No offense, but I am kind of skeptical about the NIL numbers being posted in this thread. Who is supplying the information? If it is from the Dan crowd, I would take it with a grain of salt. Look at football, we picked up players from the SEC and ACC; does Huff have that much money raised to attract the players? One would think if people are giving to football NIL they would be giving to basketball NIL? It doesn't take long to raise money for basketball if it can be done for football. Doesn't everyone love Dan and want to help him? I realize it is a numbers game with basketball vs football. I know Huff has said that the recruits are not asking for large sums of money that he is recruiting.
I never heard about Marshall football losing a football player to a "MAC school offering $80K or a Longwood offering $40K. I have a family member who is on the staff at Ohio U and she doubts that they would offer that kind of money, but she isn't sure since she is on the academic side. Longwood for example is a small VA teachers college (4-5000 students) school located in the middle of nowhere (Farmville). There isn't a lot of money in Southside Virginia where Farmville is located, I know because I use to cover that area.