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Posted on 4/18/25 at 9:38 am to paperwasp
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Sorry we made your arse quit.
That's a strange thing to say to a fan of a team that currently owns Alamaba and has won 2 of the last 3.
This post was edited on 4/18/25 at 9:39 am
Posted on 4/18/25 at 9:40 am to Hback
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Hback
Posted on 4/18/25 at 9:42 am to David Fellows
All Smith and others need to do after they are proven NFL commodities is to sit out their last 1 or 2 years. Sign with an agent and train at one of the many camps. Basketball players have been doing this for a long time. Of course, by avoiding possible injury you also would miss out on NIL. If I were Smith, I’d take the NIL from Ohio St and then grab a hammy.
And, no, not everyone hates NIL and the portal. I love both because they help my team. Most if you dislike it because it doesn’t help your team.
And, no, not everyone hates NIL and the portal. I love both because they help my team. Most if you dislike it because it doesn’t help your team.
Posted on 4/18/25 at 9:43 am to NFLSU
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…because they ran track or played a different sport in college?
No.
Posted on 4/18/25 at 9:49 am to borotiger
Haha okay well when you think of which HS players have gone to the NFL without playing a different sport at a higher level beforehand, let us know 
Posted on 4/18/25 at 9:51 am to Bigdawgb
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I think everyone agrees that unlimited free agency is a disaster. What I don't understand is how it's a problem specific to college, when pro leagues are fine.
Because pro leagues are made up of professional organizations whose only concern is fielding and operating a team, and those teams are made up of professional athletes who are only there to play their sport. College sports, on the other hand, are made up of universities whose true concern (in theory at least) is educating their student bodies and who field athletics teams only as voluntary student activities, and those teams are made up of athletes who are (also in theory) otherwise regular students at the school and are there (again, in theory) primarily to receive a college education. That key difference is why the courts have ruled that restrictions that apply only to student athletes are unfair and a restraint of trade. If an engineering student at one school does really well and manages to snare a scholarship from a more prestigious school, there is nothing to prevent them from transferring whenever they wish. Why should athletics scholarships be treated differently?
The outcome of the NIL ruling has not been, I believe, what the courts intended. The intent was to allow athletes to profit off of their name, images, and likenesses - in other words, to take money for sponsorships, video game appearances, and so on. I don't think that they were trying to set up a pay-for-play model, but of course that's what all of this has turned into because there really isn't any effective way to police NIL payments without turning college sports into an actual professional league.
Posted on 4/18/25 at 9:54 am to BigScoreboard
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Funny way of looking at it. Many folks would say Alabama tainted football plenty over the decades with its own private NIL system.
I'm sure Knoxville McDonald's were handing out bags of cash to anyone who walked in, and not just football players.
Posted on 4/18/25 at 9:54 am to David Fellows
Alabama has beaten Tennessee in 16 of the last 18. Some people only look at recent years.
In fact, Alabama has a winning record against every team that's been in the SEC for at least a year.
In fact, Alabama has a winning record against every team that's been in the SEC for at least a year.
Posted on 4/18/25 at 9:55 am to NFLSU
Brian Banks
You move goal posts a lot. This is what your dumb arse started with.
You move goal posts a lot. This is what your dumb arse started with.
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No HS football player is making an NFL roster without going to college
This post was edited on 4/18/25 at 9:58 am
Posted on 4/18/25 at 10:07 am to dallastiger55
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I feel like every time we try to make the game better we keep loosening the rules.
We do this all over the place to make things "fair" and it almost always goes to shite.
Why do we not ever learn this lesson?
Life just isn't fair.
Posted on 4/18/25 at 10:09 am to NFLSU
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No HS football player is making an NFL roster without going to college
In due time there will be a NFL minor league
Posted on 4/18/25 at 10:09 am to borotiger
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Brian Banks
Never made a NFL roster, you tried though.
Your dumbass that is so visibly shaken up by my comment has yet to prove me wrong
No HS football player is making an NFL roster without going to college.
Posted on 4/18/25 at 10:14 am to dallastiger55
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He also said Jeremiah Smiths team has hired a lawyer to challenge the 3 year rule to go to the NFL and he expects that to go away after he wins his case. Said it’s a slam dunk because the NCAA doesn’t have the balls to challenge
This alone would solve nearly half the problems
Posted on 4/18/25 at 10:19 am to NFLSU
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No HS football player is making an NFL roster without going to college
Sav Rocca
Jordan Mailata
This post was edited on 4/18/25 at 10:22 am
Posted on 4/18/25 at 10:24 am to dallastiger55
Only one way to fix this…
The hybrid amateur / professional model is the reason this system no longer works.
We need a players union. A draft. Contracts, etc. The only way to restore a semblance of order is to go straight professional.
The hybrid amateur / professional model is the reason this system no longer works.
We need a players union. A draft. Contracts, etc. The only way to restore a semblance of order is to go straight professional.
Posted on 4/18/25 at 10:25 am to BigScoreboard
Don't forget we had Scum Fig Nuts being paid at AllBarn years before this. And the National Communists Against Athletics let him get away with it, contributing to the entitled prick that he is today.
Posted on 4/18/25 at 10:56 am to Bigdawgb
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IANAL
Your spellchecker has betrayed you
Posted on 4/18/25 at 11:06 am to BLG
The NBA doest draft HS players anymore. They even shut down their G-league HS team.
Posted on 4/18/25 at 11:12 am to IT_Dawg
NFLPA has that in place to protect older players.
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