Where are all the advertisements? Kids are being paid millions for their likeness

That Kid Jayden made a billboard or two.

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sacrifice their bodies for your entertainment for free

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I have zero issues with NIL, but they've never done it for free as scholarship players.

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This is what I thought NIL would be. But it's not. Instead Collectives were established.

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you would think there would be a legal component here. in contracts law there is a concept known as consideration. you cant make a blatantly lopsided contract without proper consideration, its what separates a contract from a gift. And the consideration has to be commensurate with the value of whats changing hands. So what consideration are these businesses getting out of the NIL money without the players actually participating in marketing efforts? its very sketchy

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Where are the big ad campaigns featuring these kids that make their NIL worth millions

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Not sure about other schools, but a lot of Texas athletes are using NIL as intended.

Bijan with Lamborghini.
Ewers with 7-Eleven, HEYDUDE shoes and C4 energy.
Sam Hurley (track) with Ralph Lauren, DoorDash and GNC.
Xavier Worthy with American Airlines, Sonic and Fortnite.
Kelvin Banks with Bose
I left Manning off because he’s an outlier.

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Explain how NIL has been bad for Alabama football and made it less enjoyable for you, please.

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its turned the whole thing completely mercenary, players dont stick around and develop as part of the team, they come for money, they leave if the other place offers more money. its turned the sport into a shittier version of the NFL, which at least has specific rules and contract lengths.

The thing is, its not even bad for top teams, they can afford whatever, and when the portal dance happens teams like bama benefit as the destination for the better players. Its more that its turned the whole sport less enjoyable than its specifically bad for bama

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Big advocate for young men's bodies? I'm assuming you think all D1 athletes 'sacrifice their bodies'? This is pure cringe.

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they were lining up to sacrifice their bodies for 'free' before NIL was a thing, because of course they were already being amply compensated with all the other things i already mentioned. Its weird they were all stoked to go sacrifice their bodies that they held parties celebrating getting to go do it.

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That's a transfer rule issue more than NIL

That is what should be addressed. It's unrelated free agency

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NIL is a major driving force in transferring or staying

I think the point is, with NIL the player was supposed to get money for using their 'name and likeness' as a way to you know.. earn money. Meaning they would be branded and companies could use them in commercials, their faces pasted all over the place on buses etc. That's what I thought we were getting...

Instead, it's here is the money to go play at this school. It's 'free' money that they have to do very little to get. I don't think that was the intention of all of this, as it stands right now it's just a payment scheme to get a player to make a decision on where to play.

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Instead, it's here is the money to go play at this school. It's 'free' money that they have to do very little to get. I don't think that was the intention of all of this, as it stands right now it's just a payment scheme to get a player to make a decision on where to play.

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and there is zero basis for the amounts they are getting, as they havent even become proper famous athletes yet, so these millions of dollars are a complete sham. there is not a high school player in the country thats famous enough for their name image and likeness to actually be valuable enough to justify hundreds or thousands or millions of dollars before they even take a snap. i think if the specifics of whats going on were closely examined there were likely be ample evidence of invalid contracts or even fraud