The writing is on the wall for NIL

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They know that the whole “the guys in those suites are going to be paying you a lot of money” BS is about to be not acceptable. Saban has nailed this whole thing from the beginning

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No way they can put the genie back in the bottle. It would be called racists and discriminatory.

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Saban has nailed this whole thing from the beginning

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Who could’ve predicted such a thing

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sabes que

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The only writing you’ve seen on any wall:

Watch Miami's number one booster. The NCAA is not going to touch him and that will be the standard for the NCAA with NIL.

it's because they promised those kids tons of money, and made them sign contracts that don't actually pay what they said it did. now players are talking to recruits when they come in.

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Saban has nailed this whole thing from the beginning

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I think 99.8% tRant saw it from the beginning.

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Forget racism, they can't tell someone they aren't allowed to profit from their name.

The system was broken from the get go, but the NCAA thought they were unbreakable. Never put one iota of effort into making the system in any way just got the players. Just a big "frick you" for decades.

Screw em. They had years to fix the system and they just counted their money and laughed and tried to sell us on they merits of "amateurism"

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They can prevent boosters from doing NIL deals.

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Screw em. They had years to fix the system and they just counted their money and laughed and tried to sell us on they merits of "amateurism"

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I don't know where you get the notion that the ncaa was making money on college football. Basketball? Sure. But not football.

The conferences make the money (and consequently, it is the universities).

The only sales pitch that makes sense to me from the ncaa is to get legislation making the ncaa rules the legal law of the land.
Essentially, it would transfer police authority of the ncaa rules to the feds (who would have subpoena power and have real teeth to investigate violations. They would also bring teeth to deter violations).

Why would congress agree to this? I have no idea. It doesn't make sense other than why the NCAA would want this to alleviate their headaches.

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Which Texas 8-4 are you talking about? There are a couple

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I think you’re confusing us with Texas 4-8.


In fact, I’m sure of it.

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No way they can put the genie back in the bottle

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Truth. Fans keep yapping that the NCAA will do this and the schools will do that, but the impetus for NIL has zilch to do with anyone connected with sports or the universities, or anyone who gives three cacas what the almighty fans want or think is in their interests.

It comes from the courts and Congress, and if you look at what was actually said instead of doing knee jerk left vs. right or conservative vs. liberal allusions, thinking the players should be paid is one of the few issues of the last few years where Democrats and Republicans were completely on the same page.

This is the new reality moving forward, it will never change, it’s up to each of us as to whether we’re going to continue following college football in this brave new world.