re: Pittman on NIL deals: “It’s heading to a disturbing place”

It’s terrible what has happened. I hated it last year when Ags jumped in with both feet. Bad deal all around for college football.

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so as soon as someone gets passed on the 2-deep the coach can fire/cut them and not pay out the rest of their scholarship/salary?

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Yep, they get “processed” just like Saban has been doing since 2007. Turns out it works.

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Why are folks against players getting paid according to their worth?

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1) a player that hasn't played a down has no measrauble worth yet

2) again, players were compensated well into the 6 figures before all this. Housing. Unlimited food. Unlimited athletic clothes and gear. Paid tuition. Paid books. Unlimited access to top notch medical care. Unlimited tutoring. Televised audition for a potentail multi-million dollar job in 3 years. MOnetary stipend. Players received all of this previously and it didn't cost them a dime.

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I guarantee you Bryce Young is worth every penny plus some to Alabama.

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And if he got a portion of Bryce Young jersey sales then that's great and he's earned every bit of it.

NCAA needs to bring back the transfer = sit out 1 year. Would fix a lot of the problem

know for a fact multiple SEC schools (including little ole Georgia) were paying out multiple 6 figure payments to multiple players

Here we go.Show me your "facts" or STFU

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$300,000 he received to attend the university (a fact).

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No you don't.You're working off 4th hand information from a friend of a friend of a friend.

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The revenue is generated by the program, not the players.

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But paying a high schooler a million dollars to come play for your school? That doesn't make sense

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Take your pick of 3*’s and save all that money then. Simple solution is to put your foot down and don’t pay them if they aren’t worth it. Nobody is forcing these teams to pay kids.

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Take your pick of 3*’s and save all that money then. Simple solution is to put your foot down and don’t pay them if they aren’t worth it. Nobody is forcing these teams to pay kids.

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wtf are you even talking about? Since it's the wild west of course we have to pay them becuaswe if we don't someone else will and we'll be left in the dust.

I think a more rational thought would be "nobody is forcing these kids to play CFB". If they were so poorly and utterly mistreated prior to 5 years ago by not being paid millions they could have done anything else with their lives instead of play major CFB.

Says the guy who got a $3 million dollar raise last year.

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I know for a fact multiple SEC schools (including little ole Georgia) were paying out multiple 6 figure payments to multiple players in each recruiting class prior to NIL

Do you think Nakobe Dean just really loved UGA? Definitely wasn't the upwards of $300,000 he received to attend the university (a fact).

Leonard Fournette for sure didn't get payed $100k per year to attend LSU, he was just one of the highest rated recruits of all time and played the sport for the love of the game.

Some of you are WAY too naive.

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Every school besides Army, Navy, and Air Force was doing this to some extent. I'm not going to sit here and act like players weren't paid under the table to go to Georgia. Just like they were to go to Alabama, and LSU, and Auburn, and Clemson, etc...

BevoBucks, please tell me your opinion of the following scenario-


As a student at UGA many years ago, there were around 10,000 of us. The whole university and town were built around us, our presence. No students= no college= no college town.

All the professors and staff had jobs because of us. All the surrounding business from bars to tire shops, all because of us.

We bust our arse reading books and writing papers and paying tuition and fees for the privilege of so many thousands of other people to leech on our presence.

UGA and Athens should institute 10% revenue sharing program for all UGA students matriculating on a semester by semester basis. All county income from sales takes and property taxes, all business income from the tire shops and chicken finger restaurants, all of it should be shared with the chosen few who make the whole damn apparatus exist. The student. It's on our backs this whole damn plate spins on a stick.