re: 2023 5 Star Recruit Signs $8 Million Deal

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I’m 100% against nil by the way

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Why?

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I’m waiting for the day one of these kids finds a way to transfer and still get the money. I’m sure it’s bound to happen, he will transfer but still do whatever he’s required to do per the “contract”! Just hope it’s not my school! (I’m 100% against nil by the way)

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It's far more likely that 10 years from now we hear horror stories about how athlete x is still in debt from one of these NIL's despite having had a lucrative career.

Anyone who actually bought that agents were simply fighting for the rights of poor exploited college kids to be paid utterly deluded themselves. NIL has never been about paying exploited labor. It has ALWAYS been about agents finding a way to get themselves a cut early and their hooks into an athlete for future contracts. One of the reasons AAU is so rotten is due to the practice of agents doing anything to get in with future professionals. Now that college athletes can get money now, agents are going to grab stables of high school college prospects and pimp them out at an unprecedented level.

Other than guys like Arch Manning who comes from a football family and ones known for being particularly savvy about agent deals and the business end of football, kids and their parents are going to get milked for all they're worth.

By the time they figure out that they've sold the most valuable part of themselves (most of an athlete's wealth doesn't come from his player salary), it will be far too late.