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On 8/19/2022 at 10:16 AM, Hornlover said:

Hmm. Looks like my Burnt Endz didn't renew either.  It's probably been a few months since my card changed. Probably would be a good idea to remind people if their recurring membership expires for some reason.

would probably be good if you had an email address that worked because invoices go out every month. 

On 8/19/2022 at 9:49 PM, JesusSweatDuck said:

@RGBIIIcan you share how much you saw from the Crowdsourcing angle of HWH?

~5k so far - we haven't pushed it very hard just yet so that's actually a great start. 

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Thanks for the thoughts. The original HWH team getting the original IP out into the open and getting the longform IRS approval were instrumental in all of this. That's @SquishMitten @RGBIII @SydneyCar

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Outside of unifying all initiatives under one umbrella, which wasn't a small feat for the parties involved, there are two really big things here: 1) All players in all sports will be making money

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I went to the tournament and the gala. Kind of obligated on it and to pay for it, or part of it. It was all well done and a ton of money was raised. We’d committed to a nut for this new cycle for full

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would probably be good if you had an email address that worked because invoices go out every month. 

~5k so far - we haven't pushed it very hard just yet so that's actually a great start. 

Email address is in good order.

I guess the subject "A new invoice has been created - Awaiting payment" didn't cross the threshold on my importance meter enough for me to click on the email. I only got the one email that it failed.

Not a big deal, just thought it might be a slight uptick in renewals if it was more obvious their membership expired.

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16 minutes ago, Tex-19 said:

So does anyone know why Jordan Addisonis able to use the USC logo in his United deal? Haven't seen any other players use their school logo

It might have something to do with the fact that USC plays on United Airlines Field at the LA Coliseum.

 

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A company has signed players at a high school powerhouse to a team-wide NIL deal

ZACH BARNETT          AUG 22, 2022

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"As a high school football coach, this is just another layer of information I'm going to have to learn and be knowledgable in," says St. John Bosco head coach Jason Negro.

As Name, Image and Likeness deals permeate their way through college athletics, the first-time wide NIL deal at the high school level has been struck.

Southern California powerhouse St. John Bosco has entered a team-wide deal with a "sports performance and technology company," for whom Bosco is a client. 

Terms are believed to be in the three figures where, in exchange for the non-life-changing money, players will post photographs of themselves wearing the company's T-shirts on their various social media accounts.

Bosco already has a relationship with the company, using its product in their weight room, so it seems both the company and the school are embracing the deal for the novelty of it.

But, still, with California laws preventing school administration from brokering deals and the small-dollar amounts unlikely to draw the interest of professional, reputable agents, as NIL deals begin to proliferate high school athletics, the only vetting a process the typical high schooler will have available to him is he and his parents reading through the contract. At that point, it will be inevitable that a 15- or 16-year-old child enters into a deal to represent a product he doesn't fully understand or with entities who do not fulfill their obligations.

“Not one parent has reached out to us with concerns or questions as to what this is about. The way they’re approaching it is that it’s a small job,” Bosco head coach Jason Negro told USA Today. "The kids are being paid for a service to be an influencer and talk about it in a positive light. They’re not getting rich off it, but this isn’t a gimmick. It’s basic and straightforward.

"As a high school football coach, this is just another layer of information I'm going to have to learn and be knowledgable in to be able to educate our young men as they come through,” Negro said. “Just as an example, we’re implementing a financial literacy course to help them deal with that and understand how to manage money and things like that."

Located in the Los Angeles suburb of Bellflower, Bosco is one of the premier programs in all of high school football. The Braves claim three California state championships, two national championships, and Josh Rosen, DJ Uiagaleilei, Vikings offensive lineman Wyatt Davis, Chiefs cornerback Trent McDuffie and others as alums. The school's president and CEO is former ULM athletics director Brian Wickstrom.

Bosco enters the 2022 season as the No. 1 team in MaxPreps rankings. The Braves open the season at Allen (Texas), then travel to Autzen Stadium to face Central Catholic (Oregon) on Sept. 9. Bosco faces its rival, No. 2-ranked Mater Dei, on Oct. 7 as part of its highly-competitive Trinity League schedule. 

 

https://footballscoop.com/news/a-company-has-signed-players-at-a-high-school-powerhouse-to-a-team-wide-nil-deal 

 

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Not all Longhorn players are available - but there are some walk-ons on the lists if you want a Taffee or Rizzi jersey.

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Million Dollar Mullet: Quinn Ewers' distinct look is paying off (handsomely)

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AUSTIN – Quinn Ewers made his Texas Longhorns debut Saturday night against Louisiana-Monroe. Long a subject of fascination, some 95,000 fans were eager to watch the former No. 1 recruit in the country. They wanted to see his generational arm talent. They wanted to see how he’d handle the pressure. They wanted to see the hair.

You know the look. Business in the front, party in the back. A dirty blond mullet that peeks out of Ewers’ helmet. It’s a hairstyle that’s now synonymous with Ewers dating back to high school. Fans have latched on to the styling. In fact, there were a few blond wigs in the stands at Texas Memorial Stadium on Saturday night.

And with No. 1 Alabama coming to town Saturday (Noon ET, FOX), the eyes of the entire college football world will be on Ewers – and his hair.

“That’s a million-dollar mullet,” Opendorse CEO Blake Lawrence told 247Sports.

Ewers is an athlete on the forefront of college football’s name, image and likeness era. He made waves by skipping his senior year of high school at Texas powerhouse Southlake Carroll to enroll early at Ohio State and begin capitalizing on his marketability. He signed an NIL deal for both cash and equity with Holy Kombucha just days after he announced his decision.

The 19-year-old Texan is already approaching multi-millionaire status, if he isn't there already, thanks to his deals with companies like GTSM, Fortnite and Wrangler.

Ewers might not be college football’s most prominent pitch man. That'd be his counterpart Saturday, Alabama's Bryce Young. But thanks to Ewers' oh-so-noticeable look, he might be the most identifiable.

“If I was him, I’d keep it as long as I could,” Texas linebacker DeMarvion Overshown said. “Seeing all those mullet heads people were wearing Saturday was something crazy. I ain’t never seen anything like it before.”

Overshown and Ewers partnered with Wrangler to help the company launch its officially licensed collegiate apparel line. The University of Texas led the way on the multi-school rollout with Ewers featured prominently in its ads.

Ewers grew up wearing Wranglers. A hunting and fishing enthusiast, Ewers reached out to Wrangler about a potential NIL deal before the company was ready to work with him. Ultimately, Wrangler wanted to partner with Ewers in its NIL debut because he grew up a fan of the product. Sure, that resonated with Wrangler. But it’s fair to say the ad, and its accompanying pictures, generated plenty of buzz on social media because of the aesthetics on the jeans and, well, the mullet. That campaign generated 230-million plus impressions, per FWV Public Relations.

"He obviously has an interesting look, said Johnny Meagher, the Senior Director of Marketing for Wrangler. “I wouldn’t say that’s the reason we chose him. But he obviously stands out. The mullet is on trend right now. He’s got a swagger to him.”

The mullet is very much back in 2022. No Achy Breaky Heart is necessary. Those like country star Morgan Wallen have pushed the styling back into the youth consciousness.

As for the origin of Ewers’ mullet, he chose to cut his hair that way in ninth grade while at Southlake Carroll. By the end of his junior year of high school, it felt like half the football team had followed QB1.

“I just kind of want to do my own thing,” Ewers told 247Sports in May of 2021. “I didn’t see a whole lot of mullets when I was a freshman. There’s a lot more now. Mullets are coming back.”

Based on the hair and eager NIL pitches, you’d probably think Ewers is a natural salesman, a rah-rah leader that inspires his teammates with fiery pre-game speeches. There may be some of that in the locker room, but the dichotomy of Ewers is that below the mullet is actually an introvert.

Ewers would tell you as much. Ewers walks around campus with his headphones in and his head down. He’s deleted most of his social media and generally only utilizes it when he needs to post something.

That low-key personality allows Ewers to survive all the attention he receives for being ... Quinn Ewers. So much so that he’s made the spotlight feel normal for his parents.

“We were never taken aback by it,” his dad, Curtis, told 247Sports in 2021. “I’ve never thought of it this way, but maybe it was because Quinn was never freaked out by it. We were reverse feeding off him.”

It remains to be seen if the Longhorns will be able to do the same.

No school garners more attention than Texas. And until it happens, questions of “are they back?” will hang over the program like a shadow you just can’t shake. But someone – eventually – will help Texas make its way back again. And whoever does so will surely benefit from a NIL windfall.

When Opendorse began projecting individual NIL values in 2020, it tabbed Sam Ehlinger, an eventual sixth-round pick, as the fourth-most valuable brand in college football just behind those like Trevor Lawrence and Justin Fields. 

The reasons for that were simple: Ehlinger plays the most-high profile position for the highest-grossing athletic department in the country.

Ewers benefits, or perhaps endures, a similar spotlight. If anything the opportunity has only grown. Texas desperately wants to return to the top of the college football landscape, and whoever leads them there will be a superstar.

And if that person happens to have a flowing, blond mullet? That player’s earnings potential seems boundless.

“The mullet alone is worth a million dollars,” Lawrence said. “The position he plays is a million on top of that. And if performance exceeds expectations, you can stack another million on top of that.”

 

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Ben Cardin, a Maryland Democrat, would eliminate the tax deduction for individuals and for specific contributions that are then paid to athletes for name, image and likeness deals.

 

Goddamn Maryland. 

 

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