re: Honest discussion about NIL. Would love to hear thoughts.

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Ah. so what person is responsible for determining said value? I’ll answer that for you…..it’s the person who is willing to pay said value. But the “oh no see that’s different!” argument is fricking hilarious.

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The players aren't worth more, they are easily replaceable and are replaced constantly.

Coaches on the other hand are not as replaceable. Because they are more valuable, have way more responsibilities and their jobs require much more expertise. And their contracts include buyouts and other protections for the schools.

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Says the guy angry that two consenting parties are able to negotiate terms of payment.

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False. The schools and the players have always come to the terms of the compensation for play sports. They play football, they get a scholarship with the benefits. That is the terms of payment. Nobody forces them to take it, they take it because it's a great opportunity.

You are the one saying they can no longer do that. You are the one that claims the schools have no rights in what they offer, have no protections for the resources they invest in them, and no rights to form a set of uniform rules among other schools to create a fair competitive product of which has created all the interest and revenue the sport generates in the first place.

Don't sit here and tell me you are for "capitalism" while using the government to remove any rights and protections for one of the parties involved, and are destroying the product they created which has produced the revenue to begin with.

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Shouldn’t you be starting your own league in another country so you can limit how much money people can make? Or are you just going to keep crying about it?

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Why? You're the idiot who thinks the draw is the players and not the schools. Without the schools, it's meaningless. So in what way would me creating another league without the schools prove my point of view?

You on the other hand don't need the schools, so all you have to do is tap into the recruiting stream. So if you want to put real capitalism to work, instead of using the government to force outcomes, you create the NCAA competitor that makes a better offer than what they are getting.

Maybe next you can get your lawmakers to pass laws that say teams from Mississippi can play 12 people on offense and defense but opponents can't and Ole Miss can finally win something for the first time ever.