A friend of the former Husky basketball coach's family provided a generous NIL donation.
Over the weekend, one of the University of Washington's leading football and basketball donors was lamenting how others across the city simply weren't stepping up and freely contributing to name, image and likeness efforts to fund Husky athletes, creating a huge challenge for the university as its athletic programs prepare to enter the Big Ten Conference.
Yet early on Monday morning, ESPN broke the news that 6-foot-8, 250-pound big man Great Osobor formerly of Utah State and the Mountain West Player of the Year, will receive $2 million to play for the Huskies for one season -- making him the highest-paid player in college basketball. Actually, according to those close to the basketball program, fired coach Mike Hopkins might be responsible for the Osobor payout, or at least for some of it.
To honor this man, one of the senior Hopkins' closest friends last fall donated $2 million to support UW basketball's NIL interests. He also put a provision into his generosity that the money could be used only for player reimbursement and, thinking ahead, not for a potential buyout of Mike Hopkins' contract should it get to that.
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