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I'm getting close to throwing the towel in on college sports.
Some people have a lot more money than sense.
It only moves the needle when they spend it. The needle is being moved somewhere.
Great coaches are always recruiting, and that is real eye opener to a high school kid.
Lord only knows what Ugaleilei is getting paid, though I doubt it’s as much as B.Young. I can almost hear Brent Musberger now,” Whoa! Look at that! I guess that’s what you get when you’re the QB at Alabama!”
Or Keith Jackson,”Whoa Nelly!”
Or Keith Jackson,”Whoa Nelly!”
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Bingo. This is straight up signaling. One would think this is something the NCAA would crack down on, but it's probably going to be tough to keep up with and their role is clearly being diminished.
We're on the verge of Tic-Tok promos with cash stacked on the bed wearing your favorite team logo.
This was inevitable, though, right?
While I'm not a huge proponent of the NCAA, they did serve some useful function. They at least on some level realized the necessity of preserving amateur status and the student-athlete role.
While I'm not a huge proponent of the NCAA, they did serve some useful function. They at least on some level realized the necessity of preserving amateur status and the student-athlete role.
But college football will be just fine, according to some. lol
What boggles my mind is how folks can claim to be college football fans and also support NIL which is going to destroy college football.
There's just too many moving parts. Eventually quality schools are going to want to distance themselves from all of this and might unload their sports programs. Learning institutions only.
Who are they gonna sue? And for what? They agreed to participate under the rules at the time.
Well you gotta look at the positive. If college sports fall completely apart, I will get to focus more time and money on hunting and fishing. That sounds more appealing everytime I say it. So you all can spend more time on other hobbies. And family.
The NCAA. The school. Anybody with money that wouldn't let them do what players are doing now.
I read a good article recently that speculated the death of all college sports except for football, basketball and baseball.
Yep. That's already happening for me. Have a 4 year old, 2 year old and #3 on the way this week. Where I used to spend my whole Saturday watching college football, I now have to plan ahead to carve out time to catch a game or 2. As I noted in a previous post, the only thing I'm sad about is that I'm not more sad. I love what college football used to be, but it's gone and it's never coming back. I've got too many other priorities than to force myself to pretend that the product we'll see on the field in a few years is anything resembling collegiate athletics.
Has a cap been proposed? Even if the excess flows to charities, that would be far better and would promote some level of equity.
Again though, how do you police this long-term? You can't.
Again though, how do you police this long-term? You can't.
They deserve to get paid, and I'm glad to see it.
That said -- gonna laugh like hell when one of Saban's players tells him "I'm taking it easy today, got a commercial shoot later"
That said -- gonna laugh like hell when one of Saban's players tells him "I'm taking it easy today, got a commercial shoot later"
How can you cap it? Coaches salaries aren't capped. Any attempt at a cap will just treated the same way as not allowing them make any money at all. Besides, Emmert essentially said the NCAA is on its deathbed and expects major college sports to become totally deregulated.
Athletes will no longer be required to be students. Players who are really good in "college" but not NFL material, can just keep playing indefinitely beyond the normal 4-5 years.
I agree they do deserve some level of pay (and insurance), but a million dollars before you've played a down? Because they won the genetic lottery?
I'd rather see our military who put their necks on the line in battle receive more compensation than a college football player. But that's life and capitalism I guess.
How would they cap how much money someone wants to give them? This is what has been going on in college football forever. Players can now sign deals with reputable companies tho along with booster bob who wants to win football games.
You don't. You cap what the player receives and the rest flows over into a charity fund or something similar.
That probably would never work either though. College athletics is cooked. All of the big time athletes will be headed to the big time markets. Schools like Southern Cal and UCLA should benefit greatly.
This is the worst thing to happen in recorded history, and it's not even close. All you playoff loving, conference expanding, lowlifes deserve to be waterboarded, then fed to something in the animal kingdom. You've had your diseased claws and feeble, shortsighted brains in college football for so long, you may have finally broken it. This is for you.
It should have been designed to let the kids choose: free education OR make money via NIL.
It's absolutely immoral that a kid making nearly 7 figures from NIL will also get a free college education to boot.
It's absolutely immoral that a kid making nearly 7 figures from NIL will also get a free college education to boot.
The irony is that soooo many pro athletes look back on their college experience has the best period of their lives.
Brice Young and Alabama are laying the blueprints for other schools to try and keep up.
Why not spread the money between all the athletes? I’m a conservative, and trying to figure out a way every team can be even…meaning that games will still be determined by talent and coaching.
I see plenty of issues with my idea, but maybe it would curtail the inevitable end of collegiate sport?
Why not spread the money between all the athletes? I’m a conservative, and trying to figure out a way every team can be even…meaning that games will still be determined by talent and coaching.
I see plenty of issues with my idea, but maybe it would curtail the inevitable end of collegiate sport?
Do you say the same thing about geniuses that get free rides academically and create companies while in school. Plenty at mit do that.
I have already. I’m just reading for general interest — haven’t spent a penny on sports in any way for the past six years.
It's going to happen. Mark it down. Sure, it will live on in some capacity b/c there is money to be made from it, but the writing is absolutely on the wall for college football to evolve into semi-pro involving kids who aren't even students of a University. At the pace things are moving, it's more likely than not to happen in the next decade. Some, like you I'm assuming, will continue on supporting that sport. Some, like me, will not be able to pretend it's college football.
There are a lot of people out there, again like you I assume, who don't really care whether it's NFL, AAF, SFL, SFL 2.0, USFL2 or college football. They just want to watch football. And that's fine and good. But there are many, like me, who are specifically college football fans.
Not if the company was created by the student. Hell some kids start companies worth millions and then go to college free.
I can see where I’m your definition that ends college football, but for the masses that may not the the case. I care to venture that most will keep donating and keep rocking along as long as their schools logo is on the helmet and jersey. You also only get to decide what college football means for you. And In that regard college football might end for you but not for everyone else.
No I don’t watch the nfl because I have no connection to the team. I will pull for college football as long as my school still has a team with its logo. I also will support that adventure.
I think the real root of the complaint is that some, not all, are jealous because an 18 year old can make more off nothing but who he is in a year than they may make in a decade or a lifetime.
