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Posted on 5/5/20 at 6:08 am to pvilleguru
I was kinda hoping they would allow the schools to setup a portion of the marketing department to get team deals to get everyone paid some then they big time guys could have deals above that. Like say a Delta commercial with the whole team on a plane Delta the official airline of the Georgia Bulldogs. Everyone gets a $5000 check.
Posted on 5/5/20 at 8:06 am to paperwasp
The best players may never leave college early. Being a millionaire star would be way more fun surrounded by endless coeds than being shuttled to Buffalo and dealing with professional cleat chasers.
That said, one day well all point back to this as the point college football became way less fun and started to die.
That said, one day well all point back to this as the point college football became way less fun and started to die.
Posted on 5/5/20 at 8:08 am to paperwasp
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Part of me worries if it will ruin college football.
Inevitably this is going to hurt the less marketable schools as elite players who make practically nothing there will want to transfer to a bigger school to get way more $.
It's not good for college football, but I also see both sides to the argument.
Posted on 5/5/20 at 9:56 am to thunderbird1100
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It's not good for college football, but I also see both sides to the argument.
I've never really been sure how I feel about this.
On one hand, I can certainly see how the players deserve a piece of the millions of dollars that they generate. If they can command that money, they certainly appear to deserve it.
But honestly, are most of the truly elite athletes already getting compensated in some way, or taking advantage of the opportunities in the existing system to do so later? Isn't that sort of what a college scholarship, an education, and an opportunity to showcase your abilities already do?
Or is that just naive/selfish on my part, based on the money we're seeing in the sport now?
The NIL payouts will almost certainly be inequitable among position groups - just the free market at work, or should they institute a salary cap and a league minimum? Is that fair to the guys who could earn more?
I honestly don't know how all of this should work, and I can understand the various stances, but I'm still concerned about the ramifications of turning college football into another corporate/professional league.
Posted on 5/5/20 at 10:09 am to paperwasp
This really feels like the worst way of going about this
They basically legalized boosters and big sports companies paying top players.
They basically legalized boosters and big sports companies paying top players.
Posted on 5/5/20 at 10:49 am to Oilfieldbiology
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You think o line men, line backers, te’s, dt’s are going to get endorsements? I doubt it.
Of course not. I've made this point before.
Here's one of the Saban Aflac commercials, and here's the Scott Cochran Regions Bank commercial.
What's conspicuously missing from both commercials?
Almost no college athlete, and certainly almost none outside of football, will have any endorsement value whatsoever because the school name can't be mentioned and the school logo can't appear. The ad can't say, "Kyle Trask, Florida Gator Quarterback", and he can't wear the logo in the ad.
This post was edited on 5/5/20 at 10:52 am
Posted on 5/5/20 at 10:54 am to SammyTiger
I wonder what the excitement level will be for the offensive linemen who are getting $85.00 bucks a month from
Posted on 5/5/20 at 11:33 am to OlGrandad
Do you think they are going to play worse because they aren't making all the money?
Because it they still probably want to make it to the NFL.
Because it they still probably want to make it to the NFL.
Posted on 5/5/20 at 11:44 am to Oilfieldbiology
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You think o line men, line backers, te’s, dt’s are going to get endorsements? I doubt it.
Top-rated recruits will get endorsements.
Here's how it plays out, "if you come to our school you will get an endorsement deal for 100k".
Player signs, shell company buys rights to make t-shirts with players likeness, they pay him 100k for those rights.
Nobody is going to buy a shirt for 350lb offensive lineman but he already got paid and it turns out Old Bagman Booster owns the shell company that paid him.
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