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re: Blame the NCAA for caving in on NIL.
Posted on 1/3/22 at 11:56 pm to bamawriter
Posted on 1/3/22 at 11:56 pm to bamawriter
He doesn't know what he means. Old man yelling at clouds
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Posted on 1/4/22 at 12:04 am to finchmeister08
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illion dollar industry, and a free education is enough?
I used to work for a defense contractor. The company got millions for each product I produced while I got very little financial compensation for it. That’s real life.
Posted on 1/4/22 at 12:07 am to bamawriter
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They should be able to do so, sure. Just like college athletes should be able to do so.
Posted on 1/4/22 at 12:09 am to MaroonNation
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I used to work for a defense contractor. The company got millions for each product I produced while I got very little financial compensation for it. That’s real life.
Thats true and its also true that these athletes have power that you did not, so they have actually been able to do something about it.
Posted on 1/4/22 at 12:42 am to DaWGfan01
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No, it is not, if a player balls out he deserves to be paid if he and a company agree to terms.
Totally fine with this. That doesn't mean getting a free education to play football wasn't fair.
Posted on 1/4/22 at 12:58 am to ELTIGRE52
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Players were receiving free education that was enough.
Players were receiving a lot more than free education...the NIL is wrong and was a woke decision by a woke court district. The system is horrible now so we agree on the premise of your point.
This post was edited on 1/4/22 at 12:59 am
Posted on 1/4/22 at 5:42 am to ColoradoAg
In the short-term, NIL is going to end up being an athletic version of Only Fans with huge sums of money being funneled through uncontrollable channels. It’s my guess the IRS will shape the future of NIL and it’s role in football and basketball recruiting.
My prediction is that the female athletes will be the biggest winners with NIL. The LSU gymnast Olivia Dunne is a prime example. Most fans of college football have never heard of her. She has over 6 million followers combined across Instagram, Twitter, & TikTok. There’s no doubt she’s making huge sums of money through NIL. Comparatively, Bryce Young has 225k. Let the gap… chasm… between those two sink in for a minute.
My prediction is that the female athletes will be the biggest winners with NIL. The LSU gymnast Olivia Dunne is a prime example. Most fans of college football have never heard of her. She has over 6 million followers combined across Instagram, Twitter, & TikTok. There’s no doubt she’s making huge sums of money through NIL. Comparatively, Bryce Young has 225k. Let the gap… chasm… between those two sink in for a minute.
Posted on 1/4/22 at 6:11 am to ELTIGRE52
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Players were receiving free education that was enough
So generating billions of dollars and getting a "communications" degree is fair?
Ok, sure.
The only way it would have been fair would be if the NFL had a proper developmental league and let high school grads join.
Then the college kids would have been the ones who actually wanted a degree
Posted on 1/4/22 at 6:29 am to ELTIGRE52
don't even need to see the 52 in your name to know you're an old geezer starting a thread like this
Posted on 1/4/22 at 1:32 pm to jonnyanony
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So generating billions of dollars and getting a "communications" degree is fair?
So, you really think that Bryce Young has generated BILLIONS of dollars for bama that they wouldn't have generated otherwise?
And, if an athlete chooses to get a degree in "communications" rather than one in engineering, architecture, etc..., it is absolutely fair.
Posted on 1/4/22 at 1:48 pm to jonnyanony
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So generating billions of dollars and getting a "communications" degree is fair?
And normal college students don't generate billions of dollars?
Let's see, Alabama has 30,000 undergraduates x $31,000 (average cost) comes out to $900,000,000+. Just a little bit more than the athletes,don't ya think?
Posted on 1/4/22 at 2:00 pm to ELTIGRE52
The NCAA could have given these kids a little something extra years almost 20 years ago but dug their heels in for a long time. I remember the dick move they took with Jeremy Bloom when he was in the Olympics and they declared him permanently ineligible. If they had seen the writing on the wall back then, they could have given up a little and maybe we wouldn't have this shite show we have now. They were going to lose in the end but they couldn't admit they had to give in a little on how they dictated the amateur model should be. Maybe there wouldn't be a transfer portal the way it is now where kids can just pick up and leave at any moment. This was all going to happen but they could have at least had some ability to guide it into a better direction for the sport. Instead they had younger kids and politicians on the side of these athletes and the kids got to dictate almost everything. You are definitely right to blame the NCAA.
Posted on 1/4/22 at 2:23 pm to narddogg81
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yes. Those athletes are worthless without the hundreds of millions to billions of dollars the schools invest in the programs, assuming all the financial risk. Free school plus free food plus free everything else, free medical care, and the chance to be exposed to millions of people an be to NFL teams is enough
How do soccer, hockey, and a shitload of baseball players manage to make anything out of themselves without a college? Pretty much anyone outside of the US seems to manage without having to go to college. If the NFL allowed kids to just skip college, a developmental system would pop up and take care of all of that. NBA has a system that will eventually get there but now that NIL is around, the best kids may start staying in college more. The only reason there is any real need is because that is the system in place at the moment. Acting like these kids would just have no way to make it without a college to play football at is pretty naïve.
Posted on 1/4/22 at 2:50 pm to RoscoeSanCarlos
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The LSU gymnast Olivia Dunne is a prime example.
You know the rules, and yet, you still forgot......
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