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re: Hope all of you NIL fricktards are enjoying the death of college athletics.
Posted on 4/12/25 at 3:52 pm to John Milner
Posted on 4/12/25 at 3:52 pm to John Milner
Nonsense. All you do is say, "Here's the money. You get it if you commit to us for X period of time." That fixes the problem. But so many people are so incensed at the mere thought of the players getting money that they are fixated on it, even though it isn't going away.
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Posted on 4/12/25 at 3:56 pm to GooseSix
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No college athlete is worth a million bucks. fricking morons..
Your statement is that of a moron.
Posted on 4/12/25 at 3:59 pm to redeye
Some of you are just warped in your thinking. The players commit to a school for 1 season. That’s it. Never in the old system or the new system was a signed commitment for more than 1 season. Just because everyone “believes” scholarships are for 4 years didn’t make it so. They have always been for 1 year. So every kid on every roster has held up their end of the scholarship no matter what many of you think.
Nico held up his end to Tennessee. If he decides to sign another 1 year scholarship with another school for the 2025 season then so be it. Right now thousands of college students are deciding where they will attend next fall and I personally don’t care about any of them football or not.
This is all on the NCAA, college Presidents, AD’s, and coaches. They could have figured all this out decades ago but they were too busy counting their money. I don’t feel bad for any of them. They sure didn’t hinder their ability to change jobs or limit their pay.
I’ll use my school as a perfect example. Our ACC commissioner transferred from the BIG. Our school President transferred from George Mason. Our AD transferred from Alabama and our coach has transferred 3 times himself coming to us from Alabama. Come July your team will have their players for the 2025 season and I have no problem with any of it because I root for the jersey not the person in the jersey.
Nico held up his end to Tennessee. If he decides to sign another 1 year scholarship with another school for the 2025 season then so be it. Right now thousands of college students are deciding where they will attend next fall and I personally don’t care about any of them football or not.
This is all on the NCAA, college Presidents, AD’s, and coaches. They could have figured all this out decades ago but they were too busy counting their money. I don’t feel bad for any of them. They sure didn’t hinder their ability to change jobs or limit their pay.
I’ll use my school as a perfect example. Our ACC commissioner transferred from the BIG. Our school President transferred from George Mason. Our AD transferred from Alabama and our coach has transferred 3 times himself coming to us from Alabama. Come July your team will have their players for the 2025 season and I have no problem with any of it because I root for the jersey not the person in the jersey.
Posted on 4/12/25 at 4:04 pm to GooseSix
I am a leaving?
Posted on 4/14/25 at 10:59 am to pankReb
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No one is stopping you from watching Coastal Carolina or Savannah State
I didn't graduate from either of those two schools. I graduated from SC. You're comparing apples to oranges.
Posted on 4/14/25 at 11:04 am to gamecockman12
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I didn't graduate from either of those two schools. I graduated from SC. You're comparing apples to oranges.
I didn’t graduate from the New Orleans Saints but that doesn’t stop me from watching.
Posted on 4/14/25 at 11:57 am to pankReb
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I didn’t graduate from the New Orleans Saints but that doesn’t stop me from watching.
Again you don't grasp the apples to oranges comparison. Now you're comparing the NFL to College Football. They're not the same.
Posted on 4/14/25 at 12:04 pm to tgrmeat
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These kids never read the children’s story about killing the goose that laid the golden egg.
100% but the problem is that with only 3-5 yr college careers, current athletes have zero reason to care about the long term future of the game. They are completely incentivized to burn the whole thing to the ground if it means a dollar more since universities give them no long term stakes.
Posted on 4/14/25 at 12:21 pm to RunningJacket
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The players commit to a school for 1 season
So when Nico demanded more money or he would sit out of the playoff game, I guess that was because it was post-season right? He had already fulfilled his commitment for the season at that point? I mean he held up his end to Ten after all right?
Posted on 4/14/25 at 12:29 pm to InkStainedWretch
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NIL isn't the reason for this crap with Nico, it's the portal. Stop focusing on NIL, the money is not going away. Fix the unrestricted portal that amounts to yearly free agency and the problem is solved.
It's both.
The reason there's so much transferring is BECAUSE of NIL. If it was just for playing time, that would be annoying but understandable (for example, see Jalen Hurts) - though admittedly that's less likely to pan out for the player than it is to be a failure.
NIL changed the reason a lot of players transfer. Now it's all about shopping around. Imagine if the NFL just a non-stop, unrestricted free agency every year with no contracts. Burrow plays for the Bengals this year, then the Bears next year, and by his 8th year in the pros he's played for 6 teams.
Yeah, no thanks.
Posted on 4/14/25 at 12:29 pm to Remulan
If Nico did that then why didn’t Heupel tell him to pack his crap and leave then? Oh, that’s right, Huepel wanted to win.
The players did not start the bagman system in the 70’s. Herschel didn’t offer himself a Camaro. Reggie Bush didn’t offer himself a house for mama. Cam didn’t offer himself 200K.
The schools could stop this today if they stopped treating elite athletes like gods. If they treated them like they treat 3 stars we wouldn’t be here. But they can’t control themselves and have created a situation where the players now have leverage. If the top 15 schools treated recruiting like the other schools we wouldn’t be here. But when every recruit gets money and cars for most SEC schools are you really shocked they are asking for more?
The players did not start the bagman system in the 70’s. Herschel didn’t offer himself a Camaro. Reggie Bush didn’t offer himself a house for mama. Cam didn’t offer himself 200K.
The schools could stop this today if they stopped treating elite athletes like gods. If they treated them like they treat 3 stars we wouldn’t be here. But they can’t control themselves and have created a situation where the players now have leverage. If the top 15 schools treated recruiting like the other schools we wouldn’t be here. But when every recruit gets money and cars for most SEC schools are you really shocked they are asking for more?
Posted on 4/14/25 at 12:44 pm to GooseSix
Hats off to Heupel. He set the tone for the rest of college football. Thank you coach for putting at least one punk arse kid in his place.
Posted on 4/14/25 at 12:51 pm to InkStainedWretch
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NIL isn't the reason for this crap with Nico, it's the portal. Stop focusing on NIL,
They go hand in hand. You gave the kids the opportunity to make money and then handed them leverage that exists at no level of pro sports. In the NFL, you have both restricted and unrestricted free agents and you have rules in place that allow both to carry out contract negotiations in a structured orderly fashion. Furthermore, there are rules in place that franchises must also adhere to. You can’t sign a 5 year hundred million dollar contract with the Eagles and then say frick it, I’m going to go work out a better deal with the patriots next year. You also can’t secretly negotiate with players under contract and poach them from other teams. These rules exist in every professional sports organization to prevent the chaos that currently afflicting programs big and small across the country.
Posted on 4/14/25 at 1:01 pm to GooseSix
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No college athlete is worth a million bucks. fricking morons..
Tell me Joe Burrow wasn’t worth a million several times over to LSU and try to do it without laughing
Posted on 4/14/25 at 1:02 pm to GooseSix
This thread title is a pure Bama melt.
Posted on 4/14/25 at 1:14 pm to Freight Joker
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Recruit kids from good families and never let them think they have the slightest bit of leverage and you’ll be fine.
How many kids from good families do you think there are to go around. What do you think the ratio is out there?
Posted on 4/14/25 at 1:18 pm to skrayper
But if the portal is reined in and there’s no way to shop around?
Posted on 4/14/25 at 1:21 pm to ExpoTiger
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Tell me Joe Burrow wasn’t worth a million several times over to LSU and try to do it without laughing
Sure he was. No doubt.
But… Joe was a graduate student who trained and worked hard at Ohio State for 3 years to hone his craft. He didn’t hold Ohio State up for random. He simply competed for the starting job in the spring at Ohio State and was beat out, so he chose to transfer to a school where he would be given an opportunity to play.
But…. Prior to his redshirt junior season, he certainly wasn’t worth $1 million to anyone. He hadn’t proven anything yet. I assume if NiL was in place at the time, LSU would have rewarded Joe greatly after his junior season, exactly like they just did with Nussmeier.
Posted on 4/14/25 at 1:34 pm to gamecockman12
No. I do grasp it. You just aren’t grasping the fact that you, with your own free will, can root for whatever team you want. Hell, you could root for both.
My dad graduated from Southern Miss. The only time he’s ever watched them play was against Ole Miss back in the day. There are PLENTY of CFB fans who root for a school they didn’t graduate from.
Half of Bama’s fan base, for instance.
My dad graduated from Southern Miss. The only time he’s ever watched them play was against Ole Miss back in the day. There are PLENTY of CFB fans who root for a school they didn’t graduate from.
Half of Bama’s fan base, for instance.
Posted on 4/14/25 at 1:40 pm to Mr Roboto
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Wrong
quote:Yes you are.
Mr Roboto
But, why?
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