NIL May be Coming to Florida High Schools

That would be, a double whammy..

 

Good grief

 

why stop there? Middle school NIL?

 

Georgia High School Association approves NIL deals for athletes

 

Let's suspend reality and pretend NIL isn't pay for play.

How many high school kids if any have ever had name, image or likeness value to command any money or value from a sponsor?

Even the most highly sought after recruits are relative no names to anyone outside of college football recruiting circles.

Allowing players who have established themselves in college football to capitalize on jersey sales, video games and even celebrity has never been a problem for most who are against what NIL really is.

Alabama, Georgia and company are just going to establish a network of pay to highschool athletes under the guise of NIL from some bogus 3rd party. In some ways NIL leveled the playing field but the win at all costs program will always find a way to abuse the system.

Not the kids fault for capitalizing. College sports underbelly is now getting a full sun burn. Gross

 

Seriously though I think high schools are less able to manage this stuff than colleges and even they are having trouble getting a handle on it. The key difference here is that (public) high school players aren't on scholarship. They are essentially private citizens. What's the difference between a kid working at an ice cream shop and some kid getting paid by the local dodge dealer for autographs.

 

Anyone think it's just pure coincidence that Georgia is leading this?

 

As much as I don’t like it, we are just keeping up with the times.

 

Not leading, they are joining the majority.
34 states allow HS NIL

https://www.wfla.com/sports/report-... Kentucky, Georgia,NIL deals are not approved.

 

Shit or get off the pot. This is what it's gonna take if UF wants to compete with what will be UGA, Bama, Texas and OU in the same conference. Think about that. I personally don't think UF can, but that's just me.

 

I'm out.

 

I have been tracking this a bit the last few years at the HS level. I was (a long time ago) an all county athlete, lettered in 3 sports, and was scholar athlete of the year...somewhere in the top 20 in my class. I was very involved with other aspects of the school...athletic department, special needs kids, trouble-makers, etc.

I would make somewhere around $100-$150K if I was in HS today off of NIL, not to mention that I'd be on the way to being an entrepreneur with the doors that would be opening up. That's 2-3x what a single mother makes today (I grew up with a single mom). Let that sink in.

Instead, I went to UF (little to no value, for someone like me)...took 4 years to graduate...then slowly learned the ropes and started my first business at 27.

I would have made $1M+ more during that time, easily, if NIL was around during that time.

Anyone that thinks this is bad just isn't looking at the total picture.

NIL isn't all bad. Not all good. There are good parts, bad parts....corrupt people, but also good people that are trying to support kids and young adults.

NIL has become synonymous with Ruiz from UM, and our Rashada situation....but there is a wide spectrum of examples out there; the media just doesn't cover THOSE stories.

 

Odd that there's enough money to fangle rules to recruit high school athletes yet not enough so rural schools, like in MO, can avoid four-day school weeks.

 

MO dropping to 4 days is a population/taxation issue.
An individual voluntarily choosing to give his money to an athlete via NIL is completely unrelated and not comparable.

 

#1 public academic university.
Mission accomplished.

 

Too bad the FHSAA went to the urban verses rural classifications a few years back. It would have been interesting if they could go to a NIL verses non NIL model classification to see which groups would get more fans coming to watch them play.
I for one would rather go watch kids play not for the money but for the love of the team and the game they play. Let the studs go off to IMG and Montverde Academies to make their money and track to fame and riches onto major college sports. Give me a kid who would rather look back one day and say they were proud to play for their local high school and the zone they grew up in.
High school coaches and people with money shouldn't spend time recruiting players and making money deals for 14 year olds instead of teaching kids healthy morals and values that will help them in their future. Sometimes its better to have a coach put his arm around you and tell you great effort tonight instead of handing a kid a bigger NIL deal.

 

DGAS anymore.