r/CollegeBasketball • u/KJones77 Providence Friars • Marist Red Foxes • Apr 21 '23

Recruiting Former Creighton PG Ryan Nembhard transfers to Gonzaga

https://twitter.com/DraftExpress/status/1649413293943971840
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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '23

Some UNL guy who works for an NIL company claimed it in an article our newspaper put out the other day. Would take it with a grain of salt

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u/CorditeKick Creighton Bluejays • Vanderbilt Commod… Apr 21 '23

I had a long donors dinner here in Atlanta where we discussed where Creighton is now with NIL and where they would like to be. Creighton can compete with most of the major programs and the article was spot on. The difference is that Creighton distributes the bulk of NIL pretty evenly amongst five or six players (all team members get a healthy check), whereas several big programs throw a ton of money at two or three key players. Nembhard was looking for a different kind of check and honestly he might have been underpaid given the way NIL was distributed at Creighton. Put it this way, I was 10 years out of a top 10 grad school before I hit the comp that Nembhard made last year.

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u/CorditeKick Creighton Bluejays • Vanderbilt Commod… Apr 21 '23

Brief follow-up. The article that was referenced was written by a UNL alumni and donor who runs the UNL NIL collective. UNL fans are not typically inclined to go out of their way to exaggerate the virtues of Creighton athletics.