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TheMajicMan wrote: ↑14 Apr 2025 11:02 am
Gates I dare you win 20 plus games and 10 conference games and be predicted to finish at the bottom of the conference this year and make the dance. You have to budget basement shop in the portal and high school recruiting, because we have one of the lowest NIL budgets in the country. There's a reason that Laurence Bowers resigned as director of the NIL for basketball. The football team continues to get money for the football team and the basketball team.......Oh well!!!
Gates please get the hell out of Boone Co.
Really curious about this. Can you detail what Mizzou's basketball NIL budget is compared to other Power 4 schools? Or maybe the just the SEC would do. If it is materially less than other schools, then that certainly changes my opinion of the incredibly underwhelming portal class and incoming Freshman class.
He has no idea what the NIL budget is for the hoops program… he’s banged this drum until there’s a hole in it. We signed a top 10 freshmen class last year, in addition to starters from Duke and Iowa. We didn’t do that with “one of the lowest NIL budgets in the country” We don’t have Arkansas, Kty, or NC money to throw around, but it isn’t chicken feed either - per people who are knowledgeable on the subject, we are middle of the pack in the sec
Can you provide a source?
Gabe has posted it multiple times on Power Mizzou- I’m not sharing the link because it’s privileged material. We have a good NIl- not top ten, but not “one of the lowest…”
It's privileged material? In what sense? I mean, if you provided a link that's behind a paywall, then subscribers would have to log in to view the article, and non-subscribers wouldn't be able to access it. If it's not behind a paywall, then it's free for anyone to view. So, I'm not sure what you're protecting by not providing a link. And you won't even share the number, either? Why not?
I have listened to Gabe D, and he has never given the number, verbally. In fact, he has said on multiple occasions that he doesn't know the number for football or basketball. The posts in the PM forums also suggest the number is not known. So, I'd be surprised if the figures are out there. In fact, there was an article published yesterday on CBS Sports or this morning listing a bunch of schools that have between $7-$10M in basketball NIL, and Mizzou wasn't mentioned. So, they either have less than that, or the number is not known.
I'll go ahead an provide the link for everyone's convenience and enjoyment.
https://www.cbssports.com/college-baske ... ial-chaos/
HeY Woofy!
There is still some uncertanty. Here is part of the article
There's another group of schools a rung below that. Don't cry for these guys, as they're still hitting at least a hearty $8 million if required. This includes (but is not exclusive to) Auburn, Connecticut, Florida, Houston, Kansas, Kansas State, Miami, Purdue, Tennessee, Texas, UCLA, USC, Villanova, Virginia and still a few more trying to get there in the coming week(s). In talking to sources at these schools, even if most aren't at $10 million, there are still a couple in this lot that told me they could get there if absolutely necessary. (So: just by asking the right one, two or three really rich boosters for even more money.)
Just because Missouri isn't on the list, doesn't mean they cant be. If you havent notice, Gates seems to work from silence most of the time.
You have a very reliable source, and knttiger says he knows the number, but for some reason we just can't crack the code. I'm not sure that Gates is any better at keeping the silence than Bill Self, Kelvin Sampson, Matt Painter, etc.
Let's just say they do have the resources. That makes his portal recruitment even more underwhelming. According to ESPN rankings, they have been able to get one Top 100 transfer, and he is ranked 90th. So, I'll repeat, if Gates has similar resources as the schools mentioned in the article, why is the portal class so underwhelming?
Let me be clear, I like Gates. He has room for improvement, but I do like him, overall. This year's team was as fun to watch as any since Mike Anderson's elite 8 run and the 30-5 Frank Haith team. My negativity is more around the guys who say they have very reliable sources but can't produce any relevant information, and the guy who says the number has been published, but he can't give it out due to some seemingly ethical concern.
One of two things is true. Either Mizzou's basketball NIL is significantly lagging behind many schools (which Gates needs to help increase), or this year's portal class and incoming Freshman class, to-date, are unimpressive due to the $7-$10M Gates has to distribute.
Gates has added what…4 players? He added a 4th year player who isn’t a top center. Didn’t pay a lot. Took a chance on him and a prized recruit who needed developed, vamped.
Took Norweather who got no NIL money and agreeded to be a practice player and if he gets in the game at all, it’s wash up time.
Took Porter who has the skill set as a stretch 4 without the risk of running off Pierce, because Pierce knows where he stands and wants to continue in his development. Porter is interesting. He has not been pushed hard following his godfather from team to team. Now he will be pushed to be better. Gates sees him as a project to get the best out of his skill set, like he did Kobe and Bates.
And then Mack. No threat to Ant, or TO because they knew we needed another 1 or 2 and a CG a 2 , is still needed. Gates also sees he can also get his shooting up a bit….his PAR score can be improved upon and Gates is the man to push him.
Mizzou has more returning players than any other team in the SEC. And we still have 3 of the 5 players from the prized recruits from last year with Rowe and Randell coming in.
Gates is on record as saying he wants continuity and not want to shop the portal every year for players.
I don’t think he’s going to go out and spend big money on players because he doesn’t want to take a chance on running off Boateng, TO or Burns. He wants to develop those guys and use his NIL to keep them at Mizzou. If he can, his chance of going far in the dance is greater.
Word from sports reporters in the wild was that Marshall was on the fence b4 we took Phillips and it’s looking like Allen may sign with Miami, his home town which would mean his portal jump was premeditated because of knowledge of CYs new job and not that he was unhappy hear. CY is the person who recruited Allen…But time will tell if that is truly fact.
So this may not be as much as Mizzou is broke …seems like Gates is taking a different approach to building his team.
It would do every one well to look at the teams spending big money on players from the portal and look at what they have lost. And many of the guys who have vamped from their current teams…many of those are players who have previously jumped. That high scoring guy who went into the portal this year from Memphis, is going to his 4th team in 4 years and has a $4M asking price.
Lots of MM players who do well at that level, jump into the portal looking to move up to a HM team and collect a pay day. Analysis have already crunched the numbers and discovered many of the MM players with a high PAR score , can’t maintain that score once they hit the HMs. In other words a lot of fools gold out there. Some coaches know the game.
These are my opinions.