College football can never go back and the NCAA is largely to blame for not getting on top of this issue. The only way to introduce any sense of stability is to lock the players down for their entire college career. You are getting paid, so why not a contract that keeps them from using the portal to get "a better deal."

ALhunter•17 months

NCAA didn't get reasonable quick enough. Lawsuits will crop up with restrictions and at this point the SCOTUS would be likely to rule against the NCAA.

TouchdownTony•18 months

I'm so gad this is happening. I said 3 years ago this is not good, it wont work like people think, boosters will get involved. As long as the person telling them how much money they will make is not a booster it is completely legal. People said, oh the players need a little something, it will amount to a few thousand dollars, it wont be what you think it is. Well, you can't get a little bit pregnant. When you opened this and kept the rules that were there in place it was over. The coach or a booster can't tell a kid what he's gonna get but a booster can give a student a hundred bucks to relay that info and it is legal since they are not a booster.

billfish21•18 months

I have no clue how this is sustainable… NIL would have to be beneficial to the respective business. How in the world is giving a high school senior, an unnamed recruit, 1.8 million going to be that value to any alumni or some alumni cooperative?

St Jean The Baptiste•18 months

How does UGA Alumni have so much more money compared to the rest of the nation?

TouchdownTony•18 months

Coca Cola, IBM and Delta Airlines. Gotta remember, without those two Atlanta would have been Jacksonville. In 1960 New orleans was the largest city in the south followed by Birmingham. Delta airlines changed Atlanta forever.

TFH•18 months

Sounds a lot like colleges are illegally involved in NIL promises

VolNavy98•18 months

Sounds like Ohio State is playing with Monopoly money.

atltiger6487•18 months

college football is being destroyed right before our very eyes. Very, very sad.

cajunmud•18 months

The contracts these kids are signing need to be available to the public just like the coaches contracts, at public schools.

That way we can critique their on-field performance vs. their salary, just like we do with the pros.

Broham•18 months

RUINED

BlackPot•18 months

That's gross

CDawson•18 months

Insane. This makes 2019 even more glorious.

6R12•18 months

This is sick

baobabtiger•18 months

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

Chad4Bama•18 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."

ReauxlTide222•18 months

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

TrueLefty•18 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.

Napoleon•18 months

I've been out of the loop so long. I knew players could be paid for their likeness now. I guess I haven't paid attention to recruiting in a while. I didn't realize college players could be paid more than some NFL players.

TrueLefty•18 months

Also get paid more than some fans that have a regular job.

TDTOM•18 months

This is why NIL is stupid.

TrueLefty•18 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.

AUbagman•18 months

I'm àbout completely checked out of college athletics. I just don't watch sports now. Mountain biking and kayaking it is.

atltiger6487•18 months

I'm almost there too. I don't watch any pro sports, and college football was my thing. But the last couple years the excitement is gone. NIL and immediate-play transfer portal have completely ruined the game.

hottub•18 months

NIL and Portal killed any interest I had in CFB. I’m not saying the players don’t deserve to be compensated, but CFB won’t be a part of my Saturdays.

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