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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.

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…

This post was edited on 2/21/22 at 12:54 pm