All great and wonderful but what is he getting paid? Going "pro" in T&F most of the time doesn't mean much. It's not like you are signing a three year 6-million-dollar contract.
All great and wonderful but what is he getting paid? Going "pro" in T&F most of the time doesn't mean much. It's not like you are signing a three year 6-million-dollar contract.
probably low to mid 6 figures with added performance bonuses. not bad for your first job out of college.
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Anyone else surprised it took this long? I get in T&F we're not talking life changing money, so the motivation to take on a NIL deal isn't the same. But regardless, this seems like something that should have happened a year ago. I guess good for him for holding out though, if that's what he did. No doubt that made him more money in the end.
Do you know how much money he's getting?
If it keeps him from going pro it has to be substantial. If not, he should go pro.
He is getting free books and half-off on his food allowance. And free socks too!
Good for Nico, and well-deserved. I hope he goes with 5K only at NCAAs. Just seems to make sense in terms of managing racing and all that ahead of the OT.
Agreed. And if he wins the 5K at the NCAA championships, I predict he will win the Bowerman.
All great and wonderful but what is he getting paid? Going "pro" in T&F most of the time doesn't mean much. It's not like you are signing a three year 6-million-dollar contract.
probably low to mid 6 figures with added performance bonuses. not bad for your first job out of college.
It's also worth mentioning that he's a genuinely attractive guy as well. I'm surprised no one has mentioned this. Almost every single girl on my high school team thinks he gorgeous and they follow his social media closely mostly because of that. He has an appeal that a lot of other runners don't. At NCAA XC this year, they all wanted to go the start line, not to see the start, but to try to get pictures of all of the Youngs.
If it keeps him from going pro it has to be substantial. If not, he should go pro.
Current situation: NAU pays for his tuition, coaching, trainers, athletics facilities, housing, food, health insurance, travel to meets, etc. Adidas gives him a bunch of money on top of that.
Situation if he went pro: Adidas pays him a little more... but then he has to use that to pay for all the other stuff he was getting from NAU.
I assume he wants to finish his degree, and Mike Smith is the most sought-after pro coach right now and Flagstaff the most popular training location, so he's not going anywhere else. And it's not like Smith is going to make him double up at the UNLV dual meet or something. He will have Nico run only the races that help him towards his goals of an outdoor NCAA title and making the Olympic team.
A couple runners that I knew of who went pro had their tuition as part of the deal.
It's probably a lot more money and the freedom to race when he wants.
Someone like him would get decent money. I know, personally, someone who hasn't broken 13:20 and gets about 60K plus bonus money in addition to prize money.
I think someone like him would get enough to make it worthwhile.
All great and wonderful but what is he getting paid? Going "pro" in T&F most of the time doesn't mean much. It's not like you are signing a three year 6-million-dollar contract.
probably low to mid 6 figures with added performance bonuses. not bad for your first job out of college.
I haven't really kept up with NIL rules, but I thought you couldn't get performance bonuses as part of an NIL deal. It's name-image-licensing, right? Not name-image-licensing-performance. If he could've gotten bonuses for breaking CRs, winning titles, or breaking specific time barriers (sub-13/27), then it seems like a really dumb move not to have had a deal already. If he only can when he turns pro, then it makes more sense to run the 5k or something at NCAAs, sorta as a tuneup/sharpening thing right before the trials.
I haven't really kept up with NIL rules, but I thought you couldn't get performance bonuses as part of an NIL deal. It's name-image-licensing, right? Not name-image-licensing-performance. If he could've gotten bonuses for breaking CRs, winning titles, or breaking specific time barriers (sub-13/27), then it seems like a really dumb move not to have had a deal already. If he only can when he turns pro, then it makes more sense to run the 5k or something at NCAAs, sorta as a tuneup/sharpening thing right before the trials.
That must be why Heisman winners make the same as backup QBs.
In all seriousness, there are tons of ways to get around it