re: Kirby gets it It's what scares me too

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You’re right. It was way better when the players were dirt poor and everyone could profit off of the 18-22 year old player’s names, except for themselves. We should go back to them not being able to be able to afford simple things in life while the universities get rich and all the fat cats get a raise. It’s much more entertaining when the kids stay poor, right?

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Pre NIL players got:

-Free tuition
-Free housing
-Free food
-Free books
-Free clothing
-Free medical care
-Monetary stipend
-Unlimited access to any tutors/academic aides they could dream of
-A televised audition every week to put on their resume for a potential multi-million dollar gig at the next level
-And of course, the recognition as being a football player on campus and all the coed perks that come with it

Players were compensated WELL into the 6 figures taking all that into account but people like you wanna sit there feeling sorry for lil' ol football star who is so wrongly and unfairly treated :(

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NIL has been a long time coming. You can’t call yourself a capitalist then bitch about an 18 year old making money off of his own name.

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This is a black and white arrangement.

School: Hey, we want you to play football for us. If you come here we will give you (everythign I just mentioned above). What do you say?
Player: Ok sounds good

End of transaction. If a player at age 18 or 19 is so all-consumed wiht making money above all else they could not play football and begin apprenticing or working in a field that makes them money. No one forced them to play ball. They do it for all the reasons above. And the system somehow, someway worked for a hundred years. And now in just 2 years the game has already changed to such an emormous degree it's barely recognizable. Good job all!

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You’re right. It was way better when the players were dirt poor and everyone could profit off of the 18-22 year old player’s names, except for themselves. We should go back to them not being able to be able to afford simple things in life while the universities get rich and all the fat cats get a raise. It’s much more entertaining when the kids stay poor, right?

NIL has been a long time coming. You can’t call yourself a capitalist then bitch about an 18 year old making money off of his own name. Everything will sort itself out in time, it’s what happens in a free market economy. This is all new, and new things scare people.

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Bull shite… complete bull shite. The “kids” with scholarship to major college team are not “poor.” Their individual benefits run into the $100,000/year.

The only reason they become well known is because they were “paid” a scholarship by a university team. Absent that they would be playing sand lot somewhere. If they excel and make a name for themselves, IT IS BECAUSE THEY WERE PAID TO DO THAT by accepting a scholarship.

Now you want the team member who got the most publicity to get lots of happenstance money when the guy playing next to him lives on his scholarship? Well…the university that sponsored him, the coach that trained him, the team that supported him, the fans that rooted for him all will agree. He will have a chance to make all that extra money…at the next “money” level.. simply because of the chance to audition afforded him by his scholarship.

“Poor underpaid exploited scholarship major college football players”. God, you sound like a woke-ie or a 1939s fist waving union red. Give it a test and consider the result of unlimited pay in CFB. Jeezzzz even the pros have a salary cap…

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You’re right. It was way better when the players were dirt poor and everyone could profit off of the 18-22 year old player’s names, except for themselves. We should go back to them not being able to be able to afford simple things in life while the universities get rich and all the fat cats get a raise. It’s much more entertaining when the kids stay poor, right?

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Yes

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all the fat cats get a raise

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Um the fat cats are the ones who are stroking the checks.

This is what cracks me up. Other than the coaches, who do you think is getting rich? You realize the coaches are all former players, right? These are higher paying jobs who rarely if ever go to someone who wasn't a player.

You must think the University of Florida paid Ben Hill Griffin to get his name on the stadium.