to this when I can 

[AJS]

https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/bison-have-no-immediate-plans-to-follow-unds-nearly-1-million-alston-payments?auth0Authentication=true

[AJS]

Is the Alston payments a game changer? That’s yet to be seen, I believe this potentially is. My question is when could the Coaches discuss this with recruits? Not until basically last weekend? A month ago? Really interested in the recruiting landscape for Football this second half of the summer. Up until this point I believe UND has been 0-3 for recruits with competing offers that have chosen NDSU. All before the news broke of the Alston payment. My question being were they able to discuss before it went public.

[The Sicatoka]

Recruits know they are told lots of "happy words" (hypotheticals); press reports and news releases, a school publicly going on the record, giving substance to the claims, changes the conversation. 

But yes, when this became public, your eyes do not deceive: things changed. 

[homer]

On 7/19/2023 at 7:34 AM, AJS said:

https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/bison-have-no-immediate-plans-to-follow-unds-nearly-1-million-alston-payments?auth0Authentication=true

That didn’t last long.   Wonder if Bison Danno is still against NIL and will be at Jays press conference today?  

[The Sicatoka]

There are two bills in the US Senate that may impact NIL collaboratives (less likely to impact Alston grants). Should be good times. 

[AJS]

Alston vs NIL will be fascinating to follow over the next couple years. Trying to look at this objectively. 

NIL

• Tailor to certain sports (No Title IX)
• "Star" player

Alston 

• $ amount is in the sweet spot for Mid-Major (w/ FCOA = about 10K)
• Message behind it
• Tied to school, think it's way cleaner

 

My questions with the NIL before I would donate.

• Do you know how much is in the collective.
• How is the money being divided (think would be the big one)
• Is there clear communication between the collective and the coaches

There just seems to be too much room for misinformation with collective. Getting everyone (collective to coach to player) on the same page, seems like it would be extremely challenging. 

 

[nodak651]

Fargo press are such hacks.  No mention of Alston and "Illinois State was the first Missouri Valley Football Conference school to announce a collective almost one year ago, which is called "Empower The Nest." It is overseen by a board of directors of program supporters. It is believed no other Valley school has formed one."  Pretty sure Penguin Collective is an NIL collective as well.  Took two seconds to find.  https://www.thepenguincollective.org/ also https://salukinil.org/ also https://www.on3.com/nil/collectives/crossroad-of-champions-314/

NDSU is hardly leading the charge on this, despite the article making it sound that way.

[Cratter]

 

 

[Cratter]

But really a school will need both to be successful.

[nodak651]

 

[CMSioux]

So is NIL vs Alston the next dick measuring game? 

[jdub27]

9 hours ago, nodak651 said:

Zero of the words that came out of his mouth are an actual surprise for anyone that knows him or at least of him. As someone else pointed out to me, classy to have your kickoff press conference at a bar. Maybe they will toss in the first round to players who don't transfer?
Unfortunately talk is cheap but funding this to the levels that he just laid out is for from that. However it looks like they saved some money by not spending it on logo design, so I guess that's a start?

[FSSD]

9 hours ago, nodak651 said:

 

Is this guy Lakes??

[FSSD]

1 hour ago, FSSD said:

Is this guy Lakes??

Well, I was close.  It's looks like this guy is Jake not Lakes from State Farm

[The Sicatoka]

On 7/19/2023 at 7:34 AM, AJS said:

https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/bison-have-no-immediate-plans-to-follow-unds-nearly-1-million-alston-payments?auth0Authentication=true

Roll forward eight months ... "looking into it" ... 

https://www.inforum.com/sports/bison-media-zone/mens-sports/mcfeelys-tip-sheet-ndsu-working-toward-alston-payments-for-athletes 

[JohnboyND7]

On 8/1/2023 at 9:08 AM, FSSD said:

Is this guy Lakes??

No. He's a much more serious person than Lakes.