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re: Might sound harsh but the best thing for college football
Posted on 4/13/25 at 9:52 am to geaux2019
Posted on 4/13/25 at 9:52 am to geaux2019
Salary cap is the answer. If a QB can only get $____ of pay-to-play bribes packaged as “NlL” then players can chose teams base on where they prefer instead of who bribes them the most.
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Posted on 4/13/25 at 9:59 am to zzemme
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Teams should unofficially blackball him. Could maybe take away some of the ridiculous leverage players have now
In sentiment I agree and have an upvote. But if teams blackball him I wonder what the temperature would be for a collusion lawsuit.
Bottom line is that NIL need’s regulation to protect both teams and individual players
Posted on 4/13/25 at 10:04 am to AtlantaLSUfan
Almost everything suggested here is a violation of Anti-Trust law. Thus the schools/NCAA keep losing. The only way to implement such regulations is to have the players collectively agree to limitations. IE collective bargaining. BUT, this would require recognizing players as employees. Thus opening another whole can of very dirty worms.
All this could have been transitioned to in gradual steps over the last 50 years, once TV contracts became a thing, but the schools/NCAA decided it was going to be all or nothing. Thus ending up with nothing. Now their damned if they do or damned if they don't, thus simply damned.
All this could have been transitioned to in gradual steps over the last 50 years, once TV contracts became a thing, but the schools/NCAA decided it was going to be all or nothing. Thus ending up with nothing. Now their damned if they do or damned if they don't, thus simply damned.
Posted on 4/13/25 at 10:25 am to Jobu93
Teams could just say they don’t feel he is worth the NIL amount nor would help team chemistry. As long as it isn’t explicitly in writing I don’t see how a court can force a team to take him
Posted on 4/13/25 at 11:07 am to DonBro
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Blackball an athlete because he placed a value on his skill set. I thought this part of the country believes in capitalism.
It’s not blackballing. It is pure free market. If the university does not feel their skill set is worth the price they won’t pay it. Same as any other business. If an employee demands and raise and you give it to them then the other employees will want the same. The business owner has no obligation to give the raise and the employee is free to leave and look elsewhere. If you are anti union you are not going to bring pro union guys into your company. You are free to do that.
Posted on 4/13/25 at 11:20 am to TheDude854
Some of you get it. Others still lost. National Signing was always a ruse that took advantage of ill informed fans. All athletic scholarships are for 1 year. So just because some player put in your hat all that meant you had him from July thru December. As another posted explained that is how schools could process their duds. Yet no one ever defended those players as their lives were uprooted all because of an opinion of a coach.
To their credit, a lot of schools only processed players for breaking team rules. I have been screaming for years that my team should be processing our 3 stars who couldn’t cut it and I was screamed down about “education”. Now, that players finally get to process the school everyone is mad. It’s just hypocritical. Every team will have a set roster by July - then we’ll play 12 games- and rosters will change again. Root for your team like you have always done. Nothing has really changed other than certain fanbases are pissed that good players now have more options to choose from.
To their credit, a lot of schools only processed players for breaking team rules. I have been screaming for years that my team should be processing our 3 stars who couldn’t cut it and I was screamed down about “education”. Now, that players finally get to process the school everyone is mad. It’s just hypocritical. Every team will have a set roster by July - then we’ll play 12 games- and rosters will change again. Root for your team like you have always done. Nothing has really changed other than certain fanbases are pissed that good players now have more options to choose from.
Posted on 4/13/25 at 11:24 am to LSUGrrrl
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I don’t understand why the NCAA doesn’t just kill the loopholes. This isn’t hard. You can have NIL or an open transfer portal. You can’t have both. Reimplement transfer regulations and shut this mercenary shite down.
The NCAA ran the show right into lost court battles.
Posted on 4/13/25 at 11:38 am to DonBro
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Blackball an athlete because he placed a value on his skill set. I thought this part of the country believes in capitalism.
Go suck kamalas stinky pussy you liberal frick.
Posted on 4/13/25 at 12:18 pm to Themicah86
You are aware on the NIL Supreme Court decision all the conservatives voted in the athletes’ favor and Kavanaugh signaled he was ready to go farther in their favor? It’s dumb to let this fall into the liberal vs. conservative garbage hole.
Posted on 4/13/25 at 12:25 pm to FearlessFreep
quote:Most people opposed to paying players don't realize that both the band and the cheerleaders have been paid for a long, long time. In fact every single person who touches the field on gameday got paid to be there - except the people actually producing the product that generates all that revenue.
if they leave, they have to give up their scholarships (if any), but if some idiot was paying them to say, cheerlead or play in the band, and a bigger idiot at another school offers them more, they aren’t beholden to anyone
Posted on 4/13/25 at 12:39 pm to FlagLake
Tennessee handled this perfectly. Perfectly.
The problem is this has gone beyond just trying to fix things in the best way for college football to people wanting to make the players cow down, grovel, bring them to heel and show them who's boss and punish them for having the audacity to think they should be paid.
The evidence is people calling for collusion, schools to get together and ACTUALLY blackball athletes, where that is a 100% guaranteed victory for the players if that goes to court. You cannot do that.
The problem is this has gone beyond just trying to fix things in the best way for college football to people wanting to make the players cow down, grovel, bring them to heel and show them who's boss and punish them for having the audacity to think they should be paid.
The evidence is people calling for collusion, schools to get together and ACTUALLY blackball athletes, where that is a 100% guaranteed victory for the players if that goes to court. You cannot do that.
Posted on 4/13/25 at 3:38 pm to InkStainedWretch
Tennessee did not handle this perfectly. They never should have offered him 2.4 million if he wasn’t worth it as every Tennessee fan is now saying. Just because they didn’t want to pay more and told him good bye doesn’t mean they played it right. They just completed their spring practice and have no #1 QB. In fact, they just gave another school’s QB an entire spring practice of reps on their dime. That doesn’t sound smart to me.
I wonder if Tennessee fans will be slapping Huepel on the back after the multiple losses they have because their entire season is going to be centered around a QB three thousand miles away.
I wonder if Tennessee fans will be slapping Huepel on the back after the multiple losses they have because their entire season is going to be centered around a QB three thousand miles away.
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