Good point. Doesn’t the NCAA have to find a way to punish someone for something in order to justify their existence?
Please, all of you answer a simple question about contributing towards an NIL fund.
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They've had rules with punishments in order to preserve the amateur status of the athletes. If you are caught, you will pay. The issue has always been whether their investigative abilities were strong enough to make their enforcement effective. But having the rules and being able to occasionally enforce them at least gave the appearance of "amateur" competition....and held at bay other issues that now may rear their ugly head.
You’re the guy that thinks selling a pencil for 20 grand and throwing in two super bowl tickets isn’t scalping.
Actually the exact opposite. I’m a “you know it when you see it” guy - from paying too much for a marketing deal, to knowing what scalping is (though I don’t know why scalping is illegal).
I really hate to see my country losing its sanity. Perhaps every college and university should disband all their intercollegiate sports and concentrate on academics. Let the kids play intramural sports for fun and physical exercise. Just having my grumpy old man moment. How did we go to hell in a handbasket so quickly?
But like he said, it's really only about a quarter a day. Are we really that stingy?
Its not the money, its the principle.
"Clemson is a cult, Carolina is a country club" is how I've had it put to me
As long as I am still contributing to my own kid's college fund, it's probably unlikely I'll contribute money to a scholarship athlete's bank account. I wish them the best, but I have to keep my priorities in order.
Well this is what you call entitlement. The boosters already pay for their education, meals, first class travel, all medical expenses, tickets to the athletic events. If you put a price tag on that it would come close to about $400,000 a year. More than the majority of the people who buy tickets, join the booster club. Oh by the way it has also been determined that less than 0.001% of all the players who get all these benefits even give back to the university after their eligibility is over. Then you call people these vulgar names, you are probably a clemson troller, so like they say consider the source.
Well, I did ask people to share their opinions. I didn't exclude stupid opinions.
Hell no. Too old I guess.
Contribute so a guy can sit out whenever he feels like it? I’m not funding a platform for someone who is already getting an education for free. On some level my taxes fund that so that’s enough.
What happens when a business wants to do a ad shoot with the running back on the Friday of an away game in College Station?
This is big. Big problems!
Contribute so a guy can sit out whenever he feels like it? I’m not funding a platform for someone who is already getting an education for free. On some level my taxes fund that so that’s enough.
What happens when a business wants to do a ad shoot with the running back on the Friday of an away game in College Station?
This is big. Big problems!
That Scenario is a big big reach. Some of y’all and your what if’s crack me up. College football will be just fine.
This is such faulty logic.
It doesn’t matter if you’re paying someone 400k but they’re actually worth 500k. They’re still not being fairly compensated.
If fans that share your opinion get their way (and they probably will), we'll continue to suck. Enjoy.
What? I was pro-being crooked before this, and I'm pro-going all in on NIL now that it's here.
You're right. Lol. I misread your post. That's what I get for reading without my glasses! 🤣
In that case, I think we totally agree!
My thoughts exactly. This is completely open-ended. But many people will discover that their individual marketability has definite limits. They won't like it, but no college kid is going to bully a market. Not even the pros can do that when the value isn't there.
Not sure where you took economics from but it does matter. Sure these kids do a got but they get more in return, not a lot of the common people who pay the bills at these schools make #$400,000 a year. Plus it has been determined that less than0.01% of all the athletes who get all these benefits, hardly any of them give back to their schools. Yes this is the entitlement these kids are being taught by the adults at home and in schools today. What a shame!
Lets just say this. We can agree to disagree. Doug Woodward is not the person I would want to follow in my life at making basic common life decisions. Have a good day.
That is a pretty big flip. You ask the guy who he took Econ from. He names a professor at USC. You tell him eh, I don't care about that guy 😂
3 degrees in Econ, 30+ page resume, faculty at one of the nation's top business schools. What does this guy know?!?
why should I care about a professor. I have an opinion just like he does.
