Sure. Let me donate more money to the athletics department so that we can sign a recruit and then have him leave a year later for a more lucrative opportunity. frick the NIL.

Chudson•39 months

Looks like they built in $800k a year into the deal to keep him there. Crazy

TDFreak•39 months

The late Coach Mike Leach had a great idea for the NIL era: create a two track system for players. One would be players who take NIL money. The other would be traditional student athletes on scholarship. If you were NIL, coaches could trade you to other programs. Genius! CML truly was a national treasure.

sportjunkie69•39 months

Name the 5* or STFU. No anonymity allowed if you're pimping yourself out for 7 figures.

Porter Osborne Jr•39 months

It’s Damon Wilson. The buckbitches just can’t fathom how someone would not choose their program. It’s just sour grapes.

3PieceSpicy•39 months

This is the type of shite that makes me glad LSU won in 2019, before Covid, NIL, and transfer portal madness. No championship after their’s is nearly as pure or impressive.

Toptigerfan86•39 months

Yep. 2019 feels like the last real college season as we used to know it

Chad4Bama•39 months

2019 LSU national championship*

*Funded by children's hospital funds.

TDTOM•39 months

This is why NIL is stupid.

TrueLefty•39 months

Really? If you think it is stupid, then it will be given under the table. This is much better than the old ways and look at some of the lesser schools that are getting some good talent recruits and/or transfer players that wasn't possible before NIL.

TigerFan244•39 months

the Ncaa HAS to get this under control. This is BS. I don't want my tax dollars going to fund any kids scholarship that is getting NIL $

CanebreakCajun•39 months

But you will give your tax dollars fund colleges full of professors who brainwash kids with politics that you may not agree with? Makes total sense.

TigerFan244•39 months

Yes. . . you idiot. That's what people in a free society do. . we allow differing political viewpoints...especially in educational institutions to encourage people to think critically and make decisions of their own. Your thought process is no different that the mullahs of the middle east who don't want their kids to be exposed to any other viewpoints out of fear of them getting "brainwashed" by the west. Guess what...they end up breeding ignorant, hateful idiots too.

jbird7•39 months

@tigerfan I get where you’re coming from and yes that’s what the college education system is supposed to be about. But what canebreak is getting at is there are LOTS, if not most, colleges that don’t tolerate other points of view in class and on campus. Just look at how many conservative speakers are run off campus when they’re scheduled to speak at an event, Or pro life students being harassed.

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Black n Gold•39 months

Veteran NFL players have a difficult time managing that much money. Won't be long before some 18 yr old who hasn't played a snap of college football crashes his Ferrari or ODs on a kilo of coke. Then all of the finger pointing will start.

Fgiord•39 months

ODs on a kilo of coke? Who talks like that

Black n Gold•39 months

Someone who is not a coke-head.

Trumansfangs•39 months

2.2 pounds of coke ?

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ghost2most•39 months

I fricking loathe NIL

La Place Mike•39 months

Scholarships should be for amatuer athletes. Any player getting a scholarship should have to pay taxes on it if they take NIL money. Get a taste of the real world.

KAGTASTIC•39 months

Any player getting NIL money should pay their own way. Taxes as independent contractors. Pay all it takes to perform equipment, INS, food, etc. Frick em. Minor league these kids. They had it so good before. Oh and they are no longer eligible for Pell grants or govt assistance.

Chad4Bama•39 months

Better put in some type of rules and real enforcement or this sport is dead...all thanks to the knee jerk reaction summer 2020 over "equity."

Naked Bootleg•39 months

How fricking stupid this NIL situation quickly became..

FredBear•39 months

There were those of us who expressed concern about it but we were called racists or told we were stuck in the past. Oh well

TigerFan244•39 months

Ridiculous. Can we just stop calling this "College Football" any more. We are essentially paying these kids like professionals and they need to be treated as such. Trade them, Fire them, treat them like pros.

CeasarA291•39 months

I'm firmly on board with making them utilizing their NIL money to pay their way through school.

baobabtiger•39 months

Free agency every year with every player. They are ruining it.

olgoi khorkhoi•39 months

NIL should not even be a discussion until a kid has done something in a college uniform. Why is it part of recruiting?

southsidedell•39 months

This about this...the one kid is being paid millions for what he did in HIGH SCHOOL. Before he even takes a snap of college. Man these people are nuts.

JJJimmyJimJames•39 months

College football is completely dead - killed by the cheaters of the last 10 years, SABAN AND SMART

LSUtwolves•39 months

ppl have been paying players under the table since the beginning. now it's just out in the open

BIGJLAW•39 months

What a stupid statement, Saban and Smart didnt come up with the NIL. You are just being a cry baby.

ImBatman•39 months

Teams are catching up with the cheaters BIGJLAW. We coming. Get used to it Baw!

ReauxlTide222•39 months

How is UGA offering signing bonuses and contracts? I didn’t think that was how NIL was supposed to work.

TrueLefty•39 months

It is to set up for one (NIL) and what the player is asking for and what he is needed to do to get it.

KennabraTiger•39 months

This is getting worse and worse. Regulations have to be put in place.

FLObserver•39 months

Wow! Kid hasnt played one down of college ball and getting offered 1.8 million. Wow sure this will be great for team chemistry when you are the guy blocking for 100k a year and the guy you blocking for is making 1.8 million. The million mark should be after you have shined as a freshman or higher. Not recruits.

ODP•39 months

Universities are clearly poor-mouthing in order to fund raise

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