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re: Honest discussion about NIL. Would love to hear thoughts.
Posted on 4/25/24 at 10:34 am to ALhunter
Posted on 4/25/24 at 10:34 am to ALhunter
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Right... under a revenue sharing construct the university could make up funding shortfalls for the other sports or not - school's choice. Not football's problem if the water polo team needs a new pool.
It's not your place to say how they spend the football money either.
But at least you admit you want to screw over 99% of athletes.
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Government has just said that the schools can't stop players from taking NIL money... which in a free society makes sense as it's anti-competitive.
Everything else is moot. Schools have a choice at this point to go full pro league with collective bargaining or run with the current status quo. In a full "pro league" there would still be NIL mind you. It's not like pros can't get sponsorships, it just has less of an impact.
Nobody has ever stopped them from getting NIL money. Not a single time in the history of college football has the NCAA or any school prevented a player from getting NIL money.
NOT A SINGLE frickING TIME. Because it's a free country, and they can enter into such agreements at any point if they want.
What was being prevented was getting NIL money and then being eligible to play college football.
What the government did was say schools no longer have the right to decide who is eligible to play and who is not.
The idea that people/organizations can't form together and abide by it's own set of rules to create a product/service is the opposite of capitalism and is anti-competitive.
The NCAA is not a government organization, it is completely voluntary. Schools can just leave it tomorrow if they want. Players do not have to participate either. All voluntary. You bring government into it because you have things you want to force and make things no longer voluntary.
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Posted on 4/25/24 at 6:33 pm to 3down10
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But at least you admit you want to screw over 99% of athletes.
It is not PankReb or ALhunter that is advocating screwing over any athletes, you are the one that insists on perpetuating a system that screwed over college football players for decades. It is beyond the pale of logic that you insist that nobody kept NIL money from the college football players. Only after all the artificial constructs of the NCAA and the athletic departments were legally removed did million dollar offers suddenly become publicly available to players. That pent up demand was there because the financial monster that was college football had that money flowing to coaches and admins, now it can more freely flow to the football players that the MARKET has judged are valuable.
This post was edited on 4/25/24 at 6:36 pm
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