2026 Transfer Portal Chaos/Madness Thread
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I was just reading about Louisville's high reliance of private NIL for their basketball program. It looks like their institutional direct-revenue sharing NIL for this campaign is $20.5 mil. I wonder what their total spending on NIL will be? Didn't we recently receive a huge donation directly to our AD from the Booth family? I'm reading that our rev share to basketball players is a little over $14 mil. I know we have the cost of the football stadium dampening our balance sheet but this could be Self's last year and it seems weird we don't show more appreciation.
I smell a run! (better buy more toilet paper)
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Don't know the answer to those questions but wanted to note I think it is more likely than not that Self is back for a couple more years if he can avoid another heart incident and he hasn't made it back to the F4 (though another heart incident seems likely after 2 in the last 3 or so years).
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@drgnslayr that’s a good observation about the 2 buckets of NIL: private and RevShare. KU uses about 1/3 of its RevShare budget for basketball, which is about as large as you’ll find. Each school has a hard RevShare cap of like $21.3m in the 26-27 year. So we’ll spend probably a bit over $7m on basketball RevShare. Football takes the lion’s share just because of roster numbers. Other sports take whatever is left.
Private NIL (I’ve also seen it referred to as “pure NIL” since it’s ostensibly for actual NIL use) is unlimited but (allegedly) each deal has to be cleared with the NILGo clearinghouse run by Deloitte. Schools that are spending insane amounts are basically daring Deloitte and the NCAA to void these deals since they’re clearly far above fair market value as they define it.
For big money rosters, you’ll see the latter outnumber the former by 3:1 or even 4:1. We compete fine in terms of RevShare but we don’t have the donor base to compete with the biggest spenders, especially given all the other expenses in the AD and revenue disadvantage from being in a second tier league.
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Sounds logical. But why is everyone throwing around this number of $14 mil NIL budget we have this year?
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@drgnslayr because that’s made up of both RevShare and “pure NIL.” The actual number is some higher I believe
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I don't know how much I even believe that number. We just landed another recruit today and it didn't seem like we still had NIL available if it was only $14 mil.
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RJ Luis to LSU??? Shocking. How does Will Wade manage to make that happen?
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NCAA likely to fight that one since he declared for the draft and didn't withdraw (and this isn't an international prospect situation). Always a chance it doesn't hold up in court, but the NCAA has been consistent that players are no longer eligible after that so I feel like like it is a long shot that RJ is eligible when this is all played out.
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Saw today that from Vernon that 7' Serbian center Mihailo Musikic has committed to KU, but will only be announced if the NCAA clears him. He is 24 and has played professionally in Europe since 2022.
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@Texas-Hawk-10 said in 2026 Transfer Portal Chaos/Madness Thread:
Saw today that from Vernon that 7' Serbian center Mihailo Musikic has committed to KU, but will only be announced if the NCAA clears him. He is 24 and has played professionally in Europe since 2022.
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