NIL hungry students transfer Studiums for intramural basketball

Money-chasing high school students at Mount Carmel have begun transferring to different Studiums in order to make some extra money. With the organized intramural basketball season underway, many members of the Caravan have wondered if there is a way to make money off the unorganized games that occur right after lunch. Who’s to blame for these unfaithful rec league ring chasers?

Name-Image-Likeness rights or, NILhas recently become legal in the collegiate sport world. The NCAA has received a lot of harsh criticism for allowing its student-athletes to make money through this program. It has changed how players for teams decide whether to stay or not. Likewise, it has also changed the way MC students view their new Studium Basketball League. 

How it works is each student is assigned to a random team, or Studium, with which they play for the rest of the year. Now, with the transfer portal, there are powerhouse teams with players who are making money while winning at the same time.

“The lunch ladies are sponsoring me,” said junior shooting guard Marty Fiske. “I’m getting paid in free lunches and averaging 35 claps per game.”

The transfer portal has eaten up several future Division III walk-ons. The result of all this disloyalty is a school-wide love for watching these new impressive studiums play in their intense, 20-minute games. By no means are the games themselves fun to watch, with an average of 15% true shooting from the hallway prospects. Rather, the layup lines are what students pack the gym to see, with majestic attempted jumpshots being released towards the rim.

“I honestly don’t care how I do in game, I just need to make a 3 in warmups,” said junior point guard Wyatt Knight. “Either way, I’m getting paid $50 per 3-pointer made pregame.” 

This isn’t just one pregame-legend either. Many students are profiting off transferring studiums whether they are good at the sport or not. “I haven’t even scored or shot the ball yet,” claimed power forward Cooper Muldoon-Stetson. “All I have to do to make money is pretend to play defense.”

More and more businesses, organizations, and teachers have been getting in on paying these semi-athletes to make a profit for themselves. The current largest money provider to students is the businesses created by principal Mr. Tabernacki’s INCubator class.