This article from the Myrtle Beach Sun is under a paywall but here are the highlights.  The Myrtle Beach Sun obtained these figures from a Freedom of Information request.  I'd love to see someone from the H-D request figures for Herd athletes.

According to a Freedom of Information Act, FOIA, request filed with the university, Coastal Carolina student-athletes have inked at least 108 NIL deals, with a total reported income of $77,344. Coastal Carolina athletes signed these deals between June 30, 2021, when the NCAA announced its NIL policy, and Jan. 26, 2024, when The Sun News filed its FOIA request. While it?s unknown for every Coastal athlete that signed deals or the amount of each specific deal, 108 deals are small, considering how many student-athletes suit up for CCU. For context, during the 2021-22 fiscal year, CCU had almost 500 student-athletes competing in its 17 sports, according to the U.S. Department of Education?s Equity in Athletics database. The football team alone suited up 116 players at the start of the 2023 season.

For Coastal football head coach Tim Beck, NIL has created an illusion of a system more glamorous than it is. Beck, who favors paying players despite the current system limiting the types of recruits he can pursue and creating a constant roster churn that threatens the football program, added that athletes rarely receive the most monetary figures promised in the NIL space. ?People don?t realize what NIL is. It?s not a bag of cash, and they say, ?Thanks for coming.? It?s a job,? Beck said in a December 2023 press conference. ?I bet you probably 50 percent (of players) don?t ever make the money they say they?re making. I?m almost positive of that. Because I?ve been in that world, (and) I?ve seen it happen.? The exact amounts each student-athlete made per deal or what was included in ?reported income? are unknown. While CCU provided the total number of deals and reported NIL income from them, the university refused to disclose specific deals made by individual athletes, how much each participant made, or if non-cash gifts were included in reported income. Coastal said disclosing athletes? deals would violate the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. The terms of deals are typically not made public, and while the NCAA requires athletes to disclose deals that exceed $600 in value to their schools, the NCAA doesn?t publish the specifics surrounding individual players? deals.

Read more at: https://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/sports/college/sun-belt/coastal-carolina-university/article287194885.html#storylink=cpy

You have been dead on accurate on every thing you have said. And it has helped me to realize Marshall can't compete with Longwood, Robert Morris etc,, it's really sad when you can't compete with those schools and made my decision about getting season tickets for me and losing almost all the interest in my favorite sport and team ever. I appreciate your honesty and info.

Me too.

College basketball is now corporate and corporate greed is out of control. They use every excuse to make more money. It's the result of unfettered greed across the board.

It's always about the money and politics  allows it to happen.

As I often am, I'm confused.  Did this young man sign with us or not?

Martaz Robinson has not committed to us.

We have interest in him though and supposedly we are in his price range.

Isn't there already a  "mid major" poll for D1 college basketball, teams like Marshall? It is kinda like admitting you don't belong with the big boys (power conferences). It is just another attempt to separate the blue blood conferences from the SBC and the MAC conferences. When will there be a low mid major poll?

The ironic part is the people who wanted out of CUSA into the Sunbelt to get off of Facebook Live.

Is going to find their way back on Facebook Live in the SB.

That's uhhh not how it works.

As for the rest of the bellyaching, at what time in the history of FBS/I-A football do you guys think things were anything close to equal between the haves and the have nots? 25 years ago, we went undefeated with a win at Clemson, and our reward was a bowl game in Detroit.

This poll sounds like a fun idea. I agree that 10 or 15 would be a better idea than 25. But it's not something that's going to fundamentally alter anything. The bottom half of FBS has always been on a different level than the top half.