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Posted on 1/7/21 at 10:01 pm
Posted on 1/7/21 at 10:01 pm
Along with the Transfer Portal soon comes Pay-to-Play $$$ - all kinds of money paid directly to college football players from sponsors and basically any individual who wants to sponsor them. Who will get the money? Only the best players on the best teams will get any really big money. And the best players will be recruited with the biggest checks to the best teams. Far fewer teams will be able to compete in the new Pay-to-Play college game.
Example: Who's going to pay the players to play at Grambling? Sam Houston? Jacksonville State? Liberty? You get the picture? Maybe a dozen great traditional Bluebloods - Alabama, Notre Dame, USC, UCLA, Penn State, Ohio State etc will get the big bucks; and another dozen or so historically insignificant college football centric geographic locations with large populations and financial clout will thrive in the new Pay-to-Plat era: cities and teams like Orlando & UCF, Tampa & USF, New Jersey/New York Rutgers. I think we'll see some schools like Rutgers find cash cows from wealthy alumni and corporations who want to sponsor players in mega markets like New York/New Jersey. Money and Free Agency will kill many programs and change just about everything about college football. Will it hurt the SEC? Hell yea! Who's going to pay Mississippi State and Vanderbilt players?
Sad.but.true.
Example: Who's going to pay the players to play at Grambling? Sam Houston? Jacksonville State? Liberty? You get the picture? Maybe a dozen great traditional Bluebloods - Alabama, Notre Dame, USC, UCLA, Penn State, Ohio State etc will get the big bucks; and another dozen or so historically insignificant college football centric geographic locations with large populations and financial clout will thrive in the new Pay-to-Plat era: cities and teams like Orlando & UCF, Tampa & USF, New Jersey/New York Rutgers. I think we'll see some schools like Rutgers find cash cows from wealthy alumni and corporations who want to sponsor players in mega markets like New York/New Jersey. Money and Free Agency will kill many programs and change just about everything about college football. Will it hurt the SEC? Hell yea! Who's going to pay Mississippi State and Vanderbilt players?
Sad.but.true.
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Posted on 1/7/21 at 10:05 pm to TrendingRight
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Example: Who's going to pay the players to play at Grambling? Sam Houston? Jacksonville State? Liberty?
They'll still get free tuition room board. Which is great....it was always great.
Posted on 1/7/21 at 10:14 pm to dstone12
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They'll still get free tuition room board. Which is great....it was always great.
Amen & Awomen
Posted on 1/7/21 at 10:17 pm to TrendingRight
No one will. You already know this, so I’m confused as to why you thought this thread was necessary.
You think UCLA and Penn State are blue bloods
You think UCLA and Penn State are blue bloods
Posted on 1/7/21 at 10:32 pm to TrendingRight
Yeah.
It'll be the end of college football. The playoff is already bad enough.
It'll be the end of college football. The playoff is already bad enough.
Posted on 1/7/21 at 10:42 pm to TrendingRight
There’s not gonna be pay for play, players will be able to profit off of their likeness.
Posted on 1/7/21 at 10:45 pm to Quicksilver
quote:= Pay-to-Play
There’s not gonna be pay for play, players will be able to profit off of their likeness.
Posted on 1/7/21 at 11:39 pm to TrendingRight
I can't wait to see the look on these woke players eyes who think they are going to make bank on their likeness when they are told that they have to give a cut to the goalie on the girls' field hockey team. Because if you think the cultural Marxists in charge of our universities are going to sit back quietly while that epitome of toxic masculinity enables football players to profit while those fierce, independent warriors on the women's soccer or basketball teams get nothing; well, I don't know what left wing radical movement you've been watching for the last 50 years. The first payments to men's hoops or football teams won't even have been deposited and the outcry on ESPN, CNN and MSNBC will begin.
Posted on 1/8/21 at 12:01 am to TrendingRight
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Who's going to pay the players to play at Liberty?
Posted on 1/8/21 at 12:19 am to SoFla Tideroller
quote:Love your post and agree with you with one tiny difference: The California law that established Pay-to-Play stipulates the palyers themselves can negotiate and recieve the money with ZERO supervision or interference from their school. When I first heard about this I thought the same thing you're thinking - but alas the Footbal plyers will be free agents to negotiate anything they want and the check will be made out to them with ZERO money going to the school or other players on the team - which, by the way, is why it will destroy the sport. Imagine the disparity in sponsorship on just one team. A few players getting rich and the rest getting NOTHING!
I can't wait to see the look on these woke players eyes who think they are going to make bank on their likeness when they are told that they have to give a cut to the goalie on the girls' field hockey team. Because if you think the cultural Marxists in charge of our universities are going to sit back quietly while that epitome of toxic masculinity enables football players to profit while those fierce, independent warriors on the women's soccer or basketball teams get nothing; well, I don't know what left wing radical movement you've been watching for the last 50 years. The first payments to men's hoops or football teams won't even have been deposited and the outcry on ESPN, CNN and MSNBC will begin.
Posted on 1/8/21 at 12:45 am to TrendingRight
Here's what's going to happen:
Universities are going to value their "payment" with the scholarship, room, board, healthcare, dental (which are all offered on a "full" ride scholarship), then they're going to give them the bill for those things and it will effectively be zero.
These athletes think they're basically going to be making NFL money, but in reality they're going to be lucky to break even.
Imagine what it costs, for instance, to hire Dan Mullen as your private Quarterback coach. Or have access to a world class gym, with nutritionists and strength and conditioning coaches on the side.
On top of that, they get food and drink, I guarantee you Kyle Trask (just using examples from my own team) doesn't need to pay for shite if he doesn't need to.
A full-ride scholarship to Florida is worth millions of dollars already, just list off everything:
Access to coaching.
Access to gym facilities.
Access to healthcare facilities.
Nutritionist.
Free food.
Free board.
A motherfricking education which is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars alone.
Connections to the NFL.
Connections to a healthy network in case you don't make it.
And all you have to do is go work out and play a sport that you like.
This entire problem undermines just how posh these players actually have it, and trust me, when they have to balance their books it's going to hurt more than it helps.
Universities are going to value their "payment" with the scholarship, room, board, healthcare, dental (which are all offered on a "full" ride scholarship), then they're going to give them the bill for those things and it will effectively be zero.
These athletes think they're basically going to be making NFL money, but in reality they're going to be lucky to break even.
Imagine what it costs, for instance, to hire Dan Mullen as your private Quarterback coach. Or have access to a world class gym, with nutritionists and strength and conditioning coaches on the side.
On top of that, they get food and drink, I guarantee you Kyle Trask (just using examples from my own team) doesn't need to pay for shite if he doesn't need to.
A full-ride scholarship to Florida is worth millions of dollars already, just list off everything:
Access to coaching.
Access to gym facilities.
Access to healthcare facilities.
Nutritionist.
Free food.
Free board.
A motherfricking education which is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars alone.
Connections to the NFL.
Connections to a healthy network in case you don't make it.
And all you have to do is go work out and play a sport that you like.
This entire problem undermines just how posh these players actually have it, and trust me, when they have to balance their books it's going to hurt more than it helps.
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