I cannot accept fans who spent the better part of the last 12 months pointing out how Michigan had an institutional sign-stealing operation to cheat and then, when convenient, saddle Day with those three losses to Michigan. Fans have to pick one: Michigan cheated, or Day cannot beat them fairly.

I think the spirit behind this is that the three of us on the board are not making money on this. Instead, we'll all show a loss (and we're fine with that).

Yeah good ideas for sure. All for anything like that folks want to suggest. We'll work as hard as we can to help the football program.

Ohio State has arguably the biggest, most widespread fanbase in the entire sport and you guys have less than 1k followers on your biggest platform.

We are happy to take all the advice and innovative and intelligent ideas we can get, and I'm excited to hear what you share with Aidin, but you're doing us a little dirty, haha. We have over 13k followers on Facebook, nearly 3.5k on Twitter, and about a thousand on Instagram. It can always be better, but not too bad for eight months of work, and those numbers compare well with our peers in the NIL collective space.

That stinks. Thanks for sharing this.

The site is clean and we're pretty diligent about keeping things locked down, so it's not something with the site proper.
https://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/https/www.elevenwarriors.com

If this is exclusively happening on your mobile device, you will want to clear out your cookies and cache in your mobile browser. There's a possibility that a bad ad got through that's redirecting you, but that's also pretty low.

That's correct. And Ryan Day – or any other college coach – cannot be compensated for things they do, like in his case, the Ryan Day Podcast. Gene, Ryan, and countless others at Ohio State are aware of this new landscape and are working to do what they can to help Ohio State athletics.

My understanding of NIL in the lead-up to it was that it would simply enable players to profit from whatever DEALS *THEY* COULD MAKE with any advertisers that sought them out to promote their product or service.

I think that's what a lot of us thought, but other programs – very elite programs – have poured gasoline on this process by creating collectives that supercharge the deal-making (and create other innovative opportunities that weren't on anyone's radar 20 months ago). That's what we're trying to do at The 1870 Society.

If an individual or business chooses not to contribute to the effort, that's fine. Everyone has to make their own decisions with regard to what they want to do with their money, and we don't want to shame people. We're just trying to help Ohio State compete in this new reality.

Not quite. We'll update these a couple of times during the football season, then once the season is over, once during the spring, and then finally another update in August, so we're looking at 4-5 updates a year.

Yep. I meant to say "conference game" and not regular season game. Fixed. Thanks for the correction.

The three employees are paid a salary, that's correct. To run a business, you have expenses like payroll, operations, marketing, accounting, etc., and we're no different in that regard. We are still sorting through the details, but I can tell you two things.

I have no personal expectation of profit. I'm in it solely to help Ohio State athletics. The two other founders are in the same boat. We've invested capital and a lot of hard work, and based on what programs are saying they need in the NIL world, there likely won't be any spoils left over unless things really skyrocket, at which point, we've discussed scenarios in which we'd donate profits to non-profit collectives and other worthy causes.

The second thing I'd like to mention is that we want to get to a point where we can claim that 100% of contributions from members will go to student-athletes. We have to line up some corporate partners to fund operations before we can get there, but it's a real goal.

We'll have much more to say on this soon.

My man!

This was definitely something we wrestled with. I can sit here and tell you that there won't be a conflict of interest because I don't believe this will impact our coverage in any way. In the 17 years we've been doing this, I have not told writers what or how they should write We don't assign stories. We don't ask for favorable coverage of certain people or entities. You don't have to believe me – you can ask anyone who has ever written here. We give our writers autonomy and trust they're covering the programs exhaustively.

We've always had somewhat of an implicit financial connection with Ohio State athletics, particularly the football team. If they're going 6–6 every season, Eleven Warriors will suffer as a business. We're a team site, after all, so our coverage has always been a mix of hard news and low-voltage propaganda (hype videos, etc.).

It's a great question, and I can see why some might think it would introduce a conflict. You don't have to take my word for it, however. You can just observe in the coming months and years how our coverage won't change in any form whatsoever.

Good question. Each one would be personalized.

Hi Josh, great question. We should have yearly payment options up soon, so that will be possible. 

Thank you! Got it taken care of.

You guys are right. We'll get some more ASAP!

Great catch. Indeed there are 65 voters.

This is a super weird bug on Apple's side for iOS. 

It basically comes down to how hidden content is rendered (opacity) – and it happens on pages where there are embedded Tweets that have a message saying the content is sensitive with a button to click to view. The reason it happens in all browsers on iOS is that Apple forces every browser on iOS to use their WebKit rendering engine, so bug there, bug everywhere in a sense.

Sorry and hang in there. Hopefully, Apple gets a fix for it soon.