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re: Georgia's Name, Image, and Likeness bill signed into law by Brian Kemp
Posted on 5/6/21 at 10:33 am to BranchDawg
Posted on 5/6/21 at 10:33 am to BranchDawg
I applaud a player being able to get what is his.
But there are always unintended consequences.
The early signing period essentially forces a LOI on 17 and 18 year olds whose position and college coaches have a 20% chance of not being around in the fall.
The transfer portal has more kids than spots available on teams.
Name/Image/Likeness puts paying players above the table and encourages natural markets (Los Angeles CA, Nike/Oregon, Atlanta, etc..) an ability to skew recruiting even further. Sport agents and financial planners win because they now have legal, unfettered access to 18 year olds in the hopes of 10+ year commissions as professionals. You want Kirby kissing their asses because that is how the AAU game is played?
I hope my fears are wrong. But i think i have a justified fear of people making changes to society because of a blind loyalty to their feelings and lack of foresight into reality.
But there are always unintended consequences.
The early signing period essentially forces a LOI on 17 and 18 year olds whose position and college coaches have a 20% chance of not being around in the fall.
The transfer portal has more kids than spots available on teams.
Name/Image/Likeness puts paying players above the table and encourages natural markets (Los Angeles CA, Nike/Oregon, Atlanta, etc..) an ability to skew recruiting even further. Sport agents and financial planners win because they now have legal, unfettered access to 18 year olds in the hopes of 10+ year commissions as professionals. You want Kirby kissing their asses because that is how the AAU game is played?
I hope my fears are wrong. But i think i have a justified fear of people making changes to society because of a blind loyalty to their feelings and lack of foresight into reality.
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Posted on 5/6/21 at 10:44 am to meansonny
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Sport agents and financial planners win because they now have legal, unfettered access to 18 year olds in the hopes of 10+ year commissions as professionals. You want Kirby kissing their asses because that is how the AAU game is played?
If you want to explore an actual potential downside to all this, this is it. The player-coach-agent dynamic just took a step in a new direction and coaches aren’t going to be happy about the lack of control they will have over draft eligible players as a result.
Too, there’s going to be some ugly mental health fall out for guys who lose sponsorships due to a bad season, poor performance, injury, etc as this develops.
Posted on 5/6/21 at 10:54 am to meansonny
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I applaud a player being able to get what is his.
But there are always unintended consequences.
Of course there are, but how long did you think a sport would be able to make pro levels of money while making it inadmissible for the players to make a dime?
That was always a system that was set up to fail. At least in American capitalism it is, and I’m completely ok with.
CFB has to adapt and it will.
Posted on 5/6/21 at 8:48 pm to meansonny
On the plus side, watching kids and their parents get hit with huge breach of contract lawsuits for leaving a team will be fun to watch. fricking over a school is one thing - fricking over a business that paid you a bunch of money and decides it wants it back? That's something very, very different.
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