Greedy college athletes are going to destroy their own NIL bonanza…

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I’d say the NIL/portal nonsense, in its current structure, will have a 5-7 year run before it gets completely blown up.

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I think it is going away sooner. I saw some coach interview a few months back that basically said NIL would dry up when they start paying players in the next yr or two. No details were given but I assume that contracts would be used that limit transfers and would restrict NIL. Once on a contract their rights to NIL go down.

I can't wait till a couple of these dumbasses doing the photo shoots holding cash like a deck of cards get in legal trouble over taxes or get cut after a torn acl and lose their free ride and have to go find a job. frick em. They wanted to be employees. Well here you go.

Yeah that’s pretty harsh, no?

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Why do you hate the players in a sport you follow so closely? Why not just stop supporting it?

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I don't follow near as closely. It's made the game a shell of what it once was. I don't hate it. I still relate the fall to football and college is much more enjoyable to me than the NFL was but the gap is closing to where I don't like either that much. I assure you I miss alot more ga m es than I used to and all the changes over the last 5-10 years have been major contributors to that.

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Everyone in the sport looking to maximize their money. Coaches, AD, School, players, media…all of them. Why do the players get so much hate over it?

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How many coaches have you seen opt out three games into the season on their team? We've seen 3 players do it this week alone. They need to become employees of the university with no more free room and board and no more scholarships.

When they started paying coaches the ridiculous money, it was so egregious that it just fueled the "pay players" push. People don't care about the sport itself or its viability...they all just want to "get theirs."

ADs let agents screw them over in negotiations (buyout clauses) and didn't really care because it was "the market" and they were playing with monopoly money anyway.

I support players getting something, but it should have been a percentage of net profits, from whatever sport, distributed equally among players and set aside in an individual trust account to be disbursed at graduation or whenever they withdrew from school.

The story of the poor player who couldn't afford a pizza was always a lie.

as long as the real money is still tied to the NFL then the really good players will be fine and teams will be fine

it's that next class of players that have no NFL future and those lazy players that would wash out of NFL despite their talent that will be the problems
those players want to cash in while they can knowing it's likely their only payday

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The agents know it.

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Amateur athletes can have agents?

The current athletes have zero stake in the future of college athletics with only 4-5 years of eligibility and the biggest deals going to 5 star 3 year players or one and done transfers. Which is why every major sport in the world has a legitimate governing body to protect the long term future of the sport.

The NCAA and universities had years to prepare for a world where courts wouldn’t allow a coach to make 10 million and the player get paid in room, board, and tuition. They could have rolled out a reasonable NIL and revenue sharing plan with bans on collectives and pay for play. Instead they let individual judges be the governing body. Total screw up by all involved. The NFL is becoming the far superior product every year.