On3 reporting Ibirogba 100% to Texas Tech
Take it for what it is worth, but On3 does contact recruits, agents, and the schools, so it means something. They might be wrong, but they are usually right.
Replies to: On3 reporting Ibirogba 100% to Texas Tech
...and yet ND just confirmed that he is visiting this week...per Matt Freeman on ISD.
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Those guys are flush with cash
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So is ND
Both ND and their alumni base are among the wealthiest - far more than Texas Tech. But they are not willing to use their hard earned money to buy football or basketball players. I can’t say I blame them. Even if I had $10 billion I would still not feel comfortable in contributing to NIL payments. It would just not seem ethical to me.
I bet if a billionaire ND alum (and there are a few) came to the Administration offering to give whatever it takes to get the best players in the Portal, that he would be told to give to the general university fund, and don’t contact recruits.
You're behind the times, when i say they're flush with cash, referring to the collective, which
is the now allowed booster fund. TT has Campbell and more behind him that are filling the collective with cash...IU has the same thing
ND’s endowment was around $22.6 Billion in 2024.
While values fluctuate, the endowment is a significant financial resource, supporting scholarships, academic programs, and research, often placing Notre Dame in the top 10 for endowment size.
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They're not going to use that money for football
no school is paying for football with their endowment, it comes from boosters
Academic scholarship for fb players that qualify works really well.
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They can’t, most likely. People fail to understand about eye-popping endowment figures.
Very little of most endowments is available for ad hoc spending to get a new left tackle. Trust me on this. Almost all of it is restricted in various ways.
Rich alumni need to be approached, with an eye to creating a dedicated fund.
To read this board, people seem to think an endowment is a big piggy bank. Not how it works.
That’s not my point
Everyone knows about Campbell, the oil billionaire who is a former Tx-Tech offensive lineman. And I’m aware of Mark Cuban and IU.
My point is that ND is also very wealthy (2,000+ alums have at least $30 million each), and ND ia in the top 10 in endowment. But the Administration does mot allow boosters to get involved directly. ND requires no strings attached donations only ti a general NIL collective. As usual, we are playing by one set of strict rules, and everyone else a different one.
You're not dropping enough to get their attention
If you drop 30 million, you will get a call
The days when elite teams could store stars on their benches are OVER.
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Notre Dame suffers gut-punch transfer portal loss to USC at cornerback
https://slapthesign.com/notre-dame-transfer-portal-loss-jontez-williams-usc?utm_campaign=FanSided+Daily&utm_source=FanSided+Daily&utm_medium=email&sc=1d6fbca021f8380e14d5b04ba99deac49bfe823f91ccf1c6b27702f04dd034b6
No. He was a CB they would ask to play nickel (as likely back up to Golden). He chose USC because
they promised him that he could play his preferred boundary corner position.
Interestingly, Chad Bowden did everything he possibly could to avoid the kid going to ND as he knows what would happen.
He was a luxury depth piece. His value was in his experience should Golden be injured, but we have multiple more talented CB's who could move to nickel if necessary.
The loss of Marsh stung a lot. This one does not.
ND521 doesn’t think so. Above ^
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