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re: Someone explain how NIL is good for the game
Posted on 1/1/26 at 2:48 pm to BluegrassCardinal
Posted on 1/1/26 at 2:48 pm to BluegrassCardinal
Its not. Players are getting 10s to 100s of thousands in tuition, free world class healthcare, room and board, etc. They should get a stipend and that is all.
I lived on canned tuna, ramen, PB&J, Lipton noodles, beans & rice, etc. in college. I lived in the fricking hood because that is the rent I could afford while working two jobs. After graduation, every time I paid on a student loan, I cried a single tear for these poor players.
I lived on canned tuna, ramen, PB&J, Lipton noodles, beans & rice, etc. in college. I lived in the fricking hood because that is the rent I could afford while working two jobs. After graduation, every time I paid on a student loan, I cried a single tear for these poor players.
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Posted on 1/1/26 at 2:50 pm to lsufanva
If I'm not mistaken, they lost a court case that has the portal where it's at now.
Posted on 1/1/26 at 2:53 pm to ActusHumanus
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I lived on canned tuna, ramen, PB&J, Lipton noodles, beans & rice, etc. in college. I lived in the fricking hood because that is the rent I could afford while working two jobs. After graduation, every time I paid on a student loan, I cried a single tear for these poor players.
Maybe if you had a better 40 time and a good throwing arm you would've been able to drive up better demand for your services.
Posted on 1/1/26 at 2:59 pm to BluegrassCardinal
The players deserve some of the money they generate and the same rights to stay or leave as the coaches each year.
Posted on 1/1/26 at 3:00 pm to armytiger96
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Remove the schools from the equation and its a market that no one cares about ala USFL and these athletes have zero NIL value.
Again, completely counter to the reality of professional sports on every other country. If you got rid of college football tomorrow, the NFL would have leagues set up in weeks to develop these players.
Posted on 1/1/26 at 3:17 pm to Antonio Moss
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If you got rid of college football tomorrow, the NFL would have leagues set up in weeks to develop these player
And no one would watch. It would be akin to AAA and AA baseball. There would be zero money in it for the players.
Posted on 1/1/26 at 3:17 pm to ActusHumanus
These players are not like other students, never have been and never will be. And the value of all you cited seems astronomical to average schmucks like you and me, but it’s microscopic compared to the money people are making out of this sport at its highest levels.
Posted on 1/1/26 at 3:32 pm to ActusHumanus
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I lived on canned tuna, ramen, PB&J, Lipton noodles, beans & rice, etc. in college. I lived in the fricking hood because that is the rent I could afford while working two jobs. After graduation, every time I paid on a student loan, I cried a single tear for these poor players.
This isn’t about you. This is about student athletes that are at or near world class level at their sport being compensate for their services that generate billions of dollar a year in football and basketball
Posted on 1/1/26 at 3:55 pm to armytiger96
Isn't this what tideroller just said.
Posted on 1/1/26 at 3:55 pm to grape nutz
It isnt
Posted on 1/1/26 at 4:01 pm to BluegrassCardinal
Your issue isn’t with NIL, it’s with unlimited transfers and lack of buyouts for NIL deals.
It’s all because the NCAA refused to allow NIL to be tied to university enrollment.
It’s all because the NCAA refused to allow NIL to be tied to university enrollment.
Posted on 1/1/26 at 4:01 pm to BluegrassCardinal
NIL isn't inherently the problem. The world won't end because of an athlete doing a commercial.
The real problem is the Wild West transfer portal.
The real problem is the Wild West transfer portal.
Posted on 1/1/26 at 4:02 pm to Mission Impossible
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God forbid a player be free to transfer to another school just like the entire coaching staff that is making millions off of these kids.
The coach has a buyout that the other school agrees to pay. These NIL deals need to have buyouts that the receiving schools or players have to pay with each transfer. That would end a ton of this craziness.
Posted on 1/1/26 at 4:10 pm to elprez00
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Fix the transfer problem and everything else will work itself out. Give them one free transfer and then you have to sit.
Make the NIL deals tied to enrollment at a certain university and have buyouts attached to it. Transfers will significantly limit themselves.
Posted on 1/1/26 at 4:14 pm to thejuiceisloose
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This is about student athletes that are at or near world class level at their sport being compensate for their services that generate billions of dollar a year in football and basketball
If their services were so valuable, businessmen and entrepreneurs would have been knifing each other in the back over the last 100 years to tap into this market. The fact is, outside of the umbrella of the college atmosphere, these players are worthless.
Posted on 1/1/26 at 4:38 pm to SoFla Tideroller
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If their services were so valuable, businessmen and entrepreneurs would have been knifing each other in the back over the last 100 years to tap into this market. The fact is, outside of the umbrella of the college atmosphere, these players are worthless.
Businessmen and entrepreneurs were knifing each other in the back over the last 100 years to tap into the market when they spent billions in ad dollars in college sports pre NIL... ad dollars went up for good players that drove views and down for sub par
There are a multitude of examples of athletes that were valuable to the market outside of college sports... Lebron was on the cover of SI in HS and never went to college, Bryce Harper was a star out of HS, in recent times Zion Williamson and Cooper Flagg would have been top 5 picks in the NBA draft and receiving big endorsement deals without college
Posted on 1/1/26 at 4:51 pm to thejuiceisloose
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Businessmen and entrepreneurs were knifing each other in the back over the last 100 years to tap into the market when they spent billions in ad dollars in college sports pre NIL.
Thanks for proving my point. Businesses spent ad dollars to push their product during an Ohio State/Michigan game, the Red River Shootout, or the Iron Bowl. It was the schools and college football history driving that demand, not the players. You could take the exact same rosters and have the Columbus Redhawks play the Ann Arbor Blue Bombers in the Junior Professional Football League and you'd get about the same interest as the WNBA.
Posted on 1/1/26 at 4:56 pm to Antonio Moss
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Is it the morally and economically correct thing to do? Also yes
Absolutely not.
Posted on 1/1/26 at 4:58 pm to SoFla Tideroller
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Thanks for proving my point. Businesses spent ad dollars to push their product during an Ohio State/Michigan game, the Red River Shootout, or the Iron Bowl. It was the schools and college football history driving that demand, not the players. You could take the exact same rosters and have the Columbus Redhawks play the Ann Arbor Blue Bombers in the Junior Professional Football League and you'd get about the same interest as the WNBA.
then please tell me why more ad dollars were spend for a Reggie Bush USC game than a ULL game, if the marketability of the players is poor then the $$$ doesn’t come I see you completely disregard the paragraph about the athletes that made or could have made big $$ without the NCAA
This post was edited on 1/1/26 at 4:59 pm
Posted on 1/1/26 at 5:10 pm to thejuiceisloose
Name one 19 yr old who could make a single dime playing football without college football.
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