Ohio Basketball Topic
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BuddyLee
3/27/2025 3:53 PM
Do we have any idea how much our players receive from nil? I'm not going to give to a fund if I have no idea how the money is going to be distributed. And is a minimal collective fund really effective anyway, if a bigger school really wants one of your players they will easily blow away our few thousand dollar nil fund. So as an outside observer and casual fan of a rural mac school, it kind of seems pointless to see nil as a driver of success for us.
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giacomo
3/28/2025 5:07 PM
Here was my NIL deal back in the day:

- received free admission with a date at the Athena Theater
- a certain beverage store charged me 3.50 for a 5.00 case of Old Dutch beer
- Baron’s Men’s Shop let me run a tab and gave me a discount
- the Downstairs Restaurant would give me free desert when I brought a date for dinner
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GraffZ06
3/28/2025 5:26 PM
greencat wrote:expand_more
Try this link instead....

https://1804sportcollective.com /

and/or this....

https://1804sportcollective.com/basketball /

(but apparently you do have to email them to donate)
Seems you can donate from the football page, but NOT the basketball page.

First, there's no button or anything to click that tells you it's a sport specific donation, only the general contribution button.

BUT, if you click the general contribution button FROM the football page, the next page that opens says you're making a football specific donation.

Try to click the same general contribution button from the basketball page and you get.....

wait for it......


"This page can't be found error"

I'm not even joking.

You can't contribute if you wanted to.
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OhioCatFan
3/29/2025 12:16 AM
GraffZ06 wrote:expand_more
Try this link instead....

https://1804sportcollective.com /

and/or this....

https://1804sportcollective.com/basketball /

(but apparently you do have to email them to donate)
Seems you can donate from the football page, but NOT the basketball page.

First, there's no button or anything to click that tells you it's a sport specific donation, only the general contribution button.

BUT, if you click the general contribution button FROM the football page, the next page that opens says you're making a football specific donation.

Try to click the same general contribution button from the basketball page and you get.....

wait for it......


"This page can't be found error"

I'm not even joking.

You can't contribute if you wanted to.
Our websites have always been mismanaged, to be nice about it. Maybe Ryan can donate his services. This website is a heck of a lot better organized than any official OHIO athletics website. Though I'm not a professional web designer, and have nowhere near the skill of Ryan, I have put together several sites, some with HTML back in the day, and more recently with WP, so I know what it takes to make a site easy to navigate, and OHIO's athletic sites tend to have their problems.
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Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame
3/29/2025 8:46 AM
OhioCatFan wrote:expand_more
Try this link instead....

https://1804sportcollective.com /

and/or this....

https://1804sportcollective.com/basketball /

(but apparently you do have to email them to donate)
Seems you can donate from the football page, but NOT the basketball page.

First, there's no button or anything to click that tells you it's a sport specific donation, only the general contribution button.

BUT, if you click the general contribution button FROM the football page, the next page that opens says you're making a football specific donation.

Try to click the same general contribution button from the basketball page and you get.....

wait for it......


"This page can't be found error"

I'm not even joking.

You can't contribute if you wanted to.
Our websites have always been mismanaged, to be nice about it. Maybe Ryan can donate his services. This website is a heck of a lot better organized than any official OHIO athletics website. Though I'm not a professional web designer, and have nowhere near the skill of Ryan, I have put together several sites, some with HTML back in the day, and more recently with WP, so I know what it takes to make a site easy to navigate, and OHIO's athletic sites tend to have their problems.
I'm pretty sure that the vast majority of college athletic sites are designed/hosted by the same company. I'm not sure who, but they all are basically templates and I don't think OU plays any role in the UI design.

Could be wrong, but that's the sense I have given the similarities between schools.
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ohiocatfan1
3/29/2025 8:48 AM
GraffZ06 wrote:expand_more
Try this link instead....

https://1804sportcollective.com /

and/or this....

https://1804sportcollective.com/basketball /

(but apparently you do have to email them to donate)
Seems you can donate from the football page, but NOT the basketball page.

First, there's no button or anything to click that tells you it's a sport specific donation, only the general contribution button.

BUT, if you click the general contribution button FROM the football page, the next page that opens says you're making a football specific donation.

Try to click the same general contribution button from the basketball page and you get.....

wait for it......


"This page can't be found error"

I'm not even joking.

You can't contribute if you wanted to.
https://1804sportcollective.com/?page_id=571

This is truly the stuff of a jr high program.
Last Edited: 3/29/2025 8:52:59 AM by ohiocatfan1
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greencat
3/29/2025 10:03 AM
ohiocatfan1 wrote:expand_more
Try this link instead....

https://1804sportcollective.com /

and/or this....

https://1804sportcollective.com/basketball /

(but apparently you do have to email them to donate)
Seems you can donate from the football page, but NOT the basketball page.

First, there's no button or anything to click that tells you it's a sport specific donation, only the general contribution button.

BUT, if you click the general contribution button FROM the football page, the next page that opens says you're making a football specific donation.

Try to click the same general contribution button from the basketball page and you get.....

wait for it......


"This page can't be found error"

I'm not even joking.

You can't contribute if you wanted to.
https://1804sportcollective.com/?page_id=571

This is truly the stuff of a jr high program.
If you fill out the "contact" mask, it tells you there needs to be an "@" in the phone number field. Seriously??
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