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re: Remember when Cam Newton got $180,000 under the table to play at Auburn?
Posted on 11/22/24 at 7:33 am to RollTide1987
Posted on 11/22/24 at 7:33 am to RollTide1987
Prob end up with a salary cap at some point so we can stop pretending this is amateur sports. like you, I am losing interest. I still cheer for the horns I just care a lot less.
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Posted on 11/22/24 at 7:41 am to RollTide1987
The money has gotten absurd and college football is essentially semi pro.
Posted on 11/22/24 at 7:42 am to TigerAlumni2010
It’s been this way. Now it’s above the table instead of below.
Posted on 11/22/24 at 7:49 am to RollTide1987
Surely there was an in-depth investigation of that and he was declared ineligible and the university given severe sanctions.
Posted on 11/22/24 at 7:56 am to Mr Sausage
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It’s been this way. Now it’s above the table instead of below.
It has most definitely NOT been this way. There have been $500 handshakes for years in the sport, and some people have even paid players in the tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars range. However, I refuse to believe that any player prior to the advent of NIL ever got $10.5 million or anything close to that amount to attend a school to play football.
Posted on 11/22/24 at 8:01 am to RollTide1987
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Unchecked NIL salaries for players, the transfer portal run amok, ESPN practically running the sport as its unofficial commissioner. Some of you might like this new era we find ourselves in, but stories like Bryce Underwood are why I'm growing to dislike the game.
I like the transfer portal but paying a teenager that kind of money without him playing a down of football is just crazy.
Losing Underwood sucks, but he wasn’t going to start next year, and we have money to get a better option than Nuss in the portal now.
Posted on 11/22/24 at 8:01 am to RollTide1987
Limits on NIL, reduce the portal calendar, and if you transfer, you sit out a year.
Posted on 11/22/24 at 8:09 am to Sid E Walker
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A lease on a $23,000 Dodge Charger could get you a damn good player back in the day.
*sigh*
Posted on 11/22/24 at 8:12 am to RollTide1987
I couldn't agree more with OP. I just don't enjoy it as much as I used to.
Posted on 11/22/24 at 8:14 am to RollTide1987
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$10.5 million for a QB who has yet to play a down of football at the collegiate level is totally asinine.
I thought they bumped up to 12 after he turned down 10.5?
Michigan has gone all in on him. Dude is making bank off desperate men. I wouldn't be surprised if he actually gets more than the 12 at that. I bet if we knew the real dollar amount, Michigan would be embarrassed as frick. It's hilarious they have to pay that much money to a kid who plays HS football 30 minutes from their campus. It's like LSU having to pay through the nose for a kid from U High.
Posted on 11/22/24 at 8:15 am to RollTide1987
It's gonna get worse when the players are deemed employees and get a paycheck plus NIL. And they stick around for 8-10 years when the NFL doesn't work out for them, 
Posted on 11/22/24 at 8:16 am to RollTide1987
NIL seemed to work just fine for decades as many SEC programs were buying players under the table. A few wealthy Bubba's were getting milked out of their I'll gotten gains but now they can't compete with corporate money and above board dealings.
NIL just escalated an already ingrained system but at least it's no longer criminal activity.
NIL just escalated an already ingrained system but at least it's no longer criminal activity.
Posted on 11/22/24 at 8:40 am to RollingwiththeTide62
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cam dad got 400k and a business with customers flowing
And the NCAA, after spending a year turning over every rock they could in two states, had to write a letter of apology to Auburn for the whole thing because they found no evidence at all of wrongdoing.
OTOH, the last time they visited bammer, there was something in writing about "staring down the barrel of a gun something something".
Stop projecting bammer, it just shows you for what you really are.
Posted on 11/22/24 at 8:41 am to makersmark1
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I liked it that we were the only program who had ever paid a player, and that we paid $180,000 with nobody else even bidding.
Nobody believes this now, nobody believed it then.
Posted on 11/22/24 at 8:43 am to A12 Oxcart
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Limits on NIL, reduce the portal calendar, and if you transfer, you sit out a year.
They can't do the first but they can absolutely do the other two. However, there will come legal claims against that as well.
The only fix is introducing contracts. Anything else will get hammered in court.
Posted on 11/22/24 at 8:48 am to RollTide1987
Honestly I have no problem with this. It's no different than a company offering a prospective employee a lot of money for his services based on his credentials. It's pure capitalism and I have no problem with that. Who wouldn't want to be in situations such as that.
Posted on 11/22/24 at 8:48 am to ReversePiggie
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NIL seemed to work just fine for decades as many SEC programs were buying players under the table
That's not NIL. NIL is being paid to be in a Dr. Pepper commercial, getting a percentage of sales of jerseys with their name on it, etc..
Posted on 11/22/24 at 9:03 am to borotiger
NIL is pay for play. Stop the pretenses.
Posted on 11/22/24 at 9:05 am to RollTide1987
Yes, I remember. 180K is what it takes for a recruit to answer the phone now.
Posted on 11/22/24 at 9:09 am to RollTide1987
I remember when $200k got you a fat unplayable dlinemen from Memphis in 2000.
Weird how times have changed
Weird how times have changed
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