Billy Napier continues to reshape the Florida Gators from a personnel standpoint, on his coaching staff, and in the front office.
On Wednesday, Napier made another move to fortify the front office by targeting Ben Elsner of The 33rd Team. He was the company’s chief of staff, handling things behind the scenes.
At this time, we don’t know what role Elsner will have with the Gators, but it will likely be something similar. 247 Sports’ Zach Goodall wrote about how the revenue-sharing system will change things.
“We’re a year away from having a lot of data both in the rev-share space and in the marketing, endorsement space,” said Napier. “We’re getting ready to kind of stabilize the market to some degree because we’re going to be using [comparisons] to reference. I think you’ll be, that’s been the struggle here in the last, since we got here, is there’s a lot of uncertainty about, what is the market? What is real? The evolution of the market. Certainly, this spring semester was the most outrageous market of all time. I think everybody kind of pushed their chips to the middle before rev-share starts on July 1.”
The House vs. NCAA settlement sets up players to finally profit from playing college football with a cap of $20.5 million in 2025 while being set to go even higher in the future. Napier is prepared for that and it sounds like more potential hires are coming.