Honestly not bad for a true freshmen. Everyone wants more of course but hard to judge when the kid was only on campus for a few months (he didn’t redshirt did he?)
Tennessee will probably have high turnover for a bit until the staff has been in place for a few more years. NIL is part of the game and kids need to really think about their college decisions.
Nothing is as strong as a real scholarship from the track team. You can lose academic aid, you can lose NIL, but that track scholarship is a little more solid. They can still take it away but harder
Nothing solid about athletic scholarship. If you keep grades up and you have an nil with real companies instead of the school, then the academic and nil would be more secure.
This is a misunderstanding of how both athletic scholarships and most NIL deals work currently in the NCAA. Most of the power 5 conferences (I can say with 100 percent certainty the SEC) now guarantee signed (ie NLI not NIL) scholarships for four years. Even if the athlete is cut for performance reasons, this scholarship has to be paid for those four years if they remain at the school.
These NIL scholarships are generally given out by "NIL collectives", which operate in a NCAA legal grey zone of being technically separate organizations from the university but effectively work with it to distribute booster money to athletes. There is no cap on this money besides how much the donors are able to give. The catch is that they are very much not secure and can be taken away for any reason. Very few male distance runners have a bona-fide NIL contract deal from a shoe company, as they simply don't have the name recognition. If you are not an influencer or Top 5 at NCAAs type runner it is not as simple as "just get better" to get these types of deals.
Don’t tip at McMenamins. While their kids harrass the McDonald's workers across the street for fun until he comes around from the fryer and threatens to beat their ass*s.
Bought em g wagons. the kids that Yeet raps about in Psycho CEOx. They’ll beg you for a fix, before they’ll acknowledge you as human.
Jacob is truly a humble, kind and dedicated person. He is also a brilliant musician and mathematician— search him on YouTube for some of his piano performances.
It’s disappointing to see negative comments from people who clearly don’t know him. Words are powerful and he is a teenager just trying his best. Be kind!