Louisville has always been a well funded basketball program. Whatever the difference between their 2023-24 NIL budget and this season's budget, it was dwarfed by the enormous gap in coaching ability between Payne and Kelsey. "NIL", and before that, "the bag", are convenient excuses for teams that don't win. There is a reason that UNC hoops, for example, is vastly underachieving despite enormous financial resources. Coaching matters more than NIL. The current myth/rationalization about why the SEC is suddenly the premier basketball league has also been reduced to a simplistic "they buy the best players" argument. The reality is that their coaching lineup is far superior to, for example, the ACC's.

Seems like we are poor relations in the ACC....everybody has unlimited NIL, yet Tech cant keep players for a decent Bball team.

no one can provide the budget details. We assume Louisville upgraded their NIL for basketball. Top 10? What was the budget for those top 10?

Besides newly adopted Texas, the B1G has all the NIL money. Large wealthy alumni are not in Alabama, Georgia , Ole Miss. Michigan, Penn State , Ohio State…….NIL will dramatically affect Football .

that's a big one year turnaround. the previous 2-3 years pretty much sucked too

** Edited by KCHokie2 at 3/14/2025, 5:49:49 AM

We know they've used the first, and the second normally goes with the first...

And Young still had time outs remaining. Hadn’t got it done last two years

** Edited by KCHokie2 at 3/14/2025, 6:28:20 AM