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I know there isn't really a "Midnight" Madness anymore, but PC has announced their "Late Night" Madness for Saturday, October 1 coinciding with our Homecoming Weekend. They'll be doing the normal pep rally type stuff, followed by a concert by Khalid. Seems to be a good get judging by student response; he's a top-3 most streamed artist in the world on Spotify. It's being held back at The Dunk (AMP) for the first time since 2019 pre-pandemic, when they had John Legend perform. Just happy that these types of events are back under normal circumstances!

Any other schools announce theirs yet?

https://friars.com/news/2022/8/22/mens-basketball-providence-college-announces-2022-late-night-madness.aspx

Creighton has an NIL event like they did last year, is that NIL at PC as well? I think it was a lot of kids and autographs and during the day but I like the concert and more of the entertainment aspect…

If it’s like last year, Creighton’s will be a heavily sponsored event designed to provide NIL dollars to players rather than a pure fan event. I’m okay with that.

To my knowledge PC isn't doing anything related to NIL, going to be more of a traditional midnight madness event with concert, team intros, etc. It's coinciding with homecoming weekend, so aiming to be more of a night out on the town. PC has taken the event pretty seriously since Rick Pitino started it at the school in 1985. We've had a lot of A-list emcees and performers over the years. But seems like a good thing going at Creighton relating to NIL, in this day and age an athletic department has to do everything they can to keep up with the joneses.

Omaha1 wrote:If it’s like last year, Creighton’s will be a heavily sponsored event designed to provide NIL dollars to players rather than a pure fan event. I’m okay with that.

Sounds like John Fanta will be hosting this event in Omaha.