I am involved in a nonrevenue sport, and have been for over a couple of decades, at all levels, but a significant portion of it involves D1 guys. I'm fortunate enough to call a lot of these guys good friends after all these years. With most nonrevenue sports the circles are small and tight.
It is a significant revenue sport for being nonrevenue, especially here in PA. At least as significant as baseball in terms of the income statement and balance sheet.
NIL and the revenue sharing agreement is something we discuss as much as we discuss recruits nowadays, probably when more. It certainly has turned everything upside down, but the pool that is generating non-sustainable bidding is much, much more limited in the nonrevenue sports. It has to be. The money isn't there unless you're one of the select few programs Some of the universities opting in to the revenue sharing are allocating up to 95% of the funds to the revenue sports, many 90% and your unlikely to find any under 80%.
If you're a premier nonrevenue program, you likely already had a significant donor base in place. If you didn't and now you have one, you're now a premier program.
Who knows maybe I'm unaware and Pitt has a big whale backing their baseball program. If so, I'll be wrong about the HS kid from Jersey. But if not, the renumeration for him, while not insignificant when compared with preNIL , is nothing that should be concerning.
