re: Mike Leach’s ambitious plan to fix NIL: ‘Are you a professional or are you not?’

Sounds like a way to bankrupt schools.

The NFL is the biggest billionaire scam in the country. A semi pro or farm league would be a money losing proposition. The NFL gets public taxpayer funded universities (private schools send very few players to the pros) to recruit, develop, put out a product that benefits the NFL. The NFL put to have to pay each school $1,000,000 for every player that leaves school early for the draft.

This guy is supposed to be smart and funny and frankly, I just don't see any evidence that he's either. And I've been waiting patiently since he got to Starkvegas.

I personally think the NIL plan is fine... if it were run as intended.

Essentially, players should be allowed to market themselves. But they should be allowed to be bought before signing. NIL should be something that happens after you join the team, not as a lure to come to a team. It should reward those that show they can be marketable commodities at the college level.

NIL quickly became about recruiting... and that's an issue I think. It's hard to say that a business is signing a deal based on his ability to market products or services as a high school prospect... because that's plain stupid. They haven't shown they can even get on the field.

Once they make a marketable name for themselves, that's where deals should be signed. It should be used to draw a student to a school. And they should be payable if the student changes their mind an goes somewhere else... not be in any way tied to the school they are attending.

I'd love for players to sign big deals with a school using that to recruit them and then have the players go elsewhere and still be paid. The more that happens, the better NIL will be.

We need to ket this thing play itself out for a few years before we freek out. I think this surge of nil money will level out.

This is a great idea and needs to happen. The NCAA is toothless when it comes to busting the bigger schools so any NIL regulation is pointless and only serves to widen the gap. These young men are professionals and have been for quite some time. It's time to treat them like it and put systems in place to protect both parties and create parity.

A draft and contracts are needed. The old model of recruiting needs to be burnt down. It's been obsolete for decades and wasn't really a good set up from the beginning. NIL is a band-aid that doesn't fix anything. It's a last ditch effort to maintain the guise of amateurism.

Let's get it going

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So this really has nothing to do with players getting paid for NIL?

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NIL shouldn't even be a thing. Once they are professionals the young men can do ads for whoever they please and for whatever value the market dictates. Having it be the sole method to be paid actual cash for their work is just stupid and a hail mary effort to keep the failing system in place.

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College football isn't the NFL and never will be

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These changes are coming man. You can pretend they aren't but the current state of affairs is going to turn into even more of a shitshow than it already is VERY quickly. When the P5 schools split off, there will be a draft and contracts.

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It's a problem, and it has to be corrected.

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I can see NIL getting better defined in time. We just don't have any bylaws on the subject other than state legislation and that's not restricting much.

But the magic portal has been defined and tweaked with new NCAA bylaws at this point. And these portals have been super busy even without NIL pushing the issue. I fear this wholesale exchange of talent is the new business model going forward.

I like it. It makes sense.