NIL Deals for International Students

[Bradley8792]

I keep getting conflicting reports regarding NIL for international students. I’ve read that their visa’s don’t allow them to receive any cash. But also heard some of our players have received large sums of money to play. Does anyone know?

[Da Coach]

I keep getting conflicting reports regarding NIL for international students. I’ve read that their visa’s don’t allow them to receive any cash. But also heard some of our players have received large sums of money to play. Does anyone know?

This explains it somewhat-
https://www.bestcolleges.com/news/20...student-visas/

It depends on what type of visa the foreign student-athlete is on. Most are on an F-1 visas (academic student), which do allow foreign students to earn money as long as it is not an off-campus job, and is limited to 20 hours a week. But those limitations would allow earnings from merchandise, autographs, and most other NIL money, but not for off-campus appearances.

[Bradley8792]

Thanks

[chrisreynoldsgoat]

This article gives some good info: https://frieserlegal.com/nil-for-int...dent-athletes/

[bradleyfan124]

I hope we continue going after foreign students. Coach seems to have good luck with them. I would think we would have a good name in The Netherlands, Finland and Canada

[Bball31]

I hope we continue going after foreign students. Coach seems to have good luck with them. I would think we would have a good name in The Netherlands, Finland and Canada

Although we’ve had some success with foreign players, I’d like to see us get back into getting a few kids from Chicagoland. I see UNI got one of the twins from Simeon and Loyola got the other. I also think Kiser (Metamora) going to South Alabama, will turn out to be a steady D1 shooter. I’ll be surprised if he stays at South Alabama all four years. I look for him to move up the D1 ladder after a year or two.

[Da Coach]

Just as many predicted, schools are finding ways to skirt the NIL rules and use them to attract top players.
Here is how John Calipari was able to lure his star center Oscar Tshiebwe from West Virginia to Kentucky and heap lots of NIL money on him. Since foreign players are limited on ways to earn NIL money, Calipari arranged a preseason tour of the Bahamas for the Kentucky team last August. For the week that Tshiebwe was outside the US, he was not restricted under the NIL rules. So he shot commercials, signed autographs and memorabilia, and made $500,000 in one week. With other NIL money, he has now made several million dollars in his 2 year career at Kentucky.

https://www.si.com/college/2022/08/10/oscar-tshiebwe-bahamas-nil-deals

[bradleyfan124]

The NCAA is killing college basketball

[Bradley8792]

For the week that Tshiebwe was outside the US, he was not restricted under the NIL rules. So he shot commercials, signed autographs and memorabilia, and made $500,000 in one week. [/url]

There’s always a loophole isn’t there.

[Da Coach]

And guys like Calipari have a large staff of people whose job is to find them and exploit them.

[BUfan14]

I’d rather this all just be player contracts with the university than all this kind of stuff. Maybe if schools signed two year contracts with players there wouldn’t be the year to year turnover too. You have to play out your contract or sit out a year after the contract and pay all the money back. After two years you can sign another two year contract with another team (transfer) or your own team. Then if you need a fifth year you can sign a third contract.

Even without those kind of rules I mentioned I’d still rather have straight employment contracts rather than all this back room dealing that nobody knows about or ever gets to find out what these players made. It makes it hard to like college sports anymore.