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Show posts MenuQuoteWhile NIL deals are changing the stakes for student-athletes, Nielsen Sports is changing the whole recruiting game. Their newest innovation, the Nielsen Impact Score (NIS), quantifies the marketing value of each major athletic program in the country, equipping college coaches with a powerful new tool to tell their school's full story to recruits around the country.
The Nielsen Impact Score is a marketing value index built from Nielsen's best-in-class proprietary audience data that compares college athletic programs along three key inputs: National Exposure, Local Market Impact, and Social Media Engagement.
With one clear ranking metric, athletic programs can tell prospective student-athletes a clear success story while standing out from rival programs that recruit from the same region or vie for the same on-court accolades. The Nielsen Impact Score rankings provide greater context for comparing schools while providing athletic departments of every size and scale with a cutting-edge platform to reach high schoolers, junior college players, and college students entering the transfer portal.
When two teams face off on the floor, the final score is the only metric that matters. But when it comes to recruiting, it's all about telling the right story to a student-athlete who is eager to shine both on and off the court.
The NIS helps settle the score between schools, provides the data to translate potential in value, and gives every program in the country a powerful new opportunity to tell a rich, complete story. Success breeds success, and the NIS helps schools lay a foundation for future star players to build a winning program.
QuoteDane Fife – former Indiana, Michigan State assistant
Fife left his alma mater after one season as an assistant, but still has love for the Hoosiers and the state of Indiana. Before he spent ten seasons under Tom Izzo at Michigan State, Fife was one of the youngest head coaches in the country at IPFW where he went 82-97 in six seasons (34-27 in the last two). Other mid-majors have courted Fife over the years and he nearly took the Duquesne job back in 2017, but Valpo provides an opportunity to back onto the sidelines in a state he is familiar with (and is very familiar with him!).
Bryce Drew – Grand Canyon head coach
Valpo should at least try to bring Drew home. His Grand Canyon salary isn't public but it is very possible (likely?) that he is the highest paid coach in the WAC and might have to take a pay cut to come back. Drew has a good thing going at GCU and could be holding out for a better job, but if the financials work out it would be hard to count out the alma mater.
Chris Lowery – Northwestern associate head coach
It's been more than 10 years since his last head coaching gig, but Lowery has spent that time as a right hand man at the highest level, first for Bruce Weber at Kansas State and now for Chris Collins and the resurgent Northwestern Wildcats. Lowery's tenure at SIU stagnated after a hot start in which he went to three-straight NCAA Tournaments (with the Salukis' third-ever trip to the Sweet Sixteen in 2007. He was fired in 2012 after going 8-23 but finished with an overall record of 145-115. The 50-year old is an Indiana-native and has plenty of MVC experience.
Billy Donlon – Clemson associate head coach
Donlon is in his first season at Clemson after a three-year tenure as head coach at Kansas City which just wasn't the right fit. He was successful in his six-year tenure at Wright State and his firing in 2016 was a shock in CBB circles, as he had just completed his third 20-win season in four years and finished 2nd in the Horizon. Donlon originally hails from the Chicago suburbs and has spent much of his coaching career in the Midwest.
QuoteCommissioner Greg Sankey said Thursday that the league divided $764.4 million of total revenue among the members, not including $13.4 million retained by universities that participated in bowl games during the 2020-21 football season to cover expenses.
The total distribution amount is comprised of revenue generated from television agreements, bowl games, the College Football Playoff, the SEC football championship game, the SEC men's basketball tournament, NCAA championships and a supplemental surplus distribution.
QuoteThere were 14.7 million brackets entered in ESPN's Tournament Challenge prior to the start of the NCAA tournament
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