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Don’t blame the NCAA for NIL
Posted on 4/15/25 at 5:22 am
Posted on 4/15/25 at 5:22 am
I know it’s a popular take that the NCAA could have prevented this by giving players some pocket money years ago. But, as you may recall, players did receive a stipend a year or so before NIL was established. They knew(maybe giving them too much credit) that once you opened that box, things would quickly get out of hand. Players will never be satisfied with the amount of money. This is why the NFL has contracts, holdouts and strikes. How long before an entire team goes on strike for more money? My guess is 2 years, max. Don’t blame the NCAA, blame greed.
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Posted on 4/15/25 at 5:36 am to Bamafig
I’ve watched college football a long time - and I’ve had kids go through the NCAA “process” as athletes.
You’d be hard-pressed to find a more worthless and incompetent organization.
You’d be hard-pressed to find a more worthless and incompetent organization.
Posted on 4/15/25 at 5:47 am to Bamafig
It is the NCAA’s fault, when the O’Bannon lawsuit first happened, it should have occurred to the NCAA just how wrong they were to not let players make money, especially when they knew that under the table payments were happening all over the place. This was all going to be inevitable and they should’ve been day one ready to deal with this.
Posted on 4/15/25 at 6:07 am to Bamafig
Give athletes stipends, free food, free healthcare, free housing, free education, and free training but above all else make them poor again!
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Posted on 4/15/25 at 6:14 am to Bamafig
NIL is not the real problem here.
NIL will eventually play itself out and calm down and the crazy numbers will eventually die down because there simply is not a ROI with it. The bad side is yes, it will slant the playing field because the bigger name schools will have more NIL money than the smaller schools. The horse is out of the barn on that one. I don't think that can be fixed at this point.
The real problem is the unlimited portal. That is doing real damage to college football as it is starting to turn fans away. Something reasonable needs to be done there. Maybe something like 1 free transfer and also only having one transfer window per year. Second transfer means you should sit a year. I dunno. But something must be done there.
Posted on 4/15/25 at 6:29 am to Pvt Hudson
So far 40% of votes support the NCAA what a clueless bunch that post on here. How could anybody support the ncaa ?
Posted on 4/15/25 at 6:34 am to TheFourHorsemen
I didn’t post a defense of the NCAA. I even made that disclaimer. The point was simply that we ALL realize that you can’t give a mouse a cookie (must read book).
Posted on 4/15/25 at 6:40 am to TheFourHorsemen
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what a clueless bunch that post on here.
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TheFourHorsemen
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Posted on 4/15/25 at 6:40 am to Bamafig
Sure you can! Just better have some milk ready.
Posted on 4/15/25 at 6:59 am to Bamafig
NCAA was always a fraudulent, criminal organization with uneven “enforcement” on a good day.
NIL should come with contractual obligations. If you leave, money must be paid back. If they don’t pay you according to contract, contract is void.
NIL should come with contractual obligations. If you leave, money must be paid back. If they don’t pay you according to contract, contract is void.
Posted on 4/15/25 at 7:08 am to Bamafig
We made the mistake of being too comfortable with the sport we loved and didn’t prevent this from happening.
Fans should stop attending games and spending money and this will end.
Fans should stop attending games and spending money and this will end.
Posted on 4/15/25 at 7:21 am to Bamafig
NCAA is to blame. They should have agreed to up the stipend early on in the lawsuit. They should have also let universities set aside profit for players on games and merchandise that they received upon leaving the university. This would have all went away right then.
They should have also never let open the transfer floodgates gates, but they realized they had no power cause they were getting their butts kicked all over the place in courts.
This is all on the NCAA.
It’s now on Congress to fix it
They should have also never let open the transfer floodgates gates, but they realized they had no power cause they were getting their butts kicked all over the place in courts.
This is all on the NCAA.
It’s now on Congress to fix it
Posted on 4/15/25 at 7:32 am to Bamafig
Dude… the NCAA did everything in their power to keep 100% control of the money. Ultimately their archaic mindset for 25+ years enabled players to take this into the court system where all bets are off.
A reasonable monthly payment to athletes for money to live on and enjoy college woukd have worked. Instead they targeted players for getting money signing autographs, for selling tickets, etc.
GTFO with defending the NCAA. This is the bed they sleep in.. inside the fricking house they built. Nothing more.
A reasonable monthly payment to athletes for money to live on and enjoy college woukd have worked. Instead they targeted players for getting money signing autographs, for selling tickets, etc.
GTFO with defending the NCAA. This is the bed they sleep in.. inside the fricking house they built. Nothing more.
Posted on 4/15/25 at 7:36 am to ukraine_rebel
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This was all going to be inevitable and they should’ve been day one ready to deal with this.
There’s nothing to prepare for what is happening. All they could have done is go through then what they’re going through now. Regardless. Money isn’t the problem. The portal is. Unlimited transfers is. And but for COVID, that doesn’t get out of control
Players making money isn’t what’s causing the shitshow. Them being able to leave whenever they feel like it and with no consequence is.
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Posted on 4/15/25 at 7:38 am to Tridentds
You’re naive if you think the modern athlete would settle for a monthly stipend. What we see now was inevitable. No sanctioning body could control that Pandora. Congress will have to step in and even that will be challenged in the courts.
Posted on 4/15/25 at 7:44 am to Bamafig
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You’re naive if you think the modern athlete would settle for a monthly stipend.
Well then we need to find more more grateful athletes to play in their place. Ever watch The Replacements?
Posted on 4/15/25 at 7:52 am to lsufball19
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Them being able to leave whenever they feel like it and with no consequence is.
This was also the NCAA's fault, according to the injunction that made this permissible it was due to the arbitrary way exemptions were given.
Player A could transfer to UGA bc their 5th cousin twice removed had a hangnail but player B could transfer to Valdovosta despite his mama being diagnosed with stage IV cancer.
If the NCAA would bring back the transfer rules but rid it of all exemptions, or at the very least exemptions that are spelled out such as immediate family member put on hospice or something of that nature, then have a way of executing in a timely fashion, then this wouldn't be an issue.
Posted on 4/15/25 at 7:56 am to jangalang
Jang, glad to see you survived this past weekend!
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Posted on 4/15/25 at 7:57 am to Bamafig
Sixty years of college football being incredibly lucrative and they begrudgingly gave players a tiny stipend.
How generous. Guess they're off the hook.
How generous. Guess they're off the hook.
Posted on 4/15/25 at 8:02 am to Hback
I saw that video and heard that song and all I can think about is roll tide roll! Work on your bunker game son. Your golf balls only roll deeper into the abyss.
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