Biggest NIL Deals in College Sports - SOME NOT GETTING PAID

This is a ‘collective’ run by 5 Texas Tech grads.

 

I have posted repeatedly I expected NIL will cause SERIOUS locker room dissent, I 100% agree with you. How the heck can coaches keep kids focused on winning football in such an environment?
I will answer my own question - THEY CAN'T.

 

The collective offered it, not the school. It’s a dumb system

 

It’s the same as the NFL I guess. Aaron Rodgers get 50 million and the worst guy on the roster gets $900,000. Roughly 50x more money? Isn’t the 53rd guy on tge roster just happy to have the opportunity?

 

Lots of oil money there too

 

Except what if all or most the players on the roster already haven't been paid at all and the new kids on the block come strolling in touting multi million dollar "NIL" deals while sitting 3rd or whatever on the depth chart. Kids who haven't even stepped on campus or contributed a minute toward the university yet the university is already handsomely rewarding them just for their consideration. There are gonna be a lot of kids who put in their hardwork to help the team who will feel jaded.

 

Party's over.

McClain ain't coming and Mizell might not either.

They love UF but where's the money?

Better get used to it. UF is not allowing the boosters to pay upfront.

The administration's mistake will be when attendance and alumni contributions drop because the product on the field can't compete with those programs who will pay and will never be punished.

End the charade.

They are not student athletes. They are employees.

Pay them.

 

Uh-oh I thought grads = boosters

 

In that case, they can just stop being students and then we perhaps we should just end the charade that this is an extracurricular activity sponsored by a School not just a way for all parties to get showered in greenbacks. If we have to go there, my belief is that schools should completely divest their pro sports divisions to another entity. If they want to continue to license their trademarks to that outside entity, so be it.

 

Probably much like the NFL when a first round pick comes in with $25 million. They won’t be players getting paid nothing on a upper echelon teams. If that’s the case on a team, that team is in big trouble. But we are not the first people to think about this.

 

That's about all there is in Lubbock. Oil millionaires, Texas Tech, and tumbleweeds.

 

How is the administration/UF stopping them from paying upfront?
Interested to hear how this is being managed from someone in the know

 

I'm sure he is. He's also mature enough and experienced enough to know his role. But at 17? Good luck.

 

There are plenty of 22 year old dumbasses also. I know a lot of 12-year-olds that are as mature as some of these NFL guys. Thing is you have to let them try to figure it out for themselves and quit trying to be there daddy

 

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they are student athletes. They go to class. Yeah- they get tutor help but this isn’t NEARLY as bad as the 80s where nobody went to class. If you walked into Yon hall in the 80s- a lot of those kids were dumb as a box of rocks. These kids today are super smart. And college is WAY harder and WAY more expensive (as is everything else). They deserve money. If I’m in a band and I’m a student… I can tour with my band and make money. I don’t have to your for free while the UF school of music makes money off me. These kids have massive social media followings- some of these kids are ALREADY famous when they get here. It’s not like it used to be where a kid gets famous from the school brand. They gave cache.
Now, there are a ton of things to be worked out. Kids are gonna get taken advantage of, schools are gonna misuse it, it may cause roster management issues… But that’s not the kids fault and it can and will get worked out. Nobody said a word when schools, coaches, Nike and ESPN were rolling in dough. But as soon as these kids want a piece- it’s “ruining sports” gtfo. also… NIL allows us to play NCAA college football on PlayStation again so for that alone, this is worth it

 

schools? What did schools do with all the dough they were rolling in?

 

Build multimillion dollar facilities and pay coaches by the millions along with AD’s. When’s tge last time you saw a coach carried off on a stretcher paralyzed?

 

Those multimillion dollar facilities are for the players. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a coach paralyzed, and while it happens occasionally, I couldn’t tell you the last player I remember getting paralyzed. I’m not sure that point though, considering no one is forcing kids to put themselves at risk.